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eijing urged Washington to stop "demonizing" China and issued an exhaustive list of demands to repair relations on Monday, as rancor marked the start of talks with the highest-level United States envoy to visit under President Joe Biden's administration.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman's visit to the northern city of Tianjin is the first major meeting between the world's leading economies since March discussions in Anchorage between the countries' top diplomats collapsed into mudslinging.
The preamble to Sherman's trip said she aims to seek "guardrails" as ties deteriorate on a range of issues from cybersecurity and tech supremacy to human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
But the tone was set early in the day in statements published by Beijing.
"The hope may be that by demonizing China, the US could somehow [...] blame China for its own structural problems," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng told Sherman, in a readout issued by China's foreign ministry early Monday.
"We urge the United States to change its highly misguided mindset and dangerous policy," the statement quoted Xie as saying, adding that Washington views China as an "imagined enemy".
