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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helen Davidson in Taipei

China says Trump’s trade war ‘will end in failure’ as Beijing tariffs take effect

The sun rises over container ships docked at a port with cranes stationed above them
Husky Terminal in Tacoma, Washington. China appears to be attempting to shore up trading agreements away from the US. Photograph: Paul Christian Gordon/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

China says Donald Trump’s trade war with Beijing “will end in failure” for Washington, hours after the US president announced he would increase his tariffs on the country’s imports to 125%.

China’s own 84% retaliatory tariffs on US imports came into effect on Thursday amid an escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.

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