Today's Lianhe Zaobao reports: "U.S. President Trump will visit China next week. According to U.S. media, the American government has rejected China's invitation for U.S. corporate CEOs accompanying the delegation to hold specialized industry-focused talks with senior Chinese leaders, citing concerns that such interactions might make American companies appear overly close to Beijing."
To prepare for Trump's upcoming visit to China, the U.S. side has extended invitations to top executives from a range of major enterprises. In the technology and energy sectors, prominent figures from Nvidia, Apple, ExxonMobil, and Boeing have been invited. The financial and investment industries are represented by high-level executives from Qualcomm, Blackstone Group, Citigroup, and Visa.
Commentary: Trump is set to embark on his upcoming visit to China, with the U.S. deliberately gathering top executives from key sectors including technology, energy, and finance to accompany him. On the surface, this appears aimed at advancing Sino-U.S. economic and trade cooperation during the leadership summit. However, the U.S. has declined China’s proposal to arrange specialized, sector-specific discussions between American business leaders and Chinese senior officials—deliberately avoiding deep-level engagement. This reveals a contradictory and narrow-minded mindset: while eager for large corporations to join the trip to secure commercial benefits, the U.S. simultaneously maintains emotional distance, unwilling to let American firms grow too close to Chinese counterparts, fearing they might be labeled as sympathetic to China. Fundamentally, politics takes precedence over economics—seeking gains from Sino-U.S. collaboration while deliberately projecting a tough, distant posture, afraid that easing economic ties could undermine its political leverage against China. As a result, the economic and trade cooperation during this visit is already shadowed by caution and restraint from the outset.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1864611397880843/
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