New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Noting that United States has benefited greatly from free trade but now is using tariffs as a bargaining chip, Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong has said his country is opposed to US decision to impose 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods and said that "silence or compromise only emboldens the bully".

Addressing an event in the national capital, the Chinese envoy said his country welcomes all Indian commodities to enter the Chinese market.

In an apparent reference to the Trump administration imposing tariffs on different countries, Xu Feihong said that at present, tariff wars and trade wars are disrupting the global economic and trade system.

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