Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

Trump hits China and China hits back. I get the details on the tariff turmoil,

tanking the global economy and the view from Beijing. Then an IDF whistleblower tells Jeremy Diamond about turning a Gaza buffer zone into a killing field.

Also playwright Ryan Calais Cameron brings us back to the 1950s in Hollywood and Sydney Poetier's formidable fight against McCarthyism.

Plus, detained by ICE, Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney tells Harri Strinvasan

what it's really like to be locked up at the US-Mexico border. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

Donald Trump makes ever more extraordinary public proclamations.

The latest, be cool, after single-handedly tanking the markets

as his universal tariffs have gone into effect today.

Nobody knows where this will end up.

Now that the EU has approved counter-tariffs and China refuses to blink,

announcing plans to raise tariffs on American imports to 84%.

It had been hit by an eye-popping 104% by Washington, also hitting a nerve in Beijing,

offensive words from Vice President J.D. Vance, in which he referred to, quote,

Chinese peasants in an interview defending U.S. policy.

The Chinese foreign ministry called the comments ignorant and disrespectful. So, a trade war,

a war of words between the world's two biggest economies, that plus Trump's across-the-board

crackdown on U.S. institutions, is raising the alarm in Beijing, which is trying

to manage what's looking like a reckless trading partner. Li Wan covers China and its foreign

relations for the New York Times, and she's joining us from New York. Welcome to the program.

Thank you. So because you keep an eye on all this, even though you are doing it from the United

States, what are you, what are the most important signals that you're picking up from inside

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