China's US envoy urges end to trade war, but warns Beijing ready to fight

By Lewis Jackson

(Reuters) -China's ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, has urged Washington to question communal crushed with Beijing and prosecute peaceful coexistence portion informing that China stood acceptable to retaliate successful the escalating commercialized war.

Speaking astatine a nationalist lawsuit successful Washington connected Saturday, details of which were posted connected the Chinese embassy's web site, Xie said tariffs would devastate the planetary system and drew a parallel betwixt the Great Depression and tariffs imposed by the U.S. successful 1930.

Referring to concepts successful accepted Chinese medicine similar the request to equilibrium the opposing forces of yin and yang, Xie said harmony should usher relations betwixt the world’s 2 largest economies.

"A bully accepted Chinese medicine look usually combines galore antithetic ingredients which reenforce 1 different and creates the champion aesculapian effect," helium said.

"Likewise, the world is large capable to accommodate some China and the U.S.," helium said. "We should prosecute peaceful coexistence alternatively than collide head-on, and assistance each different win alternatively than get caught successful a lose-lose scenario."

The commercialized warfare has each but frozen the mammoth commercialized betwixt the world's 2 largest economies with tariffs implicit 100% successful each absorption and a suite of trade, concern and taste restrictions.

China's apical shipbuilding relation connected Saturday attacked a U.S. program to use larboard fees connected China-linked ships.

While Japan, Taiwan and others are already successful talks oregon preparing to negociate with Washington implicit President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, determination is presently nary high-level dialog planned with China.

Trump said connected Friday the U.S. is having bully conversations privately with China amid the 2 countries' commercialized war.

"By the way, we person bully conversations going with China," helium told reporters astatine the White House. "It's, like, truly precise good." He did not connection further details.

China has said the U.S. should amusement respect earlier immoderate talks tin instrumentality place.

Xie said China opposed the commercialized warfare and would retaliate to immoderate state imposing tariffs connected it.

(Reporting by Lewis Jackson successful Beijing; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)