{"id":77300,"date":"2025-08-19T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77300\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:08:11","slug":"chinas-exports-investments-to-global-south-surge-in-age-of-tariffs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77300\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s exports, investments to Global South surge in \u2018age of tariffs\u2019: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is accelerating its <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/opinion\/article\/3307986\/why-philippines-cant-ignore-chinas-southeast-asia-pivot?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pivot to the Global South<\/a> to reduce reliance on the United States, potentially creating \u201ca new order of global commerce\u201d, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese exports to the Global South \u2013 covering most of the developing world \u2013 have doubled since 2015, with growth seeing a notable uptick after the US-China trade war during US President Donald Trump\u2019s first term, S&amp;P analysts said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the past five years, these exports have risen by 65 per cent \u2013 tripling the pace seen in the previous five-year period. By comparison, exports to the US and western Europe grew by just 28 per cent and 58 per cent respectively over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHigh uncertainties under US tariffs and China\u2019s slowdown will continue to motivate Chinese firms to head to the Global South,\u201d the S&amp;P analysts said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe result could be a new order of global commerce where South-South trade becomes the new centre of gravity and Chinese multinationals emerge as the new key players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to the report, China now exports about US$1.6 trillion to the Global South, more than 50 per cent higher than its combined exports to the US and western Europe at US$1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese firms have also stepped up investments in developing regions, particularly in manufacturing. Flows to the country\u2019s four largest trading partners <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3321731\/trump-builds-tariff-walls-china-and-asean-are-building-bridges?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in Southeast Asia<\/a> \u2013 Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam \u2013 have quadrupled over the past decade, averaging US$8.8 billion annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is accelerating its pivot to the Global South to reduce reliance on the United States, potentially creating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,891,39471,39470,141,1294,26038,2183,8626,10784,3350,4654,56,54,55,741,34031,5673,12200],"class_list":["post-77300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese-firms","tag-chinese-multinationals","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-global-south","tag-indonesia","tag-malaysia","tag-philippines","tag-sp","tag-thailand","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us","tag-us-china-trade-war","tag-vietnam","tag-western-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77300","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=77300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}