China warns US not to step on its 'red lines'

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30 minutes ago Tom Bateman & Kelly Ng,in Beijing and Singapore Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has cautioned his US counterpart Antony Blinken against stepping on China's "red lines”, as the two country's top diplomats met in Beijing on Friday.
"Should China and the United States keep to the right direction of moving forward with stability or return to a downward spiral?" he asked.
Mr Blinken, who is on his second visit to China in less than a year, will wrap up his trip with China's President Xi Jinping on Friday afternoon.
This visit forms part of a significant increase in dialogue and diplomacy, however frosty, between these rival powers as they attempt to put relations on an even keel after a period of immense tension last year.