China's state media, ramping up the rhetoric against the United States' latest tariff move, has warned that Beijing is ready to fight back against Washington's "mobster mentality".
The increasingly shrill tone suggests a ratcheting up of trade tensions between the world's two largest economies, whose sectors from steel to soya beans have already been hit by reciprocal tariffs.
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