{"id":378287,"date":"2018-09-23T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T11:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-trade-sanctions-against-china\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T12:17:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T11:17:59","slug":"us-trade-sanctions-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-trade-sanctions-against-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US Trade Sanctions Against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>PressTV Interview \u2013 Transcript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Trade Sanctions by the US in the form of tariffs on US$ 200 billion Chinese exports to the US \u2013 China in a tit-for-tat move imposed new tariffs on 60 billion of US goods to China<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s prime minister speaks out about the rise of unilateralism, saying the approach to trade will not solve any problems.<\/p>\n<p>Li Keqiang made the comment at the World Economic Forum in the Chinese city of Tianjin. He said multilateralism should be upheld and the basic principle of free trade should be maintained. The Chinese premier said the trend of globalization is unstoppable, even though there are flaws in the process. Li\u2019s comments come amid heightened trade tensions between China and the United States. Beijing imposed tariffs on 60 more billion dollars-worth of American imports in a tit-for-tat response to Washington\u2019s levies on 200-billion dollars of Chinese goods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PressTV: <\/strong>What is your take on this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Koenig:\u00a0 <\/strong>These are indeed \u201ctrade sanctions\u201d. US-imposed trade sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Chinese are right. In a world that strives for free trade \u2013 unilateralism as demonstrated by the Trump Administration\u2019s-imposed tariffs \u2013 is working in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>Two comments, if I may:<\/p>\n<p>First, personally, I have been doubting from the beginning that globalization \u2014 and especially globalization in terms of \u201cfree trade\u201d \u2014 is a good thing. There is nothing FREE.<\/p>\n<p>Free trade among equals is one thing, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/us-trade-sanctions-against-china\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV Interview \u2013 Transcript Background New Trade Sanctions by the US in the form of tariffs on US$ 200 billion Chinese exports to the US \u2013 China in a tit-for-tat move imposed new tariffs on 60 billion of US goods to China China\u2019s prime minister speaks out about the rise of unilateralism, saying the approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378287","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\/378287","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}