{"id":71230,"date":"2025-04-21T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/21\/beijing-threatens-countermeasures-countries-appease-us-tariffs-trade-war"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:20:34","slug":"beijing-threatens-countermeasures-against-countries-that-appease-washington-in-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71230","title":{"rendered":"Beijing threatens countermeasures against countries that \u2018appease\u2019 Washington in trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from commerce ministry criticises \u2018selfish\u2019 countries that make any trade deals with the US that harm China<\/p>\n<p>China has warned it will take \u201cresolute and reciprocal\u201d countermeasures against other countries negotiating with the US if they make a deal at China\u2019s expense during the trade war.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s commerce ministry was responding to recent news reports that Donald Trump planned to pressure other countries to limit their trade with China in return for tariff exemptions. Beijing and the US are locked in an escalating trade war, running separately to the US\u2019s efforts to rewrite trade deals with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/21\/beijing-threatens-countermeasures-countries-appease-us-tariffs-trade-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from commerce ministry criticises \u2018selfish\u2019 countries that make any trade deals with the US that harm ChinaChina has warned it will take \u201cresolute and reciprocal\u201d countermeasures against other countries negotiating with the US if they make a &#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":[41,6,50,3280,3279,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-news","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\/71230","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=71230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71231,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71230\/revisions\/71231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}