Commerce Secretary Aims to Strengthen Business Ties With China

WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said she would seek to improve U.S. business ties with China, seeing mutual benefit at a time of increasing tensions between the two nations over national-security and human-rights issues.

In an interview, Ms. Raimondo said she plans to lead delegations of U.S. chief executives overseas, including to China, to hunt for business and discuss longstanding trade issues, though nothing has yet been put on the calendar.