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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Trump Touts Trade Truce

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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President Trump is touting an economic truce with China that could help boost the global economy ... What was the nuclear move Trump made just before striking the deal that may reignite tensions? ... Parts of the Caribbean were completely wiped out and left underwater by Hurricane Melissa. CNN is on the ground there with a look at the catastrophic damage.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now landmark agreement, President Trump and China's Xi Jinping reach an economic

0:07.8

truce that could help boost the global economy.

0:11.9

The nuclear move President Trump made just before striking the deal that may reignite tensions

0:17.6

and why the clock is still ticking for the future of TikTok. Plus, trail of

0:24.4

devastation Caribbean islands completely wiped out and left underwater. CNN is on the ground there

0:30.8

with a look at the catastrophic damage left by Hurricane Melissa. And jewelry heist take down,

0:37.2

Paris police make new arrests in connection

0:39.9

with the brazen daytime theft at one of the world's most famous museums.

0:45.7

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Pamela Brown. Will

0:50.0

Pulitzer is on assignment and you're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news.

1:03.0

And we start with that breaking news.

1:05.0

President Trump says the world's two largest economies, the United States and China, have a deal.

1:10.0

That announcement came after the

1:11.8

president's meeting with Chinese leaders Xi Jinping in South Korea. According to the president,

1:16.5

Hianji agreed on quote, almost everything, including trade and tariffs related to fentanyl.

1:23.3

I've agreed, as you know, I put a 20% tariff on China because of the Fentadol coming again,

1:29.4

which is a big tariff. And based on the statements today, I'm reduced it by 10%, so it's 10%

1:37.0

that's that of 20% effective immediately.

1:41.3

Just before that announcement, though, President Trump instructed the Pentagon to start testing

1:45.6

nuclear weapons on an equal basis with China and Russia for the first time in decades.

1:51.2

So this would be a shift in policy, a major shift.

1:54.3

Let's go live now to CNN's senior international correspondent Ivan Watson and Hong Kong.

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