After witnessing the effects of a tumultuous trade war with the United States this year, China\u2019s top leaders have issued a directive to fortify the domestic economy against persistent or even heightened trade frictions.<\/p>\n
Following the annual central economic work conference<\/a>, which concluded on Thursday and set the agenda for 2026, officials emphasised \u201cbetter coordinating domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles\u201d, anchoring a pro-growth strategy for the start of leadership\u2019s 15th five-year planning period<\/a>.<\/p>\n Analysts said the use of the word \u201cstruggles\u201d suggests Beijing has assessed that trade frictions could endure and expand beyond the US, including with other partners such as the European Union.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough \u2018stabilising foreign trade\u2019 and \u2018stabilising foreign investment\u2019 have been addressed to varying degrees each year \u2026 their importance and urgency [in 2026] remain no less significant than in 2025,\u201d said economists led by Lian Ping, chairman of the China Chief Economists Forum, in a Friday note.<\/p>\n The defensive posture comes even as China posted a record trade surplus of US$1.076 trillion<\/a> in the first 11 months of this year, despite trade war volatility following US President Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House.Following the work conference, leadership\u2019s call to \u201caccelerate the establishment of a new development paradigm\u201d underscored the push for a dual-circulation model<\/a> that balances external resilience with internal strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After witnessing the effects of a tumultuous trade war with the United States this year, China\u2019s top leaders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[58126,2786,1793,79,381,122811,122872,356,179,18,2219,42299,122870,55893,19,17,122807,36845,36844,53585,2711,46956,21768,54749,2792,22890,3429,1294,40672,122871],"class_list":{"0":"post-229720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-anz","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-china-chief-economists-forum","14":"tag-china-europe-international-business-school","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-greater-china","20":"tag-guo-jiakun","21":"tag-he-lifeng","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-lian-ping","25":"tag-louise-loo","26":"tag-oxford-economics","27":"tag-pan-gongsheng","28":"tag-peoples-bank-of-china","29":"tag-peoples-daily","30":"tag-qinghai-tibet-railway","31":"tag-raymond-yeung","32":"tag-shanghai","33":"tag-the-united-states","34":"tag-trade-war","35":"tag-uk","36":"tag-xinhua","37":"tag-zhu-tian"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115708338159597263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}