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Burns believed the days when Washington and other capitals were able to influence Chinese decision-making, encouraging Beijing to join the World Trade Organization and otherwise become a “responsible stakeholder”, were a distant memory.

As recently as the early 2000s, Beijing was willing to work cooperatively with Washington on sanctioning Iran, opposing North Korea’s testing of nuclear weapons and trying to help stabilise conditions in Afghanistan, he added.