As he prepares to leave Beijing, the U.S. envoy to China feels relations between the two rival powers are the most stable they’ve been in recent years. But there’s no guarantee they will stay that way. Ambassador Nicholas Burns says communication is key, even as the world’s two biggest economies have profound differences on trade, technology, Taiwan, and human rights.
BEIJING — As he prepares to leave Beijing, the U.S. envoy to China feels relations between the two rival powers are the most stable they’ve been in recent years. But there’s no guarantee they will stay that way. It “remains a very challenging, often very contentious and in a long-term way deeply competitive relationship,” Ambassador Nicholas Burns told NBC News in an exclusive interview this week. “And you can’t get around that. We’re rivals for global power.
During this time, the previous Trump administration ratcheted up criticism of Beijing’s handling of the outbreak, which began in China. When Burns arrived in Beijing in March 2022 to take up his post, he spent most of the first month of his job in quarantine at the ambassador’s residence, unable to meet anybody even as the relationship he was tasked with steering was heading to new lows.
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