Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has denied that China is being unnecessarily “tough” with the United States, insisting that it is Washington that has damaged bilateral ties by selling arms to Taiwan and receiving the Dalai Lama.
However, what happened in the past two months has been happening for decades. The policy of selling weapons to Taiwan goes back to the establishment of Sino-American relations in 1979. The custom of receiving the Dalai Lama goes back for almost two decades.
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