ChinaAI hardware drove 40.3% of China’s export growth in nine months.
Trade economist He Weiwen cites that to rebut the overcapacity charge from the US and EU.
His figures show a $123.5 billion deficit in chips and data-processing equipment, as imports outgrew exports.
His figures also put September’s surplus at $133.5 billion, an annualised peak of $1.6 trillion.
The EU, he writes, plans tougher trade restrictions after a G20 statement blamed China’s surplus.
How each outlet framed it
- TMTPost
- argues China has no overcapacity in AI goods, since AI-related IT and chip imports (US$6.57bn... ~US$1.24bn deficit) exceed exports, and cites WTO's revised 3.9% trade growth
Sources: TMTPost