China says it’s imperative to stabilize U.S. relations

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China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Monday it is imperative to stabilize Sino-U.S. relations after a series of “erroneous words and deeds” threw ties back into a deep freeze. In a meeting with Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China, Qin emphasized that the United States must improve the way it has handled the Taiwan issue and stop undermining the “one China” principle. The relationship between the world’s two biggest economies sank to a low last year when then Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi paid an official visit to democratically governed Taiwan, angering China, which claims...