China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, on Tuesday blamed the United States for rising tensions between Washington and Beijing and said if the U.S. does not change its path there will be “conflict and confrontation”.
The U.S. has been engaged in suppression and containment of China rather than fair or rule-based competition, Foreign Minister Qin Gang told reporters at a news conference in Beijing on the sidelines of an annual parliament meeting.
Relations between the two countries have been tense for years over a number of issues including Taiwan, trade and Ukraine but they worsened after controversy involving a balloon which the U.S. said was a Chinese spying device and shot down last month.