BEIJING — On Monday, it was the South China Sea. On Tuesday, it was Hong Kong. The Trump administration appears to be accelerating a push to define China as a strategic threat, a worrying trend for the country's leaders as the ambitions of a rising economic and military power collide with America's. A senior official accused the U.S. this week of using the Hong Kong issue to try to obstruct China's development. Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang told U.S.

Source: International New York Times July 16, 2020 03:10 UTC