Trump Comeback Means Reckoning for China as It Draws Up Stimulus

  • Meeting of lawmakers in Beijing may offer clues for investors
  • Greater fiscal stimulus seen as likely response to tariff hike
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Chinese lawmakers got a head start on the US election this week as they gathered to vote on the largest fiscal package since the pandemic.

But now that Donald Trump commands a sweeping mandate to govern the world’s biggest economy, a vision likely to emerge from the meeting in Beijing on Friday may go far beyond the more immediate steps telegraphed by Chinese authorities.