Friday, March 19, 2010

PRC Sending Cabinet Official To Washington

In the lastest round of the currency dispute between mainland China and America, the PRC has agreed to send over a cabinet official to D.C. in order to explain the PRC's case.
A deputy commerce minister, Zhong Shan, will go to Washington on Wednesday to meet with American trade, commerce and Treasury officials and members of Congress, the Commerce Ministry said. It said they would discuss the Sino-U.S. trade gap and trade disputes....

"A lot of problems can be properly solved so long as we can avoid politicization and emotionalization," a Commerce Ministry official, He Ning, told reporters. "It should not be one side pressing the other side."

He warned that dialogue with Washington might be harmed by "external disturbances" such as this week's letter from 130 American lawmakers calling on Obama to take action.

The use of the phrase "external disturbances" says something about the PRC governmental mindset. They're evidently targeting the executive branch, and believe that the executive branch is in charge of U.S. government. That misapprehnsion may come back to haunt them.

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