Tackling Trump in Trade Talks
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As G7 countries gather for trade talks in Quebec, could they gain some tips on how to fight back against the US steel tariffs from one of President Trump's favourite "sports" - WWE pro-wrestling?
Manuela Saragosa gets the views of Financial Times columnist and editor Rana Foroohar, and of William Alan Reinsch of the Washington DC think tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. Plus Adrienne Murray gathers the rather mixed feelings of Trump voters about the US President's trade tactics in the rusty steel town of Warren, Ohio.
(Picture: Donald Trump pushes WWE chairman Vince McMahon over, in the ring at a Wrestlemania event; Credit: Sam Greenwood/WireImage for World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuela Saragossa. |
| 0:09.7 | Coming up, a global trade brawl. |
| 0:12.9 | What a knife-fetched. |
| 0:14.6 | Shot by Strong. |
| 0:16.3 | Oh, our lighting the worst of blood vessels. |
| 0:19.5 | Release German suplex. It could get nasty first of blood vessels. Police German suplex. |
| 0:21.8 | It could get nasty between President Trump and other G7 leaders at a summit in Canada. |
| 0:28.5 | But what might they learn about Mr. Trump's position on trade from pro wrestling? |
| 0:33.2 | There are no fixed rules. |
| 0:34.6 | It's very much about faking and posing and folding chairs get bashed over the |
| 0:39.0 | opponent's heads and you never quite know what's going to happen. And that's really where we are. |
| 0:43.4 | Donald Trump lives in a very Hobbesian world. That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:52.3 | Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the G7 summit in Quebec later today and tomorrow. |
| 0:57.6 | Most trade talks or talks of these kinds are dull as ditch water. |
| 1:01.8 | These, though, promise to be different. |
| 1:03.5 | And that's because the summit comes a week after the US imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union. |
| 1:12.2 | Canada and Mexico have retaliated with their own tariffs on US goods, and now the EU looks |
| 1:17.3 | set to do the same, all of which has sparked fears of a trade war that could derail the global |
| 1:22.6 | economy. The Quebec meeting will be the first chance G7 leaders have to confront President Trump |
| 1:28.2 | in person about it all. This is what the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he'd tell him. |
| 1:33.5 | I will repeat to President Trump that the measures he's taken are counterproductive, including for his own economy. |
| 1:42.2 | For me, it's also a question of principle. |
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