China news roundup / Nachrichten 2025-10-14/15

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bossel5.1 K6 days ago4 min read

China consumer prices drop more than expected in September, staying in deflationary territory

"China’s consumer prices fell more than expected in September, while the deflation in producer prices persisted, underscoring the impact of sluggish domestic demand and trade worries on consumer and business sentiment.
The consumer price index fell 0.3% in September from a year earlier
[...] China’s producer price index dropped 2.3% from a year ago"

--- Obviously all signs of a healthy economy growing by 5%.

China to keep its 'all about production' economic playbook as rivalry with US intensifies

"China's next five-year plan, the closely watched policy document that the October 20-23 plenum will produce for parliamentary approval in March, will "definitely emphasise, and re-emphasise, support for high-tech research and industrial development,"
[...] A generation who studied for highly skilled and well-paid service sector jobs, which a consumption-driven growth model had better chances of creating, faces limited opportunities."If you only rely on external demand and domestic demand is not working, then you will have unemployment problems and also deflation,""

--- This is how it is, and that's how it will most probably stay.

China’s rare-earths power move jolted Trump but was years in the making

" Beijing’s dramatic expansion of export restrictions on rare earths Thursday — two weeks before Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to meet — took the White House by surprise. It came, Trump said, “out of the blue.”
But the move was the culmination of a multiyear effort by China to boost its bargaining power by replicating U.S. restrictions on computer chips and other cutting-edge technologies — measures that Beijing sees as constraining its technological advancement and is lobbying for the Trump administration to remove.
[...] These sweeping restrictions may be a sign that Beijing want a broad rollback of the United States’ own export controls — rather than simply an easing of tariffs. Since Trump’s first term, the U.S. has worked closely with foreign partners to progressively limit China’s access to American-developed advanced semiconductors and the equipment and know-how needed to manufacture them.
China’s latest controls were “calibrated to negotiate for reciprocal relaxation of U.S. chip controls,” one of its top demands in trade negotiations"

--- Bullshit! Yes, China has worked on this for years, maybe even decades. But it's not so much about economic power or earning money. It's about political power. It's all in preparation for war.

US blasts China as 'unreliable' as trade tensions mount

""If China wants to be an unreliable partner to the world, then the world will have to decouple," Bessent said."

--- Well, China has been decoupling for the last decade and preparing for it probably much longer.

""I believe China is open to discussion and I am optimistic this can be de-escalated,""

--- Optimism is idiotic, particularly when it comes to the CCP.

Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub

"The S&P 500 stock index fell immediately after Trump’s post, ending the trading day in the red after a volatile session.
Stocks tanked on Friday after Trump threatened to massively increase tariffs on Chinese imports in retaliation for new export controls that China imposed on rare earth minerals. Later that day, Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1.
But on Sunday, Trump appeared to soften his attack, writing, “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine!”
Stocks broadly rebounded on Monday"

--- Investors seem to be moronic everywhere.