“Increasingly I hear from businesses, China is uninvestible because it’s become too risky,” Raimondo told reporters while travelling from Beijing to Shanghai on a high-speed train.
“There are the traditional concerns that they’ve become accustomed to dealing with,” she said. “And then there’s a whole new set of concerns, the sum total of which is making China feel too risky for them to invest.” In discussions with top Chinese officials over the past two days, Raimondo said she raised a number of issues, including specific problems with Intel Corp., Micron Technology Inc. and Boeing Co., as well as other commercial issues. Meanwhile, China asked that the U.S. lower tariffs, cut export controls and scrap plans to limit some forms of outbound investment, Raimondo said, emphasizing that she refused these requests.
Raimondo is the latest high-level official from the Biden administration to travel to China in recent months as part of an effort by the White House to ease tensions between the two powers that have become increasingly strained. “Having Secretary Raimondo come here was very important for the business community because her number one job is to promote trade between the United States and China, and AmCham China feels that that’s one of the stabilizing forces in this relationship,” Michael Hart, the president of AmCham China, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television earlier on Aug. 29. For U.S. firms in China, “the number one complaint for the last three years has been poor U.S.
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