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Donald Trump

Inserted 1 week ago

“You have to have flexibility. I could say, here's a wall and I'm gonna go through that wall. I'm gonna go through it no matter what. Keep going and you can't go through the wall. Sometimes you have to be able to go under the wall, around the wall, or over the wall. These guys know that better than anybody, right? You got to go around them sometimes, you're not gonna go through them.”

Aljazeera

President of the United States

09 Apr 2025 1 3

Sophia Busch

Inserted 1 week ago

“The shift from the Trump administration offers a little bit of a clue of its priorities in its tariff policy. You can see the administration is releasing some pressure on markets, releasing some of the pressure on US businesses, so that it can keep the pressure on China high, with possibly the ultimate goal of getting Beijing to the negotiating table for better terms of trade. However, it may be difficult to reach that goal. I think if the current pattern stands, China will continue to retaliate until there starts to be some kind of progress. We've seen Beijing is very comfortable and has plenty of practice with these kind of coercive economic tools beyond just tariffs. You're looking at US companies getting blacklisted, import bans on US agriculture products like poultry and sorghum. I think Beijing is perfectly comfortable and will continue increasing this kind of pressure on the US until there's some kind of give, or at least a willingness to step back down.”

Aje

Assistant director at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center

09 Apr 2025 10 2

Boris Pistorius

Inserted 1 week ago

“There is a new unpredictability in our transatlantic relations. The United States keep up their commitment to NATO, but they quite rightly demand a stronger European contribution in the alliance. We will do this together with our European partners and NATO allies, and we will have to provide significantly more leadership as we go along.”

Aje

Minister of Defence of Germany

09 Apr 2025 5 4

Wang Yuesheng

Inserted 1 week ago

“The impact on China is mainly that Chinese products have nowhere to go. That will ravage export-oriented companies making things like furniture, clothing, toys and home appliances along China's eastern seaboard, which largely exist to serve American consumers. These companies will be hit very hard.”

Nytimes

Director of the Institute of International Economics at Peking University

09 Apr 2025 5 3

Scott Kennedy

Inserted 1 week ago

“Trump has never gone into a back-alley brawl where the other side is willing to brawl and use the same kind of tactics as him. For China, this is about their sovereignty. This is about the Communist Party's hold on power. For Trump, it might just be a political campaign.”

Nytimes

Senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

09 Apr 2025 3 3

Kristen Saloomey

Inserted 1 week ago

“We're seeing businesses like Walmart readjust their profit predictions for the year, lowering their expectations, and investors responding in kind by selling stocks. Apple, the maker of the iPhone that does a lot of business with China, their stocks continue to be lower. US auto manufacturers are also seeing declines in their shares. Broadly speaking, the market is now about 19 percent lower than its record highs. Analysts are comparing it with the beginning of the pandemic when the market had its last serious rout.”

Aje

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from New York City

09 Apr 2025 6 3

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“Trump has never gone into a back-alley brawl where the other side is willing to brawl and use the same kind of tactics as him. For China, this is about their sovereignty. This is about the Communist Party's hold on power. For Trump, it might just be a political campaign.”

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