China and US should be partners, not rivals, Xi tells Blinken – BBC News
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting in Beijing as part of efforts to shore up relations between the two countries
Xi told Blinken that China and the US should be “partners, not rivals” and avoid engaging in “vicious competition”
Earlier, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi earlier cautioned Blinken against stepping on China’s “red lines”
The China-US relationship is beginning to stabilise, but it is still being tested by “negative factors”, he added
Blinken, on his second visit to China in less than a year, said Beijing and Washington have a shared responsibility to move ties forward with “active diplomacy”
His trip comes a few days after the US passed a law that would force Chinese-owned TikTok to sell the video app or be banned in America
Last week, Washington approved its latest aid package which included military assistance to Taiwan, drawing sharp criticism from Beijing
