蜜芽传媒

鈥淚f there鈥檚 a fight, we鈥檒l fight to the end鈥�, a Chinese commerce ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday, of the increasingly fierce trade war playing out between the US and China.

As President Donald Trump threatens imposing 100% tariffs on goods coming from China, his counterpart, President Xi Jinping, has restricted US access to its rare earth minerals 鈥� which are vital to producing everything from smartphones to fighter jets.

With the two leaders due to meet in South Korea later this month, can they break the stalemate, or will they plunge the world鈥檚 two biggest economies into a global trade war? 蜜芽传媒 China correspondent Stephen McDonnell joins us to discuss how the world鈥檚 two largest economies got locked in stalemate 鈥� and what it could mean for the cost of the goods we all buy.

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Image: Russian Matryoshka wooden dolls, depicting US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock