US & China should be partners not rivals: Xi tells Blinken

Chinese President Xi Jinping told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the latter's visit to Beijing that China and US "should be partners and not rivals". "We hope...US can...take a positive view of China's development...When this fundamental problem is solved...relations can truly stabilise," Xi said. Recently, US Congress allocated $8.12 billion towards countering China in Indo-Pacific.