The Biden administration is dispatching a high-level delegation of Treasury Department officials to Beijing this week for a round of economic talks as the world’s largest economies look to continue engagement efforts that President Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed to pursue last year.
A Treasury official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the trip has not been publicly announced, said that the two days of meetings would include “frank conversations” about China’s use of nonmarket economic practices like government subsidies.
The U.S. officials also plan to discuss concerns about industrial overcapacity, which could flood international markets with cheap products.
More broadly, the two governments will discuss the macroeconomic outlooks for their countries, whose economies are critical to the health of the overall global economy.
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Persons:
Biden, Xi Jinping
Organizations:
Treasury Department, Treasury, U.S
Locations:
Beijing, China, United States