中國官員揚言將反擊特朗普新關稅

Senior Chinese officials have warned the US that Beijing is ready to retaliate if Donald Trump’s incoming administration imposes new tariffs, highlighting the risk of a destructive trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

中國高級官員警告稱，如果唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)上臺後出臺新關稅，北京方面準備展開報復，突顯出全球兩個最大經濟體開打破壞性貿易戰的風險。

Penny Pritzker, the outgoing US commerce secretary, said in an interview with the Financial Times that Chinese officials had informed their US counterparts in a meeting after November’s election that they would be forced to respond to trade measures taken by the new administration.

即將卸任美國商務部長的佩妮?普里茨克(Penny Pritzker)在接受英國《金融時報》採訪時表示，中國官員在去年11月美國大選後的一次會議上告訴美國同行，他們將被迫迴應美國新政府的貿易舉措。

“The Chinese leadership said to me ‘If you guys put an import duty on us we are going to do it on you’,” Ms Pritzker said. “And then they said ‘That will be bad for both of us’.”

普里茨克表示：“中國官員告訴我，‘如果你們這些傢伙向我們徵收進口關稅，我們也會對你們徵收進口關稅’，接着他們說，‘這將對我們大家都不好’。”

She said that the next administration needed to decide “the fine line between being tough and a trade war”, cautioning that such a confrontation would have “enormous consequence” for the US.

她說，新政府需要“謹慎把握強硬立場與貿易戰之間的界限”，她告誡稱，此類對峙將對美國產生“巨大後果”。

The move highlights the concern in China over the risk to relations presented by Mr Trump, who has also offended Beijing by breaking with traditional US policy on Taiwan.

此舉突顯出中國擔心特朗普對雙邊關係的影響，後者也因打破傳統的美國對臺政策而令中國政府不快。

Japanese officials and top executives also pushed back against Mr Trump, warning on Friday of fallout for US-Japanese trade and investment if the president-elect followed through on his call to impose a border tax on Toyota to stop the carmaker from building a new plant in Mexico.

日本官員和高級管理人員也對特朗普做出了反擊，他們在上週五警告稱，如果當選總統真的對豐田(Toyota)徵收邊境稅以阻止該公司在墨西哥建設新廠，美日貿易和投資就會遭受衝擊波。