{"id":2410522,"date":"2025-03-06T13:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-embassy-warning-spurs-trump-administration-defense-of-tariffs-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:29:24","slug":"chinese-embassy-warning-spurs-trump-administration-defense-of-tariffs-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-embassy-warning-spurs-trump-administration-defense-of-tariffs-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Embassy warning spurs Trump administration defense of tariffs &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-embassy-warning-spurs-trump-administration-defense-of-tariffs-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2410522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200c article discusses \u200cescalating\u2064 tensions between\u2063 the United States and China following a warning from the Chinese Embassy in Washington. The embassy stated\u2062 that \u200dChina\u2064 is prepared to engage in a trade war or &#8220;any other\u200c type of war&#8221; if provoked by the U.S. This statement came after the Trump administration increased tariffs \u200bon Chinese imports, doubling them from 10% to 20%. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized the U.S. military&#8217;s readiness, noting the need for deterrence in a world with\u2063 powerful\u200b nations.<\/p>\n<p>Amid these developments, White \u200dhouse press secretary Karoline Leavitt reaffirmed President Trump\u2019s tough stance on China, highlighting the current \u2064tariff disputes. The Chinese Embassy also addressed the \u200cfentanyl\u2064 crisis, rejecting U.S. claims of its responsibility and suggesting\u2063 that the two countries need\u200c to work together \u2063as equals to resolve \u200dthe issue.<\/p>\n<p>The article underscores the\u2062 complexities of U.S.-China relations, with both sides indicating a willingness\u2063 to confront each other <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">amidst \u2063high-stakes negotiations<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Chinese Embassy &lsquo;war&rsquo; warning spurs strong Trump administration defense of tariffs<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2021493\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"White House\">Trump administration<\/a> is working to calm the public after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Chinese embassy\">Chinese Embassy<\/a> in Washington said earlier this week that the country was ready to fight a trade war or &ldquo;any other type of war&rdquo; with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re prepared. Those who long for peace must prepare for war,&rdquo; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday on Fox News just hours after the statement was posted. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why we are rebuilding our military. That&rsquo;s why we&rsquo;re reestablishing deterrence, the warrior ethos because we live in a dangerous world with powerful, ascendant countries with very different ideologies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3339484\/trump-gives-mexico-reprieve-tariffs-not-canada-trudeau\/\">Trump gives Mexico a reprieve on tariffs but has different message for Canada&#8217;s Trudeau<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3338914\/democrats-counting-trump-mistakes-fuel-revival\/\">Democrats counting on Trump mistakes to fuel their revival<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3338938\/trump-democrats-lose-midterm-elections-behavior-joint-address\/\">Trump says Democrats should lose midterm elections based on behavior at joint address<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, on Wednesday afternoon, pointed back to Hegseth&rsquo;s statement and acknowledged that President Donald Trump had been &ldquo;very tough on China&rdquo; when asked about the row.<\/p>\n<p>The spat came as Trump escalated his tariffs on foreign enemies and allies. Trump slapped 10% tariffs on Chinese imports in February, which doubled to 20% this week. China responded with 15% tariffs on farm exports coming from the U.S. and sent out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-yorks-unfunded-unworkable-and-unconstitutional-social-media-disclosure-for-gun-permits\/\" title=\"New York&#039;s Unfunded, Unworkable, and Unconstitutional Social Media Disclosure for Gun Permits\">disturbing social media post<\/a> as Trump wrapped up his address to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigans-matt-sealy-explains-how-president-trump-has-several-paths-to-victorynever-count-donald-trump-out-video\/\" title=\"Michigan\u2019s Matt Sealy Explains How ... ... Has SEVERAL Paths To Victory\u2026\u201dNever count Donald ... out!\u201d[VIDEO]\">joint session<\/a> of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we&rsquo;re ready to fight till the end,&rdquo; the embassy said in a statement posted on March 4.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we&rsquo;re ready to fight till the end. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/crPhO02fFE\">https:\/\/t.co\/crPhO02fFE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chinese Embassy in US (@ChineseEmbinUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChineseEmbinUS\/status\/1897132043362034153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump mentioned China six times during Tuesday night&rsquo;s speech, all of which were in the context of trade relations and tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;China&rsquo;s average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them,&rdquo; Trump said at one point, adding, &ldquo;This system is not fair to the United States and never was.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also bragged about the trade actions he took against China during his first term, hailed Apple for building new plants in the U.S. &ldquo;instead of in China,&rdquo; and said the U.S. would be taking the Panama Canal back from China.<\/p>\n<p>That apparently prompted the post on X, in which the Chinese Embassy repeated a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.cn\/eng\/xw\/fyrbt\/202503\/t20250304_11568271.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"attributed\">attributed<\/a> to spokesman Lin Jian earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said after the speech that Trump is taking on the country&rsquo;s enemies and that the U.S. will not back down.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This threat of war from China is extremely escalatory, but we shouldn&rsquo;t be surprised,&rdquo; Risch said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em> &ldquo;This is how China responds when America finally pushes back on its threats to our security and prosperity. I will continue to support the president&rsquo;s tough approach to China.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes echoed Risch&rsquo;s stance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The president is ending wars, not starting them,&rdquo; Hughes said. &ldquo;He wants China to prioritize eliminating the fentanyl supply chain, which originates in China and kills thousands of Americans every month.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>China rejected claims that it is responsible for fentanyl in the U.S. and called such statements a &ldquo;smear.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3336289\/7-takeaways-trump-combative-joint-address-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Seven takeaways from Trump&rsquo;s combative joint address to Congress\">Seven takeaways from Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/7-takeaways-from-trumps-combative-joint-address-to-congress-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"7 takeaways from ...\u2019s combative joint address to Congress - ... Examiner\">combative joint address<\/a> to Congress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The U.S., not anyone else, is responsible for the fentanyl crisis inside the U.S.,&rdquo; Jian said. &ldquo;In the spirit of humanity and goodwill towards the American people, we have taken robust steps to assist the U.S. in dealing with the issue. Instead of recognizing our efforts, the U.S. has sought to smear and shift blame to China and is seeking to pressure and blackmail China with tariff hikes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Embassy said the way to solve the fentanyl problem would be to consult with China and for the two countries to treat each other as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChineseEmbinUS\/status\/1897149198300291120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"equals\">equals<\/a>, which is a plea that Trump is unlikely to entertain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2021493\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2021493\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Embassy&#8217;s &#8216;war&#8217; warning prompts strong Trump tariff defense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2410524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Trump-China.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[51651,34402,50406,32640,32076],"class_list":["post-2410522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-chinese-embassy","tag-economic-policy","tag-tariffs-2","tag-trump-administration","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Trump-China.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410526,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410522\/revisions\/2410526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}