The U.S. keeps saying it wants to set a "floor" under the relationship with China. Its recent moves against Beijing and new pressure from Congress make achieving that look increasingly unlikely.
Two months after President Joe Biden met Xi Jinping in Bali with a promise to arrest a slide in ties, the world's two biggest economies and preeminent superpowers have been unable - or unwilling - to halt a cycle of suspicion and provocation. That's renewing doubts ahead of talks next week in Beijing about the possibility that the relationship will ever return to normalcy.
