‘Compromise will not earn respect’

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China warned Monday that threatened countries so that they do not join with the US. To win a postponement of President Trump’s rates, with Beijing promising that they would retaliate against those who do.

The China Ministry of Commerce promised to return the return of any country that chooses to reach economic agreements with the United States at the expense of China, intensely reinforcing its rhetoric in a commercial spiral war between the two largest economies in the world.

“China firmly opposes any party that reaches an agreement at the expense of China’s interests,” said the Chinese government in a statement.


Chinese President Xi Jinping sitting at a table during a meeting at Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 17, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping at a meeting on April 17, 2025. Through Reuters

“If this happens, China will never accept it and take resolutely contramedidated reciprocally. China is determined and is able to safeguard its own rights and interests.”

China said it was an answer to the media reports that the Trump administration was planning to press the nations that sought rates reductions such as a negotiation tactic in a prayer for trade to slow down with China.
“The appeasement cannot bring peace, and the commitment cannot gain respect,” China warned.


The president of the United States, Donald Trump, spoke with the press after signing an executive order at the Oval Office of the White House in February 2025
President Trump, here at the White House in February 2025, slapped Chinese import tariffs. AFP through Getty Images

“For temporary selfish interests, sacrificing the interests of others in exchange for the so -called exemptions is like looking for the skin of a tiger. Ultimately, it will only fail at both ends and damage others by telling themselves.”

It occurs after Trump raised tariffs on Chinese imports to 145%, which led Beijing to weak or 125% retaliation in US assets.

“The United States has abused tariffs on all commercial partners under the banner of the so -called” equivalence “, while forcing all parties to begin the so -called reciprocal negotiations” with them, “said the Chinese ministry statement.

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