As China’s relations with the US nosedived rapidly during Donald Trump’s national advisory body said on Thursday.
presidency leading to serious conflict, the former would prefer Kamala Harris as the next US president, senior member of the Chinese
Beijing doesn’t want to deal with allegations of interference in US internal politics and chooses not to comment on it, said Jia Qingguo, member of the Standing Committee of the national advisory body CPPCC.
The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is an important part of the state governance system and a distinctively Chinese political institution.
While the Chinese public opinion is divided, “I would prefer Harris because of the bad experience with Trump. We don’t want to have that experience again,” Qingguo told BBC.
“From China’s point of view, US Vice President Kamala Harris, who has worked under President Biden, represents the continuity,” he added.
Qingguo, who is also the Director of the Institute of Global Cooperation and Understanding of the Peking University, added that Trump, during his tenure, had spread a lot of bad information about China.
He conceded that China has issues with the Biden admiration as well, but “Biden inherited a lot of tough measures initiated by Trump against China for the reasons of domestic politics and perhaps out of his ideological conviction,” he said.
“Under Biden, the US policy towards China is more stable, predictable. We are re-engaging with each other. Officials are meeting with each other, talking about issues,” which he said is stabilising the relations.
While following a tough policy towards China, including firming up US policy to challenge Beijing’s claims over the disputed South China Sea and Taiwan, and restricting China’s ambitious move to export its electric vehicles, Biden, however, has maintained regular dialogue with President Xi Jinping to keep the tensions under control.
The relations between the top two economies nosedived under Trump, especially after COVID-19 broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019 and led to a pandemic which had a devastating impact all over the world.
Trump has alleged that the virus responsible for the pandemic was leaked from a bio lab in Wuhan, prompting China to mount a massive propaganda offensive to counter Trump’s allegations.
The former president had levied tariffs on the flourishing Chinese exports to the US to force Beijing to provide more access to the American goods.
The Biden administration is continuing with the tariffs on Chinese exports to the US, which last year amounted to over USD 500 billion compared to around USD 148 billion American exports to China.
Trump's threat to impose 60 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods, if he gets elected, is worrying Beijing as it may have a severe impact on China’s economy which is bogged down with a slowdown.
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