{"id":238625,"date":"2025-02-14T06:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/friday-briefing-21\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T06:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T06:36:04","slug":"friday-briefing-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/friday-briefing-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/08\/multimedia\/14ambriefing-europe-nl-lede\/14ambriefing-europe-nl-lede-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Friday Briefing\" title=\"Friday Briefing\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-a7df7ad\">Trump ordered tariffs that could upend global trade<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump yesterday <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-tariffs.html\" title=\"\">ordered his advisers to calculate new \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs<\/a> that would affect nearly every country around the world. India, Japan and the E.U. could be hit the hardest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new tariffs, which could go into effect on or after April 2, would reflect other countries\u2019 tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies that affect their trade with the U.S. He made it clear that his ultimate goal was to force companies to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you build here, you\u2019ll have no tariffs whatsoever,\u201d Trump said at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hours later, Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-modi-musk.html\" title=\"\">met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a> of India. In comments at a news conference, Trump said the U.S. would increase military sales to India by \u201cmany billions\u201d of dollars, and Modi announced more collaboration with the U.S. on defense cooperation, as well as the development of semiconductors, quantum technology and A.I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Context: <\/strong>For decades, U.S. tariff levels have been decided in negotiations at international bodies like the W.T.O. Trump wants to effectively scrap that system in favor of one determined solely by U.S. officials and based on their own criteria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Quotable: <\/strong>\u201cThese tariff proposals amount to a declaration of an all-out trade war against practically all major U.S. trading partners,\u201d said Eswar Prasad, a trade policy professor at Cornell University. \u201cIt is stunning and disappointing to see the country that had been the leading proponent of free trade now engaged in a direct assault on the rules and principles underlying that system.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"css-1lpvp6o capsule-content\" data-id=\"100000009683211\" data-testid=\"capsule-block\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1j5o7en eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-52b1c218\">More on the Trump administration<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-459c2a57\">Ukraine will not be sidelined in peace talks, Trump says<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump offered reassurances that Ukraine would be involved in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-peace-talks-europe.html\" title=\"\">negotiations to end the war with Russia<\/a>, a day after his remarks had left that prospect in doubt and prompted European leaders to demand that Ukraine play a role in any discussions between Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey\u2019re part of it,\u201d Trump told a reporter. \u201cWe would have Ukraine, we would have Russia, and we would have other people involved, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday, after speaking with Putin, Trump suggested that Ukraine\u2019s borders could be redrawn and its NATO bid could be withheld. Leaders on the continent were left \u201cunhappy about concessions made to Putin that seem to have been granted without any negotiation or recompense,\u201d my colleague Steven Erlanger, our chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of America\u2019s closest allies, including Britain and Germany, have tried to assert a role in the peace effort. Boris Pistorius, Germany\u2019s defense minister, said after a NATO meeting that Europe \u201cwill have to live directly\u201d with the consequences of any deal and may have \u201cto play a central or the main role in the peace order.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe, as a sovereign country, simply will not be able to accept any agreements without us,\u201d Zelensky said. The thaw in U.S.-Russia relations has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-us-diplomacy.html\" title=\"\">left Ukraine in a tough spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">News analysis: <\/strong>Trump and his team have already laid out the new American agenda, with their demands to Europe up front, my colleague David Sanger writes. And in this new era of coercive diplomacy, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/world\/europe\/trump-europe-tariffs-ukraine-nato.html\" title=\"\">there are many.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">What\u2019s next: <\/strong>Trump said that he might meet Putin in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/world\/europe\/trump-putin-saudi-arabia-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">Saudi Arabia for talks<\/a>. For Putin, the call with Trump was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/world\/europe\/putin-trump-call-russia-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">a turning point<\/a> in the three-year war. Ukrainians expressed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/02\/13\/world\/russia-ukraine-war-trump#ukrainians-say-they-want-the-war-to-end-but-worry-about-an-unjust-peace\" title=\"\">a mixture of fear and hope<\/a> over the idea of peace talks.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-16d53880\">Hamas said hostage releases would continue<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas said yesterday that it was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-israel-ceasefire-hostages.html\" title=\"\">ready to release Israeli hostages<\/a> this weekend as long as Israel upheld its end of the cease-fire agreement. Earlier this week, the militant group said it was indefinitely suspending the next release to protest what it described as Israeli violations of the deal. Israel has not yet commented.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Context: <\/strong>During the first six weeks of the truce, Hamas agreed to release at least 33 hostages in exchange for more than 1,500 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. At least 21 hostages and 766 Palestinian prisoners have been freed since the deal went into effect in late January.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55bd377a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MORE TOP NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One was a high-end vegetarian restaurant in New York City. The other was a two-and-a-half-acre Texas farm. Both went by Dirt Candy \u2014 until a lawyer for the restaurant sent a letter giving the farm one month to rebrand. Thus began a very public battle <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/dining\/dirt-candy-trademark-dispute.html\" title=\"\">rooted in America\u2019s current crisis of mistrust<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lives lived:<\/strong> Michael Longley, a Northern Irish poet who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/books\/michael-longley-dead.html\" title=\"\">died last month at 85<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3e57e9a9\">50 years of being funny on American TV<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend. The American sketch comedy and satire show has built a reputation for being cool, silly and endlessly quoted. It has also provided a launchpad for stars like Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey and Bill Murray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most alumni of the show would agree that one man has anchored it all: its creator, Lorne Michaels. A monumental biography of the impresario of funny digs into how he built the house of \u201cS.N.L.\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/books\/review\/lorne-susan-morrison.html\" title=\"\">Read about \u201cLorne\u201d here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lingo: <\/strong>The show\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/01\/31\/arts\/television\/-saturday-night-live-skit-catchphrases-quotes.html\" title=\"\">many catchphrases<\/a> have become permanent parts of Americans\u2019 daily conversations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Peak \u201cS.N.L.\u201d: <\/strong>Our chief TV critic thinks <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/08\/arts\/television\/greatest-snl-episode-ever.html\" title=\"\">this is the greatest episode ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/briefing\/tariffs-trump-ukraine-modi.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ordered tariffs that could upend global trade President Trump yesterday ordered his advisers to calculate new \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs that would affect nearly every country around the world. India, Japan and the E.U. could be hit the hardest. 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