US ambassador says Beijing making US-China exchanges ‘impossible’:

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BEIJING - The US ambassador to China has accused Beijing of making it “impossible” to boost ties between ordinary Chinese and Americans in a strongly worded interview published in the Wall Street Journal on June 25. China and the United States have tussled in recent years over a range of issues from trade to technology, human rights and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Relations stabilised somewhat after President Joe Biden met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in San Francisco in 2023, but tensions persist between the world’s two largest economies. Ambassador Nicholas Burns told the Journal that Beijing was trying to...