China responds to Trump's tariffs with trade measures and a WTO lawsuit

Trump’s tariffs are likely to divert a massive amount of Chinese exports into the E.U.”

Noah Barkin, a senior adviser at the Rhodium Group in Berlin and a specialist on China, said

There’s two ways that this could play,

said Theresa Fallon, an analyst at the Center for Russia, Europe, Asia Studies in Brussels

We must engage constructively with China,

Ursula von der Leyen, who heads the E.U.’s executive arm, said during a speech in Davos, Switzerland, in January

We will also be watching closely what indirect effects these tariffs could have, because we cannot absorb global overcapacity, nor will we accept dumping on our market,

Ms. von der Leyen warned in her televised response on Thursday to the Trump tariffs

The bloc is likely to throw its entire trade policy toolbox at Beijing in response,

he added

China urges the US to immediately lift unilateral tariffs and resolve trade differences through consultation on an equal, respectful and mutually beneficial basis,

the ministry said

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The prices are going to go up, and the prices that DOD has to pay are going to go up,

Kelly said

There’s going to be shortages of supplies, tit-for-tats, and our allies and other partners are going to retaliate,

said Bill Greenwalt, a former Pentagon acquisition official

There are simply not enough people in the aerospace and defense sector to meet the current need,

Dak Hardwick, vice president of international affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association told a meeting of American and European defense executives on Thursday

We have requirements and we’re going to do what makes sense for us,

said a diplomat from a NATO country, who like others, was granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive political issue

Our defense industrial base over decades [was] built on a global supply chain,

said Keith Webster, president of the Chamber of Commerce’s Defense and Aerospace Council

We count on the U.S. for the best equipment,

said a European official

We have to learn from this,

one NATO official said

I don't think (the Chinese) are feeling triumphalist ... tariffs that destabilise the American economy could prove just as bad for China as tariffs on Chinese goods,

said Christopher Beddor, deputy China research director at Gavekal Dragonomics

The fact that Trump is potentially alienating so many U.S. trade partners at the same time certainly, in my opinion, weakens the overall impact (of his China policy),

said Joe Mazur, geopolitics analyst at policy consultancy Trivium

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I'm really concerned that we are going to, for the sake of generating jobs in manufacturing, sacrifice our massive advantages in other areas of our economy which are the primary source of our employment, prosperity and international economic and military power,

Kennedy said

We haven't cut off communication channels, I think our actions are reciprocal but we are not deliberately being provocative,

said Sun Chenghao, fellow at Tsinghua University's Center for International Security and Strategy

Xi is playing the long game,

Singleton said of Chinese President Xi Jinping

Never forget, every prediction our opponents made about trade for the last 30 years has been proven totally wrong,

he said on Wednesday

Add in the Trump administration’s moves to dial back soft power - like cutting foreign aid and scrapping Radio Free Asia - and it’s hard not to see this as a risky play that might play into China’s hands more than intended,

she said