Wang Yi says U.S. sanctions on China have reached 'bewildering absurdity'

BEIJING -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that while ties with the U.S. have improved, Washington fundamentally misunderstands China and its unilateral actions against Beijing will backfire.

"The U.S. has been devising various tactics to suppress China and kept lengthening its unilateral sanction list, reaching a bewildering level of unfathomable absurdity," Wang told reporters on the sidelines of the National People's Congress in Beijing.