China’s $1 trillion surplus—weaponisation of trade & threat for India, US & the world

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China’s exports to the world have increased significantly in the last 30 years, with Beijing’s surplus now crossing the $ 1 trillion-mark. In Episode 1588 of Cut The Clutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains how China weaponised trade to use it as an agent of growth, what it means for the world, particularly India and the US ahead of Trump inauguration.
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Read Keith Bradsher's report in the New York Times 'China’s Trade Surplus Reaches a Record of Nearly $1 Trillion': https://nytimes.com/2025/01/12/busine...
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Read 'China’s trade surplus hits annual record of almost $1tn' by Joe Leahy and Arjun Neil Alim in Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/f71a3570-0...
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Read Robert D. Atkinson's opinion 'We Are in an Industrial War. China Is Starting to Win': https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/op...
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Read FT's 'Will China’s manufacturing juggernaut run out of road?' by Joe Leahy, Tina Hu, and Chan Ho-him: https://www.ft.com/content/9aca35b4-b...
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Read 'The looming trade tensions over China’s subsidies' by FT's Joe Leahy, James Kynge, and Sun Yu: https://www.ft.com/content/a5101a0d-a...
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Read 'China's Flood of Cheap Goods Is Angering Its Allies, Too' by Jason Douglas, Jon Emont and Samantha Pearson in the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china...
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Read 'Made in China 2025' thrives with subsidies for tech, EV makers' by Kenji Kawase: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Busi...
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Link to EU's data on trade with China: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statist...
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Link to Rush Doshi's book 'The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order':   / the-long-game  
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Link to Brad Setser's X account: https://twitter.com/Brad_Setser?t=BdR...
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Link to Trinomics' X handle: https://x.com/Trinhnomics?t=3vNueYPIc...
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