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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Helen Davidson in Taipei and agencies

China vows to ‘fight to the end’ against latest Trump tariff threat

China’s government says it will “fight to the end” if the US continues to escalate the trade war, after Donald Trump threatened huge additional tariffs in response to China’s retaliatory measures.

On Tuesday, China’s commerce ministry accused the US of “blackmail” and said the US president’s threats of additional 50% tariffs if Beijing did not reverse its own 34% reciprocal tariff were a “mistake on top of a mistake”.

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