China standing up for global trading system

Beijing's refusal to capitulate to Washington's protectionist pressure, whether through trade tariffs or technological containment, has sent a clear message to the United States' other trade partners who have scrambled to finalize trade deals with the White House recently, senior economists said.

Trading rights are hard fought, and not arrived at through concessions, they added.

Time has run out for some US trade partners looking to make deals ahead of US President Donald Trump's July 9 deadline for tariffs to return to his originally proposed higher levels. Some countries are seeking to cut deals by sacrificing China's interests to obtain tariff relief for themselves.