China criticized the “extreme greed” behind tariffs on Saturday, directly referring to the high duties being imposed by US President Donald Trump and calling it an “unjustified business war.”
Top minister Wang Yi told Bakhtiyor Saidov on Friday that” Certain nations” resort to “pressure and force, and set unfair trade war,” according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry.
He continued,” This intense selfishness merely harms their credibility.”
President Donald Trump’s assertion that Xi Jinping had called him was challenged by China’s repeated assertion earlier that no deal negotiations had taken place with the US.
Trump omitted the alleged conversation with the Chinese president in a Time magazine meeting on Friday, saying that” He’s called. And I don’t believe that indicates failure on his part.
China’s business government had originally denied on Thursday any continued financial or trade talks between Beijing and Washington.
Beijing’s US ambassador reiterated this place on Twitter on Saturday, saying” there haven’t been any sessions or agreements between China and the United States on tax issues, let alone any deal.”
Trump and Xi were not immediately named or even mentioned in the statement’s statement, but they did say US remarks about continuous tariff negotiations were “nothing but misleading.”
The US side initiated this trade war, according to the statement, adding that “if the US really wants to resolve the problem through dialogue, it must first appropriate its mistakes, cease threatening and pressuring others, and completely end all coercive tariff measures against China.”
Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods totaling 145 percent on a number of items is further escalating the conflict between the world’s largest economies.
