American Ambassador: The growing tensions in the US-China relationship are worrying
According to the report of Tasnim News Agency, Nicholas Burns. The American ambassador to China, while expressing his concern about the impact of tensions between Beijing and Washington, considered this Asian country to be the most important, competitive and at the same time most dangerous relationship that Washington has.
In a conversation with CBS news agency, he said that he is worried about the growing tensions in the relationship between the United States and China and the continued mistrust and disruption of trust in the world of business.
Burns added: China is the most important, most competitive and most dangerous relationship that the United States has ever had in the world, and I think it will be the same for the next decade or decades.
He pointed out that two countries should live together and this is the biggest issue of tension between the two nations.
This American diplomat stated that China is our most important competitor and at the same time our third largest trading partner. 750,000 jobs in America are at risk. China is the largest market for US agricultural products. A fifth of all our agricultural exports go to China, which was worth about $41 billion last year.
He emphasized that some people say that we should have a competitive relationship with China and we should cut economic ties with this country. The consequence of such action is that 750 thousand American families will be out of work.
Burns said that the United States and China will inevitably compete with each other, but this must be done responsibly in order to maintain peace between the two countries. One in five people in the world is Chinese. The population of China is 4 times that of the United States and has an area of ​​7.3 million square miles. President Xi likes to say that Asia is growing and the West is declining, but America has grown a lot compared to China.
While he made these statements, which he said earlier in December last year about the relationship between Beijing and Washington, he does not feel optimistic about it, but he is still hopeful.
Meanwhile, two days ago, Leo Pengyu, the press secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, stated that the US sanctions on Chinese factories due to their relations with Russia are a move for economic bullying and intimidation..
Earlier too Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, stated that Washington should lift the sanctions imposed on Chinese factories and people..
According to this report, Washington has imposed sanctions on various Chinese companies, which Washington has accused of cooperating with China's military industries despite the denial of these companies. US sanctions have also been imposed on Chinese individuals and entities accused of human rights violations in the Xinjiang region.
In recent months, relations between the US and China have seen signs of improvement as both sides have taken steps to re-establish communication channels after growing tensions between them in recent decades.
But on February 23, the US Department of Treasury imposed new sanctions on some individuals and legal entities of Russia and some other countries, including China, the UAE, and Turkey.
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