In response to President Trump’s claim, China said the United States was the one introducing a series of “discriminatory restrictive measures.”

China and the United States are accusing each other of reneging on their tariff truce as tensions rise over rare earths exports, computer chips and student visas.

China has pushed back against President Trump’s accusation that it broke a trade truce reached weeks earlier, as a re-escalation of tensions dims hopes of a resolution. Beijing has acted responsibly and upheld the consensus reached at the economic and trade talks in Geneva,