China has promised to achieve its objective of economic growth of 5% for 2025, using a mixture of stronger macroeconomic policies and global awareness, even if trade tensions with the United States were deepening in a large-scale confrontation.
The Minister of Finance, Lan Fo’an, was daring during Washington meetings this week, stressing that China would deploy “more proactive and effective macro” to stabilize its economy and contribute to global growth. His remarks, published on the website of the Ministry of Finance on Saturday, come at a time when the increase in protectionism, reinforced by the pricing campaign of President Donald Trump, threatens to separate the two biggest economies.
LAN’s statements did not simply target the reassuring global markets – they were part of a wider message of distrust. China’s push to reach a 5% growth has become a symbolic response to the growing tariff battle initiated by President Trump. It is a signal that Beijing will not back up under pressure, and rather doubles the revival and international diplomacy to survive the economic assault of Washington.
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The world is now looking at to see who flashes first.
An endless impasse in sight
The confrontation between Washington and Beijing has increased in recent months, Trump imposing successive waves of prices on Chinese products, citing unjust commercial practices and national security problems. China, in turn, responded with reprisal prices, while accelerating efforts to open other parties of its economy to non -American partners.
LAN, as well as the Governor of the Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, used high-level IMF and World Bank meetings to accuse the United States to “impose prices constantly” and undermine the stability of world trade. In a separate declaration, Pan criticized Washington for breaking the “legitimate rights and interests” from other countries, highlighting a global economy weakened by such confrontations.
The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking in a rally of Asia-central in China in Kazakhstan, also castigated the American approach as “extreme selfishness”, accusing Washington of intimidation of smaller nations to accept unjust terms. He reaffirmed that China would remain firm against what he described as protectionist movements, further stressing Beijing’s refusal to give in to American pressure.
Despite this public posture, the confusion disturbs the true state of the negotiations. Trump, in a recent interview, said that new discussions were underway with Beijing. Chinese officials quickly rejected this complaint, refusing any current negotiation. Public contradictions suggest that the two parties are locked up in a brassard game with high issues, not even wanting to get along if they speak.
Economists doubt 5% target, but China hits
The Chinese economy increased by 5.4% during the last quarter in annual sliding, driven largely by the recovery of consumers and an export rush while companies rushed to ship goods before the new American rates affect. However, the major world banks such as UBS, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and General Society have reduced their forecasts for China growth in 2025 to around 4% or even lower, citing persistent structural weaknesses and the trail of commercial hostilities.
Despite this, LAN and other senior Chinese officials argue that the 5% target is not negotiable. Beijing believes that maintaining strong growth is essential not only for interior stability, but for the demonstration of resilience in the American economic war.
Selling new stimulation measures, LAN said that China would strengthen support for key sectors such as manufacturing, infrastructure and private investment of businesses – areas most vulnerable to external shocks. The government also plans to expand access to its vast internal market, in particular for countries wishing to circumvent the trade routes dominated by the United States.
China is overhauled as a world trade defender
LAN used its platform in Washington to link China’s interior growth ambitions with a global mission to defend multilateralism and free trade. He praised the World Bank reforms aimed at strengthening private sector support and fighting poverty and cited President Xi Jinping calls to build “bridges, not walls” in international trade.
China’s account seeks to get started as a reliable partner in global economic relations, contrasting its opening message with what it portrays as Washington’s growing isolationism. LAN has stressed that China remains determined to offer zero-tail treatment to the assets of the least developed countries in the world which maintain diplomatic links with Beijing while inviting others to exploit its domestic market.
At the same time, he warned that the growing wave of protectionism, motivated by the new American rates, threatens to reverse the decades of reducing global poverty and economic development. Organizations like the World Bank, he argued, must resist pressure to abandon the principles of free and non-discriminatory trade.
Debt talks, development and growing influence of China
Beyond the prices, China is quietly expanding its influence in other key areas. At the global sovereign debt table, LAN has joined other financial leaders to discuss solutions for development economies loaded with debts. Beijing, often criticized for the terms of his loans under his belt and his initiative Road, is now looking to play a more visible role in the reshaping of debt frames – although always in large part in his own terms.
LAN argued that helping countries avoid financial collapse was essential to stabilize world markets, but he also clearly indicated that China would not support solutions that simply transfer more loads to lenders like itself.
Beijing’s insistence on growth of 5%, even in the face of growing challenges, stresses how the current trade conflict with the United States has become a broader geopolitical competition on resilience, credibility and leadership.
The two sides seem determined to survive the other. China, by mobilizing each lever of state power to support growth and promoting global alliances; Washington, by tightening the prices and betting that the internal contradictions of China will eventually force concessions.
None of the parties still flash – but the longer the dead end, the more risk it poses for global economic stability.
