Chinese trade suffers worst slump in 2 years due to Covid disruptions

BEIJING, China: Due to weak global and domestic demand, ongoing COVID-19-related production disruptions and a domestic property sector crisis, China's exports and imports shrank at their steepest pace in at least 2-1/2 years in November.

The downturn affecting the world's second-largest economy is considerably worse than market forecasts, with further periods of declining exports underlining a sharp retreat in w