Overview

• China's Foreign Ministry unveiled an English-language propaganda video titled 'Never Kneel Down,' criticizing U.S. tariffs and urging international resistance to American trade practices.
• The video, partly AI-generated, labels the U.S. a 'small, stranded boat' when the global community unites and compares compromising with the U.S. to 'drinking poison to quench thirst.'
• Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking at a BRICS meeting, called on emerging-market nations to avoid side deals with the U.S., warning that appeasement would embolden American 'bullying.'
• The U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that while the U.S. prefers a negotiated resolution, it retains further measures to pressure Beijing, which continues to deny any ongoing trade negotiations.
• The trade standoff, marked by 145% U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods and 125% retaliatory duties, has disrupted global supply chains and heightened economic pressures on both nations.