🇨🇳 China's record April surplus masks an ASEAN re-routing play Home Tags The day in view 🇨🇳 China's record April surplus masks an ASEAN re-routing play Macro Soup Newsroom June 2, 2026 3 min read Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Email Copy link China's April trade surplus hit $84.8bn on record exports of $359.4bn, but the US-China bilateral surplus compressed to $23.1bn as Southeast Asian intermediaries absorb Chinese semi-finished goods. The headline surplus is a routing story. Read next Featured Post The day in view 📰 Daily Macro Roundup: 2026-07-13 Paid Post The day in view 🇨🇳 China's AI export boom masks a consumer economy that's still shrinking
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