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China’s state media tells US it picked the ‘wrong rival at the wrong time’
- ‘Stubbornly putting pressure on countries’ is a miscalculation by Washington, People’s Daily commentary says
- Without the ‘foundation of equality and common development’, gains made by any nation will be short-lived
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The United States has made a “wrong calculation” and picked the “wrong rival” by continuing to put pressure on China, state media said on Thursday as it sought to ramp up the rhetoric ahead of a possible meeting between the nations’ leaders later this month.
In a front-page commentary, Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily accused the US of being more concerned with maintaining its hegemony than seeking growth and development.
“Some people in the US are saying that the coming of a new era for China means the end of an era for the US,” it said.
“Some people are stubbornly putting pressure on nations like China. They have made wrong calculations, and chosen the wrong rival at the wrong time.”
The article comes after repeated warnings from US officials that China will face consequences if President Xi Jinping fails to sit down with his US counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan later this month.
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