Gina Raimondo, U.S. commerce secretary, speaks during an interview in Washington, DC, U.S., on Thursday, March 2, 2023.
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Senior Commerce Ministry officials will travel to Beijing and Shanghai next week as part of efforts to lay the groundwork for Secretary Gina Raimondo’s potential trip later this year, according to people familiar with the plan. plan.
Elizabeth Economy, the secretary of state’s senior adviser on China affairs, and Scott Tatlock, deputy assistant secretary of state for China and Mongolia, will assess whether such a meeting between Raimondo and his Chinese counterparts Whether her country produces results to justify the visit.
A Commerce Department spokesperson confirmed the trip “met with U.S. Trade Service officials, government and industry partners to discuss bilateral trade and trade opportunities for U.S. businesses.” Ky.”
But the prospect of a potential visit by Raimondo – the former governor of Rhode Island whose political ambitions are said to not end with the Commerce job – could be fraught with risk if the visit fails to bear fruit. nothing, according to people familiar with the plan. For example, after the recent visit of French President Emmanuel Macron, Beijing agreed to deliver 160 Airbus planes, and Airbus agreed double its output domestic.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit, scheduled for early February, is postponed indefinitely as tensions escalate during the cross-country trip of the Chinese surveillance balloon.
stress pause economic discussion between the Minister of Finance Janet Yellen and her partners, have since resumed work. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in late March that the White House was discussing potential visits by Secretary of State Yellen and Raimondo to “discuss economic issues…
Beijing has missed key standards in a 2020 trade agreement between countries that Raimondo has pledged to enforce – including China’s promise to buy a plane made by Airbus rival Boeing.
Raimondo told reporters in September 2021: “China is delaying the purchase of tens of billions of dollars worth of Boeing aircraft that Chinese airlines have ordered. That’s a lot of American jobs at stake.”
Since then, the Department of Commerce has taken a special approach to sensitive trade issues. On high-tech exports that could boost China’s military ambitions, Raimondo has drawn a hard line – widening the restrictions that prevent Beijing from gaining leadership. Semiconductors.
On TikTok, where support the ban growing on both sides of the aisle, Raimondo has taken a more moderate approach. “The politician in me thinks you’ll literally lose every voter under the age of 35,” she said. Bloomberg business week. “But how much I hate TikTok — and so do I, because I see addiction in bad stuff — it caters to kids — you know, this is America.”
