Beijing (EFE).- The US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, told Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, with whom she met today in Beijing, that the US seeks “healthy economic competition” with China, although He asserted that Washington will take in some cases “measures to protect its national security.”
“We seek healthy economic competition based on rules and that can benefit both countries. There are global challenges to which both countries must cooperate. But the United States, in certain circumstances, must take specific steps to protect its national security, something we can disagree on,” Yellen said, according to a Treasury Department statement.
Yellen’s trip to China, from Thursday to Sunday, takes place two weeks after the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, traveled to Beijing and is another attempt to reduce tension between the two powers.