China hopes U.S. companies will press their government to cancel additional tariffs on China, cease “decoupling” and supply suspension, and stop suppressing Chinese companies, a top diplomat said. ie Feng, a vice minister of foreign affairs, made the comments during a meeting with officials from major U.S. companies last week. He said that American companies are stakeholders in Chinese-U.S. cooperation, according to a statement posted on the ministry’s website.

Competition between the world’s two largest economies should be more a track-and-field competition than a life-and-death gladiatorial confrontation, he said.