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Beijing slams 'bullying and blackmail' from Washington

BEIJING’S Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng accused the US today of using bullying tactics and blackmail in threatening to impose tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports.

Mr Gao said the US was damaging the global trading order, warning that its methods would harm its own business interests as well as those of trading partners.

“We oppose the act of extreme pressure and blackmail by swinging the big stick of trade protectionism,” he declared.

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