The Chinese foreign ministry spelled out what it said were the three violations of the tariff-slashing China-U.S. agreement reached in Geneva, and accused Washington of taking "extreme measures" based on "defamatory accusations".

Lin Jian, spokesman for the ministry, listed "controls on chip exports to China, halting the sales of chip design software to China, and announcing revocations of Chinese student visas" as having "severely violated the common understandings reached in Geneva".

"China firmly opposed this and made strong protests," Lin said at a press briefing on Tuesday morning.

"Let me stress once again that this pressuring and coercion is not the right way to engage with China.

"We urge the U.S. to respect the facts, stop peddling misinformation, correct relevant wrongdoings,

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