mo4ch:>US vows to maintain pressure on China amid wide condemnation of protectionism at APEC summit | Mo4ch News

Washington will not change its pressure tactics against Beijing until it bows to US terms, Vice President Mike Pence said at an APEC summit, where members loudly denounced protectionism and sanctions as threats to global trade.“The US will not change course until China changes its ways,” Pence said Saturday, speaking at an Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Papua New Guinea, where he touted the “decisive action” taken by the US to address trade imbalance with China.We put tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods, and we could more than double that numberImplementing the American vision of fair and reciprocal trade with China remains one of the main objectives the White House is pursuing, in addition to intellectual property protection and challenging Beijing’s power in the Pacific.Read more The Sino-American trade conflict escalated with a series of tit-for-tat tariff hikes, now targeting in total some $260 billion-worth of bilaterally traded goods. While Trump threate…