U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with China’s newly appointed ambassador Qin Gang on Aug. 12, discussing issues Beijing was bombarded with last month. The Deputy reviewed issues raised from the last meeting in China’s coastal city Tianjin and “expressed the United States’ commitment to continuing discussions,” State Department’s spokesman Ned Price said. The brief statement didn’t offer further details of the talk. Sherman raised several concerns with the regime’s top diplomats during her first in-person visit to China on July 26, including Beijing’s anti-democratic crackdown in Hong Kong, the ongoing genocide in China’s far eastern Xinjiang region, abuses in Tibet, the Taiwan Strait, and boundaries of the South China Sea. However, the regime’s Foreign Minister Xie Feng told Sherman that the United States should “change its highly misguided mindset” and accused the administration of treating Beijing as an “imaginary enemy.” Two days later, when Qin arrived in Washington, the …