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US-China relations: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo starts latest visit designed to keep tensions in check
- Raimondo is the fourth senior official to visit the country in recent months as the two countries seek to stop tensions boiling over
- Issues such as market access and anti-spying laws are expected to be on her agenda, while Beijing may raise curbs on sales to its semiconductor firms
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US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo arrived in China on Sunday night, visiting the world’s second-largest economy in the latest effort to keep the heated rivalry between the two countries in check.
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Raimondo was met at the airport by Lin Feng, director of the Ministry of Commerce’s American and Oceania affairs department, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
It is Raimondo’s first trip to China, according to the report.
She is the fourth senior American official to travel to China in recent months, following President Joe Biden’s special envoy for climate change John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Raimondo is expected to meet Chinese officials and business executives in Beijing and Shanghai.
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She is expected to raise a range of issues including market access, raids on US consultancy firms, China’s ban on the sale of products from memory chip firm Micron Technology, data security and Beijing’s anti-espionage law.
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