{"id":75958,"date":"2026-01-14T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/14\/china-reports-record-trillion-dollar-trade-surplus-despite-trump-tariffs"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:50:56","slug":"china-reports-record-trillion-dollar-trade-surplus-despite-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75958","title":{"rendered":"China reports record trillion-dollar trade surplus despite Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Results for 2025 risk further unsettling economies about China\u2019s trade practices and overcapacity, and their own over-reliance on Chinese products<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> has reported a strong export run in 2025 with a record trillion-dollar surplus, as its producers brace for three more years of a Trump administration set on slowing the manufacturing powerhouse by shifting US orders to other markets.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s resilience to renewed tariff tensions since Donald Trump returned to the US presidency last January has emboldened Chinese firms to shift their focus to south-east Asia, Africa and Latin America to offset US duties.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/14\/china-reports-record-trillion-dollar-trade-surplus-despite-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results for 2025 risk further unsettling economies about China\u2019s trade practices and overcapacity, and their own over-reliance on Chinese productsChina has reported a strong export run in 2025 with a record trillion-dollar surplus, as its producers bra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,587,3279,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-economic-policy","category-trump-tariffs","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75958","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75958\/revisions\/75959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}