A Trade War in Toy Soldiers: China's Drone Tariff Warning Shot The latest salvo in the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China has been fired.
Beijing is urging Washington to abandon planned tariffs of up to 100% on imported drones, warning that the measures unfairly target Chinese products and threaten international cooperation in this emerging field.
The proposed tariffs are part of a broader trend in US trade policy, one that has seen national security concerns invoked as a pretext for imposing duties on an increasingly wide range of imports.