Yellen's visit expected to yield more productive outcomes for bilateral ties

Among major US government officials, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is known for the often pragmatic and relatively positive tone she strikes in terms of how to manage Sino-US relations. She has reiterated that the United States is not seeking to decouple from China and called for a "constructive" and "healthy" economic relationship between the two countries.

"The world is big enough for both of our countries to thrive," she said.

Her reasonable voice, which comes in sharp contrast to the barbed comments of the anti-China hawks in Washington is most needed nowadays when the latter keep threatening to push bilateral relations onto a collision course. This anti-China rhetoric is becoming increasingly strident in Washington as the US presidential election campaign heats up, which bodes ill if not tempered given the difficult situation that bilateral relationship already finds itself in.