Thursday, April 16, 2026

China's Economy Grows Faster Than Expected

China's economy grew faster than expected in the first three months of the year, even as countries around the world feel the impact of the US-Israel war with Iran.

Comments

Pres Trump touts the decline in imports for the US as a consequence of his tariffs.

But what he fails to note is that World Trade seems now to be bypassing the US.

And China seems to be the main beneficiary of that new routing of world trade.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-16 12:29 AM

@#1

World Trade Without the US
www.cato.org

... As the Trump administration imposes a barrage of illegal and unprecedented tariffs on an ever-increasing number of imported products, the rest of the world is showing that it can continue trading despite these tariffs and without the United States.

Other countries are lowering trade barriers with each other by concluding new bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements, and exporters are reconfiguring supply chains to route around American protectionism.

Regardless of whether the United States remains indispensable to the global economy, international trade is still happening -- and it is happening increasingly without the United States. ...

[emphasis mine]

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-16 12:34 AM

Gotta wonder if China's gains are simply the offset of our losses...

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-16 07:49 PM

re: #3 Snoofy

Bingo!

Trump's fault

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-04-16 08:41 PM

WOW! Imagine tha!. Sooooooo...so...so... unexpected! Gasp!OMG etc.!

Honestly... for much of its long... long... looooooooong history... China had been the economic superpower. It had a couple of bad centuries... is all. All that decadent Euro-trash invasion activities... 'n such.

Ergo... not at all surprising and why not? Their population is HUGE... Baby is making new shoes... they need the YUAN!!!!

#5 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-04-17 08:11 AM

Check it out....www.youtube.com

USA... has been living on bluff... for 8 decades... because we're the only nation cray cray enough to drop a nuke.

It is interesting to note that when China started failing was when England was in cahoots with India and the "opium years".

China has always been in the top ten... usually 5 or above.

What goes around comes around... decadence comes before a fall.

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-04-17 08:41 AM

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