The new administration says it’s playing a long game with Beijing. Critics say it’s just getting played.Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with then Vice President Joe Biden in Beijing in 2013. | Lintao Zhang, Pool, File/APPresident Joe Biden so far has held calls with about a dozen world leaders, from the president of France to Vladimir Putin, Russia’s strongman. But the head of the world’s No. 2 economy and America’s chief geopolitical rival? Nope.It’s not that Biden has nothing to say to Xi Jinping, the iron-fisted head of China’s communist system. Quite the opposite —...…The new administration says it’s playing a long game with Beijing. Critics say it’s just getting played.Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with then Vice President Joe Biden in Beijing in 2013. | Lintao Zhang, Pool, File/APPresident Joe Biden so far has held calls with about a dozen world leaders, from the president of France to Vladimir Putin, Russia’s strongman. But the head of the world’s No. 2 economy and America’s chief geopolitical rival? Nope.It’s not that Biden has nothing to say to Xi Jinping, the iron-fisted head of China’s communist system. Quite the opposite —...WW…
A department spokesperson accused Beijing of engaging “for years in massive illegal spying and influence operations.”A security guard drives away from the Chinese Consulate General July 22 in Houston. | David J. Phillip/AP PhotoThe State Department announced Wednesday that it directed China to shutter its consulate in Houston “in order to protect American intellectual property” and the “private information” of U.S. citizens.The sudden action escalates tensions between two countries that have been at loggerheads in recent months over China’s strict new security law for Hong Kong, a breakdown...…A department spokesperson accused Beijing of engaging “for years in massive illegal spying and influence operations.”A security guard drives away from the Chinese Consulate General July 22 in Houston. | David J. Phillip/AP PhotoThe State Department announced Wednesday that it directed China to shutter its consulate in Houston “in order to protect American intellectual property” and the “private information” of U.S. citizens.The sudden action escalates tensions between two countries that have been at loggerheads in recent months over China’s strict new security law for Hong Kong, a breakdown...WW…
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