Biden administration needs to prove its sincerity

Speaking ahead of the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Bengaluru, India, on Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen rightly said that there are "many areas" where the United States and China need to work together to address global challenges and that good communication between the two countries is the key to the macroeconomic and financial situations domestically and within the global economy more widely.

She said that the US would resume economic talks with China "at an appropriate time" but that she didn't "have a specific time frame in mind".

Unlike the beginning of the month, when China gave a next-day response to her expressing the hope that she would be able to visit China, saying it held a welcome attitude, there has been no response to her remarks from China so far. That should drive home to the Joe Biden administration the damage it is doing to ties by saying one thing and doing another.