There are no winners in trade wars,” Kallas said on the sidelines of a G7 meeting in Canada. “Who is laughing on the side or looking at the side is China. It’s really benefiting from the U.S. having a trade war with Europe.

The US is "prepared" to go to war with China as the trade war between the two countries heats up, defence secretary Pete Hegseth has declared. The bold statement comes in response to the Chinese Embassy sharing online that it was "ready to fight till the end" whether it be in the form of a "tariff war,

The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with President Donald Trump this past week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s president appears unlikely to make a similar call soon.