China Makes Stability No. 1 Task in World Shaken by Trump (1)

As US tariffs reorder supply chains and Donald Trump moves from one military campaign to the next, China offered its answer to a more volatile world: staying the course at home.

Continuity defined Premier Li Qiang’s address to lawmakers on Thursday at the country’s highest-profile political gathering since the US and Israel struck Iran. The growth target was nudged slightly lower, fiscal spending remained roughly on par with last year and language on Taiwan was left largely unchanged. China even scaled back military spending, despite war flaring in the Middle East.

What wasn’t said was almost as ...