Greatest pressure to ‘come from changes within the US’, Zheng Yongnian says, urging China to expand opening up as a countermeasure.

For a man once deified by conservatives, the economist Milton Friedman barely gets a look these days. Andrew MacDougall is a director at Trafalgar Strategy, a U.K.-based consultancy and is a former director of communications to former prime minister Stephen Harper.

Elon Musk has personally appealed to China's premier, Li Qiang, for permission to proceed with what Tesla calls Full Self-Driving as the company's market share in China has dwindled. Some experts have suggested that Beijing may be able to turn Musk into an influential ally in trying to persuade Trump to take a more conciliatory approach on trade.