China says that the United States undermined Geneva’s trade agreement after Trump’s accusations

On Monday, China refuted Washington’s claims that the Geneva’s trade agreement had broken, instead accusing the US.

Commercial frictions between Washington and Beijing have accumulated after a pause after a meeting between the United States Treasury Secretary, Scott Bestent and his Chinese counterpart, Lifeng in Geneva, Switzerland, which had led them to suspend most of the tariffs for 90 days.

The Trump administration has increased export restrictions on software and chemicals of semiconductor design to China, while announcing that it would revoke visas for Chinese students, extracting Beijing anger.

These steps “seriously undermine” the agreement reached in Geneva, said a spokesman for the Chinese Commerce Department, while promised that Beijing would take measures to safeguard their rights and benefits, if the United States advances with actions that “damage the interests of China.”

China has maintained firm control in its rare land exports, unlike Washington’s expectations. Chinese state media in an article promoted coordinated efforts throughout the country to analyze and stop illegal mining and critical mineral exports.

Beijing is “comfortable by adopting an extremely firm position in these negotiations” and “does not see any reason to turn around,” said Stephen Olson, a former American commercial negotiator who is now a visiting member of Senior with ISAS: the Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.

“It is well understood in Beijing that any agreement reached with the United States will only buy a short -term peace, not the end of the story,” added Olson.

The United States has continued to “unilaterally causing new economic and commercial frictions, increasing uncertainty and instability in bilateral economic and commercial relations,” said the Chinese spokesman.

Last Friday, President Donald Trump accused China of violating his preliminary commercial agreement with the United States in a publication on social networks, Trump wrote: “China, perhaps not surprisingly for some, has totally violated its agreement with us. Both for being Mr. Nice Guy!”

Trump seems to be reacting to frustration for China’s “slow movements” in the ease of rare earth exports, which he considers contradictory to the Geneva agreement, said Bert Hofman, professor at the Eastern Asia Institute of the National University of Singapore.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said that the accusations of the United States were “seriously contrary to the facts”, claiming that Beijing had “actively implemented and confirmed the agreements”, citing their steps to cancel and suspend certain measures of rates and non -tariffs announced in April in response to the “reciprocal” “” “reciprocal” of Trump.

Besent said in a Fox News interview last week that bilateral commercial conversations were “a little stagnant”, which requires that the leaders of the two countries speak directly.

Dennis Wilder, a former White House Intelligence official, attributed the bilateral relations in part to the lack of coordination between government agencies in the United States. Besent might not have been part of decision -making for new chips export curbs and student visas policy, Wilder added.

The National Security Committee was in charge of coordinating government work between agencies in the White House, but now it is “in agitation”, since Trump ordered an important review that reduces its size, he said.

“Besent is desperate because the president receives a call with XI … to weigh and install some coherence in government policies,” Wilder added.

The director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hasett, said Sunday that Trump and XI could talk about trade as soon as this week. While the United States seems to look for a call, it is unlikely that this happens in the short term, experts said, citing deep differences between the two governments.

“The United States side seems very interested in a Trump-XX phone meeting or call. This attends Trump’s desire to be seen as the merchant’s teacher. In contrast, the Chinese tradition is the opposite: the leader or call of the leader should take place once the lower level officials have reached the big agreements, with few outstanding points,” Hofman said.

Tensions between the United States and China have increased beyond trade, further decreasing the possibilities of conversations between the two leaders.

When heading to the annual dialogue of the Shangri-La Defense Summit on Saturday in Singapore, the head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, warned that the threat of the growing military pressure of China in the Indo-Pacific region was “real” and “imminent”, urging allied nations to boost defense spending to retreat against Beijing.

China’s Minister of Defense was absent at this year’s summit, a rare deviation from his tradition of sending to the senior military official to the annual event for the first time since 2019.

Responding to Hegyseth’s comments, China’s Embassy in Singapore said: “The United States itself is the largest” uprising “for regional peace and stability.” A spokesman for the China Ministry of Defense criticized Hegseth on Sunday for “instigating the cold war mentality” and “severely challenging the sovereignty and rights of China.”