China also has a strong distaste for Trump’s negotiating style, which is to curse, blast and push adversaries around to achieve maximum concessions, Wu said. Such tactics reinforce China’s impression that the U.S. is trying to block its development.

China “is not afraid of any unreasonable suppression,” the country’s president Xi Jinping said Friday in his first public comments on tariffs since Trump began hiking them last week. He did not mention the U.S. by name.

“Regardless of how…