Economics

China Says Relations With U.S. Won't Descend Into Confrontation

  • No confrontation between world’s biggest economies, Wang says
  • U.S. ambassador says significant progress made on trade
Wang Yi at a press conference on Mar. 8.Photographer: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticized those calling for a decoupling of the world’s biggest economies and said the interests of the U.S. and China remain “inseparable.”

“Some individuals vow to decouple our economies -- this is just their wishful thinking,” Wang said on Friday at a briefing during the annual National People’s Congress in Beijing. “Decoupling from China would mean decoupling from opportunities, from the future and in a sense even from the world.”