China's 2018 GDP growth slowest since 1990 amid trade war with U.S.

The pace of China's economic growth was its slowest in 28 years in 2018, expanding 6.6 percent from a year earlier, as a tit-for-tat tariff escalation with the United States took its toll on the world's second-largest economy, official data showed Monday.The latest gross domestic product data came as Chinese economic activities have suffered the effects of an intensifying trade war with the world's biggest economy. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed huge tariffs on a wide range of imports from China.The headline figure was slightly higher than the Chinese governme…READ FULL ARTICLE