She reiterated calls for the world’s two largest economies to work together on crucial global challenges. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said one of the reasons she hopes to travel to China is to establish contact with “a new group of leaders” as she reiterated calls for the world’s two largest economies to work together on crucial global challenges.
“We need to discuss our disagreements with one another so that we don’t have misunderstandings, don’t misunderstand one another’s intentions,” she said in the interview, set to be broadcast on the network on Wednesday night. US-China relations have grown increasingly icier since the Trump administration, with continuing discord over Taiwan, trade, conflicting claims regarding the South China Sea along with sources of tension, including the flight of aBoth Dr Yellen and top White House officials in recent months have sought to stress that the US is not seeking to decouple from its geopolitical rival but rather de-risk.
Dr Yellen reiterated that the US is taking, and would continue to take, actions that protect national security interests from threats posed by China even if they carry economic costs, while she appealed again to Beijing to cooperate on shared global concerns.
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