WASHINGTON Washington expects U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will host China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the United States before year-end, whether at next week's U.N. General Assembly or after, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Monday.

Blinken traveled to Beijing in June, where he met with Wang's predecessor, Qin Gang, in the first visit by the top U.S. diplomat to China in five years.

(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Kanishka Singh and Daphne Psaledakis; editing by Jonathan Oatis)