Beijing has called on the US to “completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures” if it wants trade talks, in some of China’s strongest comments yet on the impasse between the world’s two economic superpowers.
“The unilateral tariff measures were initiated by the US,” said He Yadong, a Chinese commerce ministry spokesperson. “If the US truly wants to solve the problem, it should . . . completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China and find a way to resolve differences through equal dialogue.”
Beijing has maintained that the US must make the first move to de-escalate the crisis, which is threatening to spark a hard decoupling between the two countries’ economies.
Chinese analysts argue that the US imposition of high tariffs make it difficult for Beijing to find a way to defuse the crisis.
China’s President Xi Jinping would find it difficult to engage personally with Trump on the trade war unless this was preceded by extensive negotiations to hammer out a deal, they say.
And we can just give them our best technology too? What a great deal!
Good. Someone should negotiate with the Republicans the way that they want to negotiate with everybody else. That is, we’ll only talk if we get what we want up front.
I don’t like Xi much but this time I want him to feed all the shit to that orange one.
But the Chinese foreign ministry on said any reports that China and the US were nearing a deal were “fake news”.
How low do you have to fall that even China exposes your fake news.
It’s schools like the Canadian native American schools, but schools none the less.
Where is your evidence that the adult vocational training schools in Xinjiang are anything like the cultural erasure child boarding schools in Canada?
Even if what you end up learning is they are indeed torturing people.
Where is your evidence of torture?
I’ll be honest, I believe that he thinks he was talking to the Chinese government, but it turns out he was talking to the local Chinese restaurant.
It’s an easy mistake for this administration to make.
Absolutely not. If we’re going to be on the aggressive path, we need to stay the course. There are demands in place. Either they’re met, or it keeps going - up to and including a complete embargo on Chinese goods, while we continue to discuss the situations with HK and Taiwan ROC separately.
I mean that does seem to make it pretty simple. However, the US imports roughly 460B annually from china, whereas china imports about 165B annually from the US. and China while doesn’t import as much as the US does, it also has vastly diversified it’s imports so while it might hurt losing the US if an embargo did occur, it would harm the US way more. About 14-15% of all imports the US does is from China, the US is only about 7% of China’s overall imports.
