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your credit. Terms and conditions apply. Warning signs for China's economy as trade war damage begins hitting home.

Plus, President Trump talks up his tariffs, even as voters' economic concerns mount.

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It's Wednesday, April 30th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines

and business stories moving your world today.

The proof of the trade war is in the numbers. Beijing released fresh data on export orders

and factory production for April overnight, with neither indicator able

to hide the damage that tariffs are causing to the engine of China's economy.

Journal reporter Jason Douglas joins me now from Tokyo.

Jason, these readings don't seem all that hard to parse, frankly.

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