CHINA - A senior Chinese diplomat on Monday bluntly warned the visiting American deputy secretary of state, Wendy R Sherman, that the Biden administration’s strategy of pursuing both confrontation and cooperation with Beijing was sure to fail. China’s vice foreign minister, Xie Feng, told Ms Sherman that the United States’ “competitive, collaborative and adversarial rhetoric” was a “thinly veiled attempt to contain and suppress China,” according to a summary of Mr Xie’s comments that the Chinese foreign ministry sent to reporters. Mr Xie’s remarks underscored the anger that has been building in China toward the United States, undermining the chances that the approach will work.