China urged to strengthen ‘all possible’ global trade bonds to counter US pressure

China should chase “all possible cooperation” with its Asia-Pacific and European trading partners to counter pressure from the United States, which has recently doubled down on building a Western front against Beijing, said a Chinese think tank.

The country should strengthen its global trade and investment landscape on all fronts to reduce dependence on the US, according to a report issued on Wednesday by the Beijing-based Chongyang Institution for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China.