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Republicans are grumbling about the Biden administration’s handling of the growing threat posed by China, as some questioned why Secretary of State Antony Blinken would even meet with President Xi Jinping.

Blinken and Xi met in the Great Hall of the People for 35 minutes on Monday after the secretary spent more than 10 hours on Sunday with other senior officials.

After the meeting, Blinken reaffirmed that the US does not support the independence of Taiwan, the democratic area where China is rapidly advancing and said China had rejected its calls for closer contact on defense.

“Secretary Blinken shouldn’t be on this trip,” Florida Republican Representative Mike Waltz told Fox News. “I don’t know what else the Chinese Communist Party has to do to violate American sovereignty.”

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