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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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President Donald Trump has paused his sweeping new tariffs, with one exception: those levied on China. Beijing is retaliating by hitting US goods back. How Chinese leadership sees the escalating trade war. Also, how new banana products could help transform agriculture in Uganda. And what exactly makes Jamaican rum Jamaican?
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0:00.0 | Have you noticed anything about your neighborhood church? |
0:05.0 | Maybe it's boarded up, converted to some other use, or just abandoned. |
0:10.4 | I'm Mateo Schimpth, host of the final service. |
0:13.8 | It's a new podcast series that answers a really big question in four parts. |
0:18.4 | What does a community lose when a church closes its doors for good? |
0:22.1 | And how will the ones that survive manage to keep them open? |
0:26.1 | The final service drops April 10th, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
0:35.3 | President Trump is hitting pause on his plans for massive tariffs, except for China. |
0:40.4 | Beijing is ready with its own plan. |
0:42.7 | China has an entire alternative toolkit that it's applying by going after American companies. |
0:49.9 | More on the trade war between the world's two biggest economies. |
0:53.3 | I'm Marco Wurman. |
0:54.3 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
0:55.7 | We'll also hear about artists in Cambodia standing up to authorities there. |
1:00.8 | And entrepreneurs in Uganda look for ways to turn a profit on a crop that's as common as a weed. |
1:07.6 | Banana grows in almost every African country. |
1:10.5 | And the legal battle about what can be |
1:12.3 | defined as real Jamaican rum. It reflects the island's history, identity, and also national pride. |
1:20.8 | We've got those stories and more today on the world. |
1:28.7 | This is the world. I'm Marco Wurman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for joining us today. |
1:34.2 | It was another wild ride for global markets. After days of posting big losses and fueling talk of |
1:40.7 | a possible recession, President Trump suddenly announced a 90-day pause on most tariffs. |
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