EU Ready to Negotiate with US on Tariffs; CCP Gets 104% Tariff Ultimatum
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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The stock market has begun to surge after days of record drops. This follows an announcement from the European Union that it's ready to negotiate with the United States, and the deal on the table is “zero-for-zero” tariffs on industrial goods. Yet, while the EU is now willing to negotiate, the Chinese communist regime is doing the opposite, and President Donald Trump is now threatening to expand tariffs against China.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump's tariffs are still making headlines, and now the European Union, they have |
| 0:05.0 | folded at least to some degree, and are now coming to the negotiating table with the United States |
| 0:10.1 | with a zero-for-zero-zero tariff deal. However, on the other side of all of this, the Chinese |
| 0:16.4 | Communist Party, they're doubling down against the United States, and we could actually see a |
| 0:21.6 | trade war start over this. This happens as Donald Trump is threatening 50% additional tariffs |
| 0:27.6 | on China that would bring the total of tariffs to 104% on the CCP. And meanwhile, Trump is |
| 0:35.2 | planning a patriotic military parade in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:38.5 | This is an idea from his first term in office. |
| 0:41.1 | It was criticized, subsequently canceled. |
| 0:44.0 | But Trump is now planning this once again in his second term. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. The stock market has begun to surge. |
| 1:02.0 | It's coming back after days of record drops. |
| 1:05.0 | And this really happened right after an announcement from the European Union. |
| 1:09.0 | They're ready to negotiate with the United States. |
| 1:11.7 | That was quick, right? And the deal on the table for them is zero for zero tariffs on industrial goods. |
| 1:18.7 | That's not everything. But while like the EU is now folding, the Chinese regime is doing the opposite. |
| 1:24.3 | And President Donald Trump is now threatening to expand the trade war against |
| 1:28.4 | the CCP with what are very likely going to be detrimental tariffs. Now look first off on the |
| 1:35.8 | European Union, Donald Trump announces Liberation Day tariffs, countries, they began folding |
| 1:41.8 | one after another, coming to the table. |
| 1:49.8 | Two of the only major holdouts were the European Union and the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 1:51.9 | One of them has now folded. |
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