Beijing: China-US relations have reached a deadlock

Beijing (ST: China asserted that relations with the United States had reached a dead end because some in Washington deliberately portrayed Beijing as an “imaginary enemy”.

Xinhua News Agency quoted Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Shi Feng as saying today during his meeting with his US counterpart Wendy Sherman in the Chinese port of Tianjin that as soon as relations with China and the challenges facing the United States are mentioned, some Americans warn against Beijing and portray it as an imaginary enemy to fight it.

Feng added  that it seems that they hope to ignite a sense of patriotism in the United States against an imaginary enemy and somehow divert popular anger and resentment there from the country’s social, political and economic issues and blame China for their structural problems.

He went on to say that it seems that there is a campaign at the level of administration and society in the United States to bring down China and try to suppress it,  as if restricting and encircling China’s development will remove all the domestic and foreign challenges and problems facing the Americans.

He pointed out that the US policy is mainly linked to its own interests, as it demands cooperation when it wants something from Beijing, and it resorts to blockade, sanctions and cut off supplies, and adopts the method of confrontation and conflict by all means when it believes that it has the advantage.

K.Q.