The Ministry of Commerce issued a quick response to Trump’s intention to add tariffs to additional USD 100b of Chinese imports, while they’re on holiday.
In a statement, China pledged to fight US unilateralism and protectionism “to the end, and at any cost”. And China will “firmly attack, using new comprehensive countermeasures, to firmly defend the interest of the nation and its people.”
The MOFCOM blamed that the the US “single-handedly started the trade conflicts”. And it added that it’s “provocation of unilateralism of the US to global free trade”.
This is sort of the expected response from China.
