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The trade conflict between Europe, China and the United States
is high on the agenda for the consultations between Li and
Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday.
In an interview with Handelsblatt newspaper, ambassador Zhang
Ming warned that China and Europe were prepared to do what it
takes to retaliate and show the United States that a policy of
escalating trade conflict would be harmful.
"China has tried extensively to stop the trade conflict with the
United States escalating into a trade war but it takes two hands
to clap," Zhang Ming said in the interview, adding that no one
would profit from a global trade conflict.
The United States and China exchanged the first salvos in what
could become a protracted trade war last week, slapping tariffs
on $34 billion worth of each others' goods and giving no sign of
willingness to start talks aimed at a reaching a truce.
"The Chinese are peaceful people and I think the Europeans as
well, but we must demonstrate to the trade war's initiator that
its action is wrong," he said.
(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa, Editing by William Maclean)
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