China reveals trade war strain as yuan slides and manufacturing stalls

Strain begins to show amid a wider slowdown in the world’s second biggest economy

The Chinese economy has revealed fresh signs of the pressure of a trade war with the US and a wider slowdown at home as manufacturing activity fell and the yuan was fixed at a new 10-year low to the dollar.

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