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 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration pushed for concrete results in high-level trade talks with China that began Tuesday, but the head of the Chinese delegation bluntly warned against confrontation.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said it was important that the two days of talks produce results to build trust between the two countries. He said Americans were by nature impatient people, and he said the two sides should work to build a "roadmap to the future."
The administration is anxious for success stories to show an increasingly restive Congress, where lawmakers blame America's soaring trade deficits and the loss of one in six manufacturing jobs since 2000 in part on China's trade practices in such areas as currency manipulation and copyright piracy.
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