In surprise move, Beijing appoints WTO envoy as new trade negotiator
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Li Chenggang, China's WTO envoy, gestures during an interview on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting to discuss a draft agreement on curbing subsidies for the fisheries industry in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 15, 2021. — Reuters
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In a surprising move, China appointed its envoy on Wednesday with the World Trade Organization (WTO), Li Chengang, who replaced the experienced diplomat Wang Shuven during the fierce war war with the United States.
The Human Resources and Social Security Ministry said in a statement, “58 -year -old Lee, 58, was previously serving as Assistant Trade Minister under the first administration of US President Donald Trump and will now take over 59 -year -old Wang.”
It was unclear whether Wang, who played the role of No. 2 in the Ministry of Commerce in 2022, posted a post. According to the ministry’s website until Wednesday, its name was not included in the ministry -led team.
Although the ministry did not specify Wang’s future role, its name has been removed from the ministry’s leadership roster.
According to a source of Beijing’s foreign business community, Wang was known for his stern negotiation style and had previously clashed with US officials during trade debates.
“She’s a bloodstream, very severe,” sources said, refusing to name.
The changes within the top leadership in the Ministry of Commerce came to light when Beijing pursues a strong stand in the dynamic trade war with Washington through Trump’s standing prices on imported goods from China.
Sudden change also occurred in the middle of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Southeast Asia, in which standing with the United States to strengthen economic and trade relations with neighbors.
Minister for Commerce Wang Vento was among senior XI officials on a visit to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia this week.
Alfredo Monto-Hello, a senior adviser to the conference board’s China Center, said the change was “extremely sudden and potentially disrupting” how much trade tensions have increased and in light of Wang’s experience, the US has been in talks with the United States after the first Trump administration.
“We can only speculate about why this happened in this moment, but it may be that in view of China’s top leadership, how stress has increased, they need someone else to break the deadlock in which the two countries find themselves and eventually start dialogue,” he said.
Unlike several other countries, who have responded to Trump’s plans for Bilateral deals with Washington, Beijing has received its tax on US goods in response and has not tried to negotiate, which says that mutual respect is based on mutual respect and equality.
Washington said Tuesday that Trump is open to a trade deal with China, but Beijing should take the first step, and insist that China needs “our money”.
Lee’s Trump’s ‘Falls of Price’
At the February WTO meeting in Geneva, Lee criticized the United States for imposing taxes on its trade partners, including China, which warns that such actions have given the world a “tariff shock”.
“The United States unilaterally violates the WTO rules, promotes economic uncertainty, disrupts global trade and can also destroy the rules -based multilateral trade system,” he said.
Lee, who has obtained several important jobs in the Ministry of Commerce, has academic backgrounds at Elite Packing University and Hamburg University in Germany, such as contracts and law and fair trade monitoring departments.
“Through its CV, Lee is a common Chinese technocrat that has extensive experience in working on commercial issues in the Ministry of Commerce as well as the Ministry of Commerce as well as WTO,” said Alfred Wu, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore.
“It seems that there is nothing unusual with normal growth, but now is clearly a sensitive period due to US tension.”
On March 31, Lee participated in the “Forum of a Chinese private businessman” for a Chinese private businessman’s forum, according to a meeting of the meeting, one of the first official indicators of a new role in a new role.
