China urges U.S. cooperation as Trump trade threat looms

BEIJING — China emphasized the request for greater practice with the U.S. a time aft it became wide President-elect Donald Trump would go the adjacent president of the United States.

"The Chinese broadside is willing, connected the ground of communal respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, to summation connection with the U.S., grow practice and resoluteness differences," He Yongqian, spokesperson astatine China's Ministry of Commerce, told reporters Thursday successful Mandarin, translated by CNBC.

She was responding to a question astir China's views and planned countermeasures fixed the imaginable for accrued U.S. tariffs and restrictions connected high-end tech.

"Together [we can] propulsion China-U.S. economical and commercialized relations toward a stable, steadfast and sustainable direction, for the payment of some countries and the world," the commerce spokesperson said.

Her comments echoed those of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who earlier successful the time noted the benefits of bilateral practice in a congratulatory connection to Trump, according to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs readout.

Washington turned tougher connected Beijing nether Trump's archetypal four-year word that began successful 2017. While campaigning this twelvemonth for his 2nd term, the president-elect threatened additional tariffs connected Chinese goods.