00:00Donald Trump appeared to spare America's traditional foes.
00:04Many people are wondering why the likes of Russia, Cuba, Belarus and North Korea
00:11appear to be left off that list that he showed us last night in the Rose Garden.
00:17Any ideas why this could possibly be?
00:19I mean, Russia has been sanctioned since the Ukraine war.
00:25Other allies of Russia have also had that issue played in.
00:30So I think that they were never going to be there.
00:33I mean, they've been under severe pressure since the start of the Russian-Ukraine war.
00:42So they were not a factor.
00:44I think he's made it very, very clear that his targets are China and other countries
00:52For example, Vietnam, where a lot of companies came out of China and went and relocated in Vietnam.
01:01And if you look at the chart, Vietnam is quite high on that.
01:07Although a small country, the sanctions are quite high, the tariffs are quite high.
01:13So I think he had in mind with these tariffs, China and the European Union and some other country,
01:20because Russia has already been sanctioned.
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