Senators for Montana seeks to be Trump’s voice in Beijing

Since President Trump began his second term in January, no high -ranking officials from the United States have met their counterparts in China, even with the lack of economists in the world on a severe tariff on each other.

In the absence of official meetings, Senator Steve Denz of Montana threw himself as among them. Mr. Denz met with Deputy Prime Minister Ho Living, who oversees many economic issues of China, on Saturday, and Prime Minister Lee Qiang was scheduled to meet the second highest official in the country, on Sunday.

In an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, after meeting with Mr. Ho, Mr. Denz, a Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he urged China to take effective measures to stop exporting the chemical agents of Fentanel.

“I met President Trump a few days before my arrival, and he was happy because I was coming to deliver his message” America first “, and most importantly, make sure that the Chinese leaders know the seriousness of the case of fentanel, and the role that China can play in stopping the shipment of the sects to the Mexican carters.”

Chinese officials said the fentanel crisis was rooted in the American failure to reduce the demand for medicine, and that Beijing has taken effective measures to reduce fentanel shipments and chemical seeds. The Chinese Council of Ministers issued a report earlier this month on the measures of fentianil, and Mr. Denz said this was taught by US officials.

Mr. Denz said he was trying to lay the foundation for a meeting between President Trump and Shi Jinping, chief leader in China. “This visit is the first step to arrange and prepare the next step, which will be a very important meeting between President Xi and President Trump – when that happens, I don’t know, where it happens, I don’t know.”

The White House did not give the name of Mr. Daines as behaving on his behalf. But Mr. Denz is one of the best allies of Mr. Trump in Congress. He was The first member of the Republican leadership In the Senate about Mr. Trump’s support in 2023 for a second period at a time when many Republican Senate members saw that Mr. Trump returns to the White House.

“Given the Senator Denz’s relationship with Donald Trump, China certainly wants to learn from him about Trump’s intentions in Chinese policy – whether he still wants to agree with China, and if so, what will seem the deal.”

Mr. Wu, China also wanted to “bring a message to Donald Trump that China wants to sit to talk to the American side and avoid more tensions,” said Mr. Wu.

Mr. Trump imposed 20 percent on goods from China and threatened more. China wants to go towards more customs tariffs.

“There is a window of opportunities before early April to China and the United States to involve each other,” said Mr. Wu.

Mr. Denz said he did not focus on the definitions of China, because the office of the United States’s trade representative has not yet completed the policy review.

Mr. Trump said he is planning to meet Mr. Shi, without specifying the details. China has not publicly said about the meeting. However, contacts between administration officials at the work level that preceded such a meeting have been absent until now during the second term of Mr. Trump.

Mr. Shi makes all important decisions in China, especially on foreign policy. This makes summits with American presidents, especially in determining the course of bilateral relationships. The two leaders met in 2017 when Mr. Xi went to Mar Lago, in Florida, and Mr. Trump went to China.

Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stemphs Center in Washington, said that the lack of clash with Washington so far led some in Beijing to start doubting whether Mr. Trump is honest in his packed desire to meet Mr. Shi.

“They see him quickly change his position on a number of issues,” said Ms. Sun. “This translates into almost fighting for the Chinese, and they should aim to prepare for the worst scenario, and this is their conclusion.”

Mr. Denz also said that he was also concerned about China’s barriers to imports, exceeding the customs tariff, during his visit to Beijing. He refused to provide any details. But the politicians in Montana have long argued that intermittent stopping in China on the imports of the state meat from the state are unfair commercial barriers, and not the result of any actual concerns about the disease of the mood of the cow, as Bijin claims.

Mr. Daines lived for six years in southern China in the nineties as a project manager for Procter & Gamble Project, the American consumer products.

This weekend flight is the sixth for Mr. Denz China since his election to the Senate in 2014, making him one of the few members of the Congress who continued to travel to the country even with the deterioration of relations.