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BEIJING\/WARSAW\/LONDON, April 11 – Beijing\u00a0increased its tariffs<\/a>\u00a0on U.S. imports to 125% on Friday, hitting back against U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump’s<\/a>\u00a0decision to hike duties on Chinese goods and raising the stakes in a trade war that threatens to up-end global supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n China’s retaliation intensified the economic turmoil unleashed by Trump’s tariffs<\/a>, with markets tumbling further<\/a> and foreign leaders puzzling how to respond to the biggest disruption to the world trade order in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Recession risk is much, much higher now than it was a couple weeks ago,” said Adam Hetts, global head of multi-asset at Janus Henderson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The brief reprieve for battered stocks<\/a> seen after Trump decided to pause duties<\/a> for dozens of countries for 90 days quickly dissipated, as attention returned to the escalating trade conflict between the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tit-for-tat increases stand to make goods trade between the world’s two largest economies impossible, analysts say<\/a>. That commerce was worth more than $650 billion<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Global stocks fell<\/a>, the dollar slid and a sell-off in U.S. government bonds picked up pace on Friday, reigniting fears of fragility in the world’s biggest bond market. Gold, a safe haven for investors<\/a> in times of crisis, scaled a record high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reuters: BEIJING\/WARSAW\/LONDON, April 11 – Beijing\u00a0increased its tariffs\u00a0on U.S. imports to 125% on Friday, hitting back against U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump’s\u00a0decision to hike duties on Chinese goods and raising the stakes in a trade war that threatens to up-end global supply chains. China’s retaliation intensified the economic turmoil unleashed by Trump’s tariffs, with markets tumbling further and foreign leaders puzzling how to respond to the biggest disruption to the world trade order in decades. “Recession risk is much, much higher now than it was a couple weeks ago,” said Adam Hetts, global head of multi-asset at Janus Henderson. The brief reprieve for battered stocks seen after… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46185,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183\/revisions\/46185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}