The U.S. policy towards China in 2022 was a lesson in the difference in rhetoric versus reality.

While Washington said repeatedly that it wants to work with Beijing in an era of what the Biden administration calls “strategic competition” the reality was one of tightening export controls, keeping trade tariffs in place and weakening the One China policy over Taiwan which had helped maintain peaceful relations for over forty years.

CGTN’s Nathan King reports.

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