Multiple casualties are feared after assailants indiscriminately fired at tourists visiting a beauty spot in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. Police said it was a “terror attack” carried out by militants fighting against Indian rule near the disputed region’s resort town of Pahalgam. Initial reports said gunmen sprayed bullets at mostly Indian tourists visiting Baisaran meadow, some 3 miles from Pahalgam. Police said multiple tourists suffered gunshot wounds and officials were evacuating the wounded to hospitals. Reinforcements of police and soldiers cordoned off the area and launched a hunt for the attackers. No other details were immediately available. The meadow in Pahalgam is a top sightseeing destination, surrounded by snowcapped mountains and dotted with dense pine forests. It is visited by hundreds of tourists every day. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan each administer part of Kashmir, but both claim the territory in its entirety. Militants in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been fighting New Delhi’s rule since 1989. Many Muslim Kashmiris support the rebels’ goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country. India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. Pakistan denies the charge, and many Kashmiris consider it a legitimate freedom struggle. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Monday hailed the “significant” progress made in trade talks between the two sides during Vance’s visit to India. Vance, who was in India on a mostly personal trip with second lady Usha Vance and his family, met Modi in New Delhi A statement from Modi’s office said the two leaders “welcomed the significant progress in the negotiations for a mutually beneficial India-U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreement.“ Vance and Modi also reviewed and positively assessed the progress in various areas of bilateral cooperation, and noted “continued efforts” in enhancing cooperation in areas like energy, defense and strategic technologies. The two leaders also exchanged views on various regional and global issues of mutual interest, and called for dialogue and diplomacy. India was hit with a 26% “reciprocal” tariff on April 2, before the levies were suspended for 90 days by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 9, leaving a 10% baseline tariff. On Monday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the USTR and India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry have “finalized the terms of reference to lay down a roadmap for the negotiations on reciprocal trade.” He added, “there is a serious lack of reciprocity in the trade relationship with India,” but said “India’s constructive engagement so far has been welcomed and I look forward to creating new opportunities for workers, farmers, and entrepreneurs in both countries.” Back in February, Modi and Trump had agreed to more than double bilateral trade between New Delhi and Washington to $500 billion by 2030. U.S. total goods trade with India is estimated at $129 billion in 2024, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. India’s surplus with the United States, reached $45.7 billion last year.

Australian identical twin sisters Bridgette and Paula Powers have captured the internet’s attention after a video of them recounting a frightening experience with a carjacker went viral. On April 21, 7News Queensland, a local news station in Australia, uploaded a clip to X about twin sisters who observed a car thief on Steve Irwin Way. When journalist Marlina Whop introduced the segment, she said the network interviewed two sisters who explained how their mother and another man interacted with the thief. But the Powers sisters’ retelling was far from what viewers were anticipating. In the interview, Bridgette and Paula Powers spoke in unison while dressed in the same bunny-covered shirts. “One guy, he was up there with our mom. He went up there and he was coming back down toward us. And he goes, ‘Run, he’s got a gun!’” the sisters reenacted at the same time. “Oh, our hearts started to pound. I said, ‘Mom, where’s mom?’” They then heard their mom approach the carjacker, who had blood on his face, and ask if he was OK. The two said the man threatened to shoot their mother. “Mom distracted him to make him look the other way,” they continued, still talking as one. “Mom ran into the bush behind the fence and the guy goes to her, ‘I’ll find you and I’ll shoot you.’” They said they were “blessed” that he didn’t harm their mother. Bridgette and Paula Powers only differed at the end of their joint statement when one said they “ran for their life” and the other said they “ran for their safety.” X users quickly reacted to the clip, which racked up over 1 million views in less than 24 hours. “Nothing can prepare you for the witness interview 7 News decided to run with on this story,” one tweeted. Another said, “This is the kind of scene you couldn’t script, characters you couldn’t invent. Watch it immediately with the sound on. Australia can’t be real.” A third labeled it an, “Instant classic.” Although the interview is currently going viral, Bridgette and Paula Powers, also known as the Twinnies, have been local celebrities for years as wildlife rescuers. In 2021, the sisters were interviewed by the Australian