The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Tuesday that a Washington state resident is the first confirmed US case of a novel coronavirus, a respiratory ailment that has killed nine people in Asia and sickened more than 400.
The US imposed a first round of tariffs on billion of Chinese products on July 6.
The US daily case count peaked at 88,521 on Thursday, the highest increase of new cases in a single day since the pandemic began, according to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The US firm moved its corporate headquarters for the Asia-Pacific to Shanghai from Singapore in 2003, as part of its business strategy to capitalize on growth opportunities across the region, one of the few to do so 15 years ago.
The US Consumer News and Business Channel website quoted economists as saying that the Chinese economy is improving and there may be "impressive" growth in China's economic development.
The US Commerce Department on May 10 launched the latest anti-dumping duty and countervailing duty investigations against imports of cold-drawn mechanical tubing from China, Germany, India, Italy, the Republic of Korea and Switzerland.
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The UNHCR office in Thailand also declined to comment.
The US government levied tariffs of up to 50 percent on imports of large residential washing machines over three years, and up to 30 percent on solar cells over four years.
The United States' capricious way of policymaking and swinging "big sticks" for negotiations will do no good in solving problems and China has to take strong countermeasures, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.
The US had disregarded facts by sensationalizing China's so-called militarization of the South China Sea and had used it as an excuse on Wednesday to cancel China's invitation to the multilateral naval exercise, ministry spokesman Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang said in a statement.