China's July-Sept. GDP growth slowest since 2009 amid trade war

China's economy expanded at 6.5 percent during the July-September period on the year, its worst pace in more than nine years amid a tit-for-tat tariff escalation with the United States, official data showed Friday.Although the headline figure was in line with the government's target of around 6.5 percent for the year, it was down from the 6.7 percent growth in gross domestic product in the second quarter of this year.The latest GDP data comes as fears continue to mount that the world's second-biggest economy will be weighed down by its intensifying trade war with the United States, which ha…READ FULL ARTICLE