Beijing has called on the US to “completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures” if it wants trade talks, in some of China’s strongest comments yet on the impasse between the world’s two economic superpowers.

“The unilateral tariff measures were initiated by the US,” said He Yadong, a Chinese commerce ministry spokesperson. “If the US truly wants to solve the problem, it should . . . completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China and find a way to resolve differences through equal dialogue.”

Beijing has maintained that the US must make the first move to de-escalate the crisis, which is threatening to spark a hard decoupling between the two countries’ economies.

Chinese analysts argue that the US imposition of high tariffs make it difficult for Beijing to find a way to defuse the crisis.

China’s President Xi Jinping would find it difficult to engage personally with Trump on the trade war unless this was preceded by extensive negotiations to hammer out a deal, they say.

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    18 hours ago

    But the Chinese foreign ministry on said any reports that China and the US were nearing a deal were “fake news”.

    How low do you have to fall that even China exposes your fake news.

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      I’ll be honest, I believe that he thinks he was talking to the Chinese government, but it turns out he was talking to the local Chinese restaurant.

      It’s an easy mistake for this administration to make.

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        17 hours ago

        It’s schools like the Canadian native American schools, but schools none the less.

        Where is your evidence that the adult vocational training schools in Xinjiang are anything like the cultural erasure child boarding schools in Canada?

        Even if what you end up learning is they are indeed torturing people.

        Where is your evidence of torture?