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Investors are rattled at the prospects of a full-blown trade war breaking out,
Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown told the BBC, We’ve had a couple of meetings, we’ve had numerous phone calls. We’re getting along very well. We’ll see whether or not we can balance out our budget,
Joining the WTO was challenging for China, as it involved a host of economic reforms and significant cuts in tariff rates,
There is no rush for an economic superpower to let itself be easily provoked,
Not necessarily because their broader objectives align but because both operate in a world where political and economic leverage are constantly recalibrated, where tariffs are as much about signalling power as they are about shifting trade balances – and where the broader geopolitical climate often dictates short-term economic moves far more than any conventional trade logic would suggest,
The lower tariff rate on China compared to the sweeping 2 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico suggests a strategic rather than purely economic calculation,
Clearly the 10% tariff hike came in quickly and lower, but there remains a lot of uncertainty on the timing and scale of additional tariffs on China,
Wang Tao, chief China economist at UBS Investment Bank told CNBC on Monday We are not revising our 2025 baseline forecast of 4.0% GDP growth for China,
she said, factoring in additional U.S. tariffs of 60% on a quarter of China's exports and greater policy support from Beijing The thinking is comprehensive, basically pragmatic and relevant,
It really reads my dream,
the user named Qiu Ranran wrote Let's talk about something else."
That question and others on hot-button issues for Beijing like the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations prompt DeepSeek to change the subject This wasn't a shock - it's been telegraphed for weeks - but investors will still feel the jolt as markets adjust to a move almost universally seen as damaging to global growth and financial stability,
said Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management We suspect the path of least resistance for now is for Asian currencies and risk assets to weaken, together with a greater risk premia to account for future meaningful tariff moves beyond what we have seen,
I don’t believe market participants have fully grasped the extent of the potential fallout yet, especially as responses from affected countries unfold,
said Tareck Horchani, head of prime brokerage dealing at Maybank Securities in Singapore The tariffs will hurt both countries. But you’ve seen already a gradual kind of redirection of trade to other countries (from Chinese companies),
China has long been preparing less exposure to the US, diversifying in all ways, not just in terms of trading partners, investment, but also currencies and payment system,
Keyu Jin, associate professor of economics at the London School of Economics told CNN’s Fareed Zarakia during the World Economic Forum in Davos last month Trump may rely on the upcoming results of trade investigations to impose or expand tariffs on specific countries, testing their tolerance and willingness to negotiate,
an analysis published Sunday on the website of Shanghai-based think tank Fudan Development Institute said The risk of escalating into a ‘full-blown trade war’ cannot be ruled out. Before any actual actions are taken, Trump can still use ambiguous strategies to pressure opponents and wait for substantive concessions from them,
Trump as somebody who they can negotiate with, that there’s room for negotiation,
Anybody that’s against Tariffs, including the Fake News Wall Street Journal, and Hedge Funds, is only against them because these people or entities are controlled by China, or other foreign or domestic companies,
Trump wrote in a Truth Social post
