Six days before a meeting with senior Chinese officials in Alaska next Thursday, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the Biden government “believes that we will end up in fierce competition with China and we intend to prevail in that competition”. He spoke during the press conference at the White House on Friday afternoon.
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– Just to follow up next week’s meeting with representatives from China, do you think export tariffs and controls aimed at China will be part of the negotiations? And what does China need to do for the United States to reduce export control tariffs?
JAKE SULLIVAN: I don’t expect, for example, the Phase 1 trade deal to be a big topic of conversation next week. This is our effort to clearly communicate to the Chinese government how the United States intends to proceed at a strategic level to what our fundamental interests and values are and what our concerns are with its activities, whether in Hong Kong or Xinjiang or in the Taiwan Strait, or frankly , the problems we hear today from our [? co-op ?] partners, their coercion from Australia, their harassment around the Senkaku Islands, their aggression on the border with India.
Therefore, this will be more in this zone than in the details of questions about tariffs or export controls. But we will communicate that the United States will take action in terms of what we do in technology to ensure that our technology is not used in a way that is hostile to our values or adverse to our security.
We will communicate this message on a broad level, but in terms of the details of these issues, we have more work to do with our allies and partners to come up with a common approach, a joint approach, before we sit down. point out with the Chinese government on these issues.
We also want to bring in other important representatives, senior economic representatives from the Biden government, to these conversations at the time they take place.
– We can do one more, guys.