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US-China relations: Washington blamed for rising tensions in Sherman meeting - superadmin - 07-26-2021 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 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. - More -