Experts say tariff clash betrays US anxiety

BEIJING - Anxiety over China's rising economic and technological power is the ultimate reason behind recent US moves on trade disputes with China, analysts said.

Deterring Chinese exports is not the real goal of the aggressive trade moves by the United States, according to Ye Fujing, head of the Institute of International Economic Research, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research.

"The hidden agenda behind the US trade deficit and forced technology transfer claims is to check China's high-end industrial development and its ongoing economic transformation," Ye said.