US-China ties need more working-level dialogues, not just summits: business chamber

The president of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China) has urged Beijing and Washington to push more negotiations down to working-level officials, saying businesses need greater long-term stability in bilateral ties than leader-level diplomacy alone can provide.

“We’re feeling confident because there are two more meetings to come,” Hart said at the Bund Summit in Shanghai on Wednesday.

“[But] the bad part is that normally it’s the working-level bureaucrats who actually deal with clear facts, and when the two leaders are making decisions, you don’t have enough of them.”