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Why Trump’s China Trade War Will Harm Us All

Novara Live

Novara Media

Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has ramped up his trade war with China to nuclear levels. We’re joined by a Cambridge university professor to discuss.

With Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani and Jostein Hauge of the University of Cambridge

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.7

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0:17.8

Welcome to Navarra Live. I'm Michael Walker.

0:20.1

And tonight we are sticking with the biggest story in the

0:23.1

world right now, which is Donald Trump's trade war continuing to wreak havoc. We're also going to

0:29.1

discuss whether the trade war that Trump started with China, he could lose. Could China actually win it?

0:36.5

In the second half of the show, we'll discuss

0:38.2

Parliament being recalled to debate steel nationalisation, and Donald Trump is proving

0:45.0

to right wing and for Joe Rogan of all people. This is not a trade-related story. It's about a really

0:50.1

disgraceful actually deportation that Trump did a while back. The Supreme Court have urged he

0:57.1

change course. Our first story, even if it was chaotic and completely unplanned, Donald Trump

1:06.1

pulled a bit of a trick on Wednesday. That's because he ramped up his trade war with China to nuclear levels,

1:12.2

but because at the same time, he dropped tariffs on everyone else, the move was actually

1:16.3

cheered by the financial markets. That's unusual. You blow up trade between the world's two

1:22.4

biggest economic powers and the financial markets say, brilliant, great. However, we're now two days later

1:30.1

and reality has very much kicked back in. Of course, whatever happens to US tariffs on the rest

1:35.9

of the world, ending all trade between the world's two biggest economies will still do an

1:40.8

awful lot of damage. And that's been made ever more obvious as Beijing makes clear

1:45.5

it will not buckle first in this high stakes game of chicken. So in response to Trump's tariffs on,

1:52.6

or Trump's tariffs of 145% on Chinese goods, China has now raised their tariffs on the US to 125%.

2:00.3

And investors are once again getting jittery

2:04.0

about the US economy. The dollar is down as investors are switching to gold and movements in the

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