Trump takes aim at BRICs countries
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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: An alliance of emerging countries — which includes Brazil, South Africa, China and Russia — has criticized the Trump administration’s tariffs, causing the president to threaten them with an extra 10% tariff on trade. And as trade tensions rise, we take a look at how the art of negotiations are being transformed by the U.S. approach to trade deals.
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| 1:02.1 | Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne. Now, it might sound like a strange |
| 1:07.7 | acronym, but there's a group of emerging economies known as Bricks. Brazil, |
| 1:11.8 | Russia, India and China are in the group with Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United |
| 1:17.6 | Arab Emirates included as members last year. Well, as that group meets at a summit in Brazil, |
| 1:23.4 | it is in President Trump's sites. He says he'll impose an additional 10% tariff on any country that aligns itself, |
| 1:30.4 | what he called the anti-American policies of these economies. |
| 1:34.3 | China's leader, Xin Jinping, isn't at the summit, |
| 1:37.1 | and the country says it's not seeking confrontation. |
| 1:40.3 | Local media in Brazil has interpreted his absence as a snub. |
| 1:44.0 | The BBC's Mickey Bristow told us more about what might be behind his decision local media in Brazil has interpreted his absence as a snub. |
| 1:49.8 | The BBC's Mickey Bristow told us more about what might be behind his decision to give the summit a skip. |
| 1:56.9 | You've got this disparate group of nations altogether that perhaps have different ideas about what they should say. |
| 2:02.5 | Perhaps he just doesn't want to go because he doesn't want to get drawn into standing by any opinions. He doesn't really want to stand by and having to push back at those. So perhaps it's |
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