Trump, China

EU Debates Dropping China Trade Case, Frustrating Trump Advisers
The European Union is debating whether to drop a sensitive trade investigation against China over alleged coercive activity targeting Lithuania, a prospect that’s frustrated officials in Washington, where the incoming Trump team sees it as capitulation to Beijing.
Trump's China Trade Surplus Challenge
On the eve of Donald Trump’s White House return, the Chinese government announced that last year it recorded a trade surplus of almost $1 trillion, a third of which was with the US.
Trump upended trade once, aims to do so again with new tariffs
Donald Trump came to Washington eight years ago vowing to rewrite U.S. trade relationships, shrink a massive goods trade deficit and rebuild America's industrial base with new tariffs. The president-elect is about to embark on an even more aggressive effort in his second term,
US-China Trade Fight Starts Early, Paving Way for Trump Tariffs
Even before Donald Trump takes office on Monday, trade tensions between the world’s biggest economies are already heating up.
US-China trade tensions heat up ahead of president Trump’s tariffs
Trade between the world’s two largest economies is on the brink of chaos again. The outgoing Biden administration has turned up the heat in its final days, handing Trump a loaded gun in the form of sweeping restrictions directed at Beijing.

China, GDP

Live Q&A: How Trump’s Trade War Rhetoric on China Affects Everyone
Bloomberg reporters answer questions about how Trump’s promises to raise tariffs on China could lead to a trade war with ...
China kicks off subsidised auto trade-ins
China's commerce ministry kicked off subsidised auto trade-ins on Friday, extending a program likened to the U.S.
China’s Africa imports rise, but will 2025 headwinds halt the continent’s trade gains?
Boost in commodities demand helps narrow Africa’s China trade deficit as nations urge more imports of processed goods.
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As trade tensions escalate, here’s what’s inside China’s trade war playbook
After all, China’s been dealing with U.S. tariffs on its exports ever since the first Trump administration. And in years since that administration first levied tariffs on imports from China, the ...
China’s Trade Surplus Reaches a Record of Nearly $1 Trillion
China’s vast exports in 2024 exceeded its imports on a scale seldom seen anywhere except during or immediately after the two ...
Renewed US Trade War Threatens China's 'Lifeline'
China might not be able to rely on trade to steer it out of trouble as blistering tariffs being considered by US ...
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China posts record trade surplus as export wave finds shores outside US
Buttressed by a massive spike in exports, all-time highs in car and computer chip shipments and its largest-ever share of ...
US Trade Representative says China's shipbuilding sector hurts US, is actionable
The U.S. Trade Representative said its trade probe of China's dominance of the maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sector is ...