- China denies any economic or commercial negotiation with the United States.
- Trump says that Xi Jinping’s call “is not a sign of weakness in his name.”
- Two bigger savings were locked in the climbing of the Tit-For-Tat Commerce Battle.
China repeated on Saturday that it had had no maintenance with the United States on commercial issues, despite the assertion of President Donald Trump that he had received a XI Jinping call.
In an interview carried out on April 22 with Time Magazine and published on Friday, Trump did not say when the call with the Chinese leader took place or specifies what was discussed.
“His name is,” said Trump. “And I don’t think it’s a sign of weakness in his name.”
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce had already denied Thursday that Beijing and Washington carried out economic or commercial negotiations.
In a statement published on WeChat on Saturday, the Embassy of Beijing in the American capital repeated this assertion, claiming “that there was no consultation or negotiation between China and the United States on tariff issues, not to mention an agreement”.
The declaration did not mention Trump or Xi by his name or benchmark the claim of a Trump appeal, but said that remarks by the United States according to which a dialogue on the prices was in progress were “nothing other than misleading”.
“This trade war was launched by the American team,” the statement said.
“If the United States really wants to solve the problem through dialogue, it must first correct its mistakes, stop threatening and put pressure on others and completely eliminate all unilateral tariff measures against China.”
The two largest economies in the world are locked in a growing trade battle of Tit-For-Tat triggered by Trump’s samples from Chinese products, which have reached 145% on many products.
Trump suggested that he will announce agreements with American trade partners in the coming weeks.
“There is a number they will feel comfortable,” Trump told Time, referring to China. “But you can’t let them win a dollar billion over us.”