China Says US Violated Trade Truce With Three Moves

The Chinese foreign ministry spelled out what it said were the three violations of the tariff-slashing China-U.S. agreement reached in Geneva, and accused Washington of taking “extreme measures” based on “defamatory accusations”.

Lin Jian, spokesman for the ministry, listed “controls on chip exports to China, halting the sales of chip design software to China, and announcing revocations of Chinese student visas” as having “severely violated the common understandings reached in Geneva”.

“China firmly opposed this and made strong protests,” Lin said at a press briefing on Tuesday morning.

“Let me stress once again that this pressuring and coercion is not the right way to engage with China.

“We urge the U.S. to respect the facts, stop peddling misinformation, correct relevant wrongdoings, and take concrete moves to uphold the common understandings reached by the two sides.”

President Donald Trump had earlier accused China of having violated the agreement, and that he would soon speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to resolve the issues that have arisen.

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