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hello sunshine Welcome to CNN 10 I'm Ky
Wire here with your 10 minutes of news
for Wednesday April 16th We are halfway
through the week Let's aim to be a
little better today than we were
yesterday And if we can keep on having
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get to your news We start today with the
intensifying economic showdown between
China and the United States After US
President Donald Trump's administration
imposed 145% tariffs on its superpower
rival Chinese President Xi Jinping is so
far refusing to back down He's vowed to
fight the tariffs and give US officials
what he likely feels is their
comeuppance He's declining to negotiate
a tariff deal and has imposed reciprocal
34% tariffs on all imports from the US
on April 10th The US's economic conflict
with China is a realworld showdown with
high stakes that will likely affect many
of us Both economies are deeply
intertwined The US relies on China for
consumer electronics and rare earth
minerals used to make electric vehicles
military applications and robotics But
even basic staples of daily life like
medicines clothing shoes uh they're all
widely imported from China Meanwhile the
US exports produce like soybeans to
China which are vital to the livelihoods
of many American farmers Now the tariffs
imposed by both sides are so high that
trade could effectively grind to a halt
Both sides could suffer terribly in a
long- feared full-blown trade war Stock
markets could once again be rocked
globally and US consumers could be hit
by shortages and surging prices CNN's
Ivan Watson shows us how China is
reacting to what could be a defining
economic struggle with the US From the
beginning the Chinese government has
said it does not want a trade war with
the US But if one is coming it is
prepared to respond One of the measures
it appears to have adopted was announced
back on April 4th which was almost a
lifetime ago in this tariff war It
wasn't a tariff It was a suspension of
the export of seven out of 17 rare earth
metals It turns out according to the
International Energy Agency that China
has a near monopoly on the production
and refinement of rare earth metals and
they are not coming to the US right now
Why is that important well these items
these materials and compounds show up in
your phone in the touchcreen in the
microphone and in the vibration uh
element here in your phone They're also
used in things like defense systems like
the
F35 stealth fighter jet where the
Department of Defense says hundreds of
pounds of rare earth metals are used in
that thousands of pounds of rare earth
metals used in US warships and
submarines Uh so this measure by China
uh creates a challenge for the US to
find these types of materials from a a
small number of other potential
suppliers around the world Uh and China
the Chinese government also is not
sitting still The uh president Xiinping
arrived in the Vietnamese capital on
Monday uh and he's on a tour through
Southeast Asia He'll also be traveling
to Cambodia and Malaysia Guess what all
three countries were hit by President
Trump's so-called reciprocal tariffs
which he paused announced a temporary
suspension Uh those tariffs were to the
tune of 46% 49% and 24%
In uh Hanoi President Xi told his
Vietnamese counterpart quote "Our two
countries should resolutely safeguard
the multilateral trading system stable
global industrial and supply chains and
open and cooperative international
environment." Reports that the two
governments could sign up to 40 trade
deals Uh President Xi clearly trying to
portray China as a reliable uh and
rational trading partner at a time when
the US government is determined to blow
up the system of international
trade Pop quiz hot shot Most satellites
are floating at what orbital altitude or
distance from the Earth's surface low
Earth orbit geostationary orbit
sun-synchronous orbit or polar orbit
if you said low Earth orbit let's go
That's where a vast majority of
satellites are found like SpaceX's
Starlink and the International Space
Station It extends up to 12,200 m above
Earth making it the most energyefficient
orbit to reach Let's go now to Glasgow
Scotland where the development of a new
generation of rockets aims to transform
the business of transporting satellites
to their orbits in space Glasgow based
rocket manufacturer SkyOura says this
nimble rocket service can save satellite
companies up to six months of time
maneuvering satellites to space compared
to the larger rockets currently used
today Our Max Foster shows us why the
company calls their rockets a space taxi
service Space the final frontier It's a
conversation that has picked up again
with plans to return people to the moon
in 2027 and even walk on Mars in the
2030s
But alongside the super heavy rockets we
see on the news there's a race to create
more nimble craft And there are few
places that race is more clearly evident
than the old shipb building city of
Glasgow Around the central belt of
Scotland there's more satellites made
anywhere in the world outside of Silicon
Valley We can have that more bespoke
service for them and take them exactly
where we want to go So while the larger
companies out there at the moment
they're really more of a sort of bus
service for the clients out there
They're a little bit cheaper depending
on the payloads that you're taking but
you then need to get from where they let
you go to your actual destination For us
we're more that taxi ride for them So we
can take our clients to exactly where
they need to much quicker It it can save
them up to 6 months in time At the
moment Skyer is test launching its 11 m
Skyllock L rocket gaining valuable data
for the development of its main rocket
the 23 m Skyora XL The Excel rocket is
divided into three stages The first
stage is the most powerful using nine of
Skyroar's Sky Force 70 konton engines to
lift the rocket 60 km 37 mi into the sky
The second stage with just one Sky Force
engine takes the craft the final
distance into space leaving the final
stage to drop off its payloads This
third stage is unique that it can go and
conduct secondary missions So it could
go and refuel another satellite or do
some de-orbiting of old space junk or
old is used satellites as well The UK
holds the lonely title of being the only
country to have the ability to put a
satellite into space and give it up So
back in 1970s in the late60s there was
actually a space program in the UK It
went from Australia and a place called
Wimra and it put up one single satellite
called Prospero Our commercial work that
we're doing now is trying to bring that
back Skyroar's designs lean heavily on
the Black Arrow and later Blue Steel
rocket designs but at a fraction of the
price thanks to one key technological
development The engines on Black Arrow
and Blue Steel they are manufactured
using traditional manufacturing
techniques whereas our engines are
manufactured using 3D printing which
helps to save a lot of money and a lot
of time Basically it's a bit of a
dreamer's world at the moment and what
you can do and what you can test out
Really is what I expect in the next few
years from the
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company Today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 The newly crowned champions of
Major League Table tennis It was an
action-packed weekend in Philadelphia
host of the 2025 Major League Table
Tennis Championships where four teams
faced off for their place as the best in
the country The Chicago Wind went
head-to-head with the Bay Area Blasters
for third place And the Carolina Gold
Rush defeated the Texas Smash in the
championship match for the $50,000 prize
and the title Here's a look at some of
how it all went down
A very competitive sport We're going to
have a packed standing room only crowd
today It's the Major League Championship
Finals here in Philadelphia
our home crowd
the number one major league table tennis
league in the entire USA
Table tennis is a incredibly athletic
and thoughtful sport Not only do you
need to be in great shape to move around
you're constantly calculating what to do
with an opponent's shot
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I don't think any sport can compare All
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