By Elizabeth Crisp,
China is vowing to not back down to President Trump, with the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. writing on social media that it is ready to fight a trade war or “any other type of war.”
“If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end,” the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. posted to X , as Trump was wrapping up his address to a joint session of Congress late Tuesday evening.
Trump recently doubled tariffs on all Chinese imports from 10 percent to 20 percent, on top of increasing tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico to 25 percent. Trump said he’s leveraging tariffs to get China, Mexico and Canada to do more about the fentanyl crisis plaguing the United States.
He has blamed China for facilitating the production of chemicals used to make the deadly drug and policies in Mexico and Canada for allowing the drug to get into the United States.
The White House didn’t immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment. In a fact sheet announcing the tariffs, the Trump administration said the “bold action” would hold the country accountable for “stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.”
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