Gina Raimondo, the U.S. commerce secretary, has headed to Beijing in an attempt to find common economic ground with China while navigating an increasingly acrimonious geopolitical competition.
“The plan and the hope is that our commercial relationship, if done right, can stabilize the political relationship,” Raimondo said Monday in Beijing as she announced the first of a pair of economics-related discussion formats.Her follows on the heels of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who declared President Joe Biden’s desire to avoid a “winner-take-all” struggle between Washington and Beijing.
“How China and relevant countries solve the dispute is none of Washington's business,” the Global Times, a hawkish Chinese propaganda organ, wrote Monday. “If the U.S. dares to provoke China's core interests in the South China Sea, it will certainly face a head-on blow from China.” “My forces are out here for a reason,” U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Karl Thomas said Sunday. “There’s really no better example of aggressive behavior than the activity on 5 August on the shoal.”
Raimondo has drawn the task of promoting U.S. business interests while working to deprive Beijing of access to Western technology that could be turned against the United States and its allies.
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