【明報專訊】THE SINO-US relationship has been stormy recently. To the international community, such developments have been dazzling. Over the past two weeks, three high-ranking diplomats of China, namely Wang Yi, Yang Jiechi and Le Yucheng, have responded to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's "new cold war declaration" last month one after another. They delineated China's policies towards the US. While dismissing the US's accusations, they also stressed the need to maintain dialogue between the two nations, expressing China's refusal to decouple itself from the US, engage in a cold war or escalate the diplomatic row. As their responses are generally calm and temperate in tone, they have been interpreted by some observers as China's softening of its stance and refraining from its "wolf warrior" diplomatic style.