American Ambassador: The growing tensions in the US-China relationship are worrying

, Nicholas Burns, the American ambassador in China, while expressing his concern about the impact of tensions between Beijing and Washington, this Asian country considered it the most important, competitive and at the same time most dangerous relationship that Washington has.

In a conversation with the CBS news agency, he stated that he was worried about the growing tensions in the relationship between the United States and China and the continued mistrust and disruption of trust. In the business world, it worries.

Burns added: China is the most important, most competitive and most dangerous relationship that the United States has ever had in the world, and I think it will be the same for the next decade or decades.

V He pointed out that the two countries should live together and this is the biggest issue of tension between the two nations.

This American diplomat stated that China is our most important competitor and at the same time our third largest trading partner. 750,000 jobs in America are at risk. China is the largest market for US agricultural products. A fifth of all our agricultural exports are sent to China, which was worth about 41 billion dollars last year.

He stressed that some people say that we should have a competitive relationship with China and we should have economic relationship with this country. cut off The consequence of such action is that 750 thousand American families will be out of work.

Burns said that the United States and China will inevitably compete with each other, but this must be done responsibly in order to maintain peace between the two countries. One in five people in the world is Chinese. The population of China is 4 times that of the United States and has an area of ​​7.3 million square miles. President Xi likes to say that Asia is growing and the West is declining, but America has grown a lot compared to China.

while two days ago, Leo Pengyu, press secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, stated that the US sanctions on Chinese factories because of their relations with Russia is a move for economic bullying and intimidation.

Also before Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, stated that Washington should lift the sanctions imposed on Chinese factories and people .

According to this report, Washington has imposed sanctions on various Chinese companies, which Washington has asked to cooperate with industries. The Chinese military has accused these companies despite their denials. US sanctions have also been imposed on Chinese individuals and entities that are accused of violating human rights in the Xinjiang region.

In recent months, relations between America and China have witnessed There are signs of recovery as both sides take steps to re-establish communication channels after growing tensions between them in recent decades.

But on February 23, the US Department of Treasury announced sanctions applied a new law on some individuals and legal entities of Russia, some other countries including China, UAE, Turkey.

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