Mischief-mongers, please note: Your tricks won't work

Editor's note: As China and the United States hold their 12th round of high-level economic and trade talks, some in the US are once again making irresponsible remarks to disrupt the main theme, saying China "always changes the deal in the end to its advantage", and it "is biding time to get a pretty good deal, as it has for the last 30 years, to continue to pillage the United States". Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

The all-out effort by some in the US to confuse public opinion with irresponsible, and often illogical, remarks, is just a bid to scramble things to the US' advantage. However, the mischief-mongers seem to suffer from amnesia, having forgotten the promises they made to restart economic and trade negotiations on the basis of "equality and mutual respect".

They are only keen on extracting concessions from their negotiating partner. But they should know that for a country like China, which can withstand any hardship for a long time, any pressure will be to no avail.