Taipei, Taiwan (AP) – US President Donald Trump’s trade war Canada, Mexico and China accelerate on the production and import of the opaca fentanyl, as well as commercial surpluses and illegal border passages by migrants from all over the world.
Here is what Beijing says:
What has been China’s reaction so far?
China has reiterated its threat to take “countermeasures necessary to defend its legitimate rights and interests” after Trump’s decision To impose tariffs of 10% on China for having pretended to stem the production of pioneering chemicals for fentanyl.
The Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published on Sunday has not mentioned any specific reprisals measure, but said that “China calls on the United States to correct its misdeeds, to maintain the positive dynamic hardened in the cooperation of command contarins And to promote a stable, solid and sustainable development of the development of development of the development of stable China-US relations. »»
China claims that American action violates the rules of the World Trade Organization and has promised to carry a case before the organization that governs world trade.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Public Security made almost identical charges on Sunday and the Ministry of Commerce also published a closely written statement.
Who says China is to blame?
Trump accuses China of authorizing the production of fentanyl, which is then transformed into tablets in Mexico and smuggling and distributed through the United States, which records some 70,000 deaths by overdose medication every year.
China says the United States must be careful instead of “threatening other countries with arbitrary tariff increases,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. “The United States must see and solve its own fentanyl problem in an objective and rational way … (China is) one of the most difficult countries in the world on the contribution both in terms of politics and implementation. “
Experts say that China performs an unknown number of people each year for smoking drugs, but the consumption of domestic drugs is relatively low.
The press release from the Ministry of Public Security said that the United States had not pointed out any fentanyl precursor crisis from China since Beijing began to take legal action.
What other problems can have an impact on the dispute?
Huge trade deficit The United States, which reached nearly $ 1 Billion last year, was a constant target of Trump complaints. The prices would make Chinese goods more expensive for American consumers, who will finally have to pay significant part of the cost of all imports, from clothing toys.
The Vital Export Market in China could be affected if American consumers decided to “buy American”. The Chinese interior economy has not responded to a range of stimuli supported by the government, while foreign infrastructure projects and other important government initiatives which are added to the already high public debt of the country threaten more than economic stagnation.
It is already beginning to derail the push of Chinese President Xi Jinping to go beyond the United States in key economic and political indicators, threatening its ultimate ambition to conquer the island Republic of Taiwan and affirms Chinese primacy in the Indo-Pacific region.
The judgment of illegal immigration was also one of Trump’s main political messages and was appointed in pricing actions against the American neighbors in Mexico and Canada. Illegal arrivals from China are considered to be a fraction of such figures, but Trump has advised almost all the countries he will keep them responsible for their nationals who enter the United States outside the law.
