in World News China Starts Losing It Over Trump Tariffs
Communist Apparatchik Warns Those ‘American Peasants Will Suffer’
China is starting to feel the heat over President Trump’s tariffs.
Xia Baolong, a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official who governs the regions of Hong Kong and Macao, lashed out at Trump over his decision to impose 145 percent levy on goods from the region.
“The US isn’t after our tariffs but our very survival,” Xia said in a televised speech.
“The US has repeatedly contained and suppressed Hong Kong … and this will eventually backfire on itself.”
“Let those peasants in the United States suffer in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization,” he continued.
“The Chinese people do not cause trouble, nor are they afraid of trouble.
”Pressure, threats and blackmail are not the right way to deal with China,” he added.