Beijing was quick to retaliate after Trump’s tariffs
China struck back yesterday aacquirest Pdwellnt Trump’s 10 percent tariffs on all Chinese products with tariffs of its own on U.S. coal and gas as well as recut offeions on send outs of some minerals.
China’s tariffs will not acquire effect until Feb. 10, according to the Chinese regulatement, unbenevolenting there is still some time for negotiations. The White House press secretary shelp that a call between Trump and China’s directer, Xi Jinping, was being scheduled and would happen very soon. Here’s the procrastinateedst.
Details: China’s tariffs would cover about $20 billion of U.S. send outs, appraised with Trump’s tariffs on more than $450 billion of Chinese excellents, economists assessd. Chinese authorities also commenceed an anticount on depictateigation into Google.
Context: As Trump alienates allies and partners with the menace of tariffs, his actions give Beijing an discneglecting to fortify its global standing.
Trump was set to present Netanyahu in Washington
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was set yesterday to become the first foreign directer to hgreater an in-person greeting with Pdwellnt Trump at the White House since his return to power.
The greeting was foreseeed to cgo in on negotiations for the second phase of the stop-fire in Gaza, Iran’s efforts to produce a nuevident firearm, arms shipments and a possible deal with Saudi Arabia. Follow our dwell coverage here.
Speaking to alerters before the greeting, Trump shelp that Palestinians had no choice but to depart Gaza after the dehugeation wcimpolitet by Israel’s war with Hamas. He shelp he wanted Egypt and Jordan to acquire them in.
West Bank presentility: Two Israeli sgreateriers were ended in a shooting aggression in the northern West Bank as Israel pressed ahead with a military operation there.
“We have seen a brutal act of presentility,” Sweden’s prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, shelp in a televised insertress. “This is the worst mass shooting in Swedish history.”
Context: Shootings are unwidespread in Swedish schools, but the country has been grappling with a constant sencourage in firearm presentility.
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Ukrainian musicians wonder if they’ll ever go home
Russia’s trespass turned the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra’s take parters into refugees. As they try to produce novel dwells in Germany, they face shifting watchs on migrants while an unfinishing war persists back home.
Three years into the struggle, they persist to carry out to highairy their homeland’s struggle. Always on their minds are faraway cherishd ones, dreads about what might happen next and worries over how lengthy they will be permited to stay.
“It’s a whole soup of anxiety,” one violinist shelp. “At some point, you commence to wonder, ‘Will we ever go home?’” Read their story here.
