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Can China's Trade Surplus Maintain Its Record-Breaking $1 Trillion Momentum?
China's trade surplus surpassed a historic milestone, exceeding $1 trillion in the first 11 months of 2025. This record underscores a major structural shift, as growth is now driven by high-value exports like electric vehicles, photovoltaics, and lithium batteries—collectively termed the "New Three"—rather than traditional labor-intensive goods. Trade relations have also realigned, with deepening integration in the EU and Southeast Asia through supply-chain synergy and investment, while cross-border e-commerce platforms have emerged as a powerful new force in global trade.
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Global Tech Competition and China’s Tech Supply Chain Security
This article analyzes how intensifying U.S.–China technology competition is reshaping global supply chains, with AI chips, rare earth materials, and industrial sovereignty at the center. It examines China’s response to U.S. export controls, highlighting accelerated domestic innovation in GPUs, cloud infrastructure, and AI hardware, as well as the strategic leverage provided by China’s dominance in rare earth processing.
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Is China Entering a New Era of High-Quality Development?
According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) 2024 report, China’s GDP reached approximately 13.49 trillion yuan in 2024, growing 5.0% year-on-year. Manufacturing, modern services, and the digital economy steadily advanced, continuously optimizing the industrial structure. High-tech and green industries have accelerated as new growth drivers. Despite challenges from exports, real estate, and the international environment, China is actively promoting a more balanced and sustainable economic growth model through structural adjustment, technological innovation, and green transformation.
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China vs. India -- A Practical Comparison
The article provides a comprehensive comparison of the economies and demographics of China and India. It highlights key differences and similarities between the two nations, focusing on aspects such as GDP, economic growth, population trends, workforce dynamics, urbanization, and their respective growth trajectories.
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