Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Monday that since China and the United States had reached an agreement on trade that was acceptable to both sides, both nations’ governments will be expected to abide by it and that “we don’t want to see any reversion by the US”.

He made the comment during a routine briefing while addressing the latest developments in trade talks between China and the US, after both sides had agreed to avoid imposing tariffs on each other’s exports to prevent a trade war.

“The most remarkable consensus and outcome of these negotiations is that the two sides have recognized that the economic and trade issue needs to be properly resolved,” Lu said. “We believe this result is what the people and businesses in both countries welcome, while the world at large is also pleased to see it.”

However, he said there had been ups and downs in the past four decades of China-US relations, including in trade, and therefore it was hard to guarantee there will be no more friction in the future.