Don't want a face, then don't blame us for being unkind.

The EU countries are too overstepping. Our foreign minister has personally gone to the EU headquarters for trade negotiations. However, some European countries would rather kneel before the US and be the US's pawns than cooperate with us for mutual benefit.

They falsely accuse us of supporting Russia, sanction two banks, impose a 35.3% tariff on our new energy electric vehicles, and restrict our companies from bidding on medical equipment purchases over 5 million euros. They also canceled the high-level dialogue between China and the EU.

Evidently, our new energy cars are of good quality and low price. Europe cannot compete with them, so they resort to such means to block us. This time we came with sincerity, but we got this kind of treatment. If you don't return the courtesy, I will repay you in full. If you respect me one chi (a Chinese unit of length), I will return you one zhang (another Chinese unit of length).

First, impose a 34.9% countervailing duty on brandy produced in the EU for five years.

Second, impose a 103.1% countervailing duty on stainless steel billets and hot-rolled plates produced in the 27 EU countries and the UK.

The tariff war has no winners. We have actively initiated negotiations. Since the EU has closed the door, not taking the face, we won't be polite anymore; we can only fight all the way.

EU countries are really not smart. Like ASML in the Netherlands, which knelt before the US and refused to sell lithography machines and chips to us. As a result, the US immediately approved the export of high-end chips. ASML could have made a lot of money, but instead, it didn't make any and was abandoned by the US.

The EU's approach of kneeling before the US ultimately harms its own interests and benefits the US.

We still have a trump card. The US has already tried it. The EU is still arrogant. Without rare earths, the US's weapon manufacturing can only come to a standstill. The EU thinks it can control us, let's see. The EU's move is like picking up a stone to hit itself.

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