Overview
- Twelve Senate Democrats led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter Wednesday urging President Trump to keep national security curbs intact as he meets China’s Xi Jinping.
- The lawmakers said export controls, investment safeguards, and the Treasury’s Outbound Investment Security Program should not be part of any negotiation.
- They also pressed Trump to reject efforts to relax security screening of Chinese investment in the United States.
- The letter urged the president to deny any bid by Xi for a U.S. statement opposing Taiwanese independence.
- The warning lands as Trump and Xi are set to meet on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea, with recent Chinese rare-earth export rules providing a tense backdrop.