Trump's latest trade war

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ezra, Jane, and Matt talk about Trump's approach to China and what his critics get right and wrong. Links to resources discussed: “Making China Great Again” by Evan Osnos, The New Yorker “The past 3 wild days in Trump’s trade war with China, explained” by Matthew Yglesias, Vox “Trump’s puzzling trade war with China, sort of explained” by Matthew Yglesias, Vox “Why Elizabeth Warren is declaring war on an obscure trade policy” by Danielle Kurtzleben, Vox “Elizabeth Warren’s vision for changing America’s trade policy, explained” by Matthew Yglesias, Vox “The progressive case for free trade” by Hilary Matfess, Vox “The weak defenses of Elizabeth Warren’s trade plan” by Daniel W. Drezner, Washington Post White paper Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics reporter, VoxDara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica More to explore: Subscribe for free to the Ezra Klein Show, a Vox podcast where Ezra brings you far-reaching conversations about hard problems, big ideas, illuminating theories, and cutting-edge research. About Vox:Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us:Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's a Popeye's brunch.
0:02.1	No, Popeye.
0:03.3	P-A-P-E.
0:04.2	It's a Popeye restaurant in Washington, G-C's,
0:06.5	Logan Circle neighborhood.
0:07.8	Oh, I apologize.
0:09.8	Can we start the weeds?
0:11.1	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:28.1	I'm Matthew Eglaceus, joined today by Jane Kostin and the great Ezra Klein,
0:32.2	Original Weeds Personality.
0:34.3	Jane and I, we were OG Weeds.
0:36.5	We were just going to do a paneling.
0:38.3	We are both Jack Reager fans.
0:40.5	I wanted to just do a podcast about that.
0:42.4	But Ezra said no.
0:43.9	We should talk about a policy issue.
0:45.9	It is called the Weeds.
0:47.5	So I think the question of Trump and trade has hung over his administration from the
0:54.5	beginning.
0:55.5	Right.
0:56.5	Over the past week, we've seen a baffling sequence of events in which Trump first announced
1:04.6	that tariffs that were supposed to start on September 1st were not going to start.
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