Tensions between the U.S. and China have escalated over the previous couple of years.
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BEIJING — The U.S. is pushing back on the concept it desires to suppress China and said it doesn’t wish to separate the 2 economies, in keeping with a State Department spokesperson’s comments.
The spokesperson was responding to a CNBC request for comment on Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s remarks Tuesday. Qin claimed U.S. calls for “establishing guardrails” on the connection meant that China mustn’t react.
Qin also said that the U.S. needed to “hit the brake” to stop conflict with China.
“We’ve made it clear we don’t seek to contain China or have a latest Cold War,” the U.S. State Department spokesperson said.
The spokesperson pointed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments last yr that said the U.S. doesn’t seek to stop China from growing its economy or “advancing the interests of its people.”
“He also said we don’t need to sever China’s economy from ours, though China is pursuing asymmetric decoupling,” the spokesperson said.
