Modern China is ‘opportunity’, not ‘threat’

BEIJING: Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen told his US counterpart on Saturday that a modern China was an economic “opportunity” not a “threat” to the United States, the ministry said.

Trade is one of the many areas of friction between the world’s two leading powers, along with rivalry in technology and tensions in the South China Sea and over Taiwan.

Wang met US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Marisa Lago in the northern port city of Tianjin ...