China’s 2025 Trade Surplus Hit $1.2 Trillion
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China's super $1.2 tn surplus also tells us about unresolved contradictions in its economic model
China's record $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025 highlights a savings-investment imbalance, not just export strength. Despite tariffs and global slowdown, China rerouted exports and established overseas production,
China has just crossed a threshold no other major economy has reached, turning a year of global uncertainty into a historic windfall. Its trade surplus has surged past one trillion dollars even as growth slows at home, prices wobble between deflation and ...
It is also the world’s top exporter, with a sizable lead over the U.S. And those exports have been growing by leaps and bounds — in spite of all of the tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed on Chinese exports to the U.