BEIJING -- The Sino-American trade war is fueling wide-ranging price increases in China, making authorities nervous as the impact starts to reach consumers.
China's consumer price index climbed 2.5% on the year in September, a 0.2 percentage point increase from August, the National Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday. This was the fastest rise aside from the period around the weeklong Lunar New Year -- when outsize consumption tends to distort economic data -- since May 2014.
