Beijing supports international regulations on US-imposed tariffs and opposes protectionism, according to China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday ( Apr 26 ).
Wang said Beijing may get cooperation with other nations regarding the tariff situation and expose “extreme altruism” and the harassment of some nations, as the government said in a declaration during a meeting of the China-Central Asia foreign ministers in Kazakhstan.
The latest in a series of contradictory indications about how far progress was being made to de-escalate a business war that was threatening to stifle global progress, US President Donald Trump claimed in an interview released on Friday that price negotiations were underway with China. Beijing denied any talks were taking place.
Wang and Bakhtiyor Saidov, the country’s foreign minister, agreed that China had “inject stability into the world” by urging them to show solidarity with other nations and support multilateralism.