THE White House last night said Donald Trump was “optimistic”; of striking a deal with China.
Yet just hours earlier, had mocked his tactics as a “joke”;.
The tit-for-tat trade war saw hike the levies on US goods from 84 per cent to 125 per cent yesterday as it hit back at .
President branded Trump’s tactics “unilateral acts of bullying”;.
A spokesman for China’s commerce ministry said the US tariff policy would “go down as a joke in the of world economics”;.
He added that the bit-by-bit rises had “become nothing more than a numbers game”; and it would shrug off any further increases as US goods would already be unmarketable for Chinese consumers.
spokeswoman yesterday said that the President was open to a deal with China.
She claimed that he “negotiates a deal better than anyone else who has sat before him”;.
Ms Leavitt said the “phone has been ringing off the hook”; from 75 countries looking to cut trade deals and already had 15 offers on the table.
The update came on another volatile day for global , with stocks climbing higher after a roller-coaster ride which saw trillions lost and gained.
US government bonds suffered their worst day in six years in a stark warning about investors’ confidence in Trump’s policies.
