This week, the Chinese coast guard fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed territory in the South China Sea. The US has a mutual defense pact with The Philippines, so this incident draws the US and China into tension with each other. This incident comes just days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in China, meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping. Host Marco Werman interviews the US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns about the tense relationship between the US and China.
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