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What Ordinary Americans & Chinese Think About US-Beijing Tensions

Yibing Feng

   BEIJING - The recent closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston and
   the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu mark a new low point in ties between two
   of the world's most powerful nations, analysts say.

   There have been months of U.S-China tensions over Beijing's role in the
   COVID-19 pandemic, its crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong,
   its alleged oppression of the Uighur Muslim minority, and the status of
   self-ruling Taiwan. Now, these policy disagreements are overshadowing
   areas of engagements such as on bilateral trade and North Korea's
   nuclear program.

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