Besent's tone has become much more moderate! After a video call with the Chinese lead person on October 18, Besent stated that he expects to meet with Chinese representatives in Malaysia next week, paving the way for a potential high-level meeting between China and the United States. Besent claimed that he believes the relationship between the US and China has cooled down. Obviously, from Besent's remarks, his tone has become much more moderate.
What does this change in Besent's attitude indicate? In a way, it indicates that a big stone has finally fallen from the heart of the US side. In fact, after Besent made unreasonable attacks on our Deputy Minister, foreign media said that Besent's outburst was entirely to find an excuse for the United States. Foreign media stated that because the Department of Commerce, led by US Commerce Secretary Rutenberg, has repeatedly escalated restrictions on China, triggering strong countermeasures from China, which caused the existing negotiation process between China and the US to be interrupted, and this has caused strong dissatisfaction from Trump himself towards Rutenberg.
In order to shift the blame for disrupting the China-US negotiation process, the US approach was to attack our representative, but the result was that the China-US negotiation process became obscure. Now, Besent has had a call with us, which means that the China-US negotiation process is showing signs of returning to the right track. Obviously, after pulling back and reversing the bad momentum, Besent's big stone finally fell from his heart.
From our news release, we also saw that the person who had a video call with us this time was Besent and the US Trade Representative Grayer, and Rutenberg was not on the list. This may mean that Rutenberg, who has been tough on China and messed up the China-US negotiation process, has been removed, and Besent has solidified his position as the chief negotiator for the US side. Of course, from our perspective, the US has not canceled any of its escalation actions, and the economic and trade differences between China and the US remain significant.
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