GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said: travel to china Tough talks are likely on Friday with Chinese government officials on trade and other issues, with a morning meeting scheduled to hear concerns from business representatives from the United States, Europe and Japan in the world’s second-largest economy. has been done.
Yellen, the first Cabinet-level official to visit China since President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping last November, arrived for a meeting in the southern industrial hub of Guangzhou. He shook hands with the heads of China’s American and European chambers of commerce. .
During her five-day visit to China, she sent a cable expressing her concerns about what the US was considering. China’s unfair trade practicesa concern shared by many European countries.
Eswar Prasad, a trade professor at Cornell University, said Yellen has urged the Chinese government to increase domestic consumption and ensure fair competition, especially in new technology areas such as green energy and electric vehicles, as well as provide adequate support for U.S. companies. We expect that the government will work to secure market access.
“Concerns that China is trying to export excess capacity and at the same time make major inroads into these areas will be a top concern for the U.S. delegation,” he said.
China is pushing back against concerns about overcapacity expressed by both the United States and Europe.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said earlier this week that the growth in China’s EV and solar power exports is contributing to global green development and is the result of the international division of labor and market demand.
He accused the United States of obstructing free trade by restricting technology exports to China.
“The facts are out in the open as to who is doing the non-market manipulation,” he said. “The United States has not stopped its measures to contain Chinese trade and technology. This is not ‘reducing risk’ but rather creating risk.”