China's trade surplus hits $103 billion

THE WORLD'S TWO biggest economies are headed for a divorce that will likely play out for the rest of this year and beyond, after a month that saw a huge spurt in China's exports and its overall trade surplus hit near $103 billion.

- BLOOMBERG

Such an increasingly unbalanced flow of commerce is one of the problems US President Donald Trump says he's trying to fix with his tariffs on China, provoking tit-for-tat measures now spiraling into a trade war.