US Will Use National Interests to Guide Course on China

The State Department said it will continue using tools such as sanctions and export controls to protect U.S. national security in facing communist China.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller speaks during a press briefing at the Department of State in Washington on July 24, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—The United States will use national security interests to shape its policy on communist China and will impose investment restrictions and sanctions when necessary, the State Department told The Epoch Times.

“We have made clear to the Chinese government—the secretary has made this clear, the president has made this clear—that we will continue to take those actions when it is in our national security interest to do so,” department spokesperson Matthew Miller said during a Dec. 13 news briefing.