India, Aug. 21 -- Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong likened the US to a "bully" on Thursday and said Beijing will stand with New Delhi to uphold the multilateral trading system at a time when Washington is using tariffs to demand "exorbitant prices" from other countries.

The envoy's remarks, made during a discussion on the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin next week that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend, reflected the sudden thaw in India-China relations against the backdrop of growing strains between New Delhi and Washington over trade-related differences.

"At present, tariff wars and trade wars are disrupting the global economic and trade system, power politics and the law of the jungle are prevale...