'Hegemony Or Territorial Expansion Simply Not In Our DNA': China Tells US

Xie Feng said that the China-US relationship is now in a stalemate and faces serious difficulties, fundamentally, is because some Americans portray China as an "imagined enemy".

The desire to seek hegemony or territorial expansion is "simply not in the Chinese DNA", Chine Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng told his American counterpart, Wendy Sherman, on Monday. Xie Feng's remarks came at a meeting with visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Sherman in China's northeastern port city of Tianjin to discuss ways to set terms for the "responsible management" of the strained ties between Beijing and Washington. Xie Feng said that the China-US relationship is now in a stalemate and faces serious difficulties. Fundamentally, it is because some Americans portray China as an "imagined enemy", he said. "It seems as if by making China an "imagined enemy", a national sense of purpose would be reignited in the US," he said.