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“It would hurt American consumers, for sure, because it is simply almost impossible to quickly find another China that can produce things fast, efficiently and at low cost,” said Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“Disney is at risk of less international tourism to the U.S., particularly from Canada, due to chilled foreign relations.”

Michelle Gavin, a senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Washington-based Council for Foreign Relations, said the way the new tariffs have been calculated "makes no sense at all" to economists.

"Technically, Dr Machar is under house arrest, but the security officials initially tried to take him away," said Reath Muoch Tang, chairman of the party's foreign relations committee.

Republican Jim Risch of Idaho, who leads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also said that he expects the matter to be investigated.