China has expressed concern about the appointment of Peter Navarro as head of the newly created  National Trade Council. China's state-owned Global Times and the CCP's official authoritative newspaper 'People's Daily' on December 22, 2016, quoted China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi as anticipating that Sino-US ties would face some “complexity” in the future. They quoted Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying as saying that Beijing was concerned by Trump’s policy direction and “I hope the United States and China can work together to maintain Sino-US relations, including the healthy and stable development of economic and trade ties.”as expressing concern about the appointment of Peter Navarro as head of the newly created  National Trade Council. China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi was quoted as anticipating "some complexity" ahead.