Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian presided over the regular press conference held today (April 10). Regarding the US's announcement to impose a 125% tariff on China, Lin Jian said that for its own selfishness, the US uses tariffs as a weapon to implement extreme pressure and seek personal gain, seriously infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, seriously violates the rules of the World Trade Organization, seriously damages the rules-based multilateral trading system, and seriously impacts the stability of the global economic order. This is a blatant act of taking the world's biggest conspiracy and opposes the entire world.
Preparing necessary countermeasures to oppose the bullying of the United States is not only to safeguard its own sovereignty, security, and development interests, but also to safeguard international fairness and justice, safeguard the multilateral trading system, and safeguard the common interests of the international community. If you have the Tao, you will have many helps, but if you lose the Tao, you will have few helps. The United States' rebellious actions will end in failure.
Lin Jian emphasized that there are no winners in tariff wars and trade wars. China is unwilling to fight, but it is not afraid of fighting. We will never sit idly by and watch the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese people be deprived, and we will never sit idly by and watch international economic and trade rules and multilateral trading systems be destroyed. If the US insists on fighting a tariff war and a trade war, China will definitely accompany it to the end. The US puts its own interests above the public interests of the international community and serves the hegemony of the United States at the expense of the legitimate interests of countries around the world, which will inevitably be stronger opposition from the international community.
(CCTV reporter Zhao Jing)
