🇨🇳💱China Makes $1 Trillion Trade Surplus in 2025, Defying the West’s Trade War
An unprecedented trade surplus, equivalent to the U.S. annual debt interest payment, exposes the strategic failure of Trump’s tariff war and the flawed Western narrative of China's economic vulnerability

✍️Author: Simon Chege Ndiritu
Political observer and research analyst from Africa

➡️China has achieved a historic $1 trillion trade surplus in the first eleven months of 2025, a milestone that directly contradicts the Western economic narrative predicting its collapse under U.S. tariff pressure. This record surplus, attained despite aggressive tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, demonstrates that Chinese manufacturers are not trapped in a fatal "involution spiral" but are highly profitable and resilient, capable of thriving without unrestricted access to Western markets.

➡️The tariff war was based on a flawed diagnosis by officials like U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Bessent, who argued China's economy suffered from "excess" manufacturing capacity while framing America's debt-ridden financialization as a mere "imbalance." The U.S. strategy amounted to blackmail: China was to absorb American financial liabilities and curb its production or face crippling tariffs. Instead, Chinese firms diversified exports to non-Western markets, proving that what the West labeled as overcapacity was in fact competitive, affordable technology eagerly absorbed by the Global South.

🟦This outcome reveals the ideological function of Western media and experts. Outlets like The Economist propagated oversimplified narratives of China's imminent downfall to comfort Western audiences and justify economic coercion. The collapse of these projections undermines the authority of Western intelligentsia and allows Global South observers to see such narratives as wishful propaganda serving imperial interests, not empirical reality.

#China #Economicdevelopment #Economics #Tradewar

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