Trump: Trade deficit with China must be resolved before deal on tariffs

They've made enough, for decades, taking advantage of the Good OL' USA! Our past "leaders" are to blame for allowing this, and so much else, to happen to our Country.,

he wrote

Faced with the indiscriminate punches of U.S. taxes, we know what we are doing and we have tools at our disposal,

it added

The pursuit of individual self-interests,

as Zhang noted in 2020

Mike Davis (scholar)theorist

We are living through the nightmare edition of ‘Great Men Make History’,

wrote the leftwing theorist Mike Davis shortly before his death in 2022

Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,

he said on Air Force One

Lin Jianspokesman

The US is seeking hegemony in the name of reciprocity, sacrificing the legitimate interests of all countries to serve its own selfish interests, and prioritising the US over international rules,

spokesman Lin Jian said

The root cause of the tariff issue lies in the United States,

Ling said

Lin Jianspokesman

The abuse of tariffs by the United States is tantamount to depriving countries, especially those in the Global South, of their right to development,

Lin said, citing a widening gap between the rich and poor in each country, and less developed countries suffering a greater impact

Raising tariff on all U.S. imports by the same amount as Trump's latest tariff demonstrates China's determination to go all the way to wherever the U.S. wants to be,

said Andy Xie, a Shanghai-based independent economist

Beijing's aggressive posture signals that future retaliation will be more forceful, setting off an escalatory spiral and raising the odds of unmanaged decoupling in 2025,

a team of analysts at Eurasia Group said in a note

China has taken and will continue to take resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty, security, and development interests,

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday

Lin Jianspokesman

Pressure and threats are not the way to deal with China. China will firmly safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,

Lin added

Lin Jianspokesman

Putting ‘America First’ over international rules is a typical act of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying,

Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters

China is sending a significant message to the world: we cannot back down or tolerate US bullying, as tolerance ultimately leads to more bullying,

said Liu Zhiqin, senior researcher at Chongyang Institute for Finance Studies in Renmin University of China, told the broadcaster

China and the US are now direct rivals in reshaping the international trade order,

said another, Ju Jiandong, a professor at the People’s Bank of China School of Finance of Tsinghua University

As the world’s second-largest economy and the second-largest consumer market, China will only continue to open its doors wider, regardless of the changing international landscape,

China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday

Many (People’s Republic of China) counterparts have argued (the) US is making a mistake that will undermine its own global standing,

Ryan Hass, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution think tank, wrote on the social media platform X on Sunday, following meetings with government officials, scholars, business leaders during a visit to China

US tariffs will have an impact (on China), but ‘the sky won’t fall,’

a commentary in the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece People’s Daily said Sunday

Since the US initiated the (first) trade war in 2017 – no matter how the US fights or presses – we have continued to develop and progress, demonstrating resilience – ‘the more pressure we get, the stronger we become,

the commentary read

The new 34% tariff would weigh on Chinese GDP by at least 0.7 percentage points this year,

analysts from Goldman Sachs wrote in a note Sunday, forecasting