US Pentagon head calls for ‘constructive, stable’ China relations
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US Pentagon head calls for ‘constructive, stable’ China relations

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The appeal comes a day after US and Chinese officials held their second face-to-face meeting since Joe Biden became US president. Austin made the statement during a speech in Singapore on Tuesday, a day after Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng held talks in China’s northern city of Tianjin. On Monday, after meeting Sherman, top Chinese diplomats accused Washington of creating an “imaginary enemy” in Beijing to divert attention from domestic problems and suppress China’s development. In an interview with The Associated Press news agency on Tuesday following the talks in Tianjin, Sherman said she had confronted the Chinese officials on what she called “the crimes against humanity” against Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region, the crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong and alleged use of economic size to pressure smaller countries, as well as “aggressive actions” around Taiwan and in the South and East China Seas. The US diplomat also downplayed expectations for progress following the meeting, adding: “There’s no way to know in the early stages of building this relationship whether we will get to all the places that we hoped for.” New ambassador en route to the US Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Reuters news agency reported that China’s yet-to-be-announced new ambassador to the US, Qin Gang, was en route to Washington, DC.

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