When meeting with visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whose high-profile visit to China was expected to make a positive contribution to stabilizing China-US relations, President Xi Jinping stressed that state-to-state interactions “should always be based on mutual respect and sincerity”.
For years, the United States and China have been embroiled in conflicts over trade, technology and geopolitics. Recent events have shown the escalating tensions between the two nations, as well as the contentious concept of “decoupling” the two economies by disconnecting trade, investment and technology ties.
Blinken, in his news conference held after the meeting, gave the assurance that the US does not seek to decouple from China, saying that to do so would be “disastrous”. Some US officials and pundits, however, believe that…
