The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism Wednesday cited a “deterioration of economic and trade relations.”
A man walks into a merchandise store displaying Chinese and United States' national flags in Beijing, on April 3, 2025. | Andy Wong/AP
By Ali Bianco and Phelim Kine
04/09/2025 01:57 PM EDT
The Chinese government issued a new travel advisory for the United States on Wednesday amid growing tensions between the two nations sparked by President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs.
The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism cited a “deterioration of economic and trade relations” and the “security situation” with the U.S. in its risk advisory, which it issued the same day Washington and Beijing levied retaliatory tariffs on one another.
Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to up the ante again, saying he’d be levying 125 percent tariffs charged to China “effective immediately.” He also issued a 90-day pause on tariffs on other countries — charging a universal 10 percent tariff in the interim while singling out Beijing in his post.
“At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
This batch of reciprocal import taxes, in addition to the Chinese travel advisory, marks the latest escalation in the trade war between the U.S. and China, launched by Trump last week as part of a broader campaign to reset American trade relationships that he has long decried as unfair.
The tit-for-tat could prove immensely costly to consumers on both sides of the Pacific: Until Wednesday afternoon’s 125 percent tariff announcement from Trump, China has matched each U.S. import tax with one of its own. Taken together, China has thus far imposed 84 percent tariffs on U.S. goods.
While other countries have rushed to open talks with the White House and avoid the fallout, China has been resolute, its commerce ministry insisting it would continue to fight and take “countermeasures” against the U.S. if necessary.
“The Ministry of Culture and Tourism prompted Chinese tourists to fully assess the risk of traveling to the United States, and to travel with caution,” the notification on the Ministry’s website reads.
The U.S. currently has China on a level two travel advisory, warning U.S. travelers to “exercise increased caution.” But that advisory represents a softening from the country’s previous level three advisory — “reconsider travel” — that was changed in part after U.S. citizens were released in a prisoner swap last November.
Neither the White House nor the Chinese embassy in Washington immediately responded to a request for comment.
A man walks into a merchandise store displaying Chinese and United States' national flags in Beijing, on April 3, 2025. | Andy Wong/AP
By Ali Bianco and Phelim Kine
04/09/2025 01:57 PM EDT
The Chinese government issued a new travel advisory for the United States on Wednesday amid growing tensions between the two nations sparked by President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs.
The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism cited a “deterioration of economic and trade relations” and the “security situation” with the U.S. in its risk advisory, which it issued the same day Washington and Beijing levied retaliatory tariffs on one another.
Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to up the ante again, saying he’d be levying 125 percent tariffs charged to China “effective immediately.” He also issued a 90-day pause on tariffs on other countries — charging a universal 10 percent tariff in the interim while singling out Beijing in his post.
“At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
This batch of reciprocal import taxes, in addition to the Chinese travel advisory, marks the latest escalation in the trade war between the U.S. and China, launched by Trump last week as part of a broader campaign to reset American trade relationships that he has long decried as unfair.
The tit-for-tat could prove immensely costly to consumers on both sides of the Pacific: Until Wednesday afternoon’s 125 percent tariff announcement from Trump, China has matched each U.S. import tax with one of its own. Taken together, China has thus far imposed 84 percent tariffs on U.S. goods.
While other countries have rushed to open talks with the White House and avoid the fallout, China has been resolute, its commerce ministry insisting it would continue to fight and take “countermeasures” against the U.S. if necessary.
“The Ministry of Culture and Tourism prompted Chinese tourists to fully assess the risk of traveling to the United States, and to travel with caution,” the notification on the Ministry’s website reads.
The U.S. currently has China on a level two travel advisory, warning U.S. travelers to “exercise increased caution.” But that advisory represents a softening from the country’s previous level three advisory — “reconsider travel” — that was changed in part after U.S. citizens were released in a prisoner swap last November.
Neither the White House nor the Chinese embassy in Washington immediately responded to a request for comment.