China on Monday threatened countermeasures against countries that “appease” the United States by striking trade deals with Washington at Beijing’s expense.
The warning follows a Bloomberg report that the US plans to pressure nations to curb trade with China if they want to avoid huge new US tariffs on their exports announced by President Donald Trump earlier this month.
The Trump administration says that dozens of nations want to renegotiate trade to prevent the new US penalties from taking effect, which would hurt their exports to the world’s largest economy.
