China Accuses Trump of Violation, Threatens 'Forceful Measures'

China accused the U.S. of violating an agreement made at their tariff-cutting discussions in Geneva in May, and said it will take further action as the trade dispute between the world's two largest economies blows open again.

President Donald Trump's administration has in recent days issued AI chip export control guidelines, stopped the sale of chip design software to China, and is planning to revoke a significant number of Chinese student visas. Trump had also accused the Chinese side of having "TOTALLY VIOLATED" the Geneva agreement, which saw the U.S. and China both reduce their import tariffs by 115 percentage points, soothing global markets.

"These practices seriously violate the consensus" reached in Geneva, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

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