US-China trade friction hurting world economic chain: Chinese scholars

Scholars and experts expressed their views that no one will benefit from the trade tensions between China and the United States when they gathered in Beijing Thursday for a symposium on China-US trade ties organized by Tsinghua University. In the name of protecting domestic industries, Washington has placed steep tariffs on billions of US dollars' worth of products from China, a heavy blow to the two countries' economic and trade relations.