I just went to pick up Li Chenggang, but I really didn't know if I didn't pick up Li Chenggang. I was scared when I picked up Li Chenggang!
This man is an ordinary gentleman, simply to let the opponent make a mess, let the teammates make a hard mess, Bessent was afraid that he was afraid to scream to change the operation, now it does not seem to be unreasonable, it is purely his strength to make up his temper!
Li Chenggang, born in Taihu Lake, Anhui Province in 1967, graduated from the Law Department of Peking University and received a master's degree in law and economics from Hamburg University, Germany. His career track can be called "the history of professional breakthrough": from a member of the Treaty Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, to a permanent ambassador to the WTO, and then to the core of ministerial negotiations, every step is engraved with the double mark of "professional + actual combat".
In the 2025 Sino-U.S. Kuala Lumpur negotiations, in the face of Bezent's threat of "increasing 100% tariffs", he offered a precise strategy of "Fintech regulation in exchange for semiconductor export easing" and "rare-earth supply hedge tariff barriers", directly allowing the U.S. side to abandon extreme measures, instead of accepting pragmatic options such as "reciprocal tariff suspension period extension" and "301 shipping fee measures adjustment".
Such a "fight-promotion" gentleman, even Trump had to admit: "The era of what America says is over."
Li Chenggang's hard power is not only "hard" at the negotiating table, but also lies in his deep understanding and creative application of international rules. During the WTO reform, he promoted the construction of a "dollar-free commodity trading system", allowing Kenya to convert U.S. dollar bonds into RMB bonds. Saving US$200 million a year, BHP Billiton of Australia began to use RMB to settle minerals.
In the technological war, he used the game logic of "rare earths for chips" to force the United States to withdraw its export restrictions on China's AI chip design tools.
This exchange of codes "I am in you and I am in you" leaves unilateralism nowhere, as he often says: "There are enough codes in the hand to say no."
More remarkable is his negotiating wisdom, during the Washington negotiations in August 2025, in the face of the vague positioning of the U.S. "technical access", he initially met with representatives of the U.S.-China National Trade Commission, showing both the sincerity of dialogue and firmly adhere to the bottom line, and ultimately promote the establishment of a regular communication mechanism.
This ability to “proactively set the agenda” has led South Korea to shift from “follow the United States” to “neutral position” in the semiconductor supply chain negotiations, eventually reaching 12 concrete consensus.
Li Chen Steel's case essentially interprets the resonance logic of "hard strength is bone, soft strength is soul".
China's huge market, complete industrial chain, rare earths and other strategic resources are hard power at the negotiating table, while its solid legal foundation, multilateral negotiation experience, and innovative application of rules are soft power. This combination allows China to always take the initiative in the economic and trade game.
More profoundly, he is re-shaping the underlying logic of the international economic and trade order, when the United States tries to maintain hegemony with the "tariff bar", China uses the "rare earth + chip" code exchange to prove that the real power comes from mutual dependence rather than unilateral pressure, and when the West hype "breaking the chain", China uses the "defining star" to prove that cooperation and win-win is the trend.
This logic applies not only to China and the United States, but to all countries, as the shift in Korean semiconductor negotiations shows, when economic reason overcomes political prejudice, cooperation becomes the best solution.
In the future, as China's comprehensive national strength continues to improve, we need more negotiators like Li Chenggang-style. They must not only have professional capabilities, but also have strategic vision, have bottom-line awareness, but also have innovative thinking.
Only in this way can China remain invincible in the complex international game, and the world can see that the real hard power is never overwhelming the other party, but forcing the other party to choose to cooperate.
This man is an ordinary gentleman, simply to let the opponent make a mess, let the teammates make a hard mess, Bessent was afraid that he was afraid to scream to change the operation, now it does not seem to be unreasonable, it is purely his strength to make up his temper!
Li Chenggang, born in Taihu Lake, Anhui Province in 1967, graduated from the Law Department of Peking University and received a master's degree in law and economics from Hamburg University, Germany. His career track can be called "the history of professional breakthrough": from a member of the Treaty Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, to a permanent ambassador to the WTO, and then to the core of ministerial negotiations, every step is engraved with the double mark of "professional + actual combat".
In the 2025 Sino-U.S. Kuala Lumpur negotiations, in the face of Bezent's threat of "increasing 100% tariffs", he offered a precise strategy of "Fintech regulation in exchange for semiconductor export easing" and "rare-earth supply hedge tariff barriers", directly allowing the U.S. side to abandon extreme measures, instead of accepting pragmatic options such as "reciprocal tariff suspension period extension" and "301 shipping fee measures adjustment".
Such a "fight-promotion" gentleman, even Trump had to admit: "The era of what America says is over."
Li Chenggang's hard power is not only "hard" at the negotiating table, but also lies in his deep understanding and creative application of international rules. During the WTO reform, he promoted the construction of a "dollar-free commodity trading system", allowing Kenya to convert U.S. dollar bonds into RMB bonds. Saving US$200 million a year, BHP Billiton of Australia began to use RMB to settle minerals.
In the technological war, he used the game logic of "rare earths for chips" to force the United States to withdraw its export restrictions on China's AI chip design tools.
This exchange of codes "I am in you and I am in you" leaves unilateralism nowhere, as he often says: "There are enough codes in the hand to say no."
More remarkable is his negotiating wisdom, during the Washington negotiations in August 2025, in the face of the vague positioning of the U.S. "technical access", he initially met with representatives of the U.S.-China National Trade Commission, showing both the sincerity of dialogue and firmly adhere to the bottom line, and ultimately promote the establishment of a regular communication mechanism.
This ability to “proactively set the agenda” has led South Korea to shift from “follow the United States” to “neutral position” in the semiconductor supply chain negotiations, eventually reaching 12 concrete consensus.
Li Chen Steel's case essentially interprets the resonance logic of "hard strength is bone, soft strength is soul".
China's huge market, complete industrial chain, rare earths and other strategic resources are hard power at the negotiating table, while its solid legal foundation, multilateral negotiation experience, and innovative application of rules are soft power. This combination allows China to always take the initiative in the economic and trade game.
More profoundly, he is re-shaping the underlying logic of the international economic and trade order, when the United States tries to maintain hegemony with the "tariff bar", China uses the "rare earth + chip" code exchange to prove that the real power comes from mutual dependence rather than unilateral pressure, and when the West hype "breaking the chain", China uses the "defining star" to prove that cooperation and win-win is the trend.
This logic applies not only to China and the United States, but to all countries, as the shift in Korean semiconductor negotiations shows, when economic reason overcomes political prejudice, cooperation becomes the best solution.
In the future, as China's comprehensive national strength continues to improve, we need more negotiators like Li Chenggang-style. They must not only have professional capabilities, but also have strategic vision, have bottom-line awareness, but also have innovative thinking.
Only in this way can China remain invincible in the complex international game, and the world can see that the real hard power is never overwhelming the other party, but forcing the other party to choose to cooperate.