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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.
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
The US’s bid for regime change in the Islamic Republic has become more urgent as it seeks to encircle and contain a resurgent China, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
