From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

This is Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post.

This is Post Reports.

I'm Martin Powers.

It's Tuesday, May 7.

Today, President Trump threatened new tariffs against China,

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There is no relationship in the history of the world as complicated as a relationship between the US and China.

The relationship with China is very strong, probably the strongest it's ever been.

They are like a married couple who has been divorced and remarried 50 times.

They keep getting in these huge fights over the years.

We've lost a lot of money to China.

Every issue is the biggest issue in the planet.

And then they have to come back together because of something else they have that's mutually of concern.

And then they get in another fight and it happens again.

Now the problem is these are the two biggest economic superpowers on the planet.

So when they get in a fight it's not over something small and technical.

It's a huge end of the world issue.

And we're seeing that play out now where President Trump is threatening to impose these taxes on virtually everything that China sends over the United States,

which is more than $500 billion of stuff a year.

Damien Poletta is a senior economic correspondent at the post.

He's been reporting on the latest battle in this trade war between China and the US.

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