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Blinken jousts with China, Russia

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meeting with counterparts from both China and Russia on Friday, said the United States would “push back forcefully” against breakers of international rules, even as he acknowledged his own country’s violations under the Trump administration.

Blinken’s counterparts, Foreign Ministers Wang Yi of China and Sergey Lavrov of Russia, took their own diplomatic swipes at the United States, accusing it of hypocrisy and of defining international rules in terms designed to assert Western dominance in the world.

The exchanges came at a United Nations Security Council meeting, convened by China and held virtually, on the theme of multilateral cooperation against the pandemic, global warming and other common threats.

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