From ping-pong diplomacy to tit-for-tat hostility, US-China ties spiral down

WASHINGTON: What began with ping-pong diplomacy nearly 50 years ago plunged into tit-for-tat hostility today as China struck back on Friday to the United States’ closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston by ordering the United States consulate in Chengdu to cease operations by Monday.

On The Other Hand, US President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both delivered broadsides against Beijing, strongly placing China as the brand-new geo-political threat to the complimentary world, threatening an unsteady global economic order at the top of which stands the nearly $ 650 billion US-China trade.

In remarks at his day-to-day (resumed) coronavirus briefings after yet another intense anti-China tirade from his administration, President Trump stated the trade handle China “indicates less to me now than it did when I made it,” even though, he recommended, Beijing was trying to buy its escape of the crisis