Donald Trump, once more, is moving to slash imports from China. Just like in his first term, the returning U.S. president wants to decouple from the world’s second-largest economy and establish self-sufficiency in key strategic sectors.

China’s top diplomat presented the country as a force for stability, as Donald Trump shakes up the world economy with tariffs and rattles allies with overtures to Russia.

China’s economy faces a lingering property slump, chronic deflation and an intensifying trade war. The government’s response has too much of what Mr Trump sorely lacks: caution. In his report, China’s prime minister announced the same official economic growth target as last year: about 5%.