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China’s trade surplus with the US soars as president’s term ends.
By Bloomberg News
12 Jan 2021
06:38
President Donald Trump. Image: Win McNamee/Getty Images
US President Donald Trump famously tweeted that âtrade wars are good, and easy to winâ in 2018 as he began to impose tariffs on about $360 billion of imports from China. Turns out he was wrong on both counts.
Even before the coronavirus infected millions of Americans and sparked the steepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, China was withstanding Trumpâs tariff salvos, according to the very metrics he used to justify them. Once China got the virus under control, demand for medical equipment and work-from-home gear expanded its trade surplus with the US despite the levies.