The reporter asked: On April 5, EDT, the U.S. President issued a statement to consider adding tariffs on China’s 100 billion U.S. dollar export products. Does China have any comment?
Lu Hao said that it appears that the U.S. has seriously misjudged the situation and adopted extremely wrong actions. The U.S. side will ultimately damage its own interests. The Chinese side is fully prepared to do so if the U.S. announces an additional US$100 billion taxation product list. We will not hesitate to immediately counterattack vigorously. We said that the United States should not feel lucky.
The reporter asked: What do you think of the nature of this so-called trade war?
Lu Hao said that we believe that this is the U.S. side’s unilateralism against multilateralism and protectionism against free trade. If multilateralism and free trade are threatened, the process of economic globalization is destroyed, and the entire world economy recovers. All will be seriously threatened, which is detrimental to the vital interests of China and even to the common interests of the world. Faced with such major issues, we must resolutely fight.
The reporter asked: If the US takes further escalation actions, how will you respond?
Lu Hao said: The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has already indicated that we are ready to respond to the United States' further action to upgrade and we have already formulated very specific countermeasures. We said that China will not pick but it will not Picking things up, we will definitely respond. Chinese people manage to do it.