Chinese ambassador Xie Feng says Beijing does not want to fight but will not be ‘intimidated’
Xie Feng tells audience at Washington embassy’s annual open day that China did not launch the tariff war and that tariffs ‘benefit no one’
Beijing’s top diplomat in the US took another hit at Washington’s tariffs on Chinese goods on Saturday, while reiterating that China was open to dialogue — but only on the basis of reciprocity and mutual respect.
“Tariff hikes benefit no one. They disrupt businesses, raise costs, rattle financial markets and slow down global growth,” said Chinese ambassador Xie Feng, to an audience in Washington during the embassy’s annual open day to the public.
“The tariff war was not launched by China,” he continued, adding that if the US wanted to talk, “it should act in the spirit of equality, respect and reciprocity”.