US obsessed with breaking rules to show who's boss

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the eyes of the current US administration, every time its "America first" hegemonic behavior suffers a setback when dealing with other countries, it always likes to accuse them of breaking the rules. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

For more than a year, the United States has wantonly brandished its tariff stick, stirring up trade disputes across the world like a bull in a china shop. By sabotaging the rules-based multilateral trading system as it likes, the US has become the biggest troublemaker in the international community.

The essence of the China-US trade dispute is the US bypassing the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement mechanism. Imposing tariffs on Chinese goods on a large scale without the authorization of the WTO disregards the US' own commitments to the WTO and willfully overrides the international rules.