Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. President Donald Trump’s is not. That dynamic is complicating their gargantuan standoff. Spain ends up with more and more remains of migrants who die on their journeys—and its morgues cannot keep up (10:29). And in an age of video games pinball is not only surviving, it’s flipping thriving (18:11).
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| 0:24.3 | Select a source subject to availability, Coke offer ends 23rd of April, may exclude ASDA Express. |
| 0:29.1 | Prices may vary. |
| 0:35.3 | The Economist. |
| 0:45.5 | Thank you. The Economist Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:48.1 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:52.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:00.0 | The deaths of migrants travelling on unsafe ships is one of the tragedies of our age. |
| 1:03.0 | Our correspondent explores one of the gruesome side effects of this sad story, |
| 1:07.0 | the pile up of bodies in Spanish morgues along the sea routes. |
| 1:12.8 | And at a time when the video game industry pulls in more than the movie industry does, |
| 1:18.1 | you'd be forgiven for thinking pinball had been consigned to history. |
| 1:22.4 | Our correspondent finds that it's not only hanging on, it's enjoying a revival. |
| 1:42.5 | Yeah. finds that it's not only hanging on, it's enjoying a revival. But first... |
| 1:42.7 | One thing about wars is that they reveal what each side perceives as the other's vulnerability. |
| 1:49.2 | Russia strikes at Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Israel crimps the flow of aid to Gaza. |
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