Talking only way for US and China to get on same page
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to China, which started on Monday, comes at a time when relations between the world's two largest economies are at one of their worst points since they established diplomatic ties four decades ago.
Trade frictions aside, days before Pompeo's trip to Asia, US Vice-President Mike Pence opened fire on China in a blustering speech that scatter shot groundless accusations against China, and depicted it as an evil empire seeking to contest the geopolitical advantages of the US and change the international order.
The speech, with its wordings reminiscent of how the US targeted the former Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, seemed intended to mark a confrontational policy shift toward China by the Donald Trump administration.
