{"id":13856,"date":"2026-01-13T19:16:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-says-will-safeguard-interests-after-trump-tariff-threat-over-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:16:47","slug":"china-says-will-safeguard-interests-after-trump-tariff-threat-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-says-will-safeguard-interests-after-trump-tariff-threat-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"China says will \u2018safeguard\u2019 interests after Trump tariff threat over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>BEIJING, Jan 13 &mdash; China said today it would protect its rights and interests after US President Donald Trump announced a 25 per cent tariff on any country doing business with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have always believed that there are no winners in a tariff war, and China will resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,&rdquo; foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular news conference when asked about Trump&rsquo;s levy announcement.<\/p>\n<p>A rights group has estimated that a violent crackdown on protests has killed at least 648 people in Iran as authorities sought to regain control of the streets with mass nationwide rallies.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question about advice for Chinese citizens travelling to Iran for tourism, Mao said Beijing was &ldquo;closely monitoring the development of the situation&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will take all necessary measures to protect the safety of Chinese citizens,&rdquo; she said. &mdash; AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>China says will &lsquo;safeguard&rsquo; interests after Trump tariff threat over Iran<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Jan 13 &mdash; China said today it would protect its rights and interests after US President Donald Trump announced a 25 per cent tariff on any country doing business with Iran. &ldquo;We have always believed that there are no winners in a tariff war, and China will resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,&rdquo;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-says-will-safeguard-interests-after-trump-tariff-threat-over-iran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;China says will \u2018safeguard\u2019 interests after Trump tariff threat over Iran&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}