\n President Donald Trump expressed shock at China\u2019s \u201csurprising\u201d move to unleash sweeping export controls on rare earths, accusing the country of \u201cbecoming very hostile.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n But according to Beijing, it was Washington\u2019s expansion of curbs on Chinese firms that ratcheted up tensions and drove it to further tighten its grip on the critical minerals essential in the production of a wide range of electronics, automobiles and semiconductors.\n <\/p>\n \n In a rapid escalation of friction over the weekend, Trump said he would restore tariffs on China to triple-digit levels due to Beijing\u2019s new controls, prompting the Chinese government to vow \u201ccorresponding measures.\u201d<\/a>\n <\/p>\n \n The moves between the world\u2019s two largest economies have rattled markets, unnerved global industries of production shocks, and rekindled fears of a repeat of the tit-for-tat tariff offense in spring, when levies on Chinese and American imports reached levels tantamount to trade embargoes.\n <\/p>\n \n The renewed tensions also risk derailing the progress made during months of trade negotiations and raised questions about whether a planned meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Trump in South Korea at the end of the month will still take place.\n <\/p>\n \n After Trump suggested that he might call off the meeting, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News Monday he still expected it to happen.\n <\/p>\n \n China\u2019s commerce ministry said Tuesday<\/a> it remained open to talks, while reiterating that the US cannot seek dialogue while threatening new measures.\n <\/p>\n \n For Beijing, much of the current escalation could have been avoided had the Trump administration not piled on more restrictions in late September, massively increasing the number of Chinese entities on its export control list, Chinese experts and analysts said.\n <\/p>\n \n Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing and a government adviser, said Beijing had merely responded to Washington\u2019s series of \u201cpetty manoeuvres.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cAfter taking a bite at China, the US now pretends to be innocent and even tries to play the victim,\u201d he wrote in a Saturday post on Chinese social media Weibo.\n <\/p>\n \n Over the summer, US-China relations had shown signs of a detente, particularly following trade talks in Madrid in September and a subsequent phone call between Xi and Trump, according to Wu Xinbo, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai and an advisor to the Chinese foreign ministry.\n <\/p>\n \n In the September<\/a> call<\/a> with Trump, Xi commented positively on the talks, but also warned the American president against \u201cimposing unilateral trade restrictions to undermine the progress achieved by both sides.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n But Washington significantly expanded its export restrictions just 10 days after the call by placing the subsidiaries of already sanctioned companies from China and elsewhere under the same controls, increasing the number of firms facing the curbs in China from around 3,000 to several thousand more.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cFrom China\u2019s perspective, this is extremely malicious,\u201d Wu said, adding that it again shows Trump \u201cacting in bad faith.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIf, after more than half a year of dealing with China, the US still hasn\u2019t realized that taking such actions against China will have serious consequences, then I\u2019d say the people on Trump\u2019s team are downright incompetent,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n \n China\u2019s commerce ministry echoed this sentiment<\/a> on Sunday, citing additional examples such as US plans to charge fees on Chinese-built ships docking at American ports.\n <\/p>\n \n These US actions \u201chave seriously harmed China\u2019s interests and undermined the atmosphere of bilateral economic and trade talks,\u201d the ministry said, urging Washington to \u201cpreserve the hard-won progress,\u201d while vowing countermeasures should Trump make good on his latest threat.\n <\/p>\n \n Paul Triolo, a China and tech expert at consulting firm Albright Stonebridge, said the escalation harkens to the downward spiral of bilateral relations in May.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe\u2019re sort of at the edge of an abyss again,\u201d Triolo said. \u201cBut now the stakes are even higher because both sides now understand the consequences of this.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Following a trade truce in which the two countries agreed to dramatically roll back steep tariffs<\/a> through talks in Geneva, Trump dropped a series of bombshells.\n <\/p>\n \n He banned global companies from using Chinese tech giant Huawei\u2019s AI chips<\/a>, implemented new export curbs on chip designing software aimed at China, and threatened to revoke Chinese students\u2019 visas in the US.\n <\/p>\n \n The moves scuttled negotiations for weeks before subsequent talks salvaged the fragile trade truce.\n <\/p>\n \n Beijing\u2019s move to tighten its control on rare earths, Triolo said, was a \u201clogical\u201d and \u201cproportional\u201d response to the scale of Trump\u2019s actions, rather than a new effort to gain leverage in upcoming talks.\n <\/p>\n \n China holds a near-monopoly on the global supply of rare earths, a group of 17 types of minerals, especially dominating their processing and refinement.\n <\/p>\n \n The new rules not only increase the number of elements subject to Beijing\u2019s export controls but also extend curbs targeting production technologies and overseas use.\n <\/p>\n \n For example, the rules apply to foreign firms seeking to supply rare earths produced in China or processed with Chinese technologies to other countries.\n <\/p>\n \n The new restrictions have sent shock waves to global industries and tech supply chains.\n <\/p>\n \n Following China\u2019s unprecedented introduction of licensing requirements for rare earths in April, factories around the world from automakers to defense sectors have reported shortages of the critical minerals.\n <\/p>\n \n The new rules, which also target rare earth minerals used to produce advanced semiconductors, could also put a pause on the global boom in artificial intelligence, which counts on these chips to power its training.\n <\/p>\n \n In a nod to growing global anxiety, China\u2019s commerce ministry said that the tightened rules were not export bans, and it would approve licenses to applications that meet the requirements.\n <\/p>\n \n Experts said Beijing\u2019s measures mirror restrictions Washington has imposed on semiconductors over the years, which have limited the China-bound export of chips, chipmaking equipment, including those made in a third country with US technology \u2013 a US export control measure known as the \u201cForeign Direct Product Rule\u201d imposed during the Biden administration.\n <\/p>\n \n Although Beijing has long criticized the US for exerting \u201clong-arm jurisdiction,\u201d China\u2019s move this week signaled it is willing to adopt similar tactics.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cFrom Trump\u2019s first term to Biden\u2019s and now to his second term, the US has piled up tariffs, tech restrictions, and sanctions against China,\u201d Wu of Fudan University said. \u201cBeijing has kept a record of every one of these moves \u2014 and now it\u2019s time to settle the score.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n As for whether the highly anticipated meeting between the two leaders will still take place, Wu said the ball is in Trump\u2019s court.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s up to the US to take concrete actions to improve ties. It shouldn\u2019t be the other way around \u2014 that China sacrifices its interests or tolerates US pressure just for the sake of meeting,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n \n Already, Trump appeared to have altered his tone on China.\n <\/p>\n \n In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump said the US would like to \u201chelp China, not hurt it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cDon\u2019t worry about China, it will be all fine!\u201d he said, without elaborating.\n <\/p>\n \n Wang Yiwei, another international relations scholar at Renmin University, said China has been studying how to deal with Trump since his first term. It has now come \u201cfully prepared \u2013 understanding his \u2018art of the deal,\u2019 his tactics, and where America\u2019s weaknesses lie.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cRight now, I think it\u2019s the US that\u2019s getting anxious \u2014 not China,\u201d Wang said, adding that Trump also faces mounting pressure domestically with a prolonged government shutdown while his Republican Party controls both the executive and legislative branches.\n <\/p>\n \n With China\u2019s tight grip on rare earths, Wang said the US dependence on China would continue, at least in the short term.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe message to Americans is: be realistic \u2014 it\u2019s better to cooperate with China.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Hong Kong \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 President Donald Trump expressed shock at China\u2019s \u201csurprising\u201d move to unleash sweeping export controls on rare earths, accusing the country of \u201cbecoming very hostile.\u201d But according to Beijing, it was Washington\u2019s expansion of curbs on Chinese firms that ratcheted up tensions and drove it to further tighten its grip on the critical … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/China-says-it-didnt-reignite-trade-tensions-with-the-US.JPG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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