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Trump floats 'more than' 60% tariffs on Chinese imports

  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -29% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-23% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : "He was a really good friend of mine during my time.
52% : "Trump has in the past praised Xi for the ironclad grip he has on his government and his people.
49% : Starting in 2018, Trump began a wave of $250 billion in tariffs against China.
48% : "We have to do it," Trump said in an interview on Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures."The Washington Post first reported the Trump campaign was weighing a theoretical 60% Chinese tariff plan.
44% : "I like President Xi a lot," Trump said Sunday.
37% : "What Donald Trump's about to do, is he's going to raise every household's expenses by $2,600 a year," said Haley in a January interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box," referencing data from the fiscally conservative National Taxpayers Union.
30% : In an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity in December, Trump said if he is re-elected for a second term he would be a dictator "from day one."Trump later claimed in an interview broadcast Sunday that he had meant he would be "a dictator" on his first day in office, his "day one," but only for a day.
9% : Trump has attacked Biden for appeasing China while simultaneously expressing cozy sentiments toward China's authoritarian president, Xi Jinping.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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