US-China Rivalry Worsens Despite Talks, Report to Congress Finds
- Commission finds ‘more talk than concrete actions’ by China
- Panel issues downbeat report a day ahead of Biden-Xi meeting
heir first in-person sit-down in a year comes after an intense period of diplomacy over the last six months.
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Tensions between the US and China have worsened despite renewed diplomatic engagement in the last year and Beijing shows few signs of making major concessions, according to a report to Congress issued just a day before President Joe Biden is set to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San Francisco.
“The result of high-level meetings between the United States and China has been merely the promise of further meetings — that is, of more talk rather than concrete actions,” the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its annual report to Congress, which was released on Tuesday. “China has shown an increased willingness to engage with the United States, but there is little evidence that it intends to make concessions or modify its own policies to improve relations.”