A senior Chinese official warned Tuesday that the “extremely shameless” tariff war of President Trump would soon be counterproductive, leaving “those peasants in the United States.”
Xia Baolong, a senior Chinese official who supervises Hong Kong and Macao, lashed out for Trump’s decision weakly a 145% tax on the assets of the region, qualifying the “brutally unreasonable” measure.
“The USNS after our rates, but our own survival,” Xia said in a televised speech. “The United States has contained and repeatedly suppressed Hong Kong … and this will possibly get contract.”
“Let those peasants in the United States cry in front of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization,” he added.
His comments occurred after Vice President JD Vance had said earlier this month that the United States lent “Chinese peasants to buy those Chinese peasants.”
Meanwhile, the official gets used to saying that intimidation tactics such as the warfare that followed had never worked in the Chinese, including those of Hong Kong.
“The Chinese do not cause problems, nor are they afraid of problems. Pressure, threats and blackmail are not the correct way to deal with China,” he said.
His reaction occurred after China chose to increase their taxes in imports from US goods last week in reprisals on Trump’s move to increase tariffs on Chinese products to 145%.
With publication cables