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China’s Zhang hopes U.S. removes barriers to investment

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The United States should remove barriers to Chinese investment for national security reasons, said Zhang Xiangchen, a deputy trade minister at the Ministry of Commerce. Zhang said the world’s two largest economies are committed to further improve market access to each others’ investors as part of talks on a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT), though both economies have further to go.

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Obama administration to press China on cyber theft: Lew

June 23, 2015 publisher agency, china, china-strategic, chinese-vice, market-access, obama, opening, remain-deeply, said-on-tuesday, strategic, take-the-matter, the-opening, treasury

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is deeply concerned about cyber theft of commercial secrets sponsored by foreign governments and plans to take the matter up with Chinese officials at high-level talks this week, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Tuesday. “We remain deeply concerned about government-sponsored cyber theft from companies and commercial sectors,” Lew said in prepared remarks at the opening of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue