{"id":725216,"date":"2026-06-09T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725216\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:31:09","slug":"chinas-export-surge-tops-forecasts-as-ai-propels-trade-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725216\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s export surge tops forecasts as AI propels trade boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing | China\u2019s exports and imports expanded at a faster pace in May, topping forecasts as booming demand for artificial intelligence hardware offsets disruptions from the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Exports jumped more than 19 per cent from a year earlier, the most in three months, according to a statement from the General Administration of Customs on Tuesday. That compares with the median forecast of 15 per cent in a Bloomberg survey of economists.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing | China\u2019s exports and imports expanded at a faster pace in May, topping forecasts as booming demand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-725216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}