Exclusive‘No retreat’: Key Trump ally urges continued US-China engagement on rare earths
Both sides need to keep working on their differences over critical minerals and other issues, Steve Daines tells the SCMP
“So that’s again why it’s really important to keep the dialogue going on between two countries because both sides admit we’ve got some serious differences. But the answer is not to retreat. The answer is to stay engaged,” he said.
The outgoing senator from Montana was responding to remarks by US ambassador to China David Perdue, who accused Beijing of “weaponising” its “single-source dominant position” on critical minerals against the rest of the world.
