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The first meeting of the new Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, with Yang Jiechi, the top foreign policy figure of the Communist Party of China, in Anchorage, Alaska, was aimed at laying the foundations for the new relationship between Washington and Beijing. But it started in a less diplomatic tone. “Relations with China will be competitive if necessary, cooperative if possible and hostile if necessary,” Blinken said. China refused to interfere in internal affairs. “It is important for our two countries that each of us run our affairs well rather than blame someone else in the world,” Yang said, according to a translation. Blinken said the United States is concerned about the human rights situation in Hong Kong and Xinjiang province, where the Uighur ethnic minority lives.
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