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world markets are trading higher after yesterday's massive plunge on Wall Street in pre-market trading.
Dow futures are up more than a thousand points.
Investors were expressing fright over the effects of President Trump's tariffs.
The latest tranche of tariffs takes effect tomorrow.
NPR's John Rewitt reports China is not backing down after Trump threatened Beijing with steep new tariffs.
Trump threatened to put an additional 50 percent tariff on China.
That's
if China does not retract a retaliatory levy on U.S. goods that it announced in response to Trump's tariff salvo last week.
But Beijing is not blinking.
Foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a press conference,
if the U.S. insists on pursuing a tariff war and trade war with disregard for the interests of both countries and the international community,
China, he says, will fight till the end.
Global equity markets have been hammered by the prospect of sweeping U.S. tariffs and worsening trade war between China and the U.S.,