China to Governors: A Trade War 'Brings Mutual Destruction'

oute Fifty: As the curtain rose on the National Governors Association’s Summer Meeting, foreign delegations from China and Japan warned goWvernors that national trade policies threaten prosperity in the United States and could have larger effects throughout the world.

A trade war "brings mutual destruction and is in nobody’s interest,” Los Angeles Consul General Zhang Ping told the assembled audience during a discussion on Thursday titled “Rebuilding a Silk Road to Economic Development.” Ping’s remarks focused on the “great difficulty and unprecedented challenge” of escalating trade conflict between the two countries.

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