How China Made Itself Tariff-Proof

中国如何使自己免受关税冲击

The Daily

2026-03-24

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About a year into President Trump’s global trade war, China hasn’t just survived. It has emerged stronger than ever on the world stage. Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, discusses the domination of China’s robot-powered superfactories and how the country essentially made itself tariff-proof. Guest: Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times. Background reading:  China’s secret weapon in the trade war is an army of factory robots. Beijing announced a record trade surplus in January as its exports flooded world markets. Photo: Qilai Shen for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • About a year into Trump's global trade war, China hasn't just survived.

  • It's emerged stronger than ever on the world stage.

  • And that's because, after years of careful planning, China has essentially made itself tariff-proof.

  • Today, my colleague Keith Bradshaw explains how,

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  • Keith, it 's been about one year of tariffs on China,

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  • A crazy year, honestly, which was capped off by a Supreme Court ruling

  • saying many of these tariffs were illegal.