broadcasting network ABC News about their conservation efforts and their history working with the late Steve Irwin. According to the news outlet, the sisters had to leave school in year 10 due to health issues. They then started focusing on their passion for taking care of animals and have been doing so ever since. “We love all creatures great and small,” they told the Australian network. One day, they met Irwin when they were helping a sick green sea turtle. He arrived to also save the sea turtle and was “quite taken with them,” according to their sister Liz Eather. Following their meeting, Bridgette and Paula Powers began working at the Australia Zoo and launched a charity called Twinnies Pelican and Seabird Rescue, which they have operated for over 20 years, the Australian news outlet said. Bridgette and Paula Powers also explained in the article why it is “natural” for them to speak in unison. “Our brains must think alike at the same time,” they said. The two acknowledged that it is “weird” to some and revealed they tried to alter the way they speak in the past. “We do annoy a lot of people,” they continued, before adding that changing “doesn’t feel right to us at all.” They spoke about dressing the same, too. The sisters shared they weren’t fans of wearing different outfits. “We did try once but we still got stared at. So what the heck. We might as well wear the same clothes again,” they said. They described the “special” bond between them as being “like a magnet.”

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Friday that it had test-launched new anti-aircraft missiles, as its military threatened unspecified grave steps against the U.S. and South Korea over their joint military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. The official Korean Central News Agency said that leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the tests Thursday and called the missiles involved “another major defense weapons system” for North Korea. The missile launches, North Korea’s sixth weapons testing activity this year, occurred on the same day that the U.S. and South Korean militaries concluded their annual Freedom Shield command post exercise. The 11-day training was the allies’ first major joint military exercises since the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January, and the two countries held diverse field training exercises alongside the Freedom Shield drills. U.S. and South Korean officials describe their combined military drills as defensive in nature, but North Korea slams them as a major security threat. Hours after this year’s Freedom Shield training began on March 10, North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea. On Friday, the North Korean Defense Ministry alleged that the recent U.S.-South Korean drills involved simulations to destroy underground tunnels in the North to remove its nuclear weapons. An unidentified ministry spokesperson said the U.S. and South Korea would face consequences if they performed similar provocative actions again. “The accumulated reckless military moves of the U.S. and the ROK, seized with the daydream that they can jeopardize the sovereignty and security of a nuclear weapons state, can undoubtedly bring the gravest consequences they do not want,” the spokesperson said in a statement carried in KCNA. ROK is the Republic of Korea, South Korea’s official name.

A Georgetown University graduate student from India who was taken into custody this week and targeted for deportation by the Trump administration never made any pro-Hamas or antisemitic comments, his lawyer said. Immigration agents detained Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow who teaches at Georgetown and has a visa, outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, his attorney has said. The Department of Homeland Security claimed Suri is “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media.” Suri’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, denied Thursday that Suri ever made pro-Hamas or antisemitic statements. Ahmad has objected to Suri’s detention as "beyond contemptible." “This is still the United States of America, and we don’t punish people, we don’t whisk them away and send them 1,000 miles away from their family, based on what they may have said, what they may have posted on social media or who they are related to,” Ahmad said. A federal judge in Virginia ordered Thursday that Suri not be removed from the United States unless ordered by the court. Sophia Gregg, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said the judge’s block on any deportation was “exactly what we were hoping for.” “We were very concerned for our client, especially when we learned that he was at a Louisiana staging facility, which is the last stop on the way to tarmac,” she said Thursday. “That was a big concern for us, that he would be summarily deported.” Suri was at the Alexandria Staging Facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, on Thursday, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement website. Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Wednesday on X, “Suri has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas.” Suri has a wife who is a U.S. citizen and three children in Virginia. His wife’s father, Ahmed Yousef, who lives in Gaza, is a former adviser to now-deceased Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh — but he told The New York Times that he left the Hamas-led government of Gaza more than a decade ago and does not have a senior position with Hamas. Yousef told the newspaper that Suri was not involved in any “political activism,” including on behalf of Hamas, the Times reported. Yousef has also publicly criticized Hamas’ decision to attack Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the newspaper reported. Ahmad told NBC News that he has no information that Suri has been in regular contact with Yousef. “I’m only aware of one instance when my client had contact with his father-in-law, and that was to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage,” Ahmad said. The Trump administration is trying to deport two other people involved in protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University. One of them, Mahmoud Khalil, is a Columbia graduate student who is a legal permanent resident and is married to a U.S. citizen. The second is Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who attended Columbia but overstayed her visa, officials said. The Trump administration is seeking to deport Suri and Khalil under part of U.S. immigration law that allows it if a person “would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” The ACLU and others have called the administration's actions an attempt to punish people for expressing their constitutionally protected views about Israel and the war in Gaza. "Political speech — however controversial some may find it — may never be the basis for punishment, including deportation," Mary Bauer, the executive director of ACLU of Virginia, said in a statement Thursday. "We will not let this egregious, unprecedented, and illegal abuse of power go unchecked.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended attempts to deport Khalil by saying that “no one has a right to a student visa.” A judge has temporarily blocked Khalil's deportation. President Donald Trump in his election campaign condemned student protests against Israel's military action in Gaza, which followed the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel. Some congressional Republicans have also criticized universities for what they called antisemitic behavior at protests. The Justice Department in February announced what it called an antisemitism task force focused on college campuses. The Trump administration on March 7 also said it was canceling around $400 million in federal grants to Columbia. On March 4, Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social, "All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests." Suri is a postdoctoral fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown. The director of that center, Nader Hashemi, told NBC Washington that he is shocked by Suri’s arrest and the attempt to deport him. Hashemi said that that Suri was not political or an activist, and that he was focused on his teaching and research. “I would never imagine in a million years to see a faculty member, a student who’s engaged in exercising their First Amendment rights would be picked up by the state and thrown into jail and then deported,” Hashemi told the station. “That’s what they do in Putin’s Russia. That’s what they do in Xi Jinping’s China,” he said. “That’s what they do in the Islamic Republic of Iran, not in the United States, at least until now.”

NEW DELHI — India’s IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered “countless” government officials to execute such orders, Elon Musk’s X has alleged in a new lawsuit against New Delhi. The lawsuit and the allegations mark an escalation in an ongoing legal dispute between X and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over how New Delhi orders content to be taken down. It also comes as Musk is getting closer to launching his other key ventures Starlink and Tesla in India. In the new court filing dated March 5, X argues that India’s IT Ministry is asking other departments to use a government website launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs last year to issue content blocking orders and mandate social media companies to join the website too. This mechanism, X says, does not contain the stringent Indian legal safeguards on content removal that required such orders to be issued in cases such as harm to sovereignty or public order, and came with strict oversight of top officials. India’s IT ministry redirected a Reuters’ request for comment to the home affairs ministry, which did not respond. The website creates “an impermissible parallel mechanism” that causes “unrestrained censorship of information in India,” X said, adding it is seeking to quash the directive. X’s court papers are not public and were reported for the first time by media on Thursday. The case was briefly heard earlier this week by a judge in the High Court of southern Karnataka state but no final decision was reached. It will now be heard on March 27. In 2021, X, formerly called Twitter, was locked in a standoff with the Indian government over noncompliance with legal orders to block certain tweets related to a farmers’ protest against government policies. X later complied following public criticism by officials, but its legal challenge to the decision is continuing in Indian courts.

