It will be the legislative branch's first direct engagement with China's leaders in Beijing since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
and five other U.S. senators are set to travel to China next week in the first such visit in four years, his office said on Tuesday.' first direct engagement with China's leaders in Beijing after the last trip there by Sen. Chris Coons in 2019.. The Chinese government is yet to reciprocate, but there are whispers that China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, may visit the United States in the coming weeks.'s Foreign Ministry welcomed the news.
"Managing these visits will be tricky. Chinese officials will have to engage constructively with guests who have to play to a domestic audience which demands they be 'tough on China,' especially as the 2024 presidential election countdown begins," Wang Huiyao, president of the Center for China and Globalization think tank, wrote in an op-ed in April.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer walks through the Ohio Clock corridor after voting on the continuing resolution passed by the House earlier in the day on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on September 30, 2023. Schumer and five other senators are due to visit in the second week of October.
He, who was recently in Germany for a high-level dialogue, has been described as the"lead person" on China's economic policy—
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