US tariffs could spark humanitarian crisis – China

Chinese Trade Minister, Wang Wentao has insisted that the continuous introduction of tariffs by the US government will cause great harm to the developing world and may even spark a “humanitarian crisis,” Bloomberg reports.

Wang stated this while speaking with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization, in a video call on Friday.

He said China’s “decisive countermeasures” are about protecting justice and stopping what he called trade…