Pushback in the US against engagement with China

Some lawmakers criticise Washington’s recent diplomatic overtures as one-sided, piling on pressure for deliverables.

Analysts reckon that while US engagement with China will continue, it will also become more politically fraught. PHOTO: REUTERS
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WASHINGTON - Zombies made an appearance at a congressional hearing on July 20 – as a metaphor used by the panel’s Republican chairman Mike Gallagher to describe the Biden administration’s recent string of high-level meetings with China.

To Mr Gallagher and several of his Republican colleagues, the administration had revived a fruitless strategy of unfettered engagement that was already dead, like a zombie.

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