US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with China Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao in Beijing on August 28 to advance US commercial and strategic interests is interpreted more as a “reality check” in the eyes of many China experts. Although Raimondo and her Chinese counterpart issued a mutual statement to ensure more communications in the future, China, a high-context culture in which many words are not spoken, has expressed its own messages in ways that may not be understood by the West.