US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo who met with her Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao on Monday and said that the relations between Washington and Beijing are “profoundly important”, CNN reported today.
“The economic relationship between the United States and China is one of the most significant in the world. We share over USD 700 billion of trade,” Raimondo said in Beijing. The US Commerce Secretary’s visit to Beijing and Shanghai that ends on Wednesday follows visits by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Climate Envoy John Kerry.
“It is profoundly important that we have a stable economic relationship, which is to the benefit of both of our countries. And in fact what the world expects of us. It’s a complicated relationship. It’s a challenging relationship. We will of course disagree on certain issues, but I believe that we can make progress if we are direct, open and practical,” Raimondo was cited as saying.
The US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is in on a four- day visit to Beijing, aimed at boosting business ties between the world’s two largest economies while declaring American national security trade measures off-limits for debate
