Media: U.S. Senator Daines to Lead Delegation to China Ahead of May 5 Sino-U.S. Leadership Summit
According to sources cited by the South China Morning Post on Friday, Republican Senator Steve Daines will lead a bipartisan delegation of five members on a visit to China next week.
The report states that Daines will begin his visit on May 1, with stops in Shanghai and Beijing.
It is understood that Daines served as a intermediary for Trump during the previous round of U.S.-China trade tensions, and was one of the first senior Republican figures publicly supporting Trump's re-election bid. Moreover, Daines is among the few American politicians with deep understanding of China—he worked in mainland China and Hong Kong as a P&G executive during the 1990s. If the trip proceeds, it will mark Daines’s seventh visit to China as a senator.
Daines previously visited China in March of last year. At the time, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said that China welcomed Senator Daines’s visit, as well as visits from American individuals across various sectors, including members of Congress. China has consistently maintained that stable, healthy, and sustainable development of Sino-U.S. relations aligns with the shared interests of both peoples and the universal expectations of the international community.
Source: sputniknews
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