China has ordered major state-run companies to suspend some agricultural commodity purchases from the United States, including soybeans.

According to Arabia Net, China is currently assessing tensions with Washington regarding Hong Kong.

Chinese buyers, too, have canceled an unspecified number of orders to supply American pork, Bloomberg News reported, citing unnamed sources.

Beijing has threatened Washington to retaliate in the wake of President Donald Trump's announcement of restrictions on Chinese students in the United States in protest of a new national security law in Hong Kong, according to Reuters. p>

Trump had announced that the United States would prevent some Chinese graduate students from entering the United States and would begin to revoke the special privileges granted to Hong Kong in relation to commercial fees and other sectors, in Time is running out of Beijing with a controversial security law.

The US President said that the Chinese government is detracting from the status of the long-standing status of the city, but China has reacted angrily to the US measures, considering that it harms the two sides. p>