China prepared to hit back on tariffs

group to promptly disinvite Geller from speaking at the right-wing bash at the Women’s National Republican Club in Midtown.

The Young Republican club did not return a request for comment Friday.

Geller declined to address her past controversial statements and instead took aim at the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations, claiming the group is “terror-tied” and pushes “radical propaganda.”

“Despite its attempt to portray itself as a champion of Muslim civil rights, CAIR espouses radical views and has publicly endorsed radical militant Islamic groups around the world … CAIR is on the wrong side of the war on terrorism,” Geller said in an email to the Daily News.

CAIR has long been accused by right-wing adherents of associating with terror-linked groups like Hamas. But the group denies any such ties, and no charges were filed against it after the FBI investigated several Muslim advocacy organizations in the U.S. for allegedly providing material support to Hamas in the mid-2000s.

A blogger and political undit, Geller became inolved in far-right movements after the 9/11 attacks nd has made countless conoversial statements about Muslims, including claimng in a 2010 interview that Hitler and the Nazis were nspired by lslam.”

In a 2012 blog post, Geller raised a group of Marines fter reports said they had rinated on corpses in fghanistan.

“I love these Marines. erhaps this is the infidel interpretation of the Islamic ritual of washing and preparing the body for burial,” Geller wrote.

More recently, Geller has landed in hot water for defending some of President Trump’s most controversial policies, like his self-described Muslim ban, and painting all people of Islamic faith with a broad and inflammatory brush.

“Muslim immigration is tied directly to Islamic terror,” Geller said in a radio interview in 2017. “If there’s no Muslim immigration, you would not have Islamic terror. The more Muslim immigration, the more Islamic terror you have.” China says it isn’t scared to play hardball.

Beijing on Friday suggested it will retaliate against President Trump if he doesn’t renege on his latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports.

“China will have to take necessary countermeasures to resolutely defend its core interests,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters.

“We don’t want to fight, but we aren’t afraid to,” Hua said.

Hua didn’t specify what type of counterresponse China is mulling.

Trump sent stocks into a tailspin Thursday after he announced that starting Sept. 1 his administration will slap 10% tariffs on all Chinese imports that aren’t already being taxed at 25%.

China on Friday said Trump is violating his June pact with President Xi Jinping to restart talks to end a trade war between the nations.