China News Agency, Beijing, October 13th. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said in an interview with China International Television (CGTN) on the 11th that China and the United States are inseparable communities of interests, and economic and trade cooperation can be said to be "linked." , Any blow will hurt your muscles and bones.
In response to US Trade Representative Dai Qi’s recent speech on the Biden administration’s trade policy towards China, Le Yucheng pointed out that we have noticed some positive elements in the US Trade Representative’s speech, and at the same time firmly reject its groundless accusations.
China and the United States are an inseparable community of interests. Even in the context of the U.S. decoupling and cutting off supplies and the impact of the epidemic, China-U.S. trade volume will grow by 8.8% against the trend in 2020. From January to August this year, China-U.S. trade volume increased by 36.6 year-on-year. %, reaching 470 billion US dollars.
He emphasized that economic and trade cooperation can be said to be "linked to the bones", and any blow will "break the bones."
A Moody's survey shows that the trade war with China has cost the United States about 300,000 jobs and an average loss of about $600 per family.
More than 90% of the tariffs imposed by the United States on imports from China are borne by American companies and consumers.
According to Le Yucheng, the latest survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai in September showed that 78% of the interviewed companies expressed their “optimistic or slightly optimistic” attitude towards their business prospects in China in the next five years, an increase of nearly 20 percentage points from 2020.
US Trade Representative Dai Qi also admitted that the "decoupling" of trade with China is not realistic in the context of the global economy, and the United States needs to think about how to "re-link" with China.
It is hoped that the U.S. can really change its course and make economic and trade cooperation an "icebreaker" to break the deadlock in Sino-U.S. relations through joint efforts of politics and business.
When talking about Sino-US relations, Le Yucheng said that since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping and President Biden have made two phone calls and reached important consensus, which has pointed out the direction for the development of bilateral relations.
The diplomatic representatives of China and the United States held dialogues in Anchorage, Tianjin, and Zurich last week. A few days ago, Vice Premier Liu He and US Trade Representative Dai Qi held a telephone conversation. The US President’s special envoy for climate issues Kerry visited China twice.
The maintenance of high-level communication and dialogue between China and the United States shows that China has always actively promoted the improvement of Sino-US relations in goodwill and sincerity, and the door to dialogue is open at any time.
Le Yucheng pointed out that recently the two sides have also established a joint working group to discuss and make progress on handling specific issues in bilateral relations.
This shows that dialogue and cooperation are indispensable, and there is no way out for conflict and confrontation.
We value the US's recent positive statement on Sino-US relations, and hope that the US will earnestly implement policies and actions, do more practical work, and work together to do a good job of the must-answer question of Sino-US relations and answer this "question of the century."
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