On April 16, 2025, Chinese Ambassador to Canada Wang Di published a byline article titled "Jointly Reject Unilateral Bullying and Firmly Uphold Multilateralism" on the Hill Times. The full article is below:

Recently, the United States has repeatedly imposed unjustified tariffs on countries, which has brought huge uncertainty and instability to the world and caused chaos in the international community and within the United States itself. Particularly, the tariffs imposed by the United States under the pretext of fentanyl and reciprocity without any factual basis seriously infringe upon countries’ legitimate rights and interests, seriously violate the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), seriously damage the rules-based multilateral trading system, and seriously disrupt the stability of the global economic order. Being a typical practice of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying, it is going against the trend of the times and people's shared aspiration.

Facing unilateral bullying by the United States, Canada has not backed down and has taken resolute countermeasures to defend its lawful and legitimate rights and interests as well as initiated a dispute complaint regarding the US tariffs at the WTO. Meanwhile, I am deeply impressed by the great patriotism shown by the Canadian people all across the country.

Similarly, China does not provoke, but we are not to be intimidated by provocations. China does not bully, but we will not allow others to bully us. Faced with the unjustified unilateral “reciprocal tariffs” by the United States, China has taken resolute reciprocal countermeasures. If the United States insists on going its own way, China will fight to the end. As an upright major country and a responsible member of the international community, China stands up to say no to the bully not only for the sake of its own legitimate rights and interests, but also to safeguard the common interests of the international community and to prevent mankind from being brought back to a world of law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak.

Rejecting unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying is a universal consensus as well as the shared responsibility of the international community. More and more countries and international organizations have expressed their readiness to jointly uphold the rules-based multilateral trading system, commit themselves to trade liberalization and facilitation, and support multilateralism and global trade development. Director-General of WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala stressed that WTO members should jointly defend an open and rules-based multilateral trading system and properly resolve differences through dialogue and cooperation under the WTO framework. President of the European Commission, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen pointed out that the EU is committed to maintaining a fair and free multilateral trading system anchored on the WTO, and to maintaining the sound and stable development of global economic and trade relations.

Multilateralism is the only choice for addressing global challenges. Economic globalization is an unstoppable trend of history. All countries should stand united to counter unilateralism, protectionism and bullying with openness, cooperation and multilateralism, firmly uphold WTO rules, and maintain an open, inclusive, transparent and non-discriminatory multilateral trading system.