The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/09 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/09 at 05:00 EDT

Scott Payne spent nearly two decades working undercover as a biker, a neo-Nazi, a drug dealer, and a killer. But his last big mission at the FBI was the wildest of all. I have never had to burn baubles. I have never had to burn an American flag. And I damn sure was never with a group of people that stole a goat, sacrificed it in a pagan ritual, and drank its blood. And I did all that in about three days with these guys. Listen to Agent Palehorse, the second season of White Hot Hate, available now. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Herland. Asian stock markets fell in trading today after the latest American tariffs kicked in.

The Nikkei index in Tokyo dropped 4%. U.S. President Donald Trump bragged about the new tariffs at a Republican black-tie dinner last night in Washington. Right now China is paying a 104% tariff. Think of it, 104%. But Trump reassured the crowd that his tariff strategy will pay off, insisting that China will negotiate new trade conditions. I think they'll make a deal at some point. China will. They want to make a deal. They

really do. They want to make a deal. They just don't know how to get it started. The new tariffs include a 46% levy on imports from Vietnam to the US, 25% on South Korean goods, and 20% on imports from the European Union. As US President Donald Trump sparks a global trade war, the world order, as we know it, has been shaken. What will emerge next is still unclear, but as Lisa Sheng reports, some analysts say China and other Asian countries could end up playing a bigger role. The world order of the last 80 years has made me know that it's dead. Cameron Johnson is a senior partner at supply chain

consultancy Tidal Wave Solutions. Based in Shanghai, he says China and other Asian countries could become key players on the world stage. The whole world is shifting here. If you're not on that train, you're gonna get screwed and your people are gonna get screwed. China is the world's second largest economy after the US and diplomatically its influence is also increasingly far-reaching, says Dan Wang, China director for consulting firm Eurasia Group. We've seen a higher presence of China in areas like the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, with U.S. retreating from foreign aid. But Dan Treffler, an international

trade professor at the University of Toronto, warns there are risks of engaging China. China has been very arbitrary in its actions against Canada and those actions have been very harmful. Trefler says what the US does is also unpredictable. Lisa Shing, CBC News, Toronto. Liberal leader Mark Carney held a rally in Calgary last night. He took aim at US President Donald Trump and Conservative leader Pierre Paulyev. President Trump's plan is to divide and conquer. Pierre Paulyev's plan is to divide and be conquered. This is not the time, this is not the time for divisive angry politics.

Negativity is not going to win a trade war. Polyaev rejects the attempts to link him with Donald Trump. He points out that Trump says he would rather deal with the Liberal Party. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was in Burnaby, B.C., where he got the endorsement of a prominent Indigenous chief in the province. So I'm really honoured today also to receive the endorsement of Grand Chief Stuart Phillip. It's an honour for me. It's something that I take with a great degree of humility and I take it with a lot of responsibility. Singh says he will fight for justice for indigenous communities.

The head of NATO has a dire warning about the consequences if Ukraine loses the war with Russia. Mark Ruda gave a speech today in Tokyo. He says if Ukraine falls to Russia, it would embolden China to invade Taiwan. The world is watching the war and its outcome very closely. China is certainly watching. It's Ukraine today, it could be East Asia tomorrow. The NATO secretary general also says the previous target

that every NATO member should spend 2% of its GDP on defense is too low. The death toll from a nightclub tragedy in the Dominican Republic is growing. Authorities now say 98 people are dead and 160 injured. All the victims that perished in this horrible event, our heart is with you. We are praying. It happened Tuesday in the capital Santo Domingo during a concert. The audience full of politicians, athletes and music lovers, rescue crews are still searching for bodies and survivors.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.