China slams U.S. 'blackmailing' as Trump issues new trade threat
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BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods and Beijing warned it would retaliate, in a rapid escalation of the trade conflict between the world’s two biggest economies.