According to US media reports on the 18th, regarding a series of remarks made by Steve Bannon, the chief strategist of US President Donald Trump, in a recent interview with the media, a White House spokesman said Bannon's statement was "a personal opinion".

In a recent telephone interview with The American Prospect, a leftist magazine, Bannon said that the US and China are engaged in an economic war and that only one side will win and that the US should adopt a tougher policy in the area of bilateral trade and investment.

"in the next 25 to 30 years, one of our countries will be the hegemon, and if we go down this road, then it will be them. "Bannon said," We have to focus on this. I think five years, 10 years at the most, will reach a turning point that we can no longer recover, and we will never be able to recover. "

Bannon's plan also includes restrictions on China's purchase of technology from American companies and further restrictions on China's dumping of steel and aluminum, according to the magazine.

In response to Bannon's remarks, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on the 17th that the essence of Sino-US economic and trade relations is mutual benefit. The long-term economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States has brought tangible benefits to the people of both countries, and anyone without prejudice will clearly see this fact.

"there is no future in a trade war, it is not in the interests of either party, and there is no winner in a trade war. We hope that the people concerned will not look at or try to solve the problems of the 21st century with the zero-sum thinking of the 19th and 20th centuries. "Hua Chunying said.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal on the 18th, people close to Bannon expressed concern about Bannon's status in the White House on the 17th, believing that the interview might make him lose his job.

Less than three weeks ago, a similar interview led to the loss of Scaramucci, another former White House official, as director of the White House Communications Office. In an interview with the the New Yorker magazine, Scaramucci attacked his White House colleagues in more rude terms and was asked to resign by the new White House Chief of staff, John Kelly, who aims to strengthen discipline and management in the White House.