{"id":461797,"date":"2026-03-07T02:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461797\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:23:16","slug":"chinese-economic-officials-flag-iran-war-risks-vow-balanced-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461797\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese economic officials flag Iran war risks, vow &#8216;balanced&#8217; trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260306 CSRC\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Chinese officials brief reporters in Beijing on March 6. From left:\u00a0China Securities Regulatory Commission\u00a0Chairman Wu Qing;\u00a0Commerce Minister Wang Wentao,\u00a0National Development and Reform Commission\u00a0Chairman Zheng Shanjie;\u00a0Finance Minister Lan Fo&#8217;an; and People&#8217;s Bank of China Gov.\u00a0Pan Gongsheng. (Photo by Tomoki Mera)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BEIJING &#8212; China&#8217;s top economic officials said Friday that they are bracing for near-term volatility from the conflict in Iran, while pledging to pursue &#8220;balanced&#8221; trade after logging a record a $1.2 trillion trade surplus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese officials brief reporters in Beijing on March 6. From left:\u00a0China Securities Regulatory Commission\u00a0Chairman Wu Qing;\u00a0Commerce Minister Wang&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[165830,84,23502,12685,1294,165828,585,61150,54775,426,56,54,55,165829,636],"class_list":["post-461797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-balanced","tag-business","tag-chinese","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-flag","tag-iran","tag-officials","tag-risks","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vow","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}