China lashed out at the United States on Tuesday after President Trump demanded that Beijing rescind its retaliatory tariffs or face an additional 50 percent U.S. levy, calling his threat “blackmail,” as tensions between the two major powers rose. The Ministry of Commerce, without referring to the American president by name, said that Beijing had…
China has struck back at President Trump on Friday. In a rapid fire series of policy announcements, including 34 percent across-the-board tariffs, three government agencies in Beijing showed that China has no intention of backing down in the trade war that Mr. Trump began this week with his own steep tariffs on imports from around…
China signaled on Tuesday that it is willing to go further than before in its trade tit-for-tat with President Trump by hitting a top American biotechnology company. China’s Ministry of Commerce said it would ban Illumina, a San Diego company, from importing its gene-mapping products in China. Illumina is the world’s leading producer of gene-sequencing…