AmCham Hong Kong: U.S.-China relations fear reset or adjustment, but U.S. sanctions will continue

Even though U.S.-China relations are expected to improve under President Joe Biden, U.S. sanctions against mainland China over Hong Kong will remain in place for the foreseeable future, the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham) said on 22 May.

Jessica Bartlett, the new president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, expects that U.S. relations with Beijing and Hong Kong will not be as tit-for-tat as they were when Trump was president, but a series of trade and political sanctions against Hong Kong and even China will continue for some Time and are unlikely to end in the coming months.

The new administration has made it clear that they have the same concerns about what is happening in Hong Kong as the previous administration, but we may see a kind of reset or realignment,” she added, who has taken over as chairman from Gulliver since January of this year. The term uses the words competition and cooperation, and U.S. diplomat Campbell made it clear this is not a second Cold War.

Bartlett also noted that she has seen no evidence of a large number of U.S. companies leaving Hong Kong after the national security law took effect.