China Slams US Move to Investigate Its Shipbuilding Industry

  • Beijing calls on Washington to return to ‘rules based’ system
  • US Trade office launches formal probe of China shipbuilding

Workers weld part of a ship at a shipyard in Yantai, China.

Photographer: Adam Dean/Bloomberg
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China’s government blasted a Biden administration plan to launch a formal review of its maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sector, calling the investigation a mistake “based on the need of domestic politics.”