The warning comes amid an ongoing Beijing-Washington trade row, which was triggered when President Donald Trump announced in June that $50 billion worth of Chinese goods would be subject to 25 percent tariffs in a bid to fix the US-Chinese trade deficit.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned other nations against dictating to Beijing, also pledging that China will never pursue hegemony.
The Chinese president’s remarks came a few weeks after his address to Spanish lawmakers, in which he specifically touted Beijing’s efforts to build a new modern economic system and stressed that China is interested in “further opening its doors to the world” and easing access to the market for investments.