Trade talks can help China, US balance ties

Veteran traditional Chinese medicine practitioners know that it often takes long-term treatment to cure the patients of an epidemic disease, because the disease might have developed over a long period of time without being noticed.

This ancient wisdom, in fact, is a valuable advice to Washington to seriously rethink its pursuit of simple solutions to the US' $375 billion trade deficit with China or the Made in China 2025 plan, especially after the first round of China-US high-level trade talks earlier this month.

The Chinese leaders and public realize there is no question of retreating in the trade disputes with the US, because the White House has made it clear that it wants to not only neutralize its trade deficit with China, but also hinder China's high-tech sector.