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Chinese leader Xi Jinping (standing in vehicle) inspects People's Liberation Army soldiers at a military base in Hong Kong on June 30, 2017. Dale de la Rey/AFP via Getty Images
“I want to be clear that we do not seek to decouple or to hold China’s economy back,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo declared during her August trip to Beijing.
Gordon G. Chang is a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, a member of its Advisory Board, and the author of “The Coming Collapse of China.”