China evokes patriotism, former warriors as trade conflict with the United States warming
By Ben Blanchard and Liangping Gao
BEIJING (Reuters) ̵[ads1]1; The trade war with the United States will only make China stronger and will never bring the country on its knees, the Government Communist Party's People's Daily wrote in a front-page commentary like evoked patriotic spirit of former wars.
Beijing has yet to say whether or not it will be rendered to the latest escalation in trading tensions, which saw Washington put telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd on a blacklist that will do It is extremely difficult for the telecom giant to do business with US companies .
The world's two largest economies are locked in an ever-increasing trade dispute which has seen them raising rates on each other's imports in the middle of negotiations, adding fears about the risk of global growth and banking banking. [MKTS/GLOB]
The United States is not sincere about wanting to resume trade negotiations with China and has harmed the atmospheric negotiations with its latest moves, a state media social media account said.
Without sincerity, there was no point in coming for conversations and nothing to talk about, Taoran Notes, a WeChat account run by Economic Daily, said in a post late on Thursday re-posted by the Government Communist Party Official People's Daily.
China, which reported unexpectedly weak growth in retail and industrial production on Wednesday, also said on Friday that the impact of trade friction on the economy was "controllable".
"We will fully investigate the impact of the additional duties imposed by the United States, and promptly introduce countermeasures as needed to ensure that the economy operates within a reasonable range," said Meng Wei, a spokeswoman for the National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC). told a media briefing on Friday.
On Friday, the government's official newspaper described China's willingness to protect its national inter ests and dignity as being "stuck like a stone."
"The trade war cannot bring China down. It will just harden us to be stronger, "said it.
" What kinds of storms have not been seen, which shocks have not experienced for China, with more than 5,000 years of civilization? Unlike hurricanes, the nearly 1.4 billion Chinese have confidence and perseverance. "
" WHEEL OF DESTINY "
Huawei's Hisilicon unit, which buys US semiconductors for its superior, has secretly developed years of backup products if one day Huawei was unable to acquire advanced chips and technology it buys from the United States, the president told his letter on Friday.
"Today, the fate of fate has settled, and we have come to this extreme and dark moment, as a supernation disturbs the unhappy world of technology and technology. industrial system, "according to the letter.
Chinese state television this week has called for a war theme focusing on the conflict between 1950 and 1953 between the two Koreans who saw Chinese troops return to North Korea while the South was supported by the United States. [19659016] On Thursday, China Central Television replaced a program of the ongoing Asian film and television week with a Korean film from Korea in Korea in 1964 a war, "heroic sons and daughters."
On Friday night, k the ringleader shield another Chinese war warrior, "Battle on Shangganling Mountain", the scene of a big battle in North Korea, according to a post on his social media account.
The post received widespread approval from Chinese social media users, with one even asking when the broadcaster would fly a movie on the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"Seize the American imperialists!" another wrote.
(Report by Ben Blanchard and Gao Liangping; Additional reporting by Lusha Zhang, Yawen Chen and Ryan Woo; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Kim Coghill)
