The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 10:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With Donald Trump pausing his threatened trade action on Canada, the next tariff battle for the White House is China. And China is putting up a fight, threatening today to impose a wide range of tariffs and export controls if the Trump administration doesn't stand down. Yenna Li reports from Beijing. A 15% tax on U.S. coal, 10% on goods such as crude oil, farm equipment and pickup trucks.

These are just some of the US imports that face new Chinese tariffs. China also announced export curves on five critical minerals, metals that are crucial to technology and innovation. Beijing argues that this is just a response to Washington's actions as the US slapped an additional 10% tax on all Chinese goods first. This situation doesn't have to lead to further escalation and further escalation. On the contrary, it appears both sides are actually entering a round of negotiations. These new TIF-ATAK Chinese tariffs are set to start on February 10th, so there is some

time and some space for discussion still. According to the White House, a call between Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping could take place in the coming days. Yen-A-Lee for CBC News, Beijing. Meanwhile, Canada may have received an 11th hour reprieve from the Trump tariff threat, but that doesn't mean the federal government's work is done. In fact, it's only just started. Janice McGregor explains.

This may be an economic reprieve, but it's not a political one. Sure, Canada's not rolling out tariffs this morning, but everything else remains. They have to make sure that the new spending actually delivers results that Washington will see. And Canada can explain away Trump's trade deficit allegations, but the data on military spending and defence capabilities are not flattering. Even work on the retaliation strategy can't let up because March 4th isn't very far away. And even after that, there's the other trade reviews with April 1st deadlines. Those could trigger other actions against Canada.

On and on it goes. Canadians have demonstrated, again, that they value their sovereignty. But divisions have emerged over the best tactics for defending that. And as complicated as it is for the Liberal government during this period of transition in Ottawa, it's also complicated for the Conservative opposition as it tries to balance its instincts for patriotism while still harnessing the same populism that propelled Trump to power in the first place. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington today for talks with President Trump, and it's worth noting that Netanyahu is traveling outside Israel despite being wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Jerry Simpson, a professor of international law at the London School of Economics, says the Israeli PM has nothing to fear. The United States has no duties to arrest or surrender Netanyahu. So there, the kind of political needs of the United States match rather nicely with the legal position. The United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court, and in fact, last month it sanctioned the ICC after it issued the arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

Also named in the warrants are Israel's former defense minister and a former Hamas commander. Incidentally, Netanyahu is the first world leader to visit the White House since Trump was sworn in for his second term. So with news from the Trump administration, it has finalized an agreement to send prisoners serving time in the U.S. to prisons in El Salvador. Here's U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after meeting with the president of El Salvador. Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President of the United States of America He has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country,

including those of U.S. citizenship and legal residents. The United States will be paying El Salvador to take the prisoners. Included in that agreement will be migrants who have been detained for entering the United States illegally. And that is The World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated every hour, seven days a week. And for news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. ...