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China’s New York envoy urges US business support to help improve relations

  • Senior diplomat Huang Ping tells executives that trade links have always been the cornerstone of US-China relationship
  • Huang assures business alliance that Beijing sees further liberalisation and foreigner access as a priority

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New York executives have been urged to use their influence in Washington to help repair US-China relations. Photo: AP
Mark Magnier
A senior Chinese official has called on Wall Street and main street executives to exert their influence in Washington and help improve US-China relations.
Huang Ping, China’s consul-general in New York, told the China-US Business Alliance on Wednesday that economic and trade links have always been the cornerstone of the relationship between the two countries.

“We are facing challenges in bilateral relations these days,” Huang said in a video presentation. “I’m grateful for your support to China-US relations in the past, and I’m confident that I can always count on the business-community support in the future.”

China has often relied on the US and European business communities to bolster bilateral relations in their national capitals when ties are strained. In recent years however, foreign business support has waned amid growing frustration with market barriers, technology transfer requirements, intellectual property theft and control over proprietary data.

Huang highlighted the growth of bilateral trade and foreign direct investment over the past decade, without addressing growing concern that ties have often favoured China. Beijing sees further liberalisation and improved foreigner access as a priority, he added.

“China will open its door still wider,” he said. “We will not change our resolve.”

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