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US nuclear energy industry urges Biden to reverse Trump policy towards China

Saturday, 10 July 2021 2:14 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 10 July 2021 2:26 PM ]

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US nuclear energy stakeholders have warned current American policy-makers against following the same hazardous anti-China course set by the former administration.

Former US President Donald Trump had pursued a tough anti-China policy plunging Washington-Beijing relations into a quagmire of conflicts, including in the field of nuclear energy technology.

Forbes reported on Friday that the Washington-based Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) had warned the Biden administration and Congress to reverse the course set by Trump and open up the Chinese market to US nuclear energy companies in the name of safety and climate change.

"Cutting off cooperation is of great concern to the entire US nuclear industry because of the potential harm to global nuclear safety cooperation and the U.S. supply base,” NEI, which represents hundreds of US companies in the field of nuclear energy, fuel suppliers and service companies, as well as manufacturing companies, companies involved in nuclear medicine and nuclear industrial applications, universities and research laboratories, etc., warned in a memo obtained by Forbes.

Nuclear energy stakeholders also warned that failure to restore Washington-Beijing nuclear cooperation could end global efforts to cut carbon emissions blamed for global warming.

Trump launched a trade war against China in 2018 that led to an all-out conflict between the two regional powers in a range of issues, including alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region, anti-Beijing protests in Hong Kong, China’s territorial claims on Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), and most of the South China Sea as well as the origin of the coronavirus.

Beijing had hoped US-China relations under US President Joe Biden would improve; however, the new US government has shown no sign of backing down on the hardline policies toward China adopted by Trump during his tenure.

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