{"id":70824,"date":"2025-04-07T21:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/apr\/07\/chinese-foreign-ministry-calls-us-tariffs-economic-bullying-video"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:45:53","slug":"chinese-foreign-ministry-calls-us-tariffs-economic-bullying-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70824","title":{"rendered":"Chinese foreign ministry calls US tariffs &#8216;economic bullying&#8217; \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s tariffs are &#8216;a typical act of unilateralism, protectionism, and economic bullying,&#8217; Lin Jian, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, has said. Trump has slapped China, the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy, with additional 34% tariffs, bringing the total new levies on the country this year to 54% and the overall tariff rate to 74%, UBS reported. Trump also closed a trade loophole that had allowed low-value packages from China to enter the US duty-free<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/blog\/live\/2025\/apr\/07\/global-stock-markets-brace-donald-trump-us-tariffs-business-live-updates-news\"><strong>FTSE 100 plunges to one-year low amid market turmoil, as Goldman Sachs raises chances of US recession to 45% \u2013 business live<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/apr\/07\/chinese-foreign-ministry-calls-us-tariffs-economic-bullying-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s tariffs are &#8216;a typical act of unilateralism, protectionism, and economic bullying,&#8217; Lin Jian, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, has said. Trump has slapped China, the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy, with additional 34% tariffs, b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3280,3279,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70825,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70824\/revisions\/70825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}