Trump versus China -- Round #2

China Launches 

Personal Attack 

on Trump, 

Starting Last Weekend

FRIDAY

(China)

Beijing's announced

that it would add duties, 

ranging from 5% to 25%, 

on an additional $60 billion 

in US goods. 

A heated war of words followed:

SATURDAY

(US)

Trump told supporters that 

playing hardball on trade

is "my thing" and said that  

“we have really rebuilt China, 

and it’s time that we rebuild 

our own country now."

SUNDAY

(China) 

Global Times editorial

declared China 

is prepared 

for a "protracted war" 

and doesn’t fear

sacrificing short-term 

economic interests, 

"considering the 

unreasonable 

US demands, 

a trade war is an act 

that aims to crush 

China’s economic sovereignty, 

trying to force China to be 

a U.S. economic vassal."

(US) 

In his Twitter posts, 

Trump said the 

US’ punitive tariffs 

were “working big time” 

and the US is winning 

the trade war, 

highlighting the dropping 

Shanghai Composite

offset by the resilience 

in the S&P500.

MONDAY

(China)

A front-page editorial

in the overseas edition 

of People’s Daily

said Trump was

"starring in his own 

carefully orchestrated 

street fighter-style 

deceitful drama 

in which diplomacy 

had been reduced 

to nothing but a 

trading game 

in which everything 

should follow the rule 

of America first”.

People's Daily 

also claimed 

that the US 

was “turning 

international trade 

into a zero-sum game 

in the hope 

of forcing China 

to make a

tremendous 

compromise." 

“But China 

will never surrender 

to blackmail 

and will definitely rise 

to defend itself 

when it involves 

national interests 

and national dignity,”

it said.