'It doesn't plot or join wars': China hits back at Trump's 100% tariff call

After the US pressed the European Union to impose tariffs on Russian oil purchasers in a bid to pressure Moscow, Beijing on Saturday said that it neither plots nor participates in wars, in a clear message to Washington DC.

During a state visit to Slovenia, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that war cannot solve problems and sanctions only complicate them, international news agency Reuters reported.

China’s dig at the US came just hours after President Donald Trump urged Nato members to halt Russian oil purchases and impose sanctions of up to 100 per cent on China, one of Moscow’s biggest buyers.

Washington has already imposed heavy



tariffs on India for buying Russian oil, while not targeting Beijing yet, which considers itself Moscow's "all-weather" strategic ally.

The US has been urging G7 countries — including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom, most of whom are also Nato members — to step up pressure on Russia by imposing tariffs on India and China, both major buyers of Russian oil.

"Only with a unified effort that cuts off the revenues funding Putin’s war machine at the source will we be able to apply sufficient economic pressure to end the senseless killing,” US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told the G7 Finance Ministers, according to the joint statement.