Viewsroom: Trade war pause may only delay fight
Viewsroom
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🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, just leave on work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud. |
| 0:03.3 | Um, basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight. Had a big Mac on my mind all day, and delivery fee on the app is now from 99P. So you win? Of course you are. Love you. Bye! Exclusively on the McDonald's app. 18 plus, service fee and small order fee may apply. Participating restaurants. Serving times and teas and seas apply. The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants. |
| 0:24.4 | Not. Service fee and small order fee may apply. Participating restaurants. Serving times and teas and seas apply. The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Rogers News. |
| 0:30.0 | China and the United States agree to a temporary ceasefire in a mounting war of tariffs. |
| 0:35.1 | Will it yield a compromise or is it a stalling tactic? |
| 0:38.1 | This is the issue we're tackling on this edition of the views room, a weekly conversation |
| 0:42.0 | among Breaking View's calmness about the ups and downs of the world of finance. I'm Jennifer |
| 0:46.7 | Sabah. Over the past several months, we've seen an escalating trade war between China and the |
| 0:51.5 | United States, with both countries slapping taxes on a variety of goods. |
| 0:56.5 | But trade talks between President Trump and his counterpart in China, President Xi Jinping, were held in |
| 1:01.6 | Argentina at the G20 summit over the weekend. The dinner between the leaders was successful in one way. |
| 1:07.7 | It bought the U.S. and the People's Republic additional time to hash out a deal. |
| 1:11.9 | So how will this all play out? We're going to look at this from both sides of the Pacific, |
| 1:16.3 | but first we're going to Washington to chat with my colleague, Gina Chan. Hi, Gina. |
| 1:20.7 | Hey, Jen. |
| 1:21.9 | Gina, from my viewpoint, it looks like President Trump is playing a very dangerous game of chicken. |
| 1:26.4 | Where are we so far? |
| 1:27.6 | What has each country taxed? |
| 1:30.0 | Sure. |
| 1:31.0 | So far the US has put on import duties on about half of all Chinese imports. |
| 1:37.8 | So that's about 250 billion in Chinese goods. |
| 1:42.0 | That ranges from agricultural products to bike helmets to car seats, |
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