these two canadians are locked up and facing unknown amount of incarceration in china after china warned canada if they don t release the major name in the tech industry, things like this could potentially happen. a heavy price to pay. is it retaliation? we don t know. timing is suspicious here. when china is angry, they target companies from that country. now you have american tech firms like apple and qualcomm looking at employee movements in the country. china is outraged saying the cfo is being used as a political pawn. president trump is not making it better when he said he might intervene. that is why you have the strong wording. dave. 6:40 there in hong kong. will, thank you.
citizens detained on the same day in china and facing the same charges. activities endangering the national security of china you have michael spavor and michael covret with high level connections. these two are facing serious charges. is it retaliation? is it coincidence? we don t know. china in the past, when they are angry, they find ways to target companies doing business in china. apple and qualcomm have to be nervous to there are retaliatory efforts aimed at them. you have to consider essential travel and the risks. will ripley, thank you. breaking overnight. a deadly train crash in the turkey capital.
world trade. $1 trillion is the trade figure between us. and so i think that we have to talk to one another. and that is what we do today. i do think that we should focus on the reducing tariffs instead of increasing them. and that s what we have to do. well, agree. if we can have no tariffs and no barriers and so no subsidize, the united states would be extremely pleased. we have many countries, we won t see the european union, we have many countries with massive barriers and massive tariffs. and we have to follow. and you could call it retaliation, but i would rather just say we want reciprocal. so whether it is with european union or others, it has to be reciprocal at a minimum. and we are working on that. and we re making tremendous strides. we re doing very well with mexico. we re doing very well with a lot of countries, actually, right
tariffs. we have to follow and you could call it retaliation but i d rather just say we want reciprocal. whether it s with the european union or others, it has to be reciprocal in nature at a minimum and we are working for that and making tremendous strides, we are doing very well with mexico, doing very well with a lot of countries actually right now. about this is it something. together as a unit we make up more than 50% of the world trade, that s a big number. that s a big number. we expect something very positive to take place. you will be the first to know. thank you very much, appreciate it. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. [reporters clamoring]
we have many countries where they have massive barriers and tariffs and we have to follow. you can call it retaliation but i rather just say that we want reciprocal so whether it is european union or has to be reciprocal in nature, at a minu minimum. we are working on that. we are making tremendous strides. we are doing very well with mexico. we are doing very well with a lot of countries actually right now. but this is something, as jean-claude said, together as a unit we make up actually more than 50% of the world trade. that s a big number. that s a big number. so we expect something very positive to take place, but you ll be the first to know. thank you all very much. appreciate it. thank you. thank you very much. reporter: did michael cohen betray you? thank you very much. thank you. reporter: mr. president, are