Yes, but a lot of that increase in trade with countries like Vietnam and Mexico is for re-export to the US. With the new transhipment restrictions, imports from countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh and Mexico are likely to decline.
It is 45%. Not 100%. 55% is left for western countries.
Without massive manufacturing, foreign brands won't last long.
The question is not how much is left for others to produce. The question is who will consume what China is producing. The Western countries are planning trillions of dollars in investments to build up industrial capacity. Once it is built up, they will have a tariff advantage against Chinese production and there will be huge global surplus capacity. So, either China has to consume all of its production itself or it has to find external markets or has to cut down production .
The total population of whole west camp is only 1/8 of world population. And western countries are getting poorer every each year.
Even the poorer countries don't want to be dependent on other countries for their manufacturing. Even if they were willing to, they need some way to get the money to pay for goods they will import for China.
Thats nice to hear. I hope my country starts exporting garbage, alongside African and LatAm countries that have a waste problem. I think the term "world's garbage dump" is a positive connotation now, because China has pretty much solved the garbage problem.Do you know why you almost can't find trash in China? Because trash is money.
China has built so many power plants that it now has no waste to burn.
Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges
Published27/07/2025 às 12:04
China's waste-to-energy plan faces collapse due to lack of waste
The country invested heavily in plants to generate energy from waste, but slow growth left part of the infrastructure idle.
China has rapidly expanded its power plant network to generate energy from garbage, but now faces an unusual problem: there are more incinerators than solid waste availableWith more than a thousand plants in operation, a significant portion of them operate below capacity.
According to a report by Cinda Securities, Chinese plants operate, on average, at only 60% capacity. The supply of waste has grown in recent years, but at a slower pace than the accelerated construction of these plants. structures reflection of an optimism that disregarded recession, decline in urbanization and post-pandemic changes.
Too much capacity, too little waste
Since the 1980s, China has been known as the "world's garbage dump," importing waste from various countries. But that has changed. Instead of excess garbage, today the country has a surplus of incineration plants to generate energy and there is not enough material to feed them.
You can't ask Chinese to go back to live in pre-industrial age. China is manufacturing most industrial products for the world, much carbon emissions can't be easily escaped at the present. Besides, China is country with 1.4 billion people, so the country is a big emitter is only natural. You should first go ask the much richer US that is emitting twice carbons as China on per capita basis and some other countries to cut down their emissions on the earth to the level of average Chinese, then complain about China., emissions per capita does matter. US and some other countries are big and heavy polluters. The West has done the most pollutions to earth in the last 300 years, China just last 40 years.
If not western propaganda, where did you hear this crap from?
The fastest growing market is Africa. As for US and Europe, they need China more than China needs them, they can't survive a week without Chinese products.
That is great, but Africa's total expenditure is less than 3% of global expenditure. To sell 45% of total global production, you need access to markets that have the income to buy it.The fastest growing market is Africa. As for US and Europe, they need China more than China needs them, they can't survive a week without Chinese products.
China is pouring exports into Africa faster than anywhere else
Containers at a dock at the Port of Cape Town in Cape Town in 2024. China’s exports to Africa so far in 2025 are more than in the whole of 2020 and on track to exceed $200 billion for the first time. | BLOOMBERG
BLOOMBERG
Aug 27, 2025
Africa has become a new hotspot for Chinese exports as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs redraw trade for the world’s...
The purchasing power of the emerging markets will increase fast in the coming years while the western market will be shrinking steadily. But anyway, the west needs China more than the otherwise, that's why US trade war on China never works.
Well, the trade war does not have a binary outcome. Sure, the West has not won, but it has certainly had some impact and China would have grown faster without the trade war.
China's dominance is unrivaled manufacuturing capacity, unbeatable cost effective quality products and global supply chains of all levels, not some raw material exports.
