The U.S. Republican Party has come out guns blazing against China in its latest party platform — a marked contrast from the softer tone of its last charter in 2012.

The 2016 platform, released late Monday, appears to seize on the populist sentiment that catapulted Donald Trump to the Republican Party presidential nomination at the party's national convention Tuesday in Cleveland.

Republicans formally tapped Trump as their nominee after a turbulent campaign that saw Trump vanquish 16 rivals and quell intraparty opposition.