China seeks to strengthen its international trade relations to confront America

China is communicating with other countries to strengthen its trade relations with the escalation of commercial graphics war between Beijing and Washington, in what appears to be a Chinese attempt to form a unified international front to force Washington to back down from US President Donald Trump’s plan to impose comprehensive customs duties on all American imports.
After days of attempts, Washington achieved only partial success, as many countries do not want to align with China, which has become the main goal of the Trump’s trade war.

Trump retreated

In the face of the collapse of global financial markets, Trump retreated partially from the comprehensive drawing plan, and decided to suspend the application of most of them for a period of 90 days, saying that the countries agreed to enter into negotiations with the United States in order to reach better conditions for all.
But China refused to enter into talks with the United States, saying it would fight to the end in any fee war, which prompted Trump to increase the rates of fees imposed on Chinese products to 125% yesterday, while China imposes 84% ​​fees on American products starting today.

Trump’s decision to suspend fees on most countries of the world appear to try to reduce his trade war in order to focus on China.

China’s focus on Europe

“Any fair issue is supported by many,” said Lin Jian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, adding that “the United States cannot win the support of peoples and will end in failure.”
China focuses on Europe, as Chinese Prime Minister Li Kesyang had a phone call to European Commission President Ursula von der Line “to send a positive message to the outside world.”
“China wants to work with the European Union in order to jointly apply the important agreements reached by the leaders of China and the European Union, enhance communication, exchanges, deepening China -European trade relations, investment and industrial cooperation.”

This came in the wake of a conference via video technology between Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Winnto and European Commissioner for Commercial and Economic Security Marus Sivkovic last Tuesday to discuss the United States plan to impose “mutual” fees.

Beijing refuses to negotiate

Wang also spoke with the members of the Southeast Asian Association “ASEAN”, which includes 10 countries, while he met me with business leaders, and told me that China “has already conducted a full assessment and is preparing to deal with all types of ambiguity, and cumulative policies will be applied according to the needs of the situation.”
In Hong Kong, a spokesman for the local office of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Beijing is not ready to negotiate with the United States under the current circumstances.
Although most countries of the world are not happy with Trump’s commercial policies, they are all not interested in association with China, especially those that have a history of conflicts with Beijing, such as India and Australia.