{"id":70828,"date":"2025-04-08T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/china-vows-to-fight-to-the-end-against-latest-trump-tariff-threat"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:22:18","slug":"china-vows-to-fight-to-the-end-against-latest-trump-tariff-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70828","title":{"rendered":"China vows to \u2018fight to the end\u2019 against latest Trump tariff threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing accuses US of blackmail and adding a \u2018mistake on top of a mistake\u2019 as Wednesday deadline for latest levies looms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/apr\/08\/stock-markets-nikkei-dow-ftse-100-asian-market-today-trump-china-tariffs-threat-business-news-live-latest-updates#top-of-blog\">Tariff market reaction \u2013live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s government says it will \u201cfight to the end\u201d if the US continues to escalate the trade war, after Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/07\/trump-china-tariffs\">threatened huge additional tariffs<\/a> in response to China\u2019s retaliatory measures.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, China\u2019s commerce ministry accused the US of \u201cblackmail\u201d and said the US president\u2019s threats of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/07\/trump-china-tariffs\">additional 50% tariffs<\/a> if Beijing did not reverse its own 34% reciprocal tariff were a \u201cmistake on top of a mistake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/china-vows-to-fight-to-the-end-against-latest-trump-tariff-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing accuses US of blackmail and adding a \u2018mistake on top of a mistake\u2019 as Wednesday deadline for latest levies loomsTariff market reaction \u2013live updatesChina\u2019s government says it will \u201cfight to the end\u201d if the US continues to escalate the trade war&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,6,50,437,558,557,3280,3279,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70828","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70901,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70828\/revisions\/70901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}