China defends Brics against Trump’s tariff threats: A call for cooperation

On Monday, China said that BRICS was not a block for confrontation, and that US President Donald Trump did not target the third country because it decisively reacted to the group’s 10% additional tariffs and supportive nations in the group.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning, in a media briefing here, BRICS is an important platform for cooperation between developing markets and developing countries. “He advocates openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation. This is not a block for confrontation. Nor does he target any country.” He said.

Mao answered a question about Trump’s threat of giving an additional 10% tariff to countries that aligned themselves with BRICS countries.
“There is no winner of the trade war and the tariff war,” Trump said, referring to the threats of tariff hikes. Ning also said it was against tariffs used as a tool to force others. The use of tariffs does not serve anyone, dedi he said.

It does not work to weaken other nations: Kremlin

In the meantime, the Kremlin said on Monday, the BRICS Nations Group has never tried to weaken other countries, he said. “We have seen such explanations of Trump, but here he said that BRICS’s uniqueness is a group of countries that share common approaches, and that there is a common worldview based on their own interests: Peskov.