FILE PHOTO: Flags of U.S. and China are displayed at American International Chamber of Commerce 's booth during China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing, China, May 28, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File PhotoBEIJING: China and the United States need to proceed together with"good will" to improve relations, the Chinese ambassador to Washington said on Saturday , as ties remained fraught between the world's two biggest economic powers.
Sino-US relations have fallen to their lowest point in decades over issues from trade and security to human rights and COVID-19. On Friday, a Chinese state media editorial said ties are being shifted to"a dangerous path".
"I don't think that China should just do something to please anybody here," he said, according to a transcript posted on his embassy's website. Tensions between the two countries dramatically escalated in July when China closed the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu in retaliation for Beijing's ouster from its consulate in Houston, Texas.Earlier in the year, Washington cut the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work at the US offices of major Chinese state media. Beijing then expelled US journalists in the China bureaus of New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
But, Orlins said, Beijing had unilaterally taken measures against US interests, including the blocking of the three newspapers' websites, as well as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter, and that Washington had not responded to those actions.Source: Reuters/gs
No, things will only forward when a full C19 investigation is completed by an international body in China. Anything less than that and you can count on strained relations for decades.
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