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World Service,18 Sep 2018,53 mins

US Imposes New $200bn Tariffs on China

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The US is imposing new tariffs on $200bn worth of Chinese goods as it escalates its trade war with Beijing. We hear from Mark Wu, professor of international trade law at Harvard Law School. So what is the view on this in China? We speak to our Asia Business Correspondent Karishma Vaswani from the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, China. You may have had a Blackberry phone back in the day but today it's a radically different business, focusing on cybersecurity for company systems and self-driving cars. We speak to John Chen, the Chairman and Chief Executive. The BBC's Susannah Streeter reports from London Fashion Week where there's a big diversity drive to make sure all women are represented on the catwalk. In a few hours time, the Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles will shower statuettes on the shows and the stars of those deemed to be the best of the past year. We hear from KJ Matthews, an entertainment journalist in LA. Most of us find that one job's enough but some people not only have a main source of income, they have a side hustle too, as our regular commentator Stephanie Hare explains. And joining us throughout the programme are José Martín, a radical organiser and a researcher of social unrest; he's in Washington. And Lucy Alexander, a freelance Journalist writing for the Times newspaper joins us from Tokyo. Picture description: President Trump at the White House Photo by Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images

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