{"id":376679,"date":"2018-09-09T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-china-surplus-with-us-hits-record-in-blow-to-trump-war\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:20:49","slug":"presstv-china-surplus-with-us-hits-record-in-blow-to-trump-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-china-surplus-with-us-hits-record-in-blow-to-trump-war\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-China surplus with US hits record in blow to Trump war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>China&#8217;s trade surplus with the United States has hit a record in August despite a decline in the country\u2019s export growth amid a trade war between the world&#8217;s two largest economies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to new figures released on Saturday, China\u2019s surplus reached $31.05 billion, surpassing its $28.09 billion record in July.<\/p>\n<p>The new figures are expected to enrage the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who only hours earlier threatened to slap more import tariffs on Chinese goods, worth half a trillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the tariffs targeting $50 billion of Chinese exports only in August, China\u2019s exports to the United States still accelerated, growing more than 13 percent from a year earlier from 11.2 percent in July.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has long criticized China\u2019s huge trade surplus with the United States and has demanded Beijing reduce it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Trump asked Beijing to cut its massive surplus with the US by $200 billion a year and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/08\/573522\/China-US-trade-surplus\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s trade surplus with the United States has hit a record in August despite a decline in the country\u2019s export growth amid a trade war between the world&#8217;s two largest economies. According to new figures released on Saturday, China\u2019s surplus reached $31.05 billion, surpassing its $28.09 billion record in July. The new figures are expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}