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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in a phone call on Friday the United States will stand up for human rights and democratic values in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, the State Department said.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks speaks during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to the State Department in Washington, U.S., February 4, 2021. REUTERS\/Tom Brenner<\/figcaption>

Blinken also pressed China to condemn the military coup in Myanmar, and he reaffirmed that Washington will work with allies to hold China accountable for efforts to threaten stability of Indo-Pacific, including across the Taiwan Strait, the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Yang told Blinken that the United States should \u201ccorrect\u201d its recent mistakes and that both sides must respect each other\u2019s political systems and development paths, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry.<\/p>\n

The relationship between the world\u2019s two biggest economies hit its lowest point in decades during the presidency of Donald Trump, and Chinese officials have expressed cautious optimism that it would improve under the administration of Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Yang told an online forum on Tuesday that he hoped relations between the two countries could return to a predictable and constructive track, but he called on the United States to \u201cstop interfering\u201d on issues of Chinese sovereignty, including Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet.<\/p>\n

Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin also said on Friday that \u201cthe common interests of the two countries outweighed their differences\u201d and urged the United States to \u201cmeet China halfway\u201d to improve relations.<\/p>\n

However, criticism of China\u2019s human rights record has continued unabated, with the State Department saying on Thursday that it was \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by reports of sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang..<\/p>\n

Biden himself has shown little sign he is in a hurry to engage with Beijing, describing China on Thursday as \u201cour most serious competitor\u201d and saying Washington would continue to confront what he described as China\u2019s \u201cattack on human rights, intellectual property and global governance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re ready to work with Beijing, when it\u2019s in America\u2019s interest to do so,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Global Times, a tabloid run by Chinese Communist Party paper the People\u2019s Daily, said in an editorial on Saturday that it expected the Biden administration to keep talking tough while improving cooperation in some areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is obviously different from the later period of Trump\u2019s administration, which had only hyped up antagonism between China and the U.S.,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

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