China’s Commerce Ministry vows firm response to any ‘overcapacity’ measures harming its interests

Beijing is signalling that "overcapacity" has moved from a technical trade dispute into a recurring diplomatic flashpoint, and it is choosing to answer the framing itself rather than the specific measures. The reference to a joint statement led by the United States indicates the pressure is multilateral, which raises the stakes for any economy weighing its own posture. The open question is whether this stays rhetorical or hardens into concrete countermeasures, and which sectors — clean tech among them — end up in scope.