Stu Woo
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 31 Aug
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WSJ What’s News · U.S. Strikes Iran to Block New Sea Mines in Strait of Hormuz · 31 Aug 2026
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These countries were at war 51 years ago and didn't even have normal relations until the Clinton administration lifted a trade embargo, so they've gone from having no trade to having the biggest trade surplus with the US in just a generation.
Over the first six months of this year, US imports from Vietnam increased forty percent to 123 billion from the same period in 2025.
One big reason is that while President Trump raised tariffs everywhere, he put the highest on China.
So if you're saying an American furniture maker in China, you're thinking, okay, mm, these tariffs are pretty high.
Why not shift my manufacturing across the border to Vietnam, which has a pretty good manufacturing base?
That's general reporter Stu Wu, who says the shift to Vietnam didn't happen overnight.
One particular issue is that the White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said.
We think Vietnam's a huge hub for illegal transshipment.
What does that mean?
Well, that means what if I took a nearly finished piece of clothing from China and I sent it across the border to Vietnam and they just stitched on a new label and said it's made in Vietnam.
He doesn't like that.
So the White House is considering cracking down on Vietnam.
It's been in the works for almost a decade because in twenty eighteen, President Trump put high tariffs on Chinese goods because he thought China had some unfair business practices.
So you had some big companies like Nike, Lululemon, and Apple shift their manufacturing from China to Vietnam because wages were a little bit lower, but they were really sophisticated in the stuff they were producing.
And what happened over the past year is just a continuation of that trend.
AI is like a giant blender that gobbles up everything on the internet and it makes a smoothie.
But because there's propaganda from authoritarian governments, well, a bit of that propaganda makes its way into the smoothie.
Yeah, I think a lot of people know that if you're in China and you use a Chinese chatbot like Deep Seek and ask it a politically sensitive question about Tiananmen Square or Chinese politics, it'll stir you away from that conversation or say, I can't answer that.
What two news studies show is that if you're in America and asking this to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT, well, these American chatbots might do the same thing.
They'll say, you know, we can't answer that conversation.
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