‘Various Tricks,’ ‘Unimaginable Conflicts’

Markets heard from Wang Yi on Thursday. Wang can be a little -- how should I put this? -- severe. That's good. Wang's severe. America, he chided, during an annual press event in Beijing, is devising "various tricks" aimed at oppressing China's economic ambitions. Washington's list of unilateral sanctions is getting longer, and by now is "unfathomably absurd." He said the US is "obsessed" with keeping China relegated to the bottom of the value chain, an effort he suggested will ultimately prove