Despite intensified uncertainties seen this year, Sean Stein, president of the US-China Business Council, said that most US companies remain deeply committed to the Chinese market. "We've seen over the last nine or 10 months that there has not been a significant increase in US companies leaving China."

Instead, he said that heightened uncertainty has led some US firms "to increase their reliance on China as a production base for the China market and for other global markets, because they know what they get — a stable investment climate".

"The focus is, US companies want to invest in China, want to expand in China and want to be part of the economic picture and growth of China," Stein told China Perspective on the sidelines of the 2025 Bund Summit in Shanghai.