(13 May 2025)
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Beijing – 13 May 2025
1. Wide of news conference
2. Wide reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“Fentanyl is a problem for the US, not China, and the responsibility lies with the US itself. The US has ignored China’s goodwill and unjustly imposed fentanyl tariffs on China, severely impacting China-US dialogue and cooperation in the field of drug control and seriously harming China’s interests.”
4. Reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin): Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“If the US sincerely wants to cooperate with China, it should stop smearing and shifting blame onto China and engage in dialogue with China in an equal, respectful, and mutually beneficial manner.”
6. Various of news briefing
STORYLINE:
China on Tuesday renewed its calls on the U.S. for dialogue “in an equal, respectful, and mutually beneficial manner” after the two countries reached an agreement to a 90-day truce in their trade war.
The two countries said Monday that they plan more talks on resolving trade disputes.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that the U.S. has agreed to drop its 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods to 30%. And China has agreed to lower its 125% rate on U.S. goods to 10%.
The 30% levy that America is now imposing on Chinese goods includes an existing 20% tariff intended to pressure China into doing more to prevent the synthetic opioid fentanyl from entering the United States.
At a daily news briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian dismissed a question about the progress of the latest bilateral talks on fentanyl and reiterated that the responsibility for drug abuse lies with the U.S. itself.
“The US has ignored China’s goodwill and unjustly imposed fentanyl tariffs on China, severely impacting China-US dialogue and cooperation in the field of drug control and seriously harming China’s interests,” Lin insisted.
“If the US sincerely wants to cooperate with China, it should stop smearing and shifting blame onto China and engage in dialogue with China in an equal, respectful, and mutually beneficial manner,” he added.
But the de-escalation in President Donald Trump’s trade wars did nothing to resolve underlying differences between Beijing and Washington.
The deal lasts 90 days, creating time for U.S. and Chinese negotiators to reach a more substantive agreement.
But the pause also leaves tariffs higher than before Trump started ramping them up last month. And businesses and investors must contend with uncertainty about whether the truce will last.
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