由于中国对其早先行动的反应，特朗普在4月5日威胁要对另外价值1000亿美元的中国出口商品加征额外关税，这表明这一威胁正在升级。
President Donald Trump’s threat on April 5 to impose tariffs on an additional $100 billion of Chinese exports, provoked by China’s response to his own earlier action, points to just this threat of escalation.