China’s ForeignMin: US is real threat to global trade - RTRS

China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Monday that it’s the US, and not China that threatens the global trade system.

The comments from China come after the US President Trump’s administration called the US support for China’s joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 a mistake.

Key Quotes:

“I think everyone has seen that it’s precisely the United States’ unilateralist methods, and the sounds it’s made on unilateralism, that are an unprecedented challenge to the multilateral trade system.”

“Many WTO members have already expressed worry about this.” 

“So we hope the United States can correctly view China and at the same time take their own actual steps to protect the multilateral trading system.”