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这是一个来自南高加索国家亚美尼亚的采访，关于特朗普对中国的访问与中美关系。编辑参加了去年夏天中联部与《人民日报》组织的亚欧主流媒体访华团。我应邀给他们讲了一次课，关于“一带一路”。这个采访算是那次讲课的一个意料外的副产品吧。从中似乎折射了一点：过去几年中联部在拓展外交上的创新性努力。宋部长被看好是有缘由滴。

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1.The analysts believe that the recent visit of US President Donald Trump was not that successful for the United States. According to the experts, the sides failed to reach any significant progress on trade issues. How would you assess the results of President Trump's visit to China from the economic perspective?

 

This visit was indeed successful. First of all, a face-to-face conversion is the most convenient way of building relationship and establishing mutual trust between leaders, and this is even more significant in great power politics. Secondly, this visit made new record of Sino-US trade of 253.5 billion USD worth of trade deals signed. Thirdly, with concerns to the trade issues, China and the United States have come to the agreement to boost natural gas trade. In addition, as the Ministry of Finance of the PRC confirmed on 10November that China will further relax the limit on foreign investment in the banking industry and other financial businesses.

 

Of course, China’s efforts alone cannot rectify the trade imbalances, the United States has set too many trade barriers on high-tech products to China, and which room for improvement is more than obvious.

 

2.China and U.S. signed trade deals worth $250 billion during Trump's visit. How do you think the party would use the opportunity? Do you think the Trump administration would use it to tackle tougher problems in economic ties, such as market access for U.S. companies in China?

 

A 250 billion USD deal is more than obvious to suggest that China and the United States still has a lot more potential in economic cooperation, even in matured fields such as airplane exports, let alone natural resources. What also need to be mentioned here is that cooperation in e-commerce will become the next new highlights.

 

The Trump administration will undoubtedly bring up further request on China. What I would like to point out is that his “American first” policy has a strong root in economic nationalism, and this is not adequate in the age of economic globalisation. The United States is not competitive in fields such as textile industry, daily necessities industry, steel manufacturing and so forth, and it is not wise to predict an industrial backflow. That said, China has more room for improvement in the financial industry and high-tech industry. “to promote reform with opening up, breaking the barriers set by interest groups” is also a choice of Chinese policy-makers.

 

(Translation courtesy of Dr. Cheng Zhangxi)

 

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