“Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media,” Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning, referring to himself, characteristically, in the third person. “Only way for me to get the truth out!” Of course, the list of people who would like the president to stop tweeting extends far beyond his “enemies.” His wife, Melania Trump, has urged him to give up the daily habit. His lawyers have begged him to stop, as has Kellyanne Conway’s husband and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (“Do you want to be remembered for your tweets or your accomplishments?”). G.O.P. leadership lives in fear of what he might say next. Polls repeatedly show that voters across the ideological spectrum wish he would give it a rest. Of all the challenges facing newly installed White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, perhaps the most daunting is trying to reform and reorder the West Wing when the president routinely blows up the day’s talking points, resets the news cycle, and undermines his own agenda by going rogue on Twitter.

Even China, a country that prides itself on subtlety in foreign affairs, has apparently reached its breaking point. “Trump is quite a personality, and he likes to tweet,” Xinhua, the official state news agency said Monday in a 1,000-character editorial translated by The New York Times. “But emotional venting cannot become a guiding policy for solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula.”

China’s outburst comes as Trump continues to thrash the country over trade policies, its military presence in the South China Sea, and, most recently, its failure to contain North Korea. “Taking out this outrage on China is clearly finding the wrong target,” said Xinhua. Taming Kim Jong-un, the state news agency added, is not China’s responsibility. “What the peninsula needs is immediately stamping out the fire, not adding kindling or, even worse, pouring oil on the flames,” Xinhua said, warning the U.S. not to “stab China in the back.”

Days earlier, Trump had taken to Twitter to blame China’s handling of North Korea, which shares a border with China and relies on Beijing for trade. “I am very disappointed in China,” the president wrote on Saturday evening. “Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!” Trump’s tweets followed news that North Korea has tested a missile on Friday that could theoretically hit the United States.

Trump’s hard-line response is threatening his relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which until now has been mostly friendly following a chummy summit at Mar-a-Lago in April. At the time of their first meeting, Trump had come away humbled by the knowledge that Xi had imparted: “After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it’s not so easy,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal. “I felt pretty strongly that [China] had a tremendous power over North Korea. But it’s not what you would think.” But as the North Korean crisis has deepened, Trump has lashed out, frustrated that Xi has not handled Kim for him. “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out,” Trump tweeted in June. “At least I know China tried!”

On Monday, Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House that he would “handle” everything. “We’ll handle North Korea. We’ll be able to handle North Korea. It will be handled. We handle everything,” he repeated.