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title: Beijing has warned it will retaliate against countries that negotiate trade deals with the US “at the expense of China’s interests”
description: "The statement by the commerce ministry, which was responding to reports that US President Donald Trump’s administration planned to use trade talks with multiple countries to try to isolate China, called on them to instead join Beijing to “resist unilateral bullying”.\n\n“China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests,” the ministry said on Monday. “If this happens, China will never accept it and will resolutely take countermeasures in a reciprocal manner.”\n\nChina has become the focus of Trump’s trade war after the US president paused a wave of unilateral “reciprocal” tariffs on most countries but left levies on Chinese goods as high as 145 per cent in place. Beijing has retaliated, imposing its own tariffs of 125 per cent on US goods."
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# [Beijing has warned it will retaliate against countries that negotiate trade deals with the US “at the expense of China’s interests”](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/hermes-rms-q1-2025-0-0-0)

 Written by [Charles-Henry Monchau, CFA, CMT, CAIA](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/author/charles-henry-monchau) | Apr 21, 2025, 2:12:17 PM

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