As a responsible nation, we have strong interest in making global trade and investment as free as possible, as fair as possible, and so open as possible.
The past five years has witnessed a steady and sustained increase in US trade, which has produced more than one-third of our country’s economic growth.
If we are to continue generating good jobs and higher incomes in our country, when we are just 4 percent of the world’s population, we must continue to sell more to the other 96 percent.
With a quarter of the world’s population and its fastest growing economy, China could and should be a big market for our goods and services.