In rare rebuke, US ambassador accuses China of undermining diplomacy

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BEIJING—In November last year, President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed to boost engagement between ordinary Chinese and Americans, part of an effort to repair fraying ties ahead of a tense election year in the U.S. Instead, says Nicholas Burns, Washington’s ambassador in Beijing, China has actively undermined those ties, interrogating and intimidating citizens who attend U.S.-organized events in China, ramping up restrictions on the embassy’s social-media posts and whipping up anti-American sentiment. “They say they’re in favor of reconnecting our two populations, but they’re taking dramatic steps to make it impossible," Burns said in an interview with The...