US trade threats, intimidation won't ever work: China
Beijing, July 23 : China on Monday rebuffed renewed threats on trade from Washington, after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose further tariffs on all imported Chinese goods.
Trump said last week that he was ready to slap additional tariffs on goods imported from China amounting to $500 billion. "The US is invoking this trade war", Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said.
"China does not want a trade war, but we are not afraid", he continued, adding that "threats and intimidation will never work", Efe news reported.
China and the US have been involved in an escalating trade dispute since Washington imposed 25 per cent and 10 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium in March, which have been extended to include an array of other Chinese goods.
China has responded in kind by taxing US imports and has submitted complaints to the World Trade Organization on two separate occasions.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
