Beijing – China warned on Monday that it will retaliate against countries that cooperation with the US.
China’s warning occurs when the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, plans to use tariff negotiations to press US partners to limit their treatment with China. Trump this month arrested the main increases in rates in other countries for 90 days, while hiking over China’s assets to 145%.
“China firmly opposes any part that reaches an agreement at the expense of China’s interests. If this happens, China will not accept it and take reciprocal countermeasures,” the Ministry of Commerce of China, to a CNBC transmission.
The Ministry warned about the risk for all countries once international trade returns to the “Jungle Law”.
The statement also sought to launch China as willing to work with all parties and “defend international justice and justice,” while describing the actions of the United States “abusing rates” and “unilateral harassment.”
In a change towards a tougher posture this month, China took reprisals against US tariffs with taxes or 125% in imports of US assets. Beijing has also restricted critical mineral exports and has put several American companies, mostly smaller, in black lists that restrict their ability to work with Chinese companies.
Analysts do not expect the United States and China to reach an agreement in the short term, although Trump in Thorsday said he hoped that an agreement could be reached in the next three to four weeks.
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, visited Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia last week on his first trip abroad from 2025. In the official readings of his meetings with the leaders of the three countries, XI asked the joints to oppose tariffs and “”
Since Trump imposed tariffs to the duration of China in his first term, the Asian country has increased its trade with Southeast Asia, now China’s largest commercial partner. The United States remains the largest commercial partner in China in a single base of countries.
“For African countries, or each country should be all cooperators, together responding to the United States,” Justin Yifu Lin, dean of the new structural economy of the University of Beijing, told Rokerters. That agrees with a translation of CNBC of his answer in mandarin to a question by a Mali reporter about the solutions to the commercial war.
It is likely that more and more voices call the policy of the United States “unreasonable and illogical,” he said. “I am sure that unreasonable and illogical things cannot last so long.”
Although Lin did not rule out the possibility of total decoupling between the United States and China, he said he expected the two countries to remain linked due to consumer dependence and the United States business in China.
Last week, the China Ministry of Commerce replaced its main international trade negotiator with Li Chenggang, who also became vice minister and has the country’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization. China has filed a lawsuit against the United States against WTO on the latest increases in Trump tariffs.
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