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External pressure never defeats China, only drives its faster growth: former vice minister of finance
The United States could pose significant challenges to China according to President-elect Donald Trump's tariff approach, but the country will never yield to external pressure and will only transform such pressure into a driving force for its development, said Zhu Guangyao, former vice minister of finance of China on Saturday.
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