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What the spiralling trade war means for relations between the US and China

Donald Trump has turned up the heat on China, hiking tariffs up to 125%.

Tom Harper

China is less afraid of Trump’s tariffs than it was in his first term.

China has historically been seen as unable to emulate the attractiveness of the world’s more established soft-power bastions.

2024 has been a challenging year for China. As its government has tackled economic problems at home, internationally it has handled the...