China Scolds Trump After Tariff Promise: Don't Take Us for Granted

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Fmr. Trump Official: Biden's Border Rules Let Chinese Fentanyl into U.S.:Separately, at an event promoting more Chinese dominance of global supply chains, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng lamented what he called the "fragmentation of the world economy" and a "new period of turmoil and change," presumably looming in the expectation that Trump will be inaugurated into the presidency in January.
46% : Trump had previously promised a separate 60-percent tariff on Chinese goods if elected president during the 2024 campaign.
46% : "Exclusiveness leads nowhere, while openness is the right path forward," Li warned, adding that "protectionist moves and overstretching of security are harming global industrial and supply chains," without naming Trump specifically.Li also recruited international corporations to "be steadfast defenders" of China's dominance of supply chains and "continue firmly supporting economic globalization.
44% : Trump made the tariff promise in remarks published to his social media site, Truth Social, in the context of the ongoing fentanyl crisis in the United States.
34% : Regarding North America specifically, Trump vowed that, on Inauguration Day, he will sign an executive order "to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders.""This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!"
30% : "Representatives of China told me that they would institute their maximum penalty, that of death, for any drug dealers caught doing this but, unfortunately, they never followed through," Trump wrote, "and drugs are pouring into our Country, mostly through Mexico, at levels never seen before.
26% : A spokesman later issued a statement discouraging Trump from adopting the policies.
18% : The Chinese Foreign Ministry warned the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump to avoid taking the Communist Party's "goodwill for granted" and suggested "no one will win a trade war" after Trump announced a plan to impose a ten-percent tariff on Chinese goods on Monday.

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