China eyes negotiations as Trump threatens new tariffs

BEIJING –
As Donald Trump steps up his tariff threats towards China, Beijing is shifting to beat the U.S. president-elect to the punch with its personal restrictions and get Washington to the negotiating desk forward of a full-blown commerce struggle, analysts say.

Armed with the teachings of the final commerce struggle throughout Trump’s first time period, China is in search of to amass bargaining chips to kick off talks with a brand new U.S. administration on contentious points of bilateral ties, together with commerce and funding, and science and expertise. It can be involved concerning the dangerous results of further tariffs on its already-fragile economic system.

This week, China launched a probe into U.S. chip large Nvidia over what it claimed had been suspected antitrust violations, which follows its ban on U.S.-bound exports of uncommon minerals.