Abhimanyu Bose With Inputs From Reuters

Some damage to Sino-US ties is "beyond repair" amid a new wave of Trump administration measures to counter China, Chinese state media warned, amid growing rancour underlined by an ugly Twitter spat between a U.S. senator and Chinese journalists.

Cambridge Analytica, the UK-based firm in the centre of the Facebook data breach row, announced on Wednesday that it would cease operations and declare bankruptcy in the United States and United Kingdom. But UK's data regulator and a committee of lawmakers looking into the firm have said that investigations into Cambridge Analytica will continue.

Some damage to Sino-US ties is "beyond repair" amid a new wave of Trump administration measures to counter China, Chinese state media warned, amid growing rancour underlined by an ugly Twitter spat between a U.S. senator and Chinese journalists.

Cambridge Analytica, the UK-based firm in the centre of the Facebook data breach row, announced on Wednesday that it would cease operations and declare bankruptcy in the United States and United Kingdom. But UK's data regulator and a committee of lawmakers looking into the firm have said that investigations into Cambridge Analytica will continue.