China’s economy has not grown quite as strongly as expected. Specifically, the country remained 2.5 percent behind the hoped-for 5.5 percent growth. President Xi Jinping blamed not only the pandemic, but above all the West – above all the USA. They had threatened China with a trade war: If the country supported Russia with weapons, then the US would decide on sanctions against China. There have already been talks with Western partners in this regard, it said. The eXXpress reported.
The tit-for-tat response came promptly from Beijing. In the course of the annual meeting of the People’s Congress, head of state Xi Jinping found clear words. He accused the West, and above all the USA, of wanting to slow down China’s economy so that the country’s rise in the world would be slowed down.