New tariffs, same old trade rift: How China could retaliate against Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Tensions between Beijing and Washington rapidly devolved Friday after China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi made his annual address to the press, including foreign journalists, where he fired off a series of broadsides aimed at the US and warned the Trump administration of "retaliatory" action in response to more "arbitrary tariffs". "No country should fantasise that it can suppress China and maintain a good relationship with China at the same time," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a lacerating address directed at the US on Friday.

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