CCTV News (News Network): Now broadcast the "Chinese Government's Position on Opposing the U.S. Abuse of Tariffs".

Recently, the United States has announced under various pretexts that it has abused tariffs on all trading partners, including China, seriously infringed on the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, seriously violated the rules of the World Trade Organization, seriously damaged the rules-based multilateral trading system, and seriously impacted the stability of the global economic order. The Chinese government strongly condemned and firmly opposed this.

The relevant practices of the United States violate basic economic laws and market principles, ignore the results of the balance of interests reached by multilateral trade negotiations, ignore the fact that the United States has made a lot of profits from international trade for a long time, and use tariffs as a weapon to implement extreme pressure and seek personal gain. This is a typical unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying. The United States engages in zero-sum game under the banner of so-called pursuit of "equality" and "fairness". It is essentially pursuing "America first" and "America special". It uses tariffs to subvert the existing international economic and trade order, override the public interests of the international community with American interests, and serves the hegemony of the United States at the expense of the legitimate interests of countries around the world, which will inevitably be widely opposed by the international community.

China is an ancient civilization and a country of etiquette. The Chinese people advocate treating people with sincerity and trustworthiness as the basis. We do not cause trouble, nor are we afraid of trouble. Pressure and threats are not the right way to deal with China. China has and will continue to take resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests. The essence of Sino-US economic and trade relations should be mutual benefit and win-win results. The United States should adapt to the common expectations of the two countries and the people of the world, and start from safeguarding the fundamental interests of the two countries, stop suppressing China's economic and trade with tariffs as a weapon, and stop damaging the legitimate development rights of the Chinese people.

As the world's second largest economy and the second largest commodity consumption market, China's door to opening up will only open wider and wider. We will continue to promote high-level opening up to the outside world, steadily expand institutional opening up such as rules, regulations, management, and standards, implement high-level trade and investment liberalization and facilitation policies, create a first-class business environment with market-oriented, law-based and internationalized, share development opportunities with the world, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

Economic globalization is a necessary path for the development of human society. The multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as the core and rules-based has made important contributions to promoting global trade development, promoting economic growth and sustainable development. Open cooperation is a historical trend, and the world will never and should not retreat to a state of mutual closure and division. Mutual benefit and win-win are what people want, and economic bullying that harms neighbors will eventually backfire itself. It is the common responsibility of the international community to promote economic globalization to a more open, inclusive, inclusive and balanced direction.

Development is a universal right of countries around the world, not a patent of a few countries. International affairs should be jointly discussed and handled by everyone, and the future and destiny of the world should be jointly controlled by all countries. There are no winners in trade wars and tariff wars, and there is no way out for protectionism. All countries should uphold the principle of consultation, joint construction and sharing, adhere to true multilateralism, jointly oppose all forms of unilateralism and protectionism, safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core, and safeguard the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as the core. I believe that most countries in the world that believe in fairness and justice will choose to stand on the right side of history and make choices that are in line with their own interests. The world must be fair, not domineering!