California Governor: California continues to "keep its trade doors open" to China.

Xinhua News Agency, Los Angeles, May 3 (Reporter Huang Heng) California Governor Gavin Newsom said in an online interview with the Japanese media Nikkei Asia on the 2nd that the tariff policies of the Trump administration have caused huge damage to California, and California will continue to "keep the trade door open" with China. Newsom said that California has always been a "stable trading partner" with China. The two sides have signed a series of memorandums of cooperation between provinces, states, counties, and cities. Last year, when he visited China, he extended his connections with China to the national level. He emphasized that California "keeps the door open" to all trading partners, including China, because global trade is not a zero-sum game, "we are interdependent with each other." Regarding the trade policies of the Trump administration, Newsom said that he openly criticized the trade policies of the Trump administration because California is "particularly affected" compared to other states in the US. California not only has extensive trade relations with Asia but also Silicon Valley technology companies have integrated supply chains and markets in Asia. Trump's trade policies have had a significant impact on tourism, trade, small and large businesses, and the damage to reputation is immeasurable, "California has suffered direct and indirect economic losses amounting to billions of dollars." After Trump announced the so-called "equal tariffs" in April, Newsom called on economies outside the US not to take retaliatory tariff measures against goods from California. California also became the first state in the US to sue the Trump administration over tariff issues. Newsom emphasized that there is a significant geographical and cognitive distance between California and Washington. "We are 2,000 miles away from Washington, D.C., and our ways of thinking are completely different. I represent the state in the US that least identifies with Trump," "Our values are completely different from the values exhibited by the leaders in the White House now." California is the most economically powerful state in the US. Newsom announced on April 23 that according to authoritative data, California's nominal GDP has surpassed Japan by 2024, and if calculated as a separate "economy", it ranks fourth in the world, after the US, China, and Germany. This article is from Xinhua News Agency, edited by GMTEight: Li Cheng