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Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

If the US won't work to return a wrongly deported man to El Salvador despite a Supreme Court ruling, are we headed towards a constitutional crisis?

It certainly appears that way, and I think this is the constitutional crisis that the Trump administration would love to have. Because wrongfully deporting someone without evidence who is in the country illegally and therefore guilty of a misdemeanor, but sending them to a max security prison, which the Supreme Court says you shouldn't do, but now is in another country. Very few Americans are sympathetic to the case of this person. And indeed, Trump won on the basis in part of being sick and tired of allowing illegal immigrants to spend enormous amounts of time in the United States without recourse.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Vietnam's National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man during his two-day state visit, in Hanoi, Vietnam, April 14, 2025.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Vietnam Monday, where he signed dozens of new economic agreements with his fellow communist-run neighbor. It was the first stop on Xi’s three-country swing through Southeast Asia which will also include Cambodia and Malaysia.

The trip comes as the US-China trade war rages – the world’s two biggest economies have now hit each other with triple digit tariffs and various trade restrictions.

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media on board Air Force One on the way to West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 13, 2025.

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When it comes to tariffs, US President Donald Trump is proving more, er, flexible than some thought. Case in point: late Friday, US Customs quietly published a list of tariff exemptions, and buried in the jargon was code 8517.13.00.00. If you know your customs codes, that’s the digital alias of… the smartphone.

Trump’s new 145% tariffs on Chinese goods will now (mostly) spare the devices, as well as laptops, memory chips, solar cells, and semiconductors.

Why the walkback? Eighty percent of iPhones sold in the US are manufactured in China. The full weight of the tariff would have sent sticker pricessoaring north of $2,000, torched Apple’s margins, and further spooked Wall Street.

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US President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 2025.

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Wednesday’s tariff respite is firmly in the rearview mirror, as China announced on Friday it was raising its duty on US imports to an astronomical 125%, taking effect Saturday. The announcement came less than 24 hours after the White House clarified that the new levy on Chinese imports would be 145%.

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Paige Fusco & Ari Winkleman / GZERO Media

The trade war between the US and China is already scorching hot. As of this writing, the US has slapped tariffs of 145% on all Chinese goods, while Beijing has hit the US with a 125% levy of its own.

Much attention has focused on the tariff impact on Chinese exporters and US consumers – fair enough, given that China is the second largest source of US imports.

But US industries also sold more than $140 billion worth of goods to China last year – with agricultural goods (soy beans especially), electronic equipment, and oil and gas among the top exports.

Here’s a look at the ten US states that exported the most to China, along with estimates of how many jobs were supported by that commerce.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 8, 2025.

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky saysat least 155 Chinese citizens are fighting for Russia in Ukraine and there are probably “many more.”

China’s foreign ministry responded that the country “has always required its citizens to … avoid being involved in armed conflicts in any form.”

Zelensky isn’t claiming the Chinese government sent these troops. Rather, he says the Kremlin is recruiting Chinese mercenaries on social media in what he described on X as “yet another indication that Moscow simply needs to drag out the fighting.”

China on the spot. Even if the Chinese fighters have no official ties, their presence throws a fresh light on what, exactly, Beijing’s role is in the war. China doesn’t recognize Moscow’s claims on Ukraine, but the US has long accused it of helping Russia with weapons and “dual-use” technologies like computer chips and drones. Beijing also continues to buy Russian oil.

Beijing said Thursday it is a “staunch supporter” of a “peaceful resolution” to the war. Now, amid signs of a detente between China and Europe, China’s stance on Ukraine will be one to watch.

President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders and proclamations in the Oval Office at the White House on April 9, 2025.

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With stock markets plunging and US Treasury yields reaching new heights, US President Donald Trump finally reneged on parts of his widescale tariff plan on Wednesday, declaring a 90-day pause to the far-reaching “reciprocal” levies that he introduced just one week ago while leaving a 10% across-the-board duty in place. He also escalated the already-burgeoning trade war with China by increasing the tariff on their imports to 125%.

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