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What’s Up With China’s Trade Figures?

China’s trade figures have made an abrupt turn, barreling into the year stronger than ever and then suddenly disappointing.
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What’s Up With China’s Trade Figures?
Yantian International Container Terminals iunder heavy storm clouds in Shenzhen, China, on April 11, 2025. Cheng Xin/Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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Economists, statisticians, policymakers, and readers of the financial press have long suspected economic figures coming out of Beijing, or, more specifically, from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is “Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live.”