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What we have sent a message this week on is that we're not just going to enforce our southern border. We're going to put extra resources at that northern border as well. So Canada needs to come to the table,
Noem said during an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press." Economically, yes, they will, they will feel pain. They will feel what the consequences are, and we'll be able to continue to go forward with the president, who is strong, who is putting America first."
In an interview Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, saying It worked the first time when he was in office, we didn't see inflation, we saw wage growth, and we saw more onshoring of jobs back here in the United States,
THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA! WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!),
If prices go up, it's because of other people's reactions to America's laws."
It's going to hurt American families. They're going to see prices go up for food, for energy, for electronics, I think you mentioned that for, for autos. This is not the way to handle this."
Kristen, we're talking about two different things here,
he told Welker later in the program The fact is, these countries are taking advantage of us all along the while we've got fentanyl streaming into our country. So Mexico has a choice. They can choose to trade with the United States or continue to cozy up with the cartels. It's pretty simple."
China is hoping to show Washington that it is willing to come to the negotiating table and use negotiations to prevent the Trump administration from further enhancing the tariffs on Chinese goods,
The Chinese economy will still be hit hard by the additional tariffs imposed by the Trump administration because China has been relying on export to drive economic growth in recent years,
He Jiangbing, an independent Chinese economic commentator, told VOA by phone The additional tariffs will essentially force my company to give up the U.S. market and shift the focus to other countries,
a Chinese consumer electronics exporter surnamed Lin, who asked to only be identified by his last name due to the sensitivity of the issue, told VOA in a written response Escalation of tension between China and the U.S. will come from important national security issues such as Taiwan and the U.S. military deployment in the Philippines,
In the end, he only dares to add 10% tariffs [on Chinese goods] while imposing an additional 25% tariffs on goods from other countries,
wrote Chinese internet user “Jixiang Wang-bao” on Weibo China could announce a massive order of Boeing or China could announce a massive increase in imports of shale gas, which could be very useful for Trump,
Alicia Garcia-Herrero, chief economist for Asia Pacific at French investment bank Natixis, told VOA by phone All parties in China have long anticipated this round of tariff hikes imposed by Trump and relevant businesses in China have made a lot of preparations,
he wrote in a post on Weibo, Additional tariffs are not constructive and bound to affect and harm the counternarcotics cooperation between the two sides in the future,
a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said in a statement released Sunday afternoon We have always believed that there are no winners in a trade war or a tariff war,
said Mao Ning, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry, China hopes that the U.S. side will objectively and rationally look at and deal with its own fentanyl issue and other issues, rather than threatening other countries by means of tariffs at every turn.”
Beijing pushed back, saying Fentanyl is America's problem,
China's foreign ministry said The practice of imposing additional tariffs is not constructive and will inevitably affect and damage future bilateral cooperation on drug control,
a ministry spokesperson said
