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Trade Tensions

Merz trades blows with Beijing over export flood

July 27, 2026July 3, 2026 by Tom Harper
Friedrich Merz | Germany | China

What is clear is that the relationship between Europe and China ‘is entering a contentious stage’

Categories Behind The News Tags Beijing, Currency Clash, European Union, The Conversation, The Long Read, Trade Tensions Leave a comment

Beijing’s trade drive exposes Global South lie

June 30, 2026June 29, 2026 by China Factor Staff
China | Exports | Global South

Nations ‘fear that China’s economic rise will not leave room for them to industrialize’

Categories Talking Point Tags China, Europe Backlash, Export Surge, News, Trade Tensions, United States Leave a comment

Europe’s squeezed between China and the United States

June 29, 2026June 5, 2026 by Kerry Brown
China | Europe | United States

Forget the ‘often-floated idea of a G2,’ there needs to be talk of a G3 that includes Europe

Categories Commentary Tags China, EU, News, The Conversations, The Long Read, Trade Tensions, UK, United States Leave a comment

President Trump must stop making China great again

May 7, 2026May 6, 2026 by China Factor Staff
Trump | Your Move | Xi

He needs to start acting like a shrewd statesman in his face-to-face talks with Xi after Iran fiasco

Categories Talking Point Tags Beijing, Iran War, News, Trade Tensions, Washington Leave a comment

China must trade in its export model to survive

March 22, 2026February 19, 2026 by China Factor Staff

IMF warns that the world’s second-largest economy needs to increase consumption and domestic demand

Categories Talking Point Tags Beijing, Export Boom, News, State Subsidies, Trade Tensions, US$1.2 Trillion Surplus Leave a comment

China’s record trade surplus fuels global jitters

January 16, 2026January 15, 2026 by China Factor Staff

The loudest complaints about Beijing’s surplus are expected from the European Union

Categories Talking Point Tags Beijing, Export Flood, News, Tariffs War, Trade Tensions Leave a comment

TikTok ‘deal’ fails to ease US-China trade war fears 

September 17, 2025September 16, 2025 by China Factor Staff

‘The goal was to break the deadlock’ in economic relations,’ but again there was no ‘breakthrough’

Categories Talking Point Tags ByteDance, Communist Party of China, News, Tariff Wars, Trade Tensions Leave a comment

40 million low-paid workers power China’s smart factories

September 9, 2025September 8, 2025 by China Factor Staff

They earn slightly more than US$3 a day feeding the country’s enormous export machine

Categories Talking Point Tags Communist Party of China, High-Tech Development, News, President Xi Jinping, Trade Tensions Leave a comment

Xi and Modi make strange political bedfellows

September 9, 2025September 1, 2025 by China Factor Staff

China’s president whips up a new Cold War after smiling and joking with the Indian prime minister

Categories Talking Point Tags China, India, News, Russia, Trade Tensions, United States Leave a comment

What will come after the trade war and the China split

September 15, 2025August 20, 2025 by Michael Froman

A return to the status quo is impossible with both Washington and Beijing

Categories Commentary Tags China, Council on Foreign Relations, News, The Long Read, Trade Tensions, United States Leave a comment
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