纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Chinas Exports Surge as Trade Tensions Near Boiling Point
June 11, 2024 2 min 298 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：在中美贸易关系紧张加剧的大背景下，中国2022年5月的出口额创历史新高，贸易顺差扩大，这可能加剧中美贸易摩擦。 评论：这篇报道存在一定偏见，其用词和语境往往带有倾向性。例如，报道中用“surge”和“near boiling point”来描述中国出口和贸易紧张局势，用“flooding”来形容中国产品出口美国，这些用词容易给读者一种中国出口猛增贸易关系紧张即将突破极限的印象。然而，实际上，中国5月出口增速虽高于预期，但增速已连续3个月下降，该报道选择性忽视了这一事实。此外，报道也未提及中美贸易摩擦对美国自身经济和消费者造成的影响，过于片面地强调了中国产品出口对美国的所谓“负面影响”。该报道也未考虑到中国对外贸易特别是出口具有较强的韧性，中国产品性价比高，物美价廉，这是中国产品广受欢迎的原因之一。该报道过于偏激的观点可能导致读者对中国对外贸易产生负面印象，有失公正客观。
China’s exports rose in May at the quickest pace in more than a year, the government said on Friday, as a flood of appliances, cars and electronics poured out of factories and the prospect of a global backlash grew.
The value of China’s exports climbed 7.6 percent compared with May 2023, even as the prices of many manufactured goods coming out of China are falling.
China is rapidly building new factories and expanding existing ones as part of a national strategy. But spending is weak by Chinese households, because of a long and increasingly steep slide in prices for their apartments.
Much of the extra factory production is being exported. With fewer Chinese families buying new apartments, fewer household appliances are sold domestically, for example. The government said that the value of exports of appliances climbed 18.3 percent in May compared with the same month a year earlier. And because demand is so weak in China, appliance prices have tumbled. The actual number of appliances exported last month rose 27.8 percent.
China’s trade surplus, the difference between what it earns selling goods to the world and what it spends on imports, expanded in May to $82.6 billion. That was up 25.6 percent from a year earlier. It was the largest ever for May and one of the highest months ever except during the pandemic, when China exported huge quantities of medical gear, exercise equipment and other manufactured goods.
China’s trade surplus has tended to be fairly low in May and much higher later in the year, when its exporters supply goods for the Christmas season.