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United States President Donald Trump on Monday ruled out renegotiating the trade agreement signed with China.
“I am not interested in that,” Trump told reporters when asked about reports that China was seeking to reopen talks on the trade deal signed in January.
“Not even a little bit,” Trump said. “Let’s see if they live up to the agreement they signed.”
Washington and Beijing reached a partial trade agreement in January.
As recently as Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Liu He, who led the China negotiations, spoke by phone with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and confirmed that both sides agreed to implement the first phase of the deal. .
Under the deal, the Trump administration agreed to postpone any further rate increases, while China promised to increase its purchases of American products by $ 200 billion over two years compared to the 2017 level.
The President of the USA USA He criticized China’s handling of the new coronavirus pandemic and threatened new tariffs.
The Trump administration accuses China of taking too long to warn the world of the epidemic, and therefore blaming the spread of the virus worldwide and triggering the global economic crisis.
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo even said that the coronavirus pandemic likely originated in a Chinese laboratory, but acknowledged there was no certainty.
