<h1>Tariff escalation: China responds with tariffs, export controls, WTO complaints and domestic market support measures.</h1> China has adopted reciprocal trade and regulatory measures in response to tariff escalation, including raising tariffs, imposing export controls on strategic minerals, initiating antitrust probes of specific foreign firms, filing WTO complaints, limiting foreign film imports, and issuing travel advisories. Concurrently, Beijing is pursuing diplomatic outreach, market-stabilization via state financial interventions, and possible monetary policy adjustments, while signalling conditional openness to negotiations conducted on an equal footing.