There’s No Reason to Help China’s Military, US Envoy to Beijing Says
- Nicholas Burns says no confusion among US businesses in China
- ‘We’re not looking at a separation’ of the economies: Burns
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Moves to curb technology trade with China are limited, common-sense efforts to avoid strengthening a military rival, the top US diplomat in Beijing said.
“We’re not looking at a separation of these two economies, but there are areas where we have taken — and will continue to take — measures that would protect our national security interests,” Ambassador Nicholas Burns said in an on-line talk from China with the Stimson Center in Washington. He cited as an example the October curb on exports of semiconductors.