What are the main areas of tension in US-China relationship?
The US demand this week that China close its consulate in Houston is the latest in a string of disputes that have taken the relationship between the world's two biggest economies to its lowest point in decades.
Here are the main points of contention between Beijing and Washington:
Coronavirus
The US President Donald Trump has accused China of a lack of transparency about the coronavirus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. He regularly refers to it as the "China virus."
Trump said Chinese officials "ignored their reporting obligations" to the...
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