China’s Foreign Ministry expressed protest against U.S. introduction of tariffs on Chinese goods

Beijing. June 18. Silkroadnews - China expressed its firm opposition after the Office of U.S. Trade Representative published a list of Chinese goods subject to additional tariffs, China Plus reported.
“I have to stress that China and the U.S. have conducted several rounds of negotiations in an attempt to resolve our differences and achieve win-win results,” the agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang saying.
“It is deeply regrettable that in disregard of the consensus between the two sides, the U.S. has demonstrated flip-flops and ignited a trade war. This move not only hurts bilateral interests, but also undermines world trade order. The Chinese side firmly opposes that,” he noted.
According to him, China does not want a trade war. However, faced with such a short-sighted act that causes damage both the U.S. itself and others, China has no choice but to resist resolutely, firmly defending the interests of the nation and its people and supporting economic globalization and the multilateral trading system.
“We will immediately take tariff measures of the same scale and intensity. All economic and trade outcomes of previous talks will now lose effect,” the spokesman added. “Waging a trade war does not conform to global interests nowadays. We call on all countries to take collective actions to firmly curb such outdated and regressive move and steadfastly safeguard the common interests of the mankind.”