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The government is not planning to impose countermeasures at the present time,
the Swiss government said in a statement last week, while acknowledging
If the U.S. genuinely wants a negotiated solution, it should stop making threats and exerting pressure, and engage in talks with China on the basis of equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit."
Liu Pengyu, spokesperson at Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., said per The New York Times
These are not the actions of a confident regime,
said SingletonAfter months of insisting that Washington must first roll back tariffs before any talks could begin, China quietly dropped that demand. This reversal is telling—and it affirms that Trump's pressure campaign is starting to bite."
Craig Singleton, senior China fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told NewsweekIf a roadmap can emerge and they decide to continue discussions, that will lower the tensions,
he told reporters on Friday, saying
While talks this weekend between US and Chinese officials may yield some progress, expectations for a significant reduction in tariffs seem unwarranted,
said Nancy Vanden Houten, lead US economist at the firm
We have to make a great deal for America,
he saidYesterday the Holy Spirit was in Rome,
she said on Friday, referring to the election of Pope Leo XIV
There could be an exception at some point. We'll see,
he said during an Oval Office eventThe president would like to work it out with China ... He would like to de-escalate the situation,
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox News on Friday eveningTrump's approach is generally top-down,
he said
The best scenario is for the two sides to agree to de-escalate on the ... tariffs at the same time,
she said, ... adding even
An increase in trade tensions is not in Switzerland’s interests. Countermeasures against U.S. tariff increases would entail costs for the Swiss economy, in particular by making imports from the USA more expensive,
the government said last week
Both the U.S. and China have strong economic and financial interests in de-escalating their trade hostilities, but a durable détente is hardly in the offing,
said Eswar Prasad, a former director of the International Monetary Fund’s China division
It’s about flipping the leverage so that the world is reliant on China, and China is reliant on no one. It is a reversal of what Xi has been so irritated about, which is that China was so dependent on the West,
said Kirsten Asdal, a former intelligence adviser at the U.S. Department of Defense who now heads a China-focused consultancy firm, Asdal AdvisoryThe trade war is the ultimate validation that Western hostile forces are trying to contain, suppress and encircle China,
Ms. Asdal saidChina will use any and all tools at its disposal to cause pain and impose costs on the U.S. and any country that aligns with America,
said Evan Medeiros, a professor of Asian studies at Georgetown University who was an Asia adviser to President Barack Obama
This is not an economy a statist government desires, and this is why underconsumption has long been recognized as a problem, even at the highest level of the government,
said Yasheng Huang, an expert on the Chinese economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of ManagementChina has become so ambitious without reaching superpower status yet,
said Shen Dingli, a Shanghai-based scholar who focuses on U.S.-China tiesHide your strength, bide your time.”
Some experts are even questioning