U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen shakes fingers with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng earlier than a dinner within the southern Chinese language metropolis of Guangzhou, on April 5, 2024.Â
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen feedback on China’s extra manufacturing capability search to rehash “China menace” rhetoric and seem to create a pretext for extra protectionist insurance policies from the U.S., Chinese language state media stated.
Such feedback search to undermine China’s home progress and worldwide cooperation, and Washington ought to deal with fostering innovation and competitiveness inside its personal borders as a substitute of resorting to fear-mongering, state information company Xinhua stated in an editorial late on Friday.
Yellen informed U.S. businesspeople in China’s southern export hub of Guangzhou on Friday that considerations are rising over the worldwide financial fallout from China’s extra manufacturing capability, making the problem the main target of her 4 days of conferences with Chinese language officers.
Citing China’s overproduction of electrical autos, photo voltaic panels, semiconductors and different items which are flooding into world markets within the face of a requirement hunch in China’s home market, Yellen stated this was not wholesome for China and was hurting producers in different nations.
“Speaking up ‘Chinese language overcapacity’ within the clear power sector additionally smacks of making a pretext for rolling out extra protectionist insurance policies to protect U.S. firms,” Xinhua stated.
“In any case, it’s now identified by the world that Washington is not going to hesitate to indicate its protectionist enamel underneath the guise of nationwide safety in areas the place its supremacy is challenged.”
Yellen met with Vice Premier He Lifeng and Guangdong Province Governor Wang Weizhong in Guangzhou after arriving in China late on Thursday.
She is to journey on Saturday to Beijing, the place she is going to meet officers together with Premier Li Qiang and Folks’s Financial institution of China Governor Pan Gongsheng by Monday, in line with a Treasury press advisory.
