The Impact of Trump's Trade War and Abrupt Reversal of Tariffs

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A week after the meltdown of markets everywhere and Trump's sudden pause on most new tariffs for 90 days - with the exception of China, economists say the trade war is still on, the damage has already been done and the likelihood of a recession remains. Long time allies now view America with suspicion and trust has been badly damaged. To contextualize what this moment means for America, Christiane spoke to renowned global historian Peter Frankopan. Then to find out how Beijing is viewing the Trump administration's actions, Christiane talked to Li Yuan who covers China and its foreign relations for the New York Times. Also, CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports on one IDF soldier who is blowing the whistle on a policy to purposely destroy everything in a massive buffer zone inside Gaza and even make it a kill zone. Afterwards, award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks to Christiane about her new novel "Dream Count" - a tale of love, loss and female solidarity. Then, as Rwanda commemorates 31 years since the genocide there, Christiane revisits her 1994 report on the biblical retribution that befell the Hutu killers who were struck by a plague-like outbreak of cholera after fleeing Rwanda for neighboring countries. And finally, as "The Great Gatsby" turns 100, why it retains its relevance all these years later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Ammonport Hour.
0:10.0	Here's where we're headed this week.
0:14.0	Economic turmoil amid this ongoing trade war.
0:17.0	We're living through a form of revolution and it's not just about the markets.
0:20.0	Historian Peter Frankopan on the chaos and then New York Times columnist Li Wan on America's
0:26.6	China-like authoritarian turn. A government that's willing to destroy the rule of law,
0:32.8	dismantle the government agencies and silencing media. It's all of this.
0:38.3	And testimony from an Israeli soldier turned whistleblower.
0:41.3	And we destroy them one by one in a very methodical fashion.
0:44.3	On IDF policy to turn a massive buffer zone inside Gaza into a total wasteland and even a kill zone.
0:52.3	Plus, I knew I wanted to write about women's lives. I've known that for a while.
0:56.0	Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adice on her new novel Dream Count.
1:01.0	Also from the archive, my report, 31 years ago amid the Rwandan genocide.
1:11.4	Welcome to the program, everyone.
1:13.1	I'm Christiana Manpur in London.
1:15.4	Americans voted Donald Trump back into office thinking he'd somehow make the country great again,
1:20.4	not enable its unraveling.
1:22.5	A week after the meltdown of markets everywhere, Trump was forced to suddenly hit pause
1:27.4	on most of the new
1:28.6	terrorists for about 90 days, with the exception of China, while keeping that 10% across the board
1:35.1	levy. Economists say the trade war is still on, the damage has already been done, and the likelihood
1:41.6	of a recession remains. Nobody knows where this will all end up.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.