China threatens countermeasures if U.S. tariff hikes go ahead

[nitpicker]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-threatens-countermeasures-if-us-tariff-hikes-go-ahead-2019-08-15?mod=newsviewer_click

China threatens countermeasures if U.S. tariff hikes go ahead

Published: Aug 15, 2019 6:24 a.m. ET

BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday threatened retaliation if Washington steps up their war over trade and technology by going ahead with planned Sept. 1 tariff hikes on additional Chinese imports.

Beijing will take unspecified “necessary countermeasures,” the Cabinet said in a one-sentence statement. It gave no details or any indication plans for trade talks in Washington in September might be affected.
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President Donald Trump says he plans to impose 10% duties on an additional $300 billion of Chinese imports, extending penalties to almost everything the United States buys from China.

The Chinese announcement made no mention of Trump’s decision Wednesday to postpone penalties on about 60% of those goods until Dec. 15. Among the products given a reprieve are mobile phones, laptops, video game consoles, some toys, computer monitors, shoes and clothing.
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[brush]

1. China holds a good deal of US debt. They can put us over a barrel because the...

know nothing trump who thinks he knows everything isamateurishly about to screw up the world economy.

[tanyev]

2. Dec. 15th? How does that get us through Christmas?

A lot of people don't do their Christmas shopping until late in the day on Dec. 24th.