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Protectionist racket: trade-war rhetoric

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The Economist

News & Politics, News

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As President Donald Trump threatens new tariffs on Mexican goods, retaliatory ones between China and America are starting to bite. That puts China’s party leaders—and their hardening nationalist message—in a tricky spot. We examine how the global grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX planes might change air-safety regulation. And a visit to Venice’s Biennale, where immigration and climate change are taking centre stage.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

0:07.4

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

0:09.3

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

0:17.5

This weekend, the world's airline executives meet in South Korea.

0:21.5

The biggest topic?

0:22.6

The complete grounding of Boeing's 737 Max Planes,

0:26.3

which have been involved in two fatal crashes.

0:28.8

The aerospace giant may well recover,

0:31.2

but the tragedies could force a reshuffle in how air safety is regulated.

0:36.2

And we pay a visit to Venice's Biennale.

0:39.3

The exhibition engulfs the city every two years

0:41.6

and is a particularly pointed reflection

0:43.8

of what artists make of the world.

0:46.1

No surprise, then, that notions of immigration

0:48.2

and climate change figure in strongly this year.

0:55.5

But first...

0:56.5

Tomorrow, retaliatory tariffs imposed by China on $60 billion worth of American goods

1:08.1

will take effect.

1:09.4

The latest set of American tariffs imposed

1:11.7

three weeks ago will start to bite two as ships carrying Chinese goods arrive in America's ports.

1:18.4

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has opened up a new theater of trade war, this time on the

1:23.2

southern border. Last night, he tweeted that America would start ratcheting up tariffs on Mexican goods,

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