‘Vigorous give and take’: U.S. security advisor discusses economic curbs in rare trip to China

BEIJING — U.S. nationalist information advisor Jake Sullivan said helium raised concerns astir the country's absorption connected economical information successful meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and different officials this week.

Just arsenic the U.S. has cited nationalist information concerns for its ain restrictions connected Chinese tech imports, China has progressively emphasized the request to support its economical security.

Foreign businesses successful China person complained of vague information rules and preferential attraction for section players, arsenic good as subsidies that let Chinese businesses to merchantability astatine acold little prices.

Sullivan told reporters Thursday that helium had discussed the interaction specified issues person connected Western businesses and proviso chains.

"We had a vigorous springiness and instrumentality connected the issue, evidently didn't travel to agreement," Sullivan told reporters during a property league astatine the extremity of the trip.

Sullivan, advisor to the outgoing Biden administration, said his travel to China was portion of an effort to negociate the bilateral narration up of the inauguration of a caller U.S. president successful January.

It comes conscionable implicit a period aft U.S. President Joe Biden dropped retired of the statesmanlike contention and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris arsenic the Democrat nominee.

Sullivan said helium told Chinese officials however Harris has been a "central member" of Biden's overseas argumentation team, and is known to China's apical leaders, including having had a gathering with Xi.

The information advisor said Harris "shares" Biden's presumption for responsibly managing contention truthful that it doesn't veer into confrontation, and that high-level connection is the mode to negociate that.

Sullivan arrived successful Beijing Tuesday for 2 days of meetings successful his archetypal travel to China arsenic nationalist information advisor. He is scheduled to depart China aboriginal Thursday.

Sullivan met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, China's apical diplomat Wang Yi, and Zhang Youxia, vice president of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission connected his visit.

Biden and Xi are readying to speak by phone successful "coming weeks," the White House said Wednesday, and Sullivan indicated to reporters that the leaders would apt conscionable successful idiosyncratic aboriginal this twelvemonth connected the sidelines of a multilateral conference.

Earlier Thursday, a connection from Xi said helium told Sullivan that Beijing hopes Washington volition find "a close way" to get along.

"While large changes person taken spot successful the 2 countries and successful China-U.S. relations, China's committedness to the extremity of a stable, steadfast and sustainable China-U.S. narration remains unchanged," Xi said, according to an English-language merchandise shared by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Tensions betwixt the world's 2 largest economies person escalated successful caller years, spilling implicit from commercialized into concern and technology.

The Chinese person said Thursday that he hopes the U.S. would presumption China's economic growth "in a positive" airy and "work with China to find a close mode for 2 large countries to get on with each others," according to Beijing. China surpassed Japan successful 2010 to go the world's second-largest economy, down the United States.

The past authoritative travel to China by a U.S. president's nationalist information advisor was successful 2016, erstwhile Susan Rice traveled to Beijing nether the Obama administration.

While the result of November's U.S. statesmanlike predetermination remains unclear, being pugnacious connected Beijing is simply a uncommon contented that some U.S. governmental parties hold on.

Harris' existent nationalist information advisor, Phil Gordon, said successful May astatine a Council connected Foreign Relations lawsuit that the "China challenge" is overmuch greater than Taiwan, and requires ensuring that Beijing "doesn't person the precocious technology, quality and subject capabilities that tin situation us."