NEW DELHI — U.S. Vice President JD Vance began a four-day visit to India on Monday and will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as New Delhi rushes to avoid steep U.S. tariffs with an early trade deal and boost ties with the Trump administration. Their discussions will cover the first day of Vance’s largely personal visit to the country with his family, which includes visiting the Taj Mahal and attending a wedding in the city of Jaipur, people familiar with the matter said. Vance’s wife, Usha, is the daughter of Indian immigrants. Vance landed at New Delhi’s Palam airport on Monday following a visit to Rome, where he held a private meeting with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday. Modi and Vance are expected to review progress made on the bilateral agenda outlined in February when the Indian leader met President Donald Trump in Washington. It includes “fairness” in their two-way trade and growing their defense partnership. The Indian prime minister was one of the first world leaders to meet Trump after he took office, and Reuters has reported that his government is open to cutting tariffs on more than half of its imports from the U.S., which were worth a total $41.8 billion in 2024, as part of a trade deal. However, the U.S. president has continued to call India a “tariff abuser” and “tariff king.”“We are very positive that the visit will give a further boost to our bilateral ties,” Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters on Thursday, speaking about Vance’s engagements in India. The U.S. is India’s largest trading partner and their two-way bilateral trade reached $129 billion in 2024, with a $45.7 billion surplus in favor of India, U.S. government trade data show. Officials in New Delhi are expecting to clinch a trade deal with the U.S. within the 90-day pause on tariff hikes announced by Trump on April 9 for major trading partners, including Delhi. Vance’s tour in India is also seen as laying the ground for Trump’s visit to the country later in the year for the summit of leaders of the Quad grouping that includes India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. Harsh Pant, foreign policy head at the Observer Research Foundation think tank in Delhi, said the timing of Vance’s visit was critical in the backdrop of trade talks.“The fact that the US-China tensions are ramping up, and Vance in particular seems to have taken a very high-profile role in American diplomacy, also means that the visit assumes an added layer of significance,” he said. Vance is accompanied by U.S. administration officials, but the two sides are unlikely to sign any deals during the visit, people familiar with the matter said. India and the U.S. expect to ink a framework for defense partnership this year, while New Delhi also plans to procure and co-produce arms including Javelin anti-tank guided missiles and Stryker infantry combat vehicles, according to a joint statement issued after the February meeting. Discussions on such procurements would be taken forward during U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s expected visit to India in the next couple of months, people familiar with the matter said.

BEIJING — China on Monday accused Washington of abusing tariffs and warned countries against striking broader economic deals with the United States at its expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiraling trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. Beijing will firmly oppose any party striking a deal at China’s expense and “will take countermeasures in a resolute and reciprocal manner,” its Commerce Ministry said. The ministry was responding to a Bloomberg report, citing sources familiar with the matter, that the Trump administration is preparing to pressure nations seeking tariff reductions or exemptions from the U.S. to curb trade with China, including imposing monetary sanctions. President Donald Trump paused the sweeping tariffs he announced on dozens of countries on April 2 except those on China, singling out the world’s second largest economy for the biggest levies. In a series of moves, Washington has raised tariffs on Chinese imports to 145%, prompting Beijing to slap retaliatory duties of 125% on U.S. goods, effectively erecting trade embargoes against each other. Last week, China signaled that its own across-the-board rates would not rise further. “The United States has abused tariffs on all trading partners under the banner of so-called ‘equivalence’, while also forcing all parties to start so-called ‘reciprocal tariffs’ negotiations with them,” the ministry spokesperson said. China is determined and capable of safeguarding its own rights and interests, and it is willing to strengthen solidarity with all parties, the ministry said. “The fact is, nobody wants to pick a side,” said Bo Zhengyuan, partner at China-based policy consultancy Plenum. “If countries have high reliance on China in terms of investment, industrial infrastructure, technology know-how and consumption, I don’t think they’ll be buying into U.S. demands. Many Southeast Asian countries belong to this category.” Pursuing a hardline stance, Beijing will this week convene an informal United Nations Security Council meeting to accuse Washington of bullying and “casting a shadow over the global efforts for peace and development” by weaponizing tariffs. Earlier this month, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said nearly 50 countries have approached him to discuss the steep additional tariffs imposed by Trump. Several bilateral talks on tariffs have taken place since, with Japan considering raising soybean and rice imports as part of its talks with the U.S. while Indonesia is planning to increase U.S. food and commodities imports and reduce orders from other nations. Caught in crossfire Trump’s tariff policies have rattled financial markets as investors fear a severe disruption in world trade could tip the global economy into recession. On Monday, Chinese stocks inched higher, showing little reaction to the commerce ministry comments, