{"id":75576,"date":"2025-12-09T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/09\/chinas-record-high-trade-surplus-reveals-the-difficulty-trump-will-have-in-rebalancing-global-economy"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:52:19","slug":"chinas-record-trade-surplus-reveals-its-biggest-strength-and-hidden-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75576","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s record trade surplus reveals its biggest strength \u2013 and hidden weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Booming Chinese exports have driven trade surplus past $1tn but also reveal the extent of country\u2019s reliance on foreign markets<\/p>\n<p>A boom in exports that has pushed China\u2019s trade surplus past $1tn for the first time reveals the extent to which its economy is still overwhelmingly reliant on foreign markets \u2013 and the difficulty figures like Donald Trump will have in trying to rebalance global trade.<\/p>\n<p>Data released on Monday shows that in the first 11 months of this year, China\u2019s trade surplus in goods was $1.076tn. The record trade surplus comes even as exports to the US have plummeted, a reflection of the bruising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/13\/why-us-china-trade-war-restarted-tariffs\">US-China trade war<\/a> that, despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/29\/trump-xi-talks-rare-earths-tariffs-us-china\">recent cooling<\/a>, has dampened the flow of goods between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/09\/chinas-record-high-trade-surplus-reveals-the-difficulty-trump-will-have-in-rebalancing-global-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booming Chinese exports have driven trade surplus past $1tn but also reveal the extent of country\u2019s reliance on foreign marketsA boom in exports that has pushed China\u2019s trade surplus past $1tn for the first time reveals the extent to which its economy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,50,437,558,557,3280,3279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75576","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75576\/revisions\/75577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}