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Washington, (Asian independent) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that while the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine was an immediate threat to the international order, the US remained focussed on China because the latter posed the most serious and long-term challenge. Laying out the Biden administration’s long awaited China policy, Secretary Blinken said Beijing had been undermining the very international rules, laws and institutions that enabled its emergence and rise and that under President Xi Jinping, the ruling Chinese Communist Party had become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad. “Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a...
