Accompany to the end, China strikes back at the US with four consecutive attacks, Trump responds with 8 characters, a new battle has begun.

China demonstrates its commitment to "stay with it to the end" by announcing a 34% tariff on all goods exported to China from the United States. Multiple departments are taking coordinated actions, leaving Trump "defensive," and he responded with eight words.
After U.S. President Trump returned to the White House, he first announced a 10% tariff on all goods from China, followed by a 25% tariff on all imported steel and aluminum products. In March of this year, Trump escalated the situation further, announcing an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods exported to the U.S. on top of the existing 10% tariff. The U.S. side used tariffs as leverage, putting pressure on China, which led to strong dissatisfaction from the Chinese side. The Ministry of Commerce of China imposed legal sanctions on more than a dozen U.S. entities, and the Tariff Commission announced a 10%-15% tariff increase on U.S. agricultural products. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China stated emphatically: if the U.S. insists on waging a tariff war, trade war, or any kind of war, China will accompany them to the end!
In the face of such clear signals, the Trump administration again misjudged the situation. On April 2, the U.S. announced a 34% "reciprocal tariff" on China, bringing the total tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the U.S. to at least 54% including two previous tariff increases. Steel and aluminum products could be taxed at 59%, and the tariff rate for Chinese electric vehicles entering the U.S. has even exceeded 100%. This is a sign that the U.S. intends to "flip the table"; if China does not take action, many Chinese enterprises will face significant economic losses.
As soon as the U.S. side finished speaking, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the Tariff Policy Committee, and the General Administration of Customs launched a "combined strike" against the U.S., introducing four countermeasures: First, a 34% tariff on all U.S. goods entering China; second, placing 16 U.S. entities, including High Point Aviation and the Nevada Mountains, on the export control list, prohibiting them from obtaining key Chinese technologies and raw materials; third, suspending the import qualifications of six U.S. agricultural enterprises; and fourth, implementing export controls on seven categories of medium and heavy rare earths. These four measures not only provide a reciprocal response to the U.S. tariff actions but also target key issues such as U.S. military production, rare earth demand, and Trump’s agricultural "voter base", delivering a thunderous blow. China has taken concrete actions to uphold the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' warning of "accompanying to the end", safeguarding China's national interests and dignity, and declaring that the China-U.S. game has entered a new stage.
Less than 12 hours after China's countermeasures, Trump hurriedly responded, stating that "China should not do this." This remark indicates that Trump's "hegemony syndrome" has reached a critical point; he seems to believe that America's tariffs are justified and that China should passively accept and surrender to the US, rather than retaliating. Just as Trump finished speaking, Xinhua published an article on April 5 titled "The Chinese Government's Position on Opposing the US's Abuse of Tariffs," which elaborated on the realistic logic behind China's countermeasures and emphasized that what the US calls "fairness" is essentially "America First" and "American exceptionalism," sacrificing the interests of other countries to subvert the existing international economic and trade order through tariff means.
As the saying goes, "People do not educate people, things educate people." After Trump announced the global "benchmark tariffs" and "reciprocal tariffs" measures, on April 3rd, the three major U.S. stock indexes dropped sharply, marking the largest single-day decline since 2020. Major companies like Apple and Tesla were no exception. Research indicates that Trump's new tariff policy is expected to bring an additional cost of $43.3 billion to U.S. companies, and if the tariff war escalates, annual household spending in the U.S. could increase by $4,200. U.S. media reported that Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is said to be considering resigning due to being "unable to bear" the Trump administration's "absurd tariff calculations."
At the international level, affected by the U.S. tariff policy, stock markets in many EU countries fell by more than 5%. The Vietnamese stock market even reached an astonishing 12%, as stated by the Chinese side, the existing international economic and trade order is being severely disrupted. Trump's eight-character response also indicates that the U.S. side seems unwilling to pull back from the brink; an economic war is about to break out, and countries around the world, including China, must be fully prepared.