Though china runs a massive trade surplus with America, over the past year it has run a massive rhetoric deficit. During that period President Donald Trump has tweeted about China at least 130 times; Chinese leaders, by contrast, have mostly kept mum about the trade dispute with America. But in the past few days that has begun to change. A sudden barrage of commentaries about the trade war in state media has struck a note of defiant nationalism. "If you want to talk, our door is wide open," said an anchor on China's most-watched news programme on May 13th, in a clip that went viral. "If you want to fight, we'll fight you to the end."
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