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China manufacturing shrinks in August despite new US trade truce

China's President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting with Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, on August 31, 2025. [AFP]

China's factory output ticked up in August but still recorded a fifth straight month of contraction, official data showed Sunday, as Beijing and Washington press on with trade talks.

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