Beijing says it is ‘unfair’ to threaten vast US-China trade deals over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons development
China has attacked U. S. President Donald Trump’s threat to halt trade with any country doing business with North Korea after its latest nuclear test, saying it endangered vast trade relations between Washington and Beijing.
Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Monday, “What is definitely unacceptable to us is that on the one hand we work so hard to peacefully resolve this issue [of North Korea’s nuclear weapons development] , but on the other hand our own interests are subject to sanctions and jeopardized. This is neither objective nor fair.”
Trade impact
After Pyongyang detonated its biggest nuclear bomb in an underground test Sunday, Trump said he was considering several options in response, including cutting off trade with countries that do business with North Korea. That could quickly hinder the nearly $650 billion in annual trade between the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies, because Beijing is North Korea’s sole major ally and its biggest trading partner.
Whether Trump plans to carry out his economic threat is unclear as the United States and its allies press the U.
