Chinese official warns US that Trump’s ‘extremely shameless’ tariff war will backfire

April 15, 2025 | 10:31am

A top Chinese official warned on April 15 that President Trump’s “extremely shameless” tariff war would backfire soon — leaving “those peasants in the US” wailing.

Xia Baolong, a senior Chinese official who oversees Hong Kong and Macao, lashed out over Trump’s decision to slap a 145% levy on goods from the region, calling the move “brutally unreasonable.”