{"id":147578,"date":"2026-03-10T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147578"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:00:08","slug":"us17-billion-question-why-china-and-south-africa-are-so-far-apart-on-trade-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147578","title":{"rendered":"US$17 billion question: why China and South Africa are so far apart on trade data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhenever South African officials meet their Chinese counterparts to talk trade, the issue of the imbalance in China\u2019s favour is almost certainly raised.<br \/>\nBut a discrepancy in the data from the two sides makes it hard to assess the trade gap.<br \/>\nThe latest Chinese customs data suggests that South Africa actually holds a surplus \u2013 exporting more to the world\u2019s second-largest economy than it receives in return.<br \/>\nAccording to the numbers from Beijing, China recorded US$30.58 billion in imports from South&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3345939\/us17-billion-question-why-china-and-south-africa-are-so-far-apart-trade-data?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhenever South African officials meet their Chinese counterparts to talk trade, the issue of the imbalance in China\u2019s favour is almost certainly raised. But&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}