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Today, Trump's Trade War, the view from China.

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I'm just entering Iwo international wholesale market, which is the world's biggest wholesale market on China's east coast. That's Amy Hawkins, the Guardian's senior China correspondent.

It's a real sight to behold, so I'm currently on the stationary floor,

and there are just thousands and thousands of pens and notebooks

and staplers and anything else that you might buy in an office supplies shop in the UK.

Places like Iwu are on the front line of Donald Trump's escalating trade war.

Chances are if you bought something on Timo or Sheehan or from poundland or any kind of small

manufactured goods in the past 20 years, it could well have come through Iwu.

Trump's ever-changing tariff regime has shaken up global trade, and nowhere more so than in China,

where he's imposed tariffs of 145%.

We lost with China over the Biden years trillions of dollars on trade, trillions of dollars,

and he let them fleece us, and we can't do that anymore.

But China is fighting back and looking to sell more to the rest of the world and to its own people.

There's this air, I think, in China, even though the economy is very dependent on exports,

a lot of people like to say we don't need the US anymore.

It's not a big deal if the US goes away.

With trade between the world's two superpowers on ice, there are growing fears of an even

greater, more dangerous escalation.

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