Chinese Premier Urges Protection Of Free Trade As US Spat Grows

Chinese premier Li Keqiang on Monday called for free trade to be protected, as political tensions and a trade war with the United States escalated.

The Hague, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Oct, 2018 ) :Chinese premier Li Keqiang on Monday called for free trade to be protected, as political tensions and a trade war with the United States escalated.

"We want to jointly reaffirm our commitment to free trade and multilateralism," said, during a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague.

"We are now in a world where economic and political conditions are complex and complicated, where there are many unknowns. We need to come together, we need to together protect multilateralism and free trade.

" Li called on China and The Netherlands to boost cooperation in agriculture, manufacturing and services.

His comments came the day after a senior Chinese official said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump would probably meet at a G20 summit next month but bemoaned "confusing" signals from Washington.

The world's two biggest economic powers have imposed a mounting series of tariffs on each other,raising fears of a shock to the global system.