After a succession of visits by leaders of major US technology companies to China, many questions have been raised about the significance of these visits and the message Beijing wants to send from welcoming US technology and economic poles. And has it found a way to repair what has been marred by politics between the two countries?

The “photograph” show (17/6/2023) shed light on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with US company Microsoft founder Bill Gates as he considered developing relations between his country. And the United States is with both peoples, while stressing the importance of cooperation between the two countries, “which is hampered by differences related to human rights, Taiwan, security and technology,” he said.

In an attempt to explain away the Chinese president’s statements, Victor Gao, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization, said the matter was a “code word” to push major institutions to pressure the Biden administration to ease some of the related tensions. Human rights, as well as Taiwan and the military conflict, are at the root of tensions between the US and China.

At the same time, China itself is concerned with economic development, which requires cooperation with major global companies, the first of which are giant American companies in the field of technology and economics.

America and China

For Muhammad Ali Al-Suwaisi, a journalist specializing in information technology, he felt that the visits of influential American figures in the fields of technology and economics sent a clear message that the US technology world has excellent relations with China. Major technology companies do not support the impact of politics on their mission, growth and expansion in the world.

At the US level, Robert Scott, former director of research on trade and industrial policy at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, said the arrival of US tech and economic giants in China is important to these companies. Large global markets, having a particularly suitable environment, have enabled them to expand the reach of their members and market their products to the world.

Regarding America’s concerns about China, he believed that China’s alignment with multinational corporations was not necessarily in the interests of American national security, implying that China must confront its continued policy of exploitation and its lack of commitment to global trade controls.

About two weeks after the visit of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and less than three months after the visit of Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates arrived in China, where he met with President Xi Jinping. He said that the US and China can develop cooperation, supporting both countries, and that there are no differences between the two countries on human rights, Taiwan, defense and technology.

The reports come amid a trade war between China and the United States that coincides with political and military tensions that both countries are seeking to contain through a visit to China by the US secretary of state.