2013 was a great year for China's economy, considering that they have surpassed US for the first time in the world's largest trading nation. According to a spokesman for China's customs administration Zheng Yuesheng, this feat was a "landmark milestone for our nation's foreign trade development." The Guardian (news source) also includes many statistics, such as the predictions experts had this would happen and the percentage imports and national economy (how much they rose). However, there have been concerns that the statistics are not as accurate as they some. Some Chinese companies have been faking their foreign transactions. Thankfully, China's foreign exchange regulator has been carefully administering the exports paperwork and will "impose tougher penalties" for faking transactions.
This article's main purpose was to inform. I would say that The Guardian was effective because of its appropriate vocabulary and tone. The word choice is a little more elaborate. More technical terms like "nominal reading" and "trade figures" are used, which shows that the audience is targeted for more business-oriented readers. The tone of this selection is serious and objective. There is many evidence, like statistics and probabilities that support the claim that China really has surpassed US as the world's largest trading nation. I feel like the article is objective because there are not many transition words that allow the article to flow. Instead, the facts are just mentioned one after the other, which I believe is most effective when it comes to talking about global news. Personally, I am not business-oriented, so I did have a hard time understanding what the article was talking about here and there, but I was able to understand the most important ideas.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/10/china-surpasses-us-world-largest-trading-nation
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