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“China has always held that an escalation of the trade conflict is not in anyone’s interests.”

Geng Shuang, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, saying that China had received and welcomed the Trump administration’s invitation to restart trade talks, quoted by Reuters Thursday.

“We are in danger of sleepwalking into a future crisis. There is going to have to be a severe awakening to the escalation of risks, but we are in a leaderless world.”

Gordon Brown, former British prime minister, warning that the world is on the verge of another financial crisis, quoted by Reuters Thursday.