Chinese manufacturers in fighting spirits despite scrapped US orders

Jinhua, China (AFP) April 12, 2025
On a sweltering spring day, workers at a Christmas tree factory in eastern China rhythmically assembled piles of branches, wiping away sweat as they daubed white-paint snow onto plastic pine needles. Like countless other companies in the manufacturing powerhouse of Zhejiang province, its products are geared largely towards export - a sector freshly menaced by Donald Trump's roiling of the g