Scholars: Pressure before the US negotiations may be counterproductive

Source: Hong Kong Ming Pao

Professor Wang Yili, a professor at the School of International Relations of the Renmin University of China, said that the US Vice President Pence gave a speech on China ’s policy on this time. He wanted to put pressure on China again before the China -US economic and trade negotiations, in order to gain benefits for the United States.However, Wang Yili believes that this is not suitable for this, and it will once again increase the uncertainty of Sino -US economic and trade negotiations.

The election is near the economic downlink Trump's pressure

Wang Yili said that in the Trump cabinet, there are representatives of businessmen, missionaries, soldiers, and lawyers, respectively, and their demands for China are different.Although there have been a voice on China or Hong Kong issues in the past, the Trump administration did not want to put it on trade negotiations and put pressure on China.However, in the increasingly approaching US election and economic status of downward pressure, Wang Yili believes that Trump had to bow his head to the cabinet with different appealers to China, so that China made a maximum concession in economic and trade issues.

(Pence) Reunion with the issues of Xinjiang and Hong Kong is mainly to force China to make more concessions, because in the original negotiation chips, the United States does not have much advantage.If you can get a better agreement under these coercion, this will help Trump gain an advantage in the campaign.However, Wang Yilu believes that in terms of the style of doing things, Pence and Trump are not consistent: Trump represents the commercial American of industrial capital, and Pence is more inclined to promote American values missionaries or soldiers in the United States.Maybe he also hopes to be replaced by Trump in the election.

Wang Yili believes that according to the latest progress of Sino -US consultations, the China -US negotiation team will contact and finalize the phase agreement. In the middle of next month, China and the United States may have a meeting and sign a phase agreement.Shi Pence's speech will undoubtedly add more uncertainty to Sino -US economic and trade negotiations.