Beijing – China on Monday warned that it will retaliate against countries that cooperate with the US that compromise the interests of Beijing, as the trade wars between the two largest economies in the world threatens to embrace other countries.
China’s warning comes when US President Donald Trump’s administration allegedly plans to use tariff dialogue to pressurize American partners to limit its behavior with China. Trump stopped the growth in major tariffs on other countries for 90 days this month, while moving on goods from China up to 145%.
According to CNBC translation, China opposed any party to reach a deal at the cost of China’s interests.
Once the International Trade “returned to the jungle law”, the ministry warned of the risk for all countries.
The statement designed China to work with all parties and “to protect international fairness and justice”, “abuse tariff” and “unilateral bullying” and designed to protect “international fairness and justice”.
In a change towards a difficult trend this month, China retaliated against the US tariff with a levy of 125% on import of American goods. Beijing has also banned the export of critical minerals and many, mostly small, American companies on blacklists that restrict their ability to work with Chinese companies.
Analysts do not expect that the US and China will soon reach a deal at any time, although Trump said on Thursday that they hope an agreement could be reached in the next three to four weeks.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia in his first overseas journey of 2025 last week. In the official Chinese readout of his meetings with leaders of the three countries, Xi called for joint efforts to oppose the tariff and “unilateral bullying”.
Since Trump imposed tariffs on China during his first term, the Asian country has increased its trade with Southeast Asia, which is now China’s largest trading partner on a regional basis. The US remains China’s largest trading partner on the basis of single-country.
Last week, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce replaced its top international trade negotiator with Lee Chenggang, who also became a vice -president and has been the ambassador of the country in the World Trade Organization. China has filed a case against the US with the WTO on Trump’s latest tariff growth.
