{"id":6552,"date":"2023-08-22T18:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2023-08-22T18:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T13:28:40","slug":"us-commerce-secretary-to-visit-china-next-week-for-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/us-commerce-secretary-to-visit-china-next-week-for-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"US commerce secretary to visit China next week for talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo will visit China next week, Beijing and Washington said Tuesday, adding to a slew of US officials dispatched in recent months to ease tensions between the world&#8217;s largest economies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington says it is seeking to better manage its frosty relations with China, with the two powers at loggerheads over everything from trade to human rights and Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Secretary Raimondo looks forward to constructive discussions on issues relating to the US-China commercial relationship, challenges faced by US businesses, and areas for potential cooperation,&#8221; the US Department of Commerce said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She will travel to both Beijing and Shanghai during the August 27 to 30 trip, Washington said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing also confirmed the visit, adding that Raimondo has been invited by her Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her visit will build on an agreement between Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden in Bali last year &#8220;to deepen communication between the US and the PRC on a range of issues,&#8221; Washington said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relations between Washington and Beijing have plummeted to some of their worst levels in decades, with Washington&#8217;s trade curbs among the top of the laundry list of disagreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington says its restrictions are crucial to safeguarding national security, while Beijing sees them as hampering its economic rise.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo will visit China next week, Beijing and Washington said Tuesday, adding to a slew of US officials dispatched in recent months to ease tensions between the world&#8217;s largest economies. Washington says it is seeking to better manage its frosty relations with China, with the two powers at loggerheads over everything [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,2,2623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}