Faced with the question of whether China will really change the way it does business, U.S. officials have sounded a refrain familiar to people who have negotiated with Beijing: We’ve got allies on the inside.
“You have to start with the proposition that there are people in China who believe that reform is a good idea,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told NPR on March 25, in one of several similar recent remarks. “And you have to believe that those people are at a very senior level.”
