US-China trade war clouds global economic outlook as 'new normal' emerges
Published on: Oct. 19, 2025, 3:32 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
International finance chiefs are returning home with a measure of relief over the surprising resilience of the global economy to the cascade of policy shocks through the first nine months of Donald Trump's second U.S. presidency but also drained by seemingly never-ending uncertainty over what lies ahead. When finance ministers and central bankers gathered in Washington in April for the first of the twice-yearly meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the anxiety over Trump's just-unveiled "Liberation Day" tariffs was palpable.
