China has warned it will take “resolute” countermeasures against other countries who negotiate with the United State's that will harm China's interests.
These comments come in the wake of soaring global tariffs from the Trump administration, which saw Beijing slapped with a whopping 145% base tariff this month.
Now, China’s commerce ministry has responded, saying that there will be countermeasures against other countries who engage in future U.S. deals that are made at the expense of China's best interests, warning that this approach “will ultimately fail on both ends and harm others”.
“China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests,” the ministry said on Monday.
“Appeasement will not bring peace, and compromise will not be respected … To seek one’s own temporary selfish interests at the expense of others’ interests is to seek the skin of a tiger.”
