{"id":584644,"date":"2026-07-14T05:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584644\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:49:12","slug":"chinas-trade-expands-on-ai-boom-offsetting-weak-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584644\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s trade expands on AI boom, offsetting weak sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Exports rise 27% in June, while imports jump 36% on higher chip prices<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F0%2F2%2F2%2F7%2F12797220-1-eng-GB%2F39384991fc5a-2026-06-30T024448Z_758476686_RC2A4LA04VTX_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-TARIFFS-CHINA.JPG?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260713 China trade June\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Stacked\u00a0shipping\u00a0containers at Yangshan Port outside Shanghai on\u00a0May 7. China&#8217;s total trade rose 21% year-on-year in\u00a0the first half of 2026, thanks to AI-related industries. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>CK TAN<\/p>\n<p>July 14, 2026 12:04 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on July 14, 2026 13:50 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; China&#8217;s trade surged in the first six months of 2026, riding global investment in artificial intelligence-related industries to overcome geopolitical uncertainty and offset sluggish domestic household consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Exports rise 27% in June, while imports jump 36% on higher chip prices Stacked\u00a0shipping\u00a0containers at Yangshan Port&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,8532,16268,18,27552,19,17,248357,29725,82,1997,124179],"class_list":["post-584644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-boom","tag-chinas","tag-eire","tag-expands","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-offsetting","tag-sectors","tag-technology","tag-trade","tag-weak"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584644","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=584644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}