Commerce Sec Raimondo Plans To Visit China This Year

MNI London: US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has told CNBC that that is planning to visit China later this year, despite a hacking incident which targeted the Commerce Department in June.

• Bullet edited 16:42 BST: Typo - 'Treasury' corrected to 'Commerce'.
• US officials at the time attributed the incident to China's military or spy services, but Raimondo told CNN a short time ago she would not speculate on who was behind the hack.
• Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement last week: “As a general matter, we have consistently made clear to China as well as to other countries that any action that targets the U.S. government or U.S. companies, American citizens, is of deep concern to us, and we will take appropriate action in response.”
• A Raimondo trip to China is considered crucial to US and Chinese commercial relations as Raimondo is central to the Biden administration policy of targeted export controls on semiconductor and tech components deemed of national security importance.
• Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng told the Aspen Security Conference in Colorado this week that an upcoming US package of controls on AI-related tech will be met with Chinese countermeasures.