{"id":32368,"date":"2025-02-04T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/first-thing-china-announces-retaliatory-tariffs-after-trumps-take-effect\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:43:50","slug":"first-thing-china-announces-retaliatory-tariffs-after-trumps-take-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/first-thing-china-announces-retaliatory-tariffs-after-trumps-take-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: China announces retaliatory tariffs after Trump\u2019s take effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China also announced an investigation into Google in an apparent retaliation. Plus, the Senate confirms a fracking executive as energy secretary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has fired the opening salvo of his trade war, imposing tariffs on China on Tuesday that prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/04\/trump-china-tariffs\">instant retaliation<\/a> from Beijing and fears about the global economic repercussions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What could be the impact on ordinary Americans?<\/strong> Economists have warned Trump\u2019s tariff plans risk raising prices for millions of Americans just weeks after he pledged, upon taking office, to \u201crapidly\u201d bring them down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much does the US trade with China?<\/strong> China is the US\u2019s third-largest trading partner, behind Mexico and Canada, making up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/foreign-trade\/statistics\/highlights\/topcm.html#total\">11.3%<\/a> of total trade and more than $50bn for November last year alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have the lawmakers said about Musk\u2019s behavior?<\/strong> The senator Elizabeth Warren said it \u201cthreatens the privacy and economic security of every American\u201d. The congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described it as \u201ca plutocratic coup\u201d, and the congresswoman Ilhan Omar said \u201cthis is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/04\/first-thing-china-announces-retaliatory-tariffs-after-trumps-take-effect\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China also announced an investigation into Google in an apparent retaliation. Plus, the Senate confirms a fracking executive as energy secretary Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump has fired the opening salvo of his trade war, imposing tariffs on China on Tuesday that prompted instant retaliation &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: China announces retaliatory tariffs after Trump\u2019s take effect\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/first-thing-china-announces-retaliatory-tariffs-after-trumps-take-effect\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: China announces retaliatory tariffs after Trump\u2019s take effect\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}