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A man walks into a merchandise store displaying Chinese and United States' national flags, in Beijing, April 3, 2025
CHINA led the way today in hitting back at the so-called “reciprocal tariffs” imposed by US President Donald Trump.
He said on Wednesday that the import taxes, ranging from 10 per cent to 49 per cent, would do to US trading partners what they have long done to his country.
Mr Trump maintains they will draw factories and jobs back to the US.
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN