In a series of tweets, Trump, whose top economic adviser spent the weekend trying to defuse the trade war and demonstrate that trade negotiations between the two countries were proceeding, took aim at China, writing that the country wants “to make a deal so badly” because the trade war is causing it to lose business to “Vietnam and other such countries in Asia.”

“There will be nobody left in China to do business with. Very bad for China, very good for USA! But China has taken so advantage of the U.S. for so many years, that they are way ahead (Our Presidents did not do the job),” he wrote in one tweet.

 

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“Therefore, China should not retaliate-will only get worse!”

Soon after Trump’s tweets, China announced it will be raising tariffs on $60 billion worth of US goods beginning on June 1. On Friday, the US hiked tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese exports, prompting Beijing to vow “necessary countermeasures.”

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