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CHINA PRESS: The role of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in international

competition is overstated, as major Chinese players are mostly private

companies, according to an opinion piece published in China Daily jointly by Liu

Yingqiu, director of the Center for Private Economic Studies at the Chinese

Academy of Social Sciences, and Mei Xinyu, a researcher at the Chinese Academy

of International Trade and Economic Cooperation affiliated with the Ministry of

Commerce.

- The state-backed academics provided unofficial responses to criticisms that

Chinese SOEs create an uneven playing field for market competition, a

contentious issue in the rising trade conflict with the U.S.

- The government doesn't need to repeatedly explain itself or cave in to foreign

powers to rewrite the trade rules, wrote Mei, a researcher who often expresses

hardline views on trade issues.