Comments by China's vice commerce minister via Reuters

  • China will actively take measures to safeguard industries' interests
  • US launch of trade investigations impede international trade order
  • US trade investigations seriously damage multilateral trade system

This is more related to the anti-dumping duty investigations from last year, in which the US Department of Commerce issued a new statement overnight on that affirming those findings here.

But adds to that recent trade rhetoric and tariffs spat that is going on between the two countries. Yesterday, Chinese premier Li Keqiang also made similar comments here.