China's official newspaper on Monday accused the US President of acting like a street fighter by imposing import tariffs and said Beijing would not surrender to his "extortion".

The attack on Donald Trump comes after Washington and Beijing last week exchanged fresh threats of imposing new tariffs, as part of a trade war kicked-off by the US on July 6, Efe news reported. An editorial of People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, said that the US President was starring in his own "street fighter-style deceitful drama of extortion and intimidation".