{"id":368093,"date":"2018-07-05T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-opening-fire-on-entire-world-including-self\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T07:46:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:46:56","slug":"us-opening-fire-on-entire-world-including-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-opening-fire-on-entire-world-including-self\/","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;opening fire&#8217; on entire world, including self"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>China says the United States is \u201copening fire\u201d on the global economy and damaging the international supply chains by imposing tariffs on products from China and other countries, as controversial US duties on Chinese goods worth tens of billions are due to come into force at midnight Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US measures are essentially attacking global supply and value chains. To put it simply, the US is opening fire on the entire world, including itself,\u201d said Gao Feng, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, referring to the American practice of protectionism.<\/p>\n<p>He said Beijing would continue to assess the impact of the current trade dispute with Washington and would help firms cope with possible shocks.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, US President Donald Trump announced 25-percent tariffs on $50 billion in annual Chinese imports. He said he had also directed the US Trade Representative to identify $200&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/05\/567059\/China-US-tariffs-global-economy-Trump-IMF\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China says the United States is \u201copening fire\u201d on the global economy and damaging the international supply chains by imposing tariffs on products from China and other countries, as controversial US duties on Chinese goods worth tens of billions are due to come into force at midnight Thursday. \u201cThe US measures are essentially attacking global [&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-368093","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\/368093","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=368093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}