US-China relations are defined by rivalry but must include engagement, American ambassador says

The U.S.-China relationship will be defined by strategic competition in the coming decades but must involve engagement when the interests of the two countries align, the U.S. ambassador to China said Friday, one month after President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to stabilize the fraught relations. Nicholas Burns said the U.S. and China are “vying for global power as well as regional power” as they compete militarily, politically and economically. “I think we are systematic rivals, if you think about our national security and economic and political interests around the world," Burns said at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.