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China's ASEAN outreach: What's fuelling its strong regional push?

06 Dec '25
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China's ASEAN outreach: What's fuelling its strong regional push?
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  • As per reports, in the first 10 months of this year, China's exports to the US plunged nearly **%** compared to the same period last year, while shipments to the ASEAN bloc reportedly increased by **%** and to the EU jumped more than **%**.
  • The 11-member ASEAN bloc ranks as China's largest trading partner, with last year's bilateral trade reportedly hitting a massive $*** billion.

The telephonic rendezvous signalled that the long-fractured US-China relationship might just be warming again.

Yet anyone betting on a clean reset knows better: the global trade landscape is no longer a stable highway, but a fast-moving express lane riddled with policy landmines, tariff traps, and strategic detours. In the given scenario, China cannot afford to bet its future on Washington’s unpredictable tariff theatrics, and perhaps as it would have been, the country is strengthening its relations with partners who can promise both scale and stability.

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