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Chinese Leader Xi’s Two Missteps in Handling US–China Relations

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Chinese Leader Xi’s Two Missteps in Handling US–China Relations
This combination of pictures created on May 14, 2020, shows recent portraits of CCP leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump. Dan Kitwood and Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images
He Qinglian
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In the past month, the United States has taken a series of harsh measures against China, which Beijing could hardly counter effectively. However, it wasn’t until the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston that Beijing finally realized that the deterioration of U.S.–China relations is now irreversible.

He Qinglian
He Qinglian
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He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.
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