Donald Trump accuses China of violating the US collective bargaining protocol

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Donald Trump has accused China of violating his two -week collective bargaining mutor with the United States and re -ing the trade war between the two largest economies in the world.

China and the USA agreed to a deal two weeks ago during the talks in Geneva, which temporarily reducewhich had increased up to 145 percent.

“I took a quick degree with China to save her from a very bad situation, and I didn’t want to see that this happened,” the US President wrote on his social platform of truth on Friday.

“China, maybe not surprising for some, has completely hurt his agreement with us. So much to be Mr. Nice Guy!” Trump card added.

The comments indicate that the tensions between the two economic powers increase after slow progress in the conversations about their long -term discounts Trade relationship.

The president didn’t say how China Had the agreement broken or threatened to suspend punitive tariffs.

The US trade representative Jamieson Greer on Friday said China only slowly rejected the non-tariff trade “countermeasures”, which it imposed on Trump’s duties.

The measures included the black list of US companies and the restriction of exports of Rare This is of crucial importance for products from electric vehicles to wind turbines.

“When they agreed to remove their tariff and countermeasures in Geneva, they removed the tariff as we did, but some of the countermeasures they slowed them,” Greer told CNBC.

“We didn’t see the river of some of these critical minerals as they should do,” he added.

On Friday afternoon in the Oval Office, Trump said that China “violated a large part of the agreement”, but he added: “I am sure that I will speak to President XI (Jinping), and hopefully we will work out.”

Trump’s ability to impose the comprehensive tariffs he announced last month on the “liberation day” was threatened this week after a US trade court decided that the president had no legal powers to impose the taxes.

A higher court on Thursday held the verdict while the White House gave an appointment. The legal dispute contributes to uncertainty about the negotiations of the US negotiations with China and other important trading partners.

The US Finance Minister Scott Bessent said on Thursday Trade The conversations with China were “a little bit” and may have to be revived with a call between Trump and XI.

“I think we will have more discussions in the next few weeks, and I think we could have a call between the president and party leader XI at some point,” Bessent told Fox News.

“In view of the extent of the talks … Both managers will demand that they weigh each other,” he said, adding that he was “confident that the Chinese will come to the table when President Trump makes his preferences known”.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday rejected it to comment on Besent’s statements.

On various occasions, Trump has raised the possibility of a telephone call with XI. He insisted on this before the talks on May 12th You had spoken But China consistently contested this.

After the talks in Switzerland, the two countries stated that at least the next 90 days to reduce the goods of the other to the other of the other, with the additional taxes that the United States imposed on 30 percent this year, and Chinas decreased to 10 percent.

As part of the deal, China also agreed to suspend or cancel non-tariff measures against the United States, but not to give any details.

After the talks, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said that both sides had agreed to build a “China-US economic and commercial and commercial consultation mechanism” in order to maintain close communication on this matter.

The two sides would prevent consultations regularly or as required, “change between China and the United States or in a mutual third country”.

Since then, however, there have been only a few public announcements on the discussions on both sides, whereby the Trump administration instead imposed further restrictions on the use of US technology by Chinese companies.

“From the perspective of long-term and complex nature of the struggle with the USA, we should not only be prepared for negotiations, but also be ready for a longer confrontation,” Huo Jianguo, a deputy chair of the China Society for World Trade Organization, in Beijing, wrote in the Communist Party, which is studying in the Medi-China Netto facility in the business network.

Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington