China readying itself for Trump 2.0 as higher tariffs loom

BEIJING - China has braced itself for a second Donald Trump presidency, as the spectre of a fiercer trade war looms between the two superpowers.

President-elect Trump presided over a nosedive in bilateral ties during his first term from 2017 to 2021, starting

a trade war that resulted in tariffs

on some US$550 billion (S$728 billion) of Chinese goods and US$185 billion of US goods.