No challenge will prevent China's further progress

Editor's note: People expecting progress in the trade talks between China and the United States cannot help raising the question whether Washington is intent on pushing the negotiations that have gone through 11 rounds back to where they started. People's Daily comments:

The United States has escalated the trade frictions with China time and again, which has not only damaged its own reputation, but also seriously set back the trade talks with China.

Its unilateralism and hegemonism cast dark shadows over the world's economic growth and global trade.