The US State Department’s request for a budget of 4 billion dollars to deal with China

, the US State Department requested a budget of 4 billion dollars to counter China and win the competition with this country in fiscal year 2025.

A senior official of the US State Department stated that the US should use all the necessary and available tools to compete with China and remove this country from the field of competition.

Rich Verma, Under Secretary of State for Management and Resources, said at a news conference that of the $4 billion budget request, $2 billion will go toward setting up a new international infrastructure fund to provide a credible alternative. And reliable for China’s infrastructure budgets.

An additional $2 billion is requested for game-changing investment to help push back Indo-Pacific countries against efforts predatory and includes efforts to improve government and government laws. has requested an authority to cover foreign aid and diplomatic conflicts in the region. From 2000 to 2021, it has lent 1.34 trillion dollars to developing countries. Verma emphasized that this infrastructure budget is from the project difficult, transformative, quality and sustainable infrastructure supports. It has made friends among developing countries while sparking a wave of criticism from Western countries and beneficiary countries including Sri Lanka and Zambia that infrastructure projects invested in by the Chinese government have saddled them with debt. They cannot afford to pay them.

while Relations between the US and China have seen signs of improvement in recent months as both sides have taken steps to re-establish communication channels after growing tensions between them in recent decades. .

In the latest case, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the sidelines of the conference Munich Security, stated that Washington should lift the sanctions imposed on Chinese factories and individuals.

According to this report, Washington has imposed sanctions on various Chinese companies, which Washington has accused of cooperating with China’s military industries despite the denial of these companies. US sanctions have also been imposed on Chinese individuals and entities accused of violating human rights in the Xinjiang region.

Meanwhile, not long ago Chinese President Xi Jinping asked the US government to take practical measures to facilitate the sustainable development of bilateral relations between them.

In the meantime, a committee of the US Congress presented an extensive list of bipartisan proposals to re-arrange economic relations with China next year .

While Washington and Beijing have long is that they disagree with each other on some issues and so far the authorities of the two countries have made many efforts and consultations to solve the problems between them.

In this After many ups and downs in the relations between them, the presidents of the United States and China finally met on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in November last year.

Also, the meeting of senior American officials, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives of this country, with the President of Taiwan, which China A part of the mainland knows its own, causing tensions to rise.

Previously the authorities The United States and China announced that they will resume arms control talks after a four-year hiatus.

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