MBABANE:China has warned countries against striking trade deals with the United States at Beijing’s expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiralling trade war between the world’s two biggest economies, Aljazeera reported on Tuesday morning.
Responding to reports suggesting that US President Donald Trump’s administration is pressuring other countries to isolate China, a Spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that Beijing “will take countermeasures in a resolute and reciprocal manner” against Nations that align with the US against it.
The warning comes as countries prepare for talks with the US to seek exemptions from “reciprocal” tariffs that Trump imposed and then later paused on about 60 trading partners.
US President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping are locked in a trade war [File: Mandel Ngan and Pedro Pardo/AFP]