Looking at Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Boao Forum speech, what America really wants, and why it is not a good time for China to get into a trade war (if ever). Still time to defuse this spat, but few reasons today for optimism.

For a nation that prides itself on liberty, freedom and prosperity, the US’ choice of Donald Trump as its 45th President confused many. Almost a year and a half into his presidency, Trump has set his sights on finally catching his biggest and greatest ‘white whale’: China.

Until Donald Trump announced steep tariffs on steel imports into the US, he used to talk about the metal a lot.