The growing trade and tech war between Washington and Beijing has been characterised by fierce rhetorical broadsides from both sides of the dispute.
But on Chinese social media, especially among those working in the country’s tech industry, some are adopting a more humorous approach to the commercial stand-off, even though it threatens to create a rift in the global economy not seen since the end of the cold war.
In one joke that has gone viral on WeChat, China’s most popular social media app, China and the US are each allotted scores for every time they have blocked a company from the other country from entering their respective markets.