07/16/18 Hello , this is David Austin with the BBC News . China has warned that the Trump administration ' s plan to raise import duties on a further two hundred billion dollars ' worth of Chinese products
will hurt American interests as well as China and the rest of the world . The Chinese Commerce Ministry said it was shocked by the US announcement . Andrew Walker reports .
The US took the first step in this confrontation with new tariffs on 34 billion dollars ' worth of Chinese goods . Beijing responded immediately with similar measures .
President Trump , in turn , has asked his administration to prepare for tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars worth of imports from China . Beijing described Mr . Trump ' s actions as unacceptable bullying and said they would hurt US interests . How China will respond is unclear .
It cannot directly match the latest tariffs proposed by Washington , because it does not import enough American goods , but it could take action that makes it harder for American businesses operating in China .
President Trump has gone into a NATO Summit in Brussels , saying it ' s not fair to the American taxpayer that US allies have been paying too little into the defense block for decades .
Mr . Trump said the forty billion dollars of increased contributions since he came to office was not nearly enough . Many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back , where they ' re delinquent , as far as I ' m concerned ,
because the United States has had to pay for them . So if you go back ten or twenty years , you just add it all up . It ' s massive amounts of money is owed .
The United States has paid and stepped up like nobody . He praised the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for working very hard on the problem .
Mr . Stoltenberg acknowledged that other NATO members had to spend more on defense , but said that was exactly what they were doing . A Spanish diver who helped save twelve boys from a flooded cave in Thailand
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