Photo of the Archive: The United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Besent Stand while President Donald Trump signs Executive Orders and Proclamations in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US
President Donald Trump said his administration was talking to China in Commerce, after Beijing denied the existence of negotiations on an agreement and demanded that the United States revoke all unilateral rates.
“They had a meeting this morning,” Trump said during the day of a meeting with Norway’s Prime Minister when a journalist asked about the Chinese statement.
Pressing on what administration officials were involved in discussions, the president of the United States said: “It doesn’t matter who” they “. We can reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we have a leg meeting with China.”
The exchange exposed the continuous disconnection between Washington and Beijing, since the government of President Xi Jinping maintains a challenging position despite Trump’s recent suggestion that could reduce tariffs on China.
The spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, He Yadong, on an early Thursday in a regular informative session in Beijing, dismissed the speculation that progress has been achieved in bilateral communications, saying that “reports on development in conversations have no basis” and urged the United States to “show sincerity” if you want to reach an agreement.
“The United States must respond to the voices of justification in the international community and within its own borders and thoroughly eliminate all unilateral rates imposed on China, if you really want to solve the problem,” he said.
The comments suggest that Trump’s comments indicate that they could reduce tariffs to China, which are currently 145 percent for most goods, will not be enough to discourage tensions. The American leader said Wednesday that “everything is active” when asked if he was committing to China and that Beijing was going to “do well” once the conversations had settled.
Trump has tried to put XI on the phone several times since he returned to office, but the Chinese leader, so far, has resisted. Beijing wants to see several steps from Washington before he accepts commercial negotiations, which include showing more respect and appointing a timely person for dialogue, Bloomberg News reported previous.
Other conditions include a more consisting position in the United States and a willingness to address China’s concerns about US and Taiwan sanctions, the retramed island that Beijing has promised to claim someday, by force if necessary.
Trump changed his tone once again on Thursday, criticizes Beijing for refusing to take deliveries or planes of Boeing Co. and for his role in the illegal fentanyl trade. The United States imposed 20 percent tariffs on Chinese imports tied to fentanyl before loosening them with an additional duty of 125 percent.
“Boeing should breach China for not taking the beautifully finished planes that China promised to buy,” Trump published on social networks. “And, by the way, the fentanyl continues to arrive in our country from China, through Mexico and Canada, killing hundreds of thousands of our people, and it is better to stop, now!”
China has responded to the volatile movements of the Trump rate with caution, with Beijing calling the high levels of “meaningless” taxes. The authorities have also warned other countries against strike agreements with the US. UU. They could damage their interests.
By highlighting how the tension in commercial ties is being shed in other areas of the relationship, the China Ministry of Defense blamed Thursday for the “biased” vision of “some people in the United States” for making the Chinese and American military.
Political support
The approach is now what political support Beijing will unleash to protect the number 2 economy of the world from the impact of tariffs on the export engine that promoted 40% of growth in the first quarter. The suggestions on the stimulus could come as soon as this week, when Politburó decision is expected to cuddle, with its April meeting traditionally focused on the economy.
It is “too early” for Beijing to participate in political support, according to Larry Hu, Chinese chief economist from Macquarie Group. “After all, it is much easier for Trump to return his tariff threat than for Beijing to walk his stimulus announcement back,” he added.
Beijing has generally dispensed stimulus only as necessary to protect the annual growth objective of nations. With the expansion of the first quarter by 5.4%, above the objective of approximately 5% by 2025, the policy formulators may feel they have space to wait.
The comments of the China Trade and Defense Mistis were produced hours after PAN Gongsheng, governor of the Popular Bank of China, warned about the threat of frictions that are raised to trust the global economic system, during the tar of official tars from Chinese tars from Trip Tars, from triple more round crew.
“All parties should strengthen cooperation and make efforts to prevent the global economy from sliding in a ‘high friction, low confidence’,” said PAN at a meeting of 20 meetings in Washington on Wednesday, according to a state of state by the State for the state cost for the state cost for the state cost for state cost by state cost by state cost by state position by post post -cashier by the state post by the state position by the state position by the state position by the position of state State Crinast for the state of Crinast state for the position by the State for the state position for the position by the State for the State for the position by the State by the state position by the state of Crinast states by the State by the State by the State. Crinast post by Crinostion State.
PAN is one of the main members of a Chinese delegation that attends the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this week in the US capital, where the discussions that involve the United States, the EU and other members of the G20 are also being carried out.
The events are expected to provide the first opportunity for Chinese economic officials to meet with the Trump team in person, since it drastically increased tariffs on Chinese imports earlier this month, before any formal negotiation for great commercial tensions.
However, Neinder Side has announced any bilateral meeting despite Trump’s movement to soften its tone in tariffs that are expected to be the growth of the second largest economy in the world.
There are no “winners in commercial wars” and China opens to the outside world and firmly supports free trade and the multilateral trade system, PAN said, according to the report.
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Posted on April 25, 2025
