{"id":71107,"date":"2025-04-16T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/16\/chinese-state-media-tells-trump-to-stop-whining-as-trade-war-spirals"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:01:08","slug":"china-tells-us-to-stop-whining-over-tariffs-as-it-reports-gdp-growth-spurt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71107","title":{"rendered":"China tells US to \u2018stop whining\u2019 over tariffs as it reports GDP growth spurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China Daily, the  Communist party\u2019s English-language mouthpiece, says US \u2018has been living beyond its means for decades\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\">US<\/a> needs to \u201cstop whining\u201d about being a victim after \u201ctaking a free ride on the globalisation train\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China\u2019s <\/a>official state media said, as its government reported a spurt of economic growth ahead of an expected hit from Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tit-for-tat tariff<\/a> rises appear to have paused, but the conflict between the two biggest economies is showing no signs of letting up, with Beijing also reiterating its warning that it was \u201cnot afraid to fight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/16\/chinese-state-media-tells-trump-to-stop-whining-as-trade-war-spirals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Daily, the  Communist party\u2019s English-language mouthpiece, says US \u2018has been living beyond its means for decades\u2019The US needs to \u201cstop whining\u201d about being a victim after \u201ctaking a free ride on the globalisation train\u201d, China\u2019s official state med&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[50,415,3279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-trump-tariffs"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71109,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107\/revisions\/71109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}