China has accused Donald Trump’s US administration of “naked economic terrorism” as a trade war between the two nations escalates.
“We are against the trade war, but we are not afraid of it,” Zhang Hanhui, China’s deputy foreign minister, said on Thursday.
“This premeditated instigation of a trade conflict is naked economic terrorism, economic chauvinism, and economic bullying,” Mr Zhang said, at a press briefing ahead of a Chinese presidential visit to Russia next week.