“Lets up the ante”
That is what I expect - just how the Administration will do so is the real mystery.
Nobody saw the Houston Consulate closing coming. The next escalation could be from a very different angle.
One rumor, is a US travel ban on all 92 million members of the Chinese communist Party, and their family members - revoking all their existing visas, pulling the kids out of school, disrupting their businesses, etc..
There would be hell to pay back home, for Winnie the Xi, trying to ‘splain that to all the aggravated rank and file.
Fact is, China has many many big problems. Many foreign businesses are leaving, the rainy season is killing them. They soon will come begging Trump for food stuffs to feed their people, if they can keep them under control?