{"id":348180,"date":"2018-02-14T06:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T05:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-threatens-to-punish-china-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T06:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T05:18:34","slug":"presstv-trump-threatens-to-punish-china-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-threatens-to-punish-china-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump threatens to punish China, South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose sanctions on China while vowing to scrap a free trade deal with South Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His threat of\u00a0action against the two major Asian trading partners came on Tuesday in a speech to a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Trump accused Beijing of undermining US steel and aluminum industries, saying he was \u201cconsidering all options,\u201d including tariffs and quotas.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Trump received two Commerce Department reports about alleged Chinese subsidies for steel and aluminum exports,\u00a0materials that are essential for industries such as construction, autos and the like.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, China, which produces nearly half of the world\u2019s steel, is accused of flooding the market in order to keep its economy robust at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will make a decision that reflects the best interests of the United States, including the need to address overproduction in China and other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/14\/552307\/US-China-South-Korea-Donald-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose sanctions on China while vowing to scrap a free trade deal with South Korea. His threat of\u00a0action against the two major Asian trading partners came on Tuesday in a speech to a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House. Trump accused Beijing of undermining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}