The United States has spent decades engaging with Beijing to address its harmful trade policies, but U.S. Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer recently acknowledged that those efforts have largely fallen short.
“We’ve just come to terms with the fact that there’s not going to be some giant comprehensive reform of the way the Chinese political system works, including all these economic elements,” Greer said at a May 26 event organized by the Council on Foreign Relations.
“Some of these things we’ve been asking them for decades are, in fact, part and parcel of their political system,” Greer told the gathering in Washington….
US Says Decades of Trying to Convince Beijing to Rectify Trade Practices Largely Failed
