{"id":71056,"date":"2025-04-15T03:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/14\/the-sky-wont-fall-china-plays-down-trump-tariff-risks"},"modified":"2025-04-15T03:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:16:59","slug":"the-sky-wont-fall-china-plays-down-trump-tariff-risks-as-stock-markets-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71056","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The sky won\u2019t fall\u2019: China plays down Trump tariff risks as stock markets rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese customs official says trade has diversified away from US in recent years and plays up its \u2018vast domestic market\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> has played down the risk of damage to its exports from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a>, with an official saying the \u201csky won\u2019t fall,\u201d as stock markets rose amid signs of a retreat on electronics restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The US president claimed his strategy was working on Monday, with record levels of investment. Addressing reporters at the White House, he continued to threaten new tariffs on pharmaceutical goods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/14\/the-sky-wont-fall-china-plays-down-trump-tariff-risks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese customs official says trade has diversified away from US in recent years and plays up its \u2018vast domestic market\u2019China has played down the risk of damage to its exports from Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, with an official saying the \u201csky won\u2019t fall,\u201d a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,556,415,437,558,557,600,3280,554,3279,1803,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-stock-markets","category-tariffs","category-trump-administration","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-economy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71062,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71056\/revisions\/71062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}