A crew member works on a container ship docked at Yangshan Port outside of Shanghai last month. China’s exports are holding up despite the pressures of President Donald Trump’s global trade war. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) By Kelly Kasulis Cho and Lyric Li
China has shown once again that it’s weathering the storm of President Donald Trump’s tariff pressures, with its exports climbing at a higher-than-expected annual rate of 7.2 percent in July, according to government statistics released Thursday.
But experts warn its buoyancy in the face of trade tensions may not last.
The new data comes less than a week before Washington and Beijing’s 90-day trade truce is set to expire after the two sides last month left a third round of talks with no clear agreement. As the deadline for cutting a dea