US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo wrapped up a trip to China on Wednesday with a pledge to make a new mechanism for resolving commercial differences work better than past initiatives that failed to avert conflict over technology and trade.
Speaking in a Boeing hangar in Shanghai before departing for the US, Raimondo insisted the planned “commercial issues working group” would succeed where past such schemes were sidelined amid frictions between the world’s two largest economies.
“Why will this be different? We have to make it different. The US-Chinese relationship is too consequential and we can’t drift to a place of greater conflict,” said Raimondo, who has hailed the new working group as an achievement of her trip.
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