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Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi urges the United States not to challenge or seek to subvert China’s model of governance. Photo: Xinhua

Published: 1:34pm, 27 Jul 2021Updated: 2:50pm, 27 Jul 2021

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi blamed US President Joe Biden’s administration for continuing the “wrong China policies” of Donald Trump, warning that it risked “big disaster” if Washington did not take remedial action.

Wang told US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman that Washington had to bear in mind China’s three main concerns to stop China-US relations from further deteriorating.

“The new US government has continued the extreme and wrong China policies of the previous administration, repeatedly challenging China’s bottom line and intensifying suppression on China. China resolutely opposes that,” Wang was quoted by the Chinese foreign ministry in a statement on Monday.

Failure to manage China-US relations would be a “big disaster”, Wang said, adding that the US “should establish an objective and correct understanding of China … and return to a pragmatic China policy”.

Deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman (left) called on China to look beyond differences and work with the US on difficult global issues. Photo: Phoenix TV via AP Video

Wang made three core demands of the US, saying that it must not challenge or seek to subvert China’s model of governance as it was related to the fate of 1.4 billion Chinese people.

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