China responds to Trump's claims of trade deal violation

Donald Trump has accused China of breaching a deal that paused a hugely disruptive trade war with the United States. The deal reduced tariffs on imports between the world's two biggest economies for at least ninety days. China responded by urging the US to cease discriminatory restrictions against China. The US president now says he intends to double US steel import tariffs to fifty percent.

Also in the programme: The United Nations has said Gaza is the “hungriest place on Earth” with all its people at risk of famine and we also discuss the coast guards charged for their involvement in the Greece migrant boat disaster that killed over 500 people back in June 2023.

Joining presenter Julian Worricker are Timandra Harkness, a British writer and broadcaster, and Simon Robinson, executive editor of the Reuters news agency in London.

(Picture: US President Donald J Trump during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 12 May 2025. Photo by CHRIS KLEPONIS/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (15296203i))