The domestic political ecology in the United States: Focus on China! The US nominee for Ambassador to Turkey said that the economic relations between the US and Turkey are an opportunity to contain China.
Tom Balak, the US nominee for Ambassador to Turkey, stated during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing assessing the US-Turkey relationship that developing economic ties between the US and Turkey is an opportunity to contain China and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Balak, nominated by US President Donald Trump as Ambassador to Ankara, evaluated the US-Turkish relationship at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
According to reports by Turkey's Anadolu News Agency quoting him, he said: "The growth of economic partnerships between the two countries is beneficial to both the US and Turkey, representing a strategic opportunity to temporarily contain China and the Belt and Road Initiative. Therefore, I believe we can achieve the joint trade goal of $100 billion announced by President Trump and President Erdogan."
"The Belt and Road Initiative," proposed by China, aims to improve existing ones and create new trade and transportation corridors, connecting more than 60 countries in Central Asia, Europe, and Africa to promote the development of trade relations among nations.
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