China press slams Trump's 'gang of hoodlums' as tariffs loom - Reuters

The state-run China Daily newspaper lashed out at the US President Donald Trump in an English language editorial on Friday.

According to Reuters, the Chinese media accused the White House of behaving like a “gang of hoodlums” as the world’s two biggest economies careened toward the start of an outright trade war.

China Daily noted: “In effect, the Trump administration is behaving like a gang of hoodlums with its shakedown of other countries, particularly China. Its unruliness looks set to have a profoundly damaging impact on the global economic landscape in the coming decades unless countries stand together to oppose it.”