{"id":6632,"date":"2023-08-28T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T14:00:59","slug":"us-commerce-secretary-meets-chinese-counterpart-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/us-commerce-secretary-meets-chinese-counterpart-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"US commerce secretary meets Chinese counterpart in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with her Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Monday, saying it was &#8220;profoundly important&#8221; for the world&#8217;s two biggest economies to have a stable relationship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her visit is the latest in a series of high-level trips to China by US officials in recent months as Washington works to cool trade tensions with Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trips could culminate in a meeting between their leaders, with US President Joe Biden saying recently that he was expecting to sit down with China&#8217;s Xi Jinping this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raimondo met on Monday morning with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, describing the economic relationship between the two countries as &#8220;the most significant in the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We share $700 billion dollars of trade and I concur with you that it is profoundly important that we have a stable economic relationship,&#8221; she said, according to a readout from the US Commerce Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a complicated relationship; it&#8217;s a challenging relationship,&#8221; she told Wang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will of course disagree on certain issues, but I believe we can make progress if we are direct, open, and practical.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raimondo arrived in Beijing on Sunday and was met by Lin Feng, the director of the commerce ministry&#8217;s Americas and Oceania department, as well as US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In posts on the social media platform X, Raimondo said she was &#8220;looking forward to a productive few days&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her trip, she will also travel to China&#8217;s economic powerhouse Shanghai, the US Commerce Department said. She will leave on Wednesday.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with her Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Monday, saying it was &#8220;profoundly important&#8221; for the world&#8217;s two biggest economies to have a stable relationship. Her visit is the latest in a series of high-level trips to China by US officials in recent months as Washington works to cool trade [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,2,2623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6632","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\/6632"}],"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=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}