China has been flexing its economic and diplomatic muscles in recent weeks in an attempt to counter President Donald Trump ’s trade war, in which Beijing is the biggest target. Let’s take stock of some of the tactics America’s fiercest global competitor is using.

It remains unclear where the China trade war is heading. Last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent singled out China as “bad actors” in global trade. “China is the most unbalanced economy in the history of the modern world,” he told reporters, “and they are the biggest source of the U.S. trade problems.”

China has warned the States that it 'should stop whining about being a victim in global trade' in its latest swipe at Donald Trump's tariffs, as war between the two superpowers escalates