Chinese Foreign Minister says conflict with US is inevitable

Because of recent US strategy.

The United States should change its “distorted” attitude towards China or “conflict and confrontation” will follow, China’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, while defending its stance on the war in Ukraine and defending its close ties with Russia. The U.S. had been engaging in suppression and containment of China rather than engaging in fair, rule-based competition, Foreign Minister Qin Gang told a news conference

Relations ... worsened last month after the United States shot down a balloon off the U.S. East Coast that it says was a Chinese spying craft [Reuters].

“In fact, the U.S. side’s so-called competition is all-round containment and suppression, a zero-sum game,” Qin said, suggesting that conflict may be unavoidable unless Washington stops trying to suppress Beijing.

On Taiwan, the self-ruling island that Beijing claims as its territory, Qin said it was the first red line in China’s relations with the U.S., which is Taiwan’s most important international backer [NBC].

Resistance wonders how much relations would improve if Mr Biden were more decisive and firm in his international policy conduct.  The US government must conduct itself as if the People are not a population of government-handout dependent chickens.