1B | BIC) WORLD NEWS HOST: China imposes another =| ppeseeememmerny 7 Local time nn $60 billion of tariffs on US yi ‘i imports a day after President . : 4 Trump announces tariffs on $200 _ : billion of Chinese goods. Well, =. let's get more on that story now. ia = We're joined from Beijing by Robert Lawrence Kuhn who it — — advises China's leaders and . ~ . multinational corporations. He's . ie SP es also the author of "How China's ‘ —_— Leaders Think". How do they 4 OLE SS think about this? It's difficult to Adviser to Chinese government inure te mga, RLK: Let's look at what just ATTA Beijing happened. China retaliated with $60 billion worth of U.S. goods | } that it was putting tariffs on, but _— + aN Se, half of it was five percent, half ~~ § ‘ a, * was 10 percent, which is less _ / | - v ey % © &/ than the American side, which ang ; a a iF fe } was 10 percent on all. And the 4 = al oftm - = — $60 billion is proportional in the i — =_™ = = = sense that it is about 40 percent | f , ty of the total US exports to China. im Just as the $200 billion was about 40 percent of the little bit more than $500 billion that HIGRIP Ol ncey tiiaes on avec! 6,000 items China exports to the US. So EIEN NEWS 03:12 1OPOSAL . CHEMNITZ UNREST: GERMAN TOP SPY Mé that's the proportionality. Mm HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026888