Oct. 13 (UPI) -- China vowed to retaliate if U.S. President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to impose a 100% tariff on goods from the Asian country, further straining fraught trade relations between the world's largest economies.
"If the U.S. insists on going the wrong way, China will surely take resolute measures to protect its legitimate rights and interests," a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce said Sunday in a statement.
The back and forth comes after representatives from Washington and Beijing held trade talks in Beijing last month with prospects of further negotiations continuing this month in South Korea.
However, whether those discussions will continue on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Gyeongju remains unclear.
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