🇨🇳 🇺🇸 China promises to retaliate against latest US tariffs | Al Jazeera English

China says it will retaliate against the latest and largest round of US tariffs.

Washington escalated the trade war on Monday, hitting China with tariffs on an additional $200bn worth of goods.

The US government will begin collecting a 10 percent tariff on those goods starting on 24 September, through to the end of the year.

Then on 1 January, 2019, the tariffs will jump to 25 percent.

Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports from Beijing.

[lichwind]

Empires rise and fall, Chinese experienced too many of them, but it is quite fresh for Americans.

[veracitynorth]

Trump doesn't understand it's the end user who will be paying the tariffs.

[zhaoyi]

Lose-lose situation. Just wait and see who can last longer.

[gaminggun]

America is doing the right thing, it wants to balance the trade deficit and prevent dumping of good

[weareorigin]

This is going to hurt the low-income and middle class Americans. The tariff taxes means goods cost more for same goods. And American companies will have trouble selling 'Made in USA' goods in China due to the govt telling their citizens about the tariff war.

[Sagadrequiem]

The U.S consumers will also backlash and boycott

[markspaniola]

Protectionism worked great for China. Trump is smart to do the same. Both countries are better off. Let the good times roll!

[TheThisisliving]

The Chinese need to follow the same rules as everyone else. No more free rides. No more steeling American ideas and making money from them. Even if the products are Improved.

[truew]

red + communism is not a good combination

[cinf]

With what, it was one sided to begin with lol now manufacturing leaving China also, so we pay more for things then companies will see no profit then move manufacturing back to the US like it has already happened with steel

[harrisd]

Who miscalculate exactly? I don't know

[belid]

The world should unit against the wild-dog.

[tinogarcia]

yes a lot of money coming to america.?..by chinese dumping americas debt?

[Kianglekable]

There will be interesting developments

Let's see who gets bruised here

[_years_and_]

boycotting what in china ? counterfeits of American product ?

[peterwind]

I hope this transformation of global trade continues.
I acutally hate how the world's major powers got so interconnected through trade to the point that simply refusing to buy or sell the same amount of goods is considered a "War"
The human race would not progress further when they are this inter-dependent on each other.
The world developed without global trade of such scale. This scale got so big only because of the greed of capitalists.
Keep shaping this system and get ever more dependent on yourself.