April 2021 IMAGE SOURCE,REUTERS Image caption, Antony Blinken is visiting London for the face-to-face meeting of the G7 since the pandemic began
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused China of acting more aggressively abroad and more repressively at home.
He said in an interview with CBS News the US did not want to hold China down but would not allow it to undermine the rules-based international order.
He noted that a military confrontation was profoundly against the interests of both countries.
Tensions have soared in recent times over trade, espionage and the pandemic.
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The China-US relationship is crucial to both sides and the wider world, with Beijing repeatedly calling on the new administration in Washington to improve relations which deteriorated under President Joe Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.
What the US really wants from the China talks How will Joe Biden change foreign policy? Mr Blinken told CBS' 60 Minutes that Mr Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had talked about a wide range of topics in their first phone conversation, which lasted two hours, in February.
"President Biden made clear that in a number of areas we have real concerns about the actions that China has taken, and that includes in the economic area, and that includes the theft of intellectual property," he said.
He stopped short of calling China an enemy even though the US has accused Beijing of stealing hundreds of billions of dollars in trade secrets and intellectual property.
"We don't have the luxury of not dealing with China," he said. "There are real complexities to the relationship, whether it's the adversarial piece, whether it's the competitive piece, whether it's the co-operative piece."
But, he said, although China was acting like "someone who's trying to compete unfairly and increasingly in adversarial ways... we're much more effective and stronger when we're bringing like-minded and similarly aggrieved countries together to say to Beijing: 'This can't stand, and it won't stand'."
Mr Blinken is visiting London for the first face-to-face meeting of foreign ministers from the G7 industrialised countries in more than two years.
President Biden, in his first address to Congress last week, made the point that he was not seeking conflict with China and said he had told President Xi in his call that "we welcome the competition" to be the dominant global power.
Video caption, Blinken rebuked China at the opening of talks in March
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What is a rule-based relationship between two biggest economy in the world? Whether it's the adversarial piece, whether it's the competitive piece, whether it's the co-operative piece? Beijing's message is clear - let's set the rule. This dude is calling his gang and saying he has the rule already written. Do not need to research the street history of Beijing, just go to Manhattan and ask the folks there in the streets, is that logical?
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US-China relations: Blinken accuses China of acting more aggressively
3 May 2021, 05:43 BST
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April 2021
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Image caption,
Antony Blinken is visiting London for the face-to-face meeting of the G7 since the pandemic began
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused China of acting more aggressively abroad and more repressively at home.
He said in an interview with CBS News the US did not want to hold China down but would not allow it to undermine the rules-based international order.
He noted that a military confrontation was profoundly against the interests of both countries.
Tensions have soared in recent times over trade, espionage and the pandemic.
ADVERTISEMENT
The China-US relationship is crucial to both sides and the wider world, with Beijing repeatedly calling on the new administration in Washington to improve relations which deteriorated under President Joe Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.
What the US really wants from the China talks
How will Joe Biden change foreign policy?
Mr Blinken told CBS' 60 Minutes that Mr Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had talked about a wide range of topics in their first phone conversation, which lasted two hours, in February.
"President Biden made clear that in a number of areas we have real concerns about the actions that China has taken, and that includes in the economic area, and that includes the theft of intellectual property," he said.
He stopped short of calling China an enemy even though the US has accused Beijing of stealing hundreds of billions of dollars in trade secrets and intellectual property.
"We don't have the luxury of not dealing with China," he said. "There are real complexities to the relationship, whether it's the adversarial piece, whether it's the competitive piece, whether it's the co-operative piece."
But, he said, although China was acting like "someone who's trying to compete unfairly and increasingly in adversarial ways... we're much more effective and stronger when we're bringing like-minded and similarly aggrieved countries together to say to Beijing: 'This can't stand, and it won't stand'."
Mr Blinken is visiting London for the first face-to-face meeting of foreign ministers from the G7 industrialised countries in more than two years.
President Biden, in his first address to Congress last week, made the point that he was not seeking conflict with China and said he had told President Xi in his call that "we welcome the competition" to be the dominant global power.
Video caption,
Blinken rebuked China at the opening of talks in March
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What is a rule-based relationship between two biggest economy in the world? Whether it's the adversarial piece, whether it's the competitive piece, whether it's the co-operative piece? Beijing's message is clear - let's set the rule. This dude is calling his gang and saying he has the rule already written. Do not need to research the street history of Beijing, just go to Manhattan and ask the folks there in the streets, is that logical?
对了，那会儿他是司长助理，正处级职员，当然缺乏领袖视野。唉，还是缺了街头这一课。