China accuses Donald Trump of damaging global trade with tariffs

Trump: White House 'Acting Swiftly' on China's Intellectual Property Theft, Trade Deficit

Trump: White House 'Acting Swiftly' on China's Intellectual Property Theft, Trade Deficit

Responding to a query on China-India relationship following the standoff situation in Doklam in 2017, Minister Wang stressed avoiding mutual suspicion and said that "with political trust, not even the Himalayas can stop us from friendly exchanges".

When asked about the report at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said that China "attaches importance to debt sustainability". Trump doesn't hesitate naming India while talking about the reciprocal tax.

Concerns about the US-China rivalry has heated up as US President Donald Trump and his economic advisers prepare to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, while leaving open the possibility to exempting some allies.

In his remarks, Wang issued one of China's most forceful responses yet to the looming trade actions. We're going to have a great relationship, hopefully, with China, but we have to do something.

"On paper, China has more to lose from a trade war - it exports far more to the U.S. than it imports. We have to do something", Mr. Trump told reporters during the signing ceremony.

The South Korean official said the tariffs would impact the renegotiation of the bilateral free trade deal with the United States that is now underway. And despite a landmark ruling in 2016 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague that said there was no legal basis for China's maritime claims, it has pressed ahead with island building in the disputed waterway. I don't know that anything is going to come of it. China will step up mediation in regional flash points as well as cooperation with African countries to tackle unconventional security threats such as terrorism, piracy and natural disaster, and help them build capacity for ensuring their peace and security, he said. "A lot of respect", he said.

The US tariffs are expected to go into effect in two months, though economists see little immediate impact on China.

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Xi pledged US$124bn towards the initiative at the Belt and Road summit a year ago, on top of the US$900bn worth of projects already underway or planned. "When you add intellectual property, it's much higher than that", Trump said.

By law, the U.S. can impose trade restrictions on any country which has been shown to undermine American businesses. But a Chinese auto coming to the United States only pays 2.5 per cent.

"So an American auto going to China pays 25 per cent import duty".

The Australian dollar slipped back below US78 cents but has since rallied back, but the ASX200 is down 0.7% in midday trade and S&P500 futures in the United States are down more than 1%.

He said China had been working with other claimants and its Southeast Asian neighbors on completing a code of conduct to prevent frictions in the waterway that has rich fishing grounds, vital sea routes and a potential wealth of undersea natural resources.

"They are 50, they are 75 or they are 25, we are going to be doing the same numbers". Right now, they'll charge us 50, we charge them nothing. It's called reciprocal. It's a mirror of tags.

Trade tensions have jumped to the top of the list of risks facing China this year, with proposed USA tariffs on steel and aluminium imports suggesting more measures may be on the way, Zhou Hao, senior emerging markets economist at Commerzbank, told the Reuters Global Markets Forum this week.

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