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On Monday, Foreign Minister Qin Gang took his first formal meeting with a US official since his appointment in late December.
The lucky American: US Ambassador Nicholas Burns.
ICYDK: Qin was all set to receive US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in February, until a US media firestorm around a ser...