• ‘Gloves off’: A former Trump trade official on his China fight

  • Apr 10 2025
  • Length: 22 mins
  • Podcast

‘Gloves off’: A former Trump trade official on his China fight

  • Summary

  • After days of stock market mayhem, President Donald Trump pulled back most of the tariffs he slapped on U.S. trade partners. But not China. Trump upped his tariffs on China to 125 percent — the latest shot in a rapidly escalating trade war. On POLITICO Tech, host Steven Overly talks to Nazak Nikakhtar, a former Commerce Department official during Trump’s first term and law partner at Wiley, about the ways in which the tech industry is vulnerable to Beijing’s retaliation, and why she thinks the economic pain from these sky-high tariffs is necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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