BeijingChina’s new export orders fell to 48.7 in October.
The statistics bureau’s manufacturing index fell to 49.3 from 50.1, reversing September’s rebound.
Factories ship abroad to offset weak property-hit demand, and the EU says its deficit with China hit $1.1 billion a day in 2025.
Li Qiang told Germany’s president Frank-Walter Steinmeier that China is willing to import more German goods.
US President Donald Trump is expected to meet Xi in mid-November at the Shenzhen summit.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 70+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- Reuters
- frames Li Qiang's pledge to import more German products as a response to rising European protectionism, not as a China factory-data story
- U.S. News & World Report
- gives the PMI detail: export orders fell to 48.7 from 50.0 and production to 49.8 from 51.7, tying the contraction to trading partners' deficit complaints
Sources: U.S. News & World Report, Reuters