Meanwhile, as we noted earlier this week, Xi's newly appointed Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang is busy attempting a 'softening' and breakthrough in US-China relations.
After taking over the post last Friday, before which he served as the ambassador to the US, he wrote in a new Washington Post op-ed published Wednesday that US-China competition "should not be a zero-sum game," arguing further that "The world is wide enough for China and the US to both develop and prosper."
