Rancour marked the start of Monday's talks between Beijing and the highest-level US envoy to visit under President Joe Biden's administration.
Wendy Sherman is the highest-level official to visit China under President Joe Biden's administrationBEIJING - Rancour marked the start of Monday's talks between Beijing and the highest-level US envoy to visit under President Joe Biden's administration, as Beijing urged Washington to stop"demonising" China while the US made a"forceful" case against China's human rights violations.
"The hope may be that by demonising China, the US could somehow... blame China for its own structural problems," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng told Sherman, in a readout issued by China's foreign ministry early Monday. Sherman tweeted Monday that she"spoke about the United States' commitment to healthy competition, protecting human rights and democratic values" with Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
"The Deputy Secretary was very forceful in making the Chinese understand the factual information we had to support what we were talking about," US officials said, adding that Sherman had been"brutally honest" at times on issues such as China's alleged cyberhacking. Beijing issued an exhaustive list of demands to the US, which included lifting sanctions on Chinese officials and visa restrictions on Chinese students as well as stopping the"suppression" of Chinese firms, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian later told reporters.
"China will not accept any country's self-proclaimed superiority," he was quoted as saying in a foreign ministry statement Saturday.
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