Xia Baolong gives a speech via video link at the beginning ceremony of National safety Education Day on 15 April 2025 in Hong Kong, China.© Li Zhihua / China News Service / VCG via Getty Images
A high-ranking Chinese authoritative criticised the "extremely arrogant and insolent" customs of US president Donald Trump in Hong Kong, China's peculiar administrative region.Xia Baolong, manager of the Hong Kong and Macao Bureau, added that “boys from the US” would “wept before a 5000-year-old civilization.”
Xia's comment is the latest in the war on words between the US and China, after Vice president J.D. Vance's attention at the beginning of this period that the US borrow from “Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants produce”.Beijing criticized the comment as "ignorant and disrespectful".In a tv speech on Tuesday, Xia condemned Trump's decision to impose advanced tariffs on Hong Kong, even though it is "the largest origin of US trade surplus"."The United States does not want our duties, but our survival" “He said.
"The United States has repeatedly restrained and suppressed Hong Kong... and will yet turn against them".The authoritative continued, saying that intimidation tactics had never been successful against the Chinese people, including Hong Kong residents."The pressures, threats and blackmail are not the right way to deal with China" said Xia.
“Let these peasants in the United States complain about 5,000 years of Chinese civilization” “He added.His words were repeated on Wednesday by the spokesperson of the Ministry of abroad Affairs Lin Jian."If the United States truly wants to solve the problem through dialog and negotiations, it should quit utmost pressure, halt threats and blackmail" “he told the journalists.The tariff Pat with Beijing appears during a wider U.S. run against dozens of countries.
While most of the increased tariffs were suspended for 90 days, China has been excluded from postponement.
The full tariff for Chinese goods was increased to 145%.
In response, Beijing imposed 125% tariff on US imports and limited exports of minerals essential for high-tech production.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/615852-china-us-tariff-war-hong-kong/
