{"id":6659,"date":"2023-08-29T18:32:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2023-08-29T18:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:32:54","slug":"raimondo-calls-for-us-and-china-to-step-up-on-global-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/raimondo-calls-for-us-and-china-to-step-up-on-global-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Raimondo calls for US and China to &#8216;step up&#8217; on global issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with China&#8217;s premier on Tuesday, calling for Beijing and Washington to work together to solve issues of global concern.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raimondo&#8217;s trip to China is the latest by a senior US official in recent months as Washington seeks to defuse tensions with the world&#8217;s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday she held another round of talks with Chinese officials, meeting Premier Li Qiang to stress the importance of open communication between the two powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pointing to areas of &#8220;global concern&#8221; like climate change, Artificial Intelligence and fentanyl addiction, she told Li that Washington wants to &#8220;work with you as two global powers to do what is right for all of humanity&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The world is expecting us to step up together to solve these problems,&#8221; she said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with China&#8217;s premier on Tuesday, calling for Beijing and Washington to work together to solve issues of global concern. Raimondo&#8217;s trip to China is the latest by a senior US official in recent months as Washington seeks to defuse tensions with the world&#8217;s second-largest economy. On Tuesday she held [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,2,2623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","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\/6659"}],"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=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}