Chinese premier meets pro-Trump senator and calls for ‘dialogue over confrontation’

Li Qiangpremier

Our two sides need to choose dialogue over confrontation, win-win cooperation over zero-sum competition,

Li said

We are not against competition, but we should advocate for fair competition under internationally recognized rules, rather than zero-sum games or deliberate suppression of vicious competition by other countries,

he said

Collectively, these seven companies have over 275 years of experience of doing business in China,

Daines said as he introduced the American CEOs, according to a pool transcript

Li Qiangpremier

Currently, U.S.-China relations have come to an important juncture,

Li told Daines in their meeting, stressing the need to choose dialogue over confrontation

We welcome Temasek and other international investors to invest in China and share the huge market and development opportunities here,

He said

Given Senator Daines’s relationship to Donald Trump, China certainly wants to learn from him about Trump’s China policy intentions — whether he still wants to make a deal with China, and if so, what the deal would look like,

said Wu Xinbo, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai

There’s a window of opportunity before early April for China and the U.S. to engage each other, and Senator Daines’s visit could play a pivotal role,

Mr. Wu said

Steve Dainessenator

I met with President Trump a few days before I came over, and he was pleased that I was coming to communicate his ‘America First’ message and, importantly, to make sure that Chinese leaders knew the seriousness of the fentanyl issue, and the role that China can play in stopping the shipment of precursors to the Mexican cartels,

Mr. Daines said

Cecilia Chiangchina, Ms.

They see him changing his position rapidly on a number of issues,

Ms. Sun said

Tomorrow Premier Li Qiang will meet with you and he will talk to you about what is happening in China and China's broad policies,

said vice premier He, according to an official translation of his remarks

We are looking forward to the visit tomorrow with Premier Li Qiang, who I had a chance to meet back in May of 2018 when he was party secretary of Shanghai,

Daines said

They can do a whole lot more to shut down the flow of these chemicals that go to Mexico and then fentanyl comes in the United States,

Daines said on the show

I’ve many old friends here in China,

Daines told He

I’ve always believed in having constructive dialogue and that has been the nature of all my visits to China over the course of many years,

he said