Yellen to Deliver Major Speech on US-China Economic Ties
- Treasury leader will outline US priorities on Thursday
- Remarks will seek to balance confrontation with engagement
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this week will give her most extensive speech on the US-China economic relationship since taking office, as she seeks to balance competition and confrontation with engaging Beijing on global issues that require cooperation.
The remarks, ahead of a Yellen trip to Beijing being planned for coming months, are scheduled for Thursday morning at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. US-China relations have sharply deteriorated recently, with each country increasingly viewing the other as its top strategic and economic threat, even as bilateral trade hits fresh highs.