India, May 30 -- US President Donald Trump on Friday accused China of violating its tariff deal with them, and added that he would no longer be "nice" on trade matters, reigniting tensions between the countries.

In a post on TruthSocial, Trump said, "Two weeks ago China was in grave economic danger! The very high Tariffs I set made it virtually impossible for China to TRADE into the United States marketplace which is, by far, number one in the World. We went, in effect, COLD TURKEY with China, and it was devastating for them. Many factories closed and there was, to put it mildly, "civil unrest." I saw what was happening and didn't like it, for them, not for us."

"I made a FAST DEAL with China in order to save them from what I thought wa...