China accuses US of ‘deliberately destroying’ world order
Dominic Rushe , Lily Kuo, 06 August 2019
China stepped up the trade war rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing the US of “deliberately destroying international order” with “unilateralism and protectionism”.
A day after Washington branded China a currency manipulator in a rapidly escalating trade dispute, China’s central bank said it “deeply regretted” the move by the US and said such behaviour “seriously undermined international rules” and damaged the global economy.
In a strongly worded editorial in the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist party, China accused the US of “deliberately destroying the international order” and holding its own citizens hostage.
Without mentioning Donald Trump or Washington’s accusations of currency manipulation, it said: “Today some in America are obsessed with American privilege to the point of destroying international rules and the international system … These Americans need to wake up!”
