The United States finally relented: It is ready to export 46 high-tech items to China

The United States finally relented: It is ready to export 46 high-tech items to China U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on the 18th that the United States is ready to export 46 high-tech items to China...

Locke attended a lecture in Shanghai the day before to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Shanghai Communique between China and the United States. In his speech, he said that China had proactively provided a list of 141 high-tech projects and that the United States was ready to export 46 technologies to China and was reforming export procedures so that more high-tech products could be exported to China. He revealed that the U.S. Embassy in China will arrange a business delegation to Shanghai in May to negotiate with Chinese companies interested in purchasing U.S. technology products.

The Chinese government has always believed that the United States' refusal to relax restrictions on exports of high-tech products to China is the main factor causing the U.S.-China trade deficit, and has been urging Washington to relax restrictions. Locke said, "We need to get further details from China on the remaining projects so that we can decide whether or under what conditions they can be exported."

Faced with the attention of Chinese scholars in the audience, Locke tried his best to downplay the risks that the Obama administration's Asia-Pacific strategy may bring to Sino-US relations. He claimed that recent debates over whether China's development will threaten the United States' global leadership and whether the United States is curbing China's rise have deviated from the higher common goal that both parties should have, which is to "benefit the two peoples."