Trump v China, Should We be Scared?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As President Trump prepares for key talks with China's President Xi Jinping, we hear from the editor of the Financial Times, Lionel Barber, who warns that Mr Trump is threatening to go it alone in tackling North Korea, if Beijing refuses to help. Fresh from an interview with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Mr Barber tells Ed Butler that there is cause to be concerned about the risk of US military action against North Korea. Ed also hears what to expect from the US-China trade discussions this week, with Peter Trubowitz, director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics. And Jennifer Pak reports from Shenzhen in Southern China on the Chinese 'makers', coming up with new ideas (not stolen ones). And Lucy Kellaway says sexism is never acceptable, no matter how old you are.
(Picture: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, impersonated by Hong Kong actor Howard, and US President Donald Trump, impersonated by US actor Dennis, pose outside the US consulate in Hong Kong on in January 2017. Credit:ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:08.8 | Coming up, ahead of a key meeting with the Chinese president, Donald Trump, says the US |
| 0:14.0 | will, if necessary, deal with North Korea all on its own. |
| 0:18.4 | One man who's interviewed the US president warns this is serious. |
| 0:22.7 | We should all be very, very afraid if there's any talk of military action in North Korea |
| 0:26.8 | because you could see a conflagration on the Korean peninsula, a soul going up in smoke. |
| 0:32.6 | But is this more than just tough talk ahead of the real economic bargaining with China. |
| 0:42.0 | We hear from a British producer who thinks that China is in fact not a rival, |
| 0:44.8 | but represents a creative economic partner. |
| 0:51.4 | As a designer, it's so exciting because there's never been a more concentrated supply chain ever in human history. |
| 0:54.4 | What can be made here can't be made anywhere else in the world. |
| 0:57.5 | All that to come in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:03.8 | Okay, the words of Donald Trump, the clip that you're about to hear wasn't our big idea here on Business Daily. It was put out there by some wits on the internet. But it does bear out a significant |
| 1:09.5 | general truth, I think, |
| 1:14.4 | that Donald Trump has now been obsessed about China lately. |
| 1:18.6 | China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China. China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China. |
| 1:22.6 | China, China, China, China, China, China. |
| 1:30.3 | People say, oh, you don't like China. I like China. China. China. |
| 1:31.3 | Okay, that was a montage. Despite all of those words, though, you don't get the impression he really does like China all that much. |
| 1:38.3 | We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing. It's the greatest theft in the |
| 1:46.9 | history of the world. Yeah, some pretty tough language. China's manipulation of trading rules, |
| 1:52.2 | manipulation of its own currency, Mr. Trump reckons, has put it at a massively unfair advantage over |
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