Before a key visit to ease tensions, China complains about a senior Biden official.


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China has filed new diplomatic complaints against the United States’ deputy secretary of state, citing a “negative trend towards China” ahead of the senior official’s trip to Beijing to defuse tensions. Following a bilateral meeting between Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Thursday that “solemn representations” were made to US and Japanese officials in Beijing, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, Mori hosted Sherman, the second-in-command at the State Department, in Tokyo, with a joint statement bluntly criticizing China for attempting to...