China says the U.S. undermined Geneva trade deal after Trump accusations

China refuted Washington’s statements on Monday on Monday that it had broken the Geneva trade agreement, rather accusing the United States for breaking the conditions of agreement, reporting the talks between the best economies in the world took a turn of the worst.

Trade frictions between Washington and Beijing have flared after a hiatus Following a meeting between the American secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and his Chinese counterpart in Geneva, Switzerland, who led them to suspend most of the prices on each other for 90 days.

The administration of Donald Trump has reached an opening Export restrictions On semiconductor design software and chemicals in China, while announcing that it would revoke visas for Chinese students, pulling Beijing.

These measures “seriously undermine” the agreement concluded in Geneva, a Chinese trade department said the spokesperson.

China, on the other hand, has kept a firm grip on its rare earth exports, unlike the expectations of Washington.

“The US government has continued to unilaterally cause new economic and commercial frictions, increasing the uncertainty and instability in bilateral economic and commercial relations,” said the spokesperson.

Last Friday, US President Donald Trump accused China of having violated its preliminary trade agreement with the United States In a point of sale of social mediaT, wrote Trump: “China, perhaps unsurprisingly for some, completely violated its agreement with us. So much to be Mr. Nice Guy!”

The accusations were “seriously contrary to the facts,” the Chinese spokesman said on Monday, saying Beijing had “strictly implemented and actively supported” the agreements, citing his steps to cancel and suspend certain pricing and non-tariff prices announced in April in response to the “reciprocal” prices of Trump.

Bessent said in an interview with Fox News last week that bilateral Trade negotiations were “a little blocked”, “ Force the leaders of the two countries to speak directly.

Sunday, the director of the national economic council, Kevin Hassett, suggested that the president of Trump and China Xi Jinping could A conversation on trade From this week.

Tensions between the United States and China have increased beyond simple trade.

Addressing the annual dialogue of the Shangri-La Defense summit on Saturday in Singapore, the chief of the Pentagon Pete Hegseth warned that the threat China’s growing military pressure in the Indo-Pacific region was “real” and “imminent”, urging Allied nations to stimulate defense expenses to repel Beijing.

The Chinese Defense Minister was absent during the summit of this year, a rare gap of his tradition of dispatch from the senior military civil servant to the annual event for the first time since 2019.

In a statement Responding Hegseth’s speech on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Chinese Defense Ministry criticized Hegseth’s remarks to “inhibit the Cold War mentality” and “severely putting the sovereignty and the rights of China”.

The China Embassy in Singapore said in a Social mediaOn Saturday, following Hegseth’s speech, that “the United States itself is the largest” troublemaker “for regional peace and stability”.