TOKYO — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday condemned the use of tariffs while his foreign ministry demanded respectful dialogue, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump made some of his most positive comments yet about dialing down the superpower trade war.
Xi said that “tariff wars and trade wars harm the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, undermine the multilateral trading system and impact the world economic order,” according to state news agency Xinhua. Xi made the remarks while meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Beijing, part of a flurry of Chinese diplomacy to shore up China’s ties with others.
