China’s government said Tuesday it will “resolutely take countermeasures” if President Trump carries out his threat to impose an extra 50% tariff on Chinese goods, Axios reports.

In a sign that the trade war with Beijing will not end any time soon, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a statement carried by state media: “China will fight until the end if the U.S. side is bent on going down the wrong path.”

Playbook: “The big — if unsurprising — news out of Beijing last night was that the Chinese government is not backing down in its escalating standoff with Trump. China responded to last week’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcement with new trade barriers of its own — further enraging the U.S. president and triggering a threat of even bigger tariffs on Chinese goods. But Beijing is refusing to budge, and this could all get real messy, real fast.”

Seward Prasad: “Rather than fixing the rules that some U.S. trading partners took advantage of, Trump has chosen to blow up the entire system. He has taken the hatchet to trade with practically every major U.S. trading partner, sparing neither allies nor rivals. China now faces high tariffs, yes, but so do Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Long-standing, mutually beneficial economic relationships and geopolitical alliances have counted for little.”

“Many people hope that Trump’s tariffs will prove ephemeral—that, confronted with tanking stocks and rising prices, Washington will roll the restrictions back. It is possible that the White House will lower some of its rates, especially as countries lobby for exemptions. But the reality is that the age of free trade is unlikely to come back. Instead, any haggling between Trump and other states will shape an emerging economic system defined by protectionism, tensions, and transactions. The result will not be more jobs, as Trump has pledged. It will be turbulence for all, and for years to come.”

Tom Nichols: “The Danes seem to believe him, and so should Americans.”

China says it “will fight to the end” if Trump follows through on his threat to raise the tariff on Chinese goods by an additional 50%, the Wall Street Journal reports.