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choosing to act now. “Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile,” he said.

Trump said other countries had contacted the United States expressing anger over China’s “great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere.”

He also accused Beijing of “lying in wait” despite what he characterised as six months of good relations, which have notably seen progress on bringing TikTok’s US operations under American control as required by a law passed by Congress last year.

His outburst comes just weeks after he had spoken of the importance of meeting Xi at the APEC summit and said that he would travel to China next year.