China vows retaliation if Trump proceeds with new rounds of tariffs

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A new package of tariffs targeting another $200 billion in Chinese exports to America "could take place very soon depending on what happens," President Trump said Friday, as could an additional set of taxes on $267 billion in goods including mobile phones. Predictably, Beijing will respond in kind.

"If the U.S. side obstinately clings to its course and takes any new tariff measures against China, then the Chinese side will inevitably take countermeasures to resolutely protect our legitimate rights," said Chinese Foreign Ministry representative Geng Shuang on Monday. He did not specify what the countermeasures would be.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.