{"id":1917430,"date":"2023-04-21T00:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trade-envoy-tai-says-us-not-seeking-to-decouple-from-china\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T00:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:32:05","slug":"trade-envoy-tai-says-us-not-seeking-to-decouple-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trade-envoy-tai-says-us-not-seeking-to-decouple-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Envoy Tai Says US Not Seeking to \u2018Decouple\u2019 From China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrade-envoy-tai-says-us-not-seeking-to-decouple-from-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917430&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0420\/e0db6d50-ebe4-4756-a86e-8e3f54883f3c\/audio.mp3?length=3719277&#038;duration=310\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>TOKYO\u2014Washington is not seeking to decouple the American economy from China\u2019s, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Thursday while on a visit to Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Tai, who is on her fourth visit to Japan after being appointed the top U.S. trade envoy, said all members of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration have been \u201cvery clear that it is not the intention to decouple\u201d China\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. trade sanctions against China are \u201cnarrowly targeted,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Given its huge size and importance, unraveling the ties with China that keep the world economy running is \u201cnot a goal or achievable,\u201d Tai said in a news conference at the Foreign Correspondent\u2019s Club of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Tai said that regular trade work between the United States and China was continuing and she was \u201ccompletely open to engaging with my counterparts in Beijing,\u201d though she has no immediate plans to visit China.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5209672\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20\/id5209672-Katherine-Tai-2-1200x860.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai arrives at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 20, 2023. (Shuji Kajiyama\/AP Photo)<\/figure>\n<p>At the same time, the United States is seeking to strengthen and expand economic security cooperation with its Asian allies and partners in response to the Chinese regime\u2019s growing aggressiveness and its dominance in many manufacturing industries.<\/p>\n<p>Security and stability of supply chains is an issue that has gained urgency after disruptions caused by the pandemic and controls imposed to try to fight outbreaks of COVID-19 resulted in shortages of computer chips and other goods.<\/p>\n<p>A recent agreement on trade in critical minerals will allow electric vehicles using metals sourced or processed in Japan to qualify for tax breaks under the Inflation Reduction Act. That deal is one evidence of the U.S. commitment to \u201cbuilding collective resilience and security,\u201d Tai said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have all experienced the fragility of our dispersed supply chains in recent years, especially through the pandemic and Russia\u2019s brutal, unjustified attack on Ukraine. And we\u2019ve become too reliant, we have discovered, on certain countries for the supply of critical minerals needed to fuel our clean energy future,\u201d Tai said.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has been adopting a new approach to global trade, arguing that America\u2019s traditional reliance on promoting free trade pacts failed to anticipate the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) brand of capitalism and the possibility that a major power like Russia would go to war against one of its trading partners.<\/p>\n<p>Tai recently gave a speech at American University, where she spoke of \u201cfriend-shoring\u2019\u2019\u2014building up supply chains among allied countries and reducing dependence on geopolitical rivals such as China.<\/p>\n<p>Tai pointed to a new trade partnership with Japan that she said has brought \u201ctangible results for our workers, small businesses, and producers on both sides of the Pacific.\u201d That includes an agreement to lift limits on U.S. exports of beef to Japan and a new biofuels policy to facilitate exports of more ethanol to Japan,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\u2014Washington is not seeking to decouple the American economy from China\u2019s, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Thursday while on a visit to Tokyo. Tai, who is on her fourth visit to Japan after being appointed the top U.S. trade envoy, said all members of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration have been \u201cvery clear that it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1917431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[24774,4501,17524,6806,22673,7221],"class_list":["post-1917430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-decouple","tag-china","tag-envoy","tag-seeking","tag-tai","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}