Summary
China and the U.S. have been caught in a trade dispute for 18 months, with the two sides struggling to reach an agreement despite a series of negotiations.
Beijing has lashed out at Washington over U.S. naval operations in the disputed South China Sea, U.S. criticism of China's mass detention of ethnic Uighurs and U.S. Congress support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Because conflicts between the U.S. and China have always been "passive", he warned there is no framework for Washington to deal with Beijing as a "military power".
Former president Richard Nixon's secretary of state flew secretly to Beijing in 1971 to begin talks on new relations between the U.S. and Communist China.
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