From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow-F. This is the Daily.

About a year into Trump's global trade war, China hasn't just survived. It's emerged stronger

than ever on the world stage. And that's because after years of careful planning, China has essentially made itself tariff-proof.

Today, my colleague Keith Bradshaw explains how, despite Trump's best efforts, China's robot-powered

super factories are taking over the world.

It's Tuesday, March 24th.

Keith, it's been about one year of tariffs on China, one year of, I think it's fair to say,

economic war on China, a crazy year, honestly, which was capped off by a Supreme Court ruling,

saying many of these tariffs were illegal. And what we're here to do today is figure out what did the last year amount to? And you are here because you've been

covering trade for approximately one billion years. Is that right? Since 1991, yes. Thank you.

Okay, close to a billion.

And so what we want is for you to help us understand what these tariffs have wrought when it comes to China.

These tariffs are changing China's trade in important ways, but not nearly as much as the Trump administration expected.

Yes, China's not shipping as much to the United States as it was before, but China's also not buying as much from the United States as it was before.

The overall trade surplus of China, how much its exports

exceed, how much it's buying from the rest of the world, is still growing. It became even more

immense last year when it reached $1.2 trillion. $1.2 trillion. Just put that in context. How big of a deal is that?

1.2 trillion is bigger than the economies of most of the countries in the world.

And what was particularly striking about it was that the trade surplus for China in manufactured goods,

which create a lot of jobs, a lot of high-skilled,

well-paid jobs, that trade surplus was even bigger. China's truly become the factory of the world,

the dominant producer of everything from basic materials like steel and chemicals, all the way

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