{"id":3486,"date":"2025-10-29T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/why-a-us-china-trade-deal-matters-to-the-global-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:36:36","slug":"why-a-us-china-trade-deal-matters-to-the-global-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/why-a-us-china-trade-deal-matters-to-the-global-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a US-China trade deal matters to the global economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p><strong>Gyeongju, South Korea \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping\u2019s first face-to-face meeting since 2019 is expected to produce a deal to lower trade tensions between the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>But while Trump and Xi will be representing Washington and Beijing on Thursday, whatever they agree to on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea will have ramifications for the entire global economy.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/catastrophic-category-5-hurricane-melissa-makes-landfall-in-jamaica\">Eye of Hurricane Melissa exits Jamaica, heads towards Cuba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/trump-administration-strips-nigerian-nobel-winner-wole-soyinka-of-us-visa\">Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/venezuela-declares-trinidad-and-tobagos-prime-minister-persona-non-grata\">Venezuela declares Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s prime minister persona non grata<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 4 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/last-ditch-push-pakistan-afghanistan-talks-falter-amid-deep-mistrust\">\u2018Last-ditch push\u2019: Pakistan-Afghanistan talks falter amid deep mistrust<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>As the world\u2019s two largest economies, the US and China are unmatched in their influence on global stability and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they account for 43 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) and nearly half of global manufacturing output.<\/p>\n<p>Their two-way trade came to some $585bn in 2024 alone.<\/p>\n<p>A full-blown US-China trade war or decoupling would almost certainly have a severe negative\u00a0impact on global economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The World Trade Organization has estimated that the division of the world into two economic blocs pulled between the US and China would reduce global GDP by nearly 7 percent over the long term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US-China relationship is the most important bilateral relationship,\u201d said Heiwai Tang, director of the Asia Global Institute in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny de-escalation in their tension will have significant implications for themselves and more so for smaller economies that rely on trade with either of the superpowers,\u201d Tang told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is how long the agreements, whether it\u2019s about China\u2019s purchasing more soybeans or the US lowering tariffs on China, can last.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4068451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4068451\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ap_6901d4b3a49e0-1761727667.jpg?w=770&#038;resize=770%2C513&#038;quality=80\" alt=\"Attendees walk near a logo for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo\/Ng Han Guan)\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4068451\">Attendees walk near a logo for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on October 29, 2025 [Ng Han Guan\/AP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After months of back-and-forth trade salvoes between Washington and Bejing, Trump and Xi\u2019s summit on Thursday comes on the heels of mutual threats to sharply escalate their confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing earlier this month announced plans to impose strict export controls on rare earths, crucial for manufacturing everything from smartphones to fighter jets, prompting fears of massive disruption to global supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in response, threatened to impose an additional 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods, raising the prospect of an effective trade embargo between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>The measures are considered so economically disruptive by economists that they have been widely seen as tools to gain leverage in the trade negotiations as much, or more so, than statements of intent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf enforced, they would have devastating effects on the global economy \u2013 and could easily backfire on their own economies,\u201d said Henry Gao, an expert in international trade at Singapore Management University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve always maintained that these tools will be brandished, not deployed, to pressure the other side back to the negotiating table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to the summit, US officials have indicated that Trump and Xi will seek to avoid further escalation.<\/p>\n<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in media interviews this week that he expected the sides to agree to defer China\u2019s export controls and the higher US tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDe-escalating the trade war, and perhaps even more important, the tech war, is of huge importance for the world economy, which got terribly hit by the shocks and the uncertainty triggered by the US president after April 2,\u201d Rolf J Langhammer, a researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany, told Al Jazeera, referring to Trump\u2019s \u201cliberation day\u201d announcement of steep tariffs for almost all US trade partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could, at least for the time being, stabilise expectations and thus motivate investors to take a medium-term perspective for their decisions rather than delaying them due to fears of further overnight shocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While US-China conflict has led to a sharp decline in their trade \u2013 with exporters diversifying into Southeast Asia, Latin America, Europe and Africa \u2013 the global economy has until now emerged relatively unscathed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4068476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4068476\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/reuters_6901d61f-1761728031.jpg?w=770&#038;resize=770%2C513&#038;quality=80\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: A view of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 24, 2024. REUTERS\/Benoit Tessier\/File Photo\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4068476\">A view of the International Monetary Fund logo at its headquarters in Washington, DC, on November 24, 2024 [Benoit Tessier\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) earlier this month lifted its GDP growth forecast for 2025 to 3.2 percent, up from 2.8 percent in April, when Trump unveiled his \u201cliberation day\u201d tariffs, most of which have since been delayed or substantially lowered.<\/p>\n<p>The outlook could change dramatically if the US and China cannot find a way to manage \u2013 if not\u00a0resolve outright \u2013 their differences.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump and Xi are expected to lower the temperature in their countries\u2019 rivalry for the time being, expectations are low that Washington and Beijing will put their confrontation to rest over the longer term.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Gunter, an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin, said that after decades of the US benefitting from cheap Chinese goods and\u00a0China receiving US technology and capital in return, the fundamental incompatibility of the two superpowers\u2019\u00a0economic models had become impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese irreconcilable differences exist,\u201d Gunter told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Gunter said it was difficult to imagine China abandoning its export-oriented model of state-led investment, or the US opening up fully to Chinese imports and lifting its controls on Chinese technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t see any deal that would be sufficient enough to meet the interests and values of both parties that wouldn\u2019t come at the expense of the other party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gyeongju, South Korea \u2013\u00a0Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping\u2019s first face-to-face meeting since 2019 is expected to produce a deal to lower trade tensions between the United States and China. 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