Beijing has remained unusually quiet over US President Donald Trump’s latest threat of imposing tariffs on, essentially, all Chinese imports. In the past two days – since Trump said in an interview with CNBC on Friday that he was ready to take a more aggressive approach by imposing tariffs on US$500 billion worth of Chinese products – neither the Chinese commerce ministry nor the foreign ministry has issued any statements. The Chinese state media, from the official Xinhua news agency to Global Times, did not cover Trump’s fresh threat, and an opinion piece published by People’s Daily on Saturday did not include the ... (full story)