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Chinese premier cites damage from US tariffs, as China's surplus surpasses $1 trillion

China's premier says higher tariffs have dealt a "severe blow" to the world economy, even as China's own trade surplus has surged past $1 trillion. Read More

China urges trade partners against tariffs as record surplus stirs tensions

China's Premier Li Qiang urged trading partners to reject rising protectionism, a day after the world's second-largest economy posted a record $1 trillion trade surplus driven by a rush of exports to ... Read More

China Reveals Unease Over Trade in Next Year’s Economic Roadmap

China’s top leaders are signaling they are on alert for a potential flareup of tensions in global commerce as they draw up economic plans for next year, after amassing a record trade surplus despite ... Read More

Trump Insists Tariffs Will Buoy the Economy. For Now, He’s on Damage Control.

The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon. Read More

China's trade surplus tops $1trn for the first time despite US tariff war

The value of China's trade surplus has topped $1trillion for the first time, despite US President Donald Trump's barrage of tariffs on the world's biggest exporter. Read More

China's Li says tariff consequences increasingly evident

BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) - China's Premier Li Qiang said on Tuesday the "mutually destructive consequences of tariffs have become increasingly evident" over 2025, in remarks at a "1+10 Dialogue" ... Read More

China’s trade surplus with the world tops $1 trillion, despite tariffs

Chinese exports to the United States continued to crater last month, but the drop was made up by booming sales in Southeast Asia and Europe. Read More

If you think Trump’s China deal is the end of the story, you haven’t been paying attention

Financial markets kicked off the week by gleefully cheering the weekend’s headlines that trade talks between the United States and China went smoothly. Just weeks earlier, Trump had threatened to ... Read More

What’s going on with U.S. tariffs on the world’s No. 2 economy

The Fed's monetary-policy makers are working to figure out the economic impact of the Trump administration's tariffs, and a key factor on that front is the size of the import taxes levied on Chinese ... Read More

A Trump-Xi trade deal won’t fix either country’s economy

The extraordinary trade war President Donald Trump unleashed has been taking a toll on the Chinese and American economies. China is in a far more precarious state, mostly due to preexisting problems, ... Read More

The Chinese economy will slow in the year ahead

Three questions loom over China’s economy in 2026. Will retail sales suffer from a period of “payback”, as consumers refrain from replacing cars, phones and appliances upgraded in 2025 with the help ... Read More