But the US officials who leaked the news of Beijing’s rebuke of Burns noted that Chinese state media did not publicise the diplomatic note, known as a démarche, seemingly to preserve the goodwill created by US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s visit to China.

The way that’s written, kinda makes me feel all kinds of weird.

China Diplomat’s Private message: “Dude, that wasn’t cool.”

US Officials: “Imma gonna blast this all over Social Media!”