China's reaction to US tariffs
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump has imposed new tariffs on the United States' top three trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China. China's response came fast, during a week of meetings in Beijing, to set the country's policy agenda for the next year. Also, some European countries prepare for a possible breakup with the US after 80 years of trans-Atlantic cooperation. Plus, Iraq conducted its first census in nearly 40 years: what the data revealed. And families in Valencia, Spain, are getting help from scientists to salvage family photos lost in last fall's flooding.
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| 0:28.9 | President Trump's new tariffs have kicked in. |
| 0:32.1 | China is already hitting back with tariffs of its own aimed at American farmers. |
| 0:37.4 | They will soon face and feel the pain from these tariffs. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:43.5 | And I'm Marco Wurman. How China is playing the tariff game. |
| 0:47.1 | Also, the current status of the Transatlantic Alliance? Not so great. |
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| 1:21.8 | This is the world. I'm Marco Wurman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Markets fell today as President Trump's new tariffs kicked in. |
| 1:29.7 | They're aimed at the United States' three biggest trading partners. Canada responded immediately |
| 1:35.2 | with retaliatory tariffs of its own. Mexico's president, Claudia, Shanebaum said this morning |
| 1:41.0 | that nobody wins with this decision. It's inconceivable that not |
| 1:46.0 | that's a . |
| 1:47.0 | It's inconceivable, Shanebaum said, to think that U.S. |
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