‘All will become victims’: China’s threat to countries that ‘appease’ US in trade war

News.com.au - 22/04
China has threatened countermeasures against any countries who “appease” the United States by making deals with it at Beijing’s expense, as global relations sit on a knife’s edge due to the two nations’ full blown trade war.

China has threatened countermeasures against any countries who “appease” the United States by making deals with it at Beijing’s expense, as global relations sit on a knife’s edge due to the two nations’ full blown trade war.

While the rest of the world has been hit with a blanket 10 per cent tariff by US President Donald Trump and his administration, China has been walloped with levies of up to 145 per cent on many products – prompting it to respond in kind with duties of 125 per cent on American goods.

Parallel to the duo’s spiralling tariff tit-for-tat, a number of countries are now engaged in negotiations with the Trump administration to lower the levies inflicted on them – prompting Beijing to warn it has no qualms with other nations becoming collateral damage if they act against its interests.

“Appeasement will not bring peace, and compromise will not be respected,” a spokesperson for China’s commerce ministry said in a statement.

“To seek one’s own temporary selfish interests at the expense of o...
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