China has come to the table - but this fight with the US is far from over

Beijing can claim its defiance has delivered a battle victory in the trade war.

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It has prompted viral memes of Trump waiting for the Chinese leader to call.

"We will not back down," has been an almost daily message from Beijing's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As the tariffs and the rhetoric from Washington escalated, China dug its heels in.

Even as Chinese officials headed to Switzerland for talks, a state-run social media account published a cartoon of the US Treasury secretary pushing an empty shopping trolley.

There were even conflicting versions of who initiated the talks in Geneva.