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CHINA PRESS: It's time for the United States to end its activist trade

protectionism, which will inflict damage on itself as well as other countries

and could even hurt the global trade system, the official People's Daily said

Tuesday, citing analysts and the Ministry of Commerce. European Union countries

and the U.S. are "played dirty" by disobeying the World Trade Organization rule

to abandon the "surrogate country approach," which allows them to engage in

broader anti-dumping trade actions, the newspaper argued. This time the U.S.

action is "too much," as it is politicizing trade issues, Zhang Jianping, head

of Regional Economic Operation Research Center under the Ministry of Commerce,

told the newspaper. He stressed American politicians repeatedly bring up the

bilateral trade imbalance to exert pressure on China, instead of viewing the two

nations' trade conflicts fairly. The U.S. actions continue to lack sincerity,

which is harmful for the advancement of bilateral trade cooperation, Zhang said.

The key element of the China-U.S. relationship is cooperation, though

competition also coexists, he said. (People's Daily)