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China smashes record with world-first $1 trillion trade surplus

China reaches $1 trillion trade surplus
Shenzchen, China.

China has posted a world-first trade surplus exceeding $1 trillion, with official customs data showing the nation amassed a $1.08 trillion surplus in the first 11 months of 2025 despite global economic turbulence.

The General Administration of Customs reported on Monday that exports rose 6.2% year-on-year to 24.46 trillion yuan ($3.46 trillion), while imports edged up just 0.2% to 16.75 trillion yuan ($2.37 trillion).

November alone delivered a $111.68 billion surplus, one of the highest monthly totals on record.

The surge has been fuelled largely by booming manufactured-goods exports—particularly vehicles—into markets across Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, intensifying competition for industrial rivals such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea.

China’s exports to the EU have more than doubled its imports from the bloc, cementing the EU as Beijing’s second-largest trading partner behind ASEAN.

Meanwhile, shipments to the US have fallen nearly 20% amid ongoing trade tensions, though Washington still ranks as China’s third-largest trading partner over the January–November period.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Internal – external
    Two sides of the same coin
    Will the centre fail to hold up buckle and collapse?
    A lot of conflicting reports coming out of and about China
    Just like the trade data which is often clouded when viewed through a dark lens

  2. Yeah sure as if anything the wizard of Oz says can be believed.China is failing unemployment is off the charts. Businesses are burning literally.These are the reports that are being hidden.China is in financial strife

  3. Evergrande Country Gardens Vanke
    You can’t keep pumping stimulants into a clinically dead and on life support addicted patient when the business model is flawed and proven to have completely failed
    No amount of ‘drip’ will stop the inevitable ‘drop’

  4. China Engages Fire-Control RADAR LOCK on Japan Fighter Jet
    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/china-engages-fire-control-radar-lock-on-japan-fighter-jet
    Quite obvious Japan whose economy is in a perilous state of disrepair and on the verge of collapse now a useful idiot at the beckon and call of Uncle Sam the worlds number one perpetrator of the long war on terror
    Initiated through the fake attacks on 911 when the US attacked itself in order to justify attacking others
    China is not going to and has no intention of invading Taiwan which is all Western propaganda and pivot to Asia
    A stance NZ has to look forward to and in being included
    In the meantime things are hotting up
    Nation against Nation
    The waves and the sea roaring
    At the end of this earth age
    Apocalypse Revelation
    Armageddon
    Kingdom against Kingdom at the end of the next

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