{"id":116753,"date":"2026-06-23T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-750-billion-question-report-claims-china-fudged-trade-data-to-fool-the-imf\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:36:11","slug":"the-750-billion-question-report-claims-china-fudged-trade-data-to-fool-the-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-750-billion-question-report-claims-china-fudged-trade-data-to-fool-the-imf\/","title":{"rendered":"The $750 billion question: Report claims China fudged trade data to fool the IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the comparison relies on incomplete data and fails to capture the sharp rise in China&#8217;s surplus since late 2024. It notes that China&#8217;s reported current account surplus increased from about $400 billion to roughly $750 billion, while net exports contributed more than 1.5 percentage points to economic growth. During the same period, the eurozone&#8217;s surplus fell from around 420 billion euros to 280 billion euros.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the comparison relies on incomplete data and fails to capture the sharp rise in China&#8217;s surplus since late 2024. It notes that China&#8217;s reported current account surplus increased from about $400 billion to roughly $750 billion, while net exports contributed more than 1.5 percentage points to economic growth.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-750-billion-question-report-claims-china-fudged-trade-data-to-fool-the-imf\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The $750 billion question: Report claims China fudged trade data to fool the IMF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":116754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}