This is The Guardian.
Today, Trump's trade war, the view from China.
I'm just entering Iwu International Wholesale Market,
which is the world's biggest wholesale market on China's East Coast.
That's Amy Hawkins, The Guardian's senior China correspondent.
It's a real sight to behold.
I'm currently on the stationery floor and there are just thousands and thousands of pens and notebooks and stapler and highlighters and anything else
that you might buy in an office supplies shop in the UK.
Places like Iwu are on the front line of Donald Trump's escalating trade war.
If you bought something on Timur or Xi'en or from Poundland or any kind of small manufactured goods in the past 20 years,
it could well have come through Iwu.
Trump's ever-changing tariff regime has shaken up global trade,
and nowhere more so than in China, where he's imposed tariffs of 145%.
We lost with China over the Biden years trillions of dollars on trade,
trillions of dollars, and he let them fleece us and we can't do that anymore.
But China is fighting back and looking to sell more to the rest of the world and to its own people.
There's this arrow, I think, in China of even though the economy is very dependent on exports,
a lot of people like to say we don't need the US anymore, it's not a big deal if the US goes away.
With trade between the world's two superpowers on ice,
there are growing fears of an even greater, more dangerous escalation.