{"id":3076,"date":"2025-04-07T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:03:10","slug":"china-calls-us-tariffs-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3076","title":{"rendered":"China calls US tariffs &#8216;bullying&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Threats and pressure are not the right way to deal with China, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday after describing US President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;reciprocal tariffs&#8221; as bullying.<\/p>\n<p>The tariffs are &#8220;typical unilateralism and protectionism, and economic bullying&#8221;, spokesperson Lin Jian told a regular press conference.<\/p>\n<p>He said that US tariffs in the name of reciprocity only served its own interest at the expense of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Trump introduced an additional 34% tariff on Chinese goods as part of steep levies imposed on most US trade partners, bringing the total duties on China this year to 54%. China retaliated with a series of countermeasures. Lin deferred to other bodies the question of whether China would engage in negotiations with the United States. US customs agents have been collecting Trump&#8217;s unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries since Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The abuse of tariffs by the United States is tantamount to depriving countries, especially those in the Global South, of their right to development,&#8221; Lin said, citing a widening gap between the rich and poor in each country, and less developed countries suffering a greater impact.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threats and pressure are not the right way to deal with China, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday after describing US President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;reciprocal tariffs&#8221; as bullying. The tariffs are &#8220;typical unilateralism and protectionism, and economic bullying&#8221;, spokesperson Lin Jian told a regular press conference. He said that US tariffs in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}