Keyu Jin: "China is not interested in a trade war"

China is not interested in a trade war.  China is not interested in engaging more financial, economic confrontations with the United States for one reason, which is it's not going to be good for China.  It's not going to be good for the U.S. either.  The majority of China's economic challenges remains within the country.  It's internal, not external.  The focus of China is not on the U.S.  Contrary to the other way around, there is no dangerous obsession with the United States in China, unlike the dangerous obsession with China in Washington, DC.

But moreover we've heard, multiple times in the last couple months, the premier saying emphatically that China's going to be the world's opportunity, meaning China is going to open up widely, deeply, broadly and even unilaterally, if needed.  China is going to impose zero tariffs on the least developing countries.  That is a symbolic gesture of a big country trying to be part of a global story, trying to lift up the other countries in the network as well.

~ Keyu Jin, "Keyu Jin: China Doesn't Want a Trade War with the US," 7:45 mark, Rise of Asia, April 9, 2025