The trade spat has turned into a war of words since President Donald Trump blacklisted Huawei
The skyline at Bejing's central business district in China. Picture: 123RF/SEAN PAVONEChina is digging in for a tough period of deteriorating ties with the US, fanning the flames of patriotism with Korean War films, a viral song on the trade war, and editorials lambasting Washington.
It echoes President Xi Jinping’s tough stance when he called on cadres earlier this week to brace themselves for a “new Long March” — recalling the legendary strategic retreat by Communist revolutionaries in the 1930s who regrouped and went on to triumph in 1949.The world’s top two economies will “go through a long period of irrational conflict,” said Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, at a government organised briefing Wednesday.
Since Trump raised tariffs on $200bn in Chinese goods in mid-May, the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily has been running a daily column tag-lined “an alarm bell”, rejecting Trump’s arguments that China’s rise was leading to American losses. Chinese netizens have rallied around Huawei after Trump’s threat to kneecap the company, which is widely seen as a move to thwart Beijing’s hi-tech ambitions.
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