Hillary Clinton struggled to ease Chinese fears of US containment during talks with Chinese leaders yesterday.
Hu Jintao, China’s president, lauded Mrs Clinton for having given a high level of importance to China-US ties and having made efforts to push the relationship forward. But the US secretary of state was greeted in Beijing by another salvo of Chinese state media criticism of her policies in the region.
“Sowing discord among China’s neighbours will not benefit the United States,” said the People’s Daily, the ruling Communist party’s mouthpiece, in a front-page editorial of its overseas edition. “If American foreign policy damages China’s core interests, that can only lead to China hitting back strongly.”
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