China promises to hit back at US tariffs

Beijing has vowed to retaliate to the White House’s decision to apply 10% tariffs to $200 billion of Chinese goods with equal measures of its own, as well as take the matter to the World Trade Organisation.

Details on the quantity and nature of the retaliatory tariffs were not given, according to Reuters.

China’s foreign ministry called the US’s actions “typical bullying” and that the escalating dispute represented a “fight between unilateralism and multilateralism.”