07-26-2021, 11:13 AM
- Chinese foreign vice-minister Xie Feng tells his US counterpart that the two countries are in ‘stalemate’
- Both sides have been wrangling for the upper hand ahead of today’s first face-to-face discussion in months
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China blamed Washington for treating it as an enemy, and hawkish voices in the US for escalating tensions between the two powers, in the first face-to-face meeting between their senior officials in months.
Chinese foreign vice-minister Xie Feng told US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman on Monday morning that US-China relations had reached a “stalemate” and faced “serious consequences”, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.
“The foundational reason is that some people in the US are treating China as an ‘imagined enemy,’” it quoted Xie as saying.
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