Beijing is not going to surrender.
China's leader Xi Jinping told the visiting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday that his country and the European Union should "jointly resist the unilateral bullying practices" of the Trump administration.
Sanchez, in turn, said that China's trade tensions with the US should not impede its cooperation with Europe.
Their meeting took place in the Chinese capital in the hours before Beijing again increased its tariffs on goods from the US - though it has said it will not respond to further US tariff increases.
Next week Xi will visit Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia. These are all countries which have been hit hard by Trump's tariffs.
His ministers have been meeting counterparts from South Africa, Saudi Arabia and India, talking up greater trade co-operation.
In addition, China and the EU are reportedly in talks about potentially removing European tariffs on Chinese cars, to be replaced by a minimum price instead, to rein in a new round of dumping.
In short, wherever you look, you can see that China has options.
And analysts have said that these mutual tariff increases by the two superpowers are now becoming almost meaningless, as they've already passed the point of cutting out much of the trade between them.
So, the tit-for-tat tariff increases in both directions have become more like symbolism.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning has, over the past two days, posted images of Chairman Mao on social media, including a clip during the Korean War when he told the US that "no matter how long this war lasts we will never yield".
Above this, she posted her own comments, saying: "We are Chinese. We are not afraid of provocations. We won't back down."
When the Chinese government wheels out Chairman Mao, you know they're getting serious.
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