China on Monday blamed the US for undermining ties, with overseas minister Qin Gang telling ambassador Nicholas Burns that bilateral relations have “encountered chilly ice” due to a collection of “misguided phrases and deeds” by Washington.

Qin, in his first assembly with Burns as China’s overseas minister, in Beijing, mentioned the US should appropriate its dealing with of the “Taiwan difficulty” and cease the hollowing out of the “one China” precept, calling it the “pink line” in ties between the 2 international locations.

This was the best stage assembly between diplomats of the 2 international locations after a Chinese language balloon was introduced down by the US army in February, crushing efforts to fix ties following the go to of then-US Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s to Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy claimed by Beijing final August.

Referring to President Xi Jinping and US counterpart Joe Biden’s assembly on the G20 summit final November, Qin mentioned “…the hard-won constructive growth momentum between the 2 sides was destroyed by misguided phrases and actions of the US”.

“Because the agreed negotiations and cooperation agenda have been disrupted, it’s crucial to stabilise China-US relations and keep away from a downward spiral and forestall accidents between the 2 international locations,” Qin instructed Burns.

“The US aspect ought to appropriate its notion of China, return to rationality, and obtain mutual success within the higher growth of every nation,” Qin mentioned, in line with CGTN, China’s official English broadcaster, including that Washington shouldn’t speak about communication on the one hand, whereas continuously “suppressing and containing” China on the opposite.

Referring to Taiwan, Qin mentioned the US should respect China’s “pink line”, cease harming China’s sovereignty, safety and growth pursuits.

“We should persist in dealing with sudden incidents in bilateral relations in a relaxed, skilled and pragmatic method to keep away from additional impacts on Sino-US relations,” Qin mentioned.

In April, China warned of “penalties” and deployed an plane service group close to Taiwan in response to the high-profile assembly between the self-governing island’s President Tsai Ing-wen and US Home Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, in Simi Valley, California, calling their talks “significantly misguided” and “harmful”.

Ties between the world’s two largest economies have been hit by a number of issues lately together with commerce, rights scenario in Chinese language provinces of Xinjiang and Tibet and Beijing’s hostility towards Washington-led mechanisms just like the Quadrilateral Safety Dialogue.

Regardless of trade-related and different disputes, enterprise between the 2 international locations is wholesome.

“US-China commerce in items hit a brand new report in 2022, in line with knowledge revealed by the US Bureau of Financial Evaluation (BEA) final week. Complete imports and exports grew 2.5 % year-on-year to succeed in US$690.6 billion, breaking the earlier report of US$658.8 billion set in 2018,” a February report by Dezan Shira & Associates, knowledgeable providers agency, mentioned.