Blinken Raises Concerns Over Unfair Trade Practices in China

Blinken is on his second trip to China as secretary of state to tackle a series of contentious issues, including trade, human rights, and Russia’s Ukraine war.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks with Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining during a meeting at the Grand Halls in Shanghai on April 25, 2024. Mark Schiefelbein/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought up China’s non-market trade practices and called on the communist regime to provide U.S. businesses with a level playing field, in the first stop of his China visit.

China and the United States have “an obligation for our people and, indeed, an obligation for the world to manage the relationship between our two countries responsibly,” he said ahead of a meeting with Chen Jining, Shanghai’s Communist Party chief, on April 25.