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China responds to Trump’s tariffs threatening ‘corresponding countermeasures.’

Now that Donald Trump has issued tariffs on products from China, Canada, and Mexico, Canada responded with tariffs of its own, and China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement (via Google Translate) that it “will file a lawsuit with the WTO for the wrong practices of the United States and will take corresponding countermeasures to firmly safeguard its own rights and interests.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued its own statement, saying (translated), “The United States should view and deal with its own fentanyl problem objectively and rationally, rather than threatening other countries with tariffs at will.”

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