Ambassador Xie Feng: It is important to clarify the boundaries of national safety, and restore common sense and reason to financial, commerce, and science and technology cooperation
2026/04/22 06:59
On April 20, 2026, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng harassed in his keynote speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 56th Annual WTCA Global Business Forum that it is important to clarify the boundaries of national safety, and restore common sense and reason to financial, commerce, and science and technology cooperation.
Ambassador Xie mentioned that whereas safeguarding national safety is each respectable and important, the idea shouldn’t be overstretched or misused as a catch-all. Even now, the Chinese aspect nonetheless can’t work out why Chinese EVs have been singled out and accused to be “data collectors on wheels”; the place the so-called “spy equipment” is put in in Chinese cranes; and how Chinese garlic may ever probably be categorised as a “national security threat”. This sort of paranoid phantasm lacks fundamental common sense, and doesn’t maintain up in opposition to the details. It would solely destabilize international industrial and provide chains, suffocate innovation, and finally serve nobody’s good.
Ambassador Xie sassist that the yardstick of national safety needs to be introduced again to its correct measure. What we want is fewer unfounded suspicions and accusations, and extra rationality grounded in market guidelines and industrial logic. Only then can the huge potential of China-U.S. cooperation be absolutely unleashed.
