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(Central News Agency, New York / Washington, Ninth Comprehensive Foreign Telegraph Report) US media cited sources today to reveal that US President-elect Joe Biden has decided to find Katherine Tai, who is of Chinese descent, as a trade representative of the United States.
Some Taiwanese media pointed out that Catherine Dai’s Chinese name is “Dai Qi” and that her parents are from Taiwan.
According to the China-United States Business Council (USCBC), Dai Qi was born in Connecticut, raised in Washington, and graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. In 2007, he joined the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) as a consultant. In the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute between the United States and China, he entered the Annual Accounts Committee of the United States House of Representatives in 2014 and served as committee chair and advisor to the Democratic Party.
Prior to joining the office of the US Trade Representative, Dai Qi worked in the international trade department of various law firms in Washington. She is fluent in Chinese and taught English at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China as a Chinese Yale Fellow from 1996 to 1998.
Reuters reported that Dai Qi, 45, is now the chief business attorney for the supporting Federal House of Representatives Committee on Accounts and Democrats.
Previously, when the United States negotiated the new Mexico-United States-Canada Trade Agreement (T-MEC) with Canada and Mexico, Dai Qi communicated with the Trump administration and played a key role in strengthening provisions related to labor protection . The workforce and business community supported her.
The United States Trade Representative has broad powers and is sometimes referred to as the “trade czar.” Moving forward, Biden will rebuild relationships with key allies, reinvigorate domestic manufacturing momentum in the United States, and punish Beijing for its business practices that violate fair competition. Commercial representatives are expected to be a key position.
CNN reported that Dai Qi is currently the chief trade advisor to the House of Representatives Democratic Party Annual Accounts Committee and was responsible for overseeing China’s trade-related matters during the Obama administration. If the staff’s case is true, Dai Qi, of Asian American descent, will be the first US trade representative for a woman of color.
CNN believes that the nomination of Dai Qi, a Chinese trade policy expert, to serve as the United States Trade Representative shows that Biden will deliver on his campaign promise to allow China to comply with trade regulations. During the campaign, Biden always emphasized that China’s trade policy would cooperate with allies, declaring that after taking office, he would not soon remove additional tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese goods.
“The Wall Street Journal” reported that Dai Qi once said that in the face of China, its attitude should be stronger and more strategic. In August this year, he told an expert meeting at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington think tank: “I believe that by competing with China, taking active and bold action will surely win broad political support and respect. “.
However, some supporters worry that Dai Qi will have to spend a lot of time with potential Secretary of State Tony Blinken and potential White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan when the Biden administration is shaping up. to the politics of China. Biden’s aides have come forward and cannot be the same as Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative during the Trump era, to be the undisputed key player in China’s economic and trade policies.
The “Washington Post” reported that Lori Wallach, director of the “Global Trade Watch” project of the US non-profit organization “Public Citizen”, praised Dai Qi as “a living dictionary of business knowledge.” Especially for China trade, he also praised his first-class political skills.
Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer, chairman of the House of Representatives Annual Accounting Committee, said Dai Qi was knowledgeable, patient and creative, and said in a statement that “I am sorry the committee lost her, but she entered United States”. The Office of the Trade Representative will be able to contribute even more in the future, because the Office of the United States Trade Representative is extremely important and is an institution that affects us all. “
The US political news website Politico took the lead by reporting on Biden’s decision to appoint Dai Qi a few days ago. At the time, a spokesperson for the Biden regime’s transition team declined to comment.
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The current US trade representative, Wright Heizer, has launched a tariff war against China in the past two and a half years. In August this year, Dai Qi called for a change in its strategy against China and believed that the United States needed to strengthen its offensive rather than impose defensive tariffs.
The New York Times believes that Biden recently stated that he does not intend to initiate several new free trade negotiations until the national environment in the United States is strengthened. Therefore, the Biden administration’s US trade representative must initially ensure that US trade regulations are fully implemented. And help in the promotion of peripheral policies, such as the fight against climate change and the promotion of national investment. (Translator: Zeng Yixuan / Verified draft: Chen Yiwei) 1091210
