Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated at the BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting in Brazil, perhaps paraphrasing an old English-language idiom (dating back to 1546), but with Chinese characteristics: “The United States has long benefitted immensely from free trade, but now they are using tariffs as leverage to impose sky-high prices on other countries. If we silently make compromises and concessions, the bully, having gained an inch, will take three miles,” the minister said, according to the website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.