Ahead of the China-US talks, Trump has clearly hardened his tone! On May 8th, US President Trump told reporters at the White House that he would not cut the high tariff of 145% imposed on China to restart trade negotiations with China. What's more, Trump said that they claimed we were the ones who took the initiative (for the negotiation), but I think they should go back and study their files carefully.
Obviously, before the two sides sit down for negotiations, Trump's tone has clearly hardened. Of course, in making this speech, Trump essentially did not want to show weakness to us and intended to portray himself as a strong party. However, no matter how tough the US is, we have already set the tone for this negotiation. That is, if the US uses negotiation as a pretext to continue coercion and extortion, China will never agree.
We will absolutely not sacrifice our principles or international fairness and justice to seek any agreement. We will not make concessions to the US before sitting at the negotiating table, and we will not accept the US's blackmail during the negotiation either. In short, if an agreement is to be reached, it depends on how much sincerity the US has. Now, the pressure on the US is very great. First, the US-Japan talks fell apart, while the UK has expressed willingness to strengthen cooperation with us. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong also criticized Trump's tariff policy.
Australia said that the US should not apply a tough attitude to Australia and should cancel the unfair and unreasonable tariffs. In fact, the EU has stated that if the US-EU negotiations break down, the EU will impose additional tariffs on US goods worth 170 billion euros. And the fact is that so far, the US has hardly reached any agreements with other countries. Under such circumstances, expecting us, which has the strongest countermeasures, to give in to the US, is simply impossible.
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