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China says it 'doesn't want a trade war', but must 'fight back' after US slaps tariffs on $50bn in Chinese imports.
China has fired back against the United States in a spiraling trade dispute with President Donald Trump by raising import duties on tens of billions of dollars of US goods including lobsters, soybeans, electric cars and whiskey.
Beijing said on Saturday that it was responding in "equal scale" to Trump's tariff rise on Chinese goods, in a conflict over China's estimated $336bn trade surplus and technology policy that companies worry could quickly escalate and chill global economic growth.
As Trump warned of "additional tariffs" should Beijing hit back with tit-for-tat duties on American goods, China unveiled 25 percent duties on $50bn in US imports.
Trump's new China tariffs will not initially include the full $50bn that Trump announced on Friday.
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the punitive duties will apply on 818 Chinese products valued at $34bn starting July 6, with a second list of $16bn to be considered under a new review process - bringing the total possible affected import volume to $50bn.
Beijing's countermeasures closely mirrored Washington's, with 545 American exports, also valued at $34bn, facing punitive duties as of July 6, including agricultural products and vehicles, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
The 545 products include lobsters, soybeans, electric cars, orange juice, whiskey, salmon and cigars, according to the Ministry of Finance.
China "doesn't want a trade war" but has to "fight back strongly," a separate statement from China's commerce ministry said.
It said Beijing also was scrapping agreements to narrow its multibillion-dollar trade surplus with the United States by purchasing more American farm goods, natural gas and other products.
The US and China have the world's biggest trading relationship, but official ties are increasingly strained over complaints Beijing's industry development tactics violate its free-trade pledges and hurt American companies.
Europe, Japan and other trading partners raise similar complaints, but Trump has been unusually direct about challenging Beijing, and threatening to disrupt such a large volume of exports.
'US provocations'
"In this trade war, it's the US who is playing the role of provocateur, while China plays defence," said the Global Times, a newspaper published by the ruling Communist Party.
"China is a powerful guardian and has enough ammunition to defend existing trade rules and fairness."
Most of the products targeted by China are food and other farm goods, hitting Trump's rural supporters hardest.
Beijing appeared to be trying to minimise the effect on its own economy by picking US products that can be replaced by imports from other suppliers such as Brazil or Australia.
Chinese regulators are also considering a tariff rise on an additional 114 products including medical equipment and energy products, the finance ministry said.
It said a decision would be announced later.
In the US state of Maine, home to most of the country's lobster fishery, the effect of the Chinese tariff could be harsh.
Maine lobster was worth more than $430m at the docks last year, and the industry is a critical piece of the state's economy, history and heritage.
The value of China's American lobster imports grew from $108.3m in 2016 to $142.4m last year. The country barely imported any American lobster a decade ago.
"Anything that affects the supply chain is obviously not a great thing," Kristan Porter, president of the Maine Lobstermen's Association, told the Associated Press news agency.
"The lobstermen obviously are concerned with trade and where they go."
China and the US are major seafood trading partners beyond just lobster, and the new tariffs would also apply to dozens of types of fish and other seafood that China imports from the US, including salmon, tuna and crab.
The US imported more than $2.7bn in Chinese seafood last year, and the US exported more than $1.3bn to China.
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To help today's young people meet their science standards and train for good jobs, the GE Foundation has given high school students access to hands-on, practical experiments to develop their science skills.
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How to understand body language
Your body language is your visual channel of communication.
It is the way you appear, what you look-like, as you are speaking.
Interestingly, your appearance, how you look, as you are speaking, may often count for more, in the mind of your listener, than does the content of your words. Meaning, that if you say that you are "feeling confident", but you look as if you are feeling weak, then most people will assume that it is your body language that is telling the truth, and that your words, are not.
Most people can control their spoken language more than they can control their body language. Meaning; their true feelings are often expressed by their facial expression and their body posture, rather more eloquently than by their words.
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2. You may decide to pay more conscious attention to the body language of other people, and notice when there is a disconnect between what the person is saying, verbally, and what the person is communicating visually, by their body language. Psychologists call this contradiction between words and body language,"incongruence".
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- Your overt body language, and
- Your voice tones,
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Then you will have real power, as a communicator. You will become a true orator.
Question: What are the main subsets of your body language?
Your body language is made up of the following eight subsets:
1. Your body posture:
Do you stand up straight or not? And if not, to what degree do you slouch?
2. Your dress code:
What do you wear? And is it in conformance with the demands of the social context in which you find yourself? Or not. And if not, how "far out" are you? Do you appear to be weirdly dressed, according to the majority of your audience?
3. The degree and manner in which you touch other people:
Do you touch others, or not? And if you do touch people, where do you touch them, and in what way? What is the quality of your handshake?
4. Hand and arm gestures:
To what degree do you make arm and hand gestures, as you speak? If you do make gestures, then are there any gestures that are mistakes, and that are causing you to trigger negative emotional responses in the mind of your listeners?
5. Eye contact:
To what degree do you give eye contact? Too much eye contact will make you seem intrusive and a bit weird. Too little eye contact will make you seem evasive and or weak willed. What do you think is the right amount of eye contact?
6. Facial expression:
What are your habitual facial expressions? To what degree to you have a smiley face. Or a grumpy face? Or an angry expression? Or a worried look? Without coming across as a comedian, it is true that most people could do with a few more smiles.
7. Scent:
Scent has a profound effect on the consciousness. For both good or ill. If you smell fresh, clean and or scented, then you gain points. If you stink, if you have rotten cigarette breath, then you lose points. Be aware of odours. Be a force for good.
8. Proximity:
Proximity is the measure of how close or how far away you stand, or sit, from your listeners. Too far away will make you seem aloof, "distant" and cold. Too close, will make you seem invasive, threatening, or crass and insensitive. Or just plain weird.
According to your book of rules: How close, is "close enough"? How close, is "too close"?
All these elements of your body language are things to which you should give some serious thought
Once you have given each element some serious thought, make some decisions about how you want to come across, write them down on a piece of paper, in the form of between 4 and 7 instructions: For example, you might write, "I will work to improve my handshake so that it is firm, brief, and dry, not so lose, weak and damp".
Memorise the list you create, learn them, and apply them to yourself.
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Ten Ways to Improve Your Body Language
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Body language and nonverbal communication skills Face to face communication is of two fundamental types: Verbal communication Nonverbal communication Verbal communication: is the use of words; Language. Non-verbal communication is made up from: Voice tone and body language. You gain a lot of information about the other person from t...
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