He bought albums by Taylor Swift and Chinese rocker Dou Wei in a symbolic nod to cross-cultural exchanges.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns during a visit to Li-Pi record store in Beijing
Yet Swift’s Midnights and Dou Wei’s Black Dream could just as easily represent the seemingly intractable divisions in the deeply troubled relationship between the world’s two largest economies that both sides publicly and privately blame on the other. In his official meetings with Chinese leaders in Beijing, he spoke repeatedly of improvements in ties over the past year.
“I made clear that if China does not address this problem, we will,” Mr Blinken told reporters after meeting with Mr Xi. Mr Wang, the foreign minister, said China is fed up with what it considers to be US meddling in human rights, Taiwan and the South China Sea and efforts to restrict its trade and relations with other countries.
Or, as Yang Tao, the director general of North American and Oceania affairs at the Foreign Ministry, put it, according to the official Xinhua News Agency: “If the United States always regards China as its main rival, China-US relations will continuously face troubles and many problems.”
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