The White House's latest assessment activity focuses on avant-garde technologies, including those such as robots and electric cars that China has said it wants to advance beneath its "Made in China 2025" program. The American Alcove of Commerce in China said companies are afraid about the blackmail of consign and investment controls but see them as a accessible way to accomplish advance on longstanding complaints about bazaar admission and investment curbs. As a aftereffect of Trump's assessment threat, Washington is in actual acute negotiations with Beijing "in a way that we haven't been for so abounding years," said the alcove chairman, William Zarit. However, American companies accept "major concerns" about arbitrary conditions, and the contempo moves haven't done abundant to allay those concerns, said the American chamber's Ross.