China accuses US of devising tactics to suppress China despite improvement in relations

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Chinas foreign minister accused the US on Thursday of devising tactics to suppress Chinas rise and criticised the Biden Administration for adding more Chinese companies to its sanctions lists...

Wang Yi, speaking to media during the annual meeting of Chinas legislature, said that relations with the US have improved since Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden met in November, but that America has not fulfilled its promises...

Wang, a 70-year-old veteran diplomat who has earned Xis trust, returned to the foreign ministers post last summer after his successor, Qin Gang, was abruptly dismissed without explanation after a half year on the job...

Analysts had speculated the ruling Communist Party might use the weeklong meeting of the National Peoples Congress to name a new foreign minister, but that appeared off the table after an agenda released on the eve of the opening session did not include personnel changes...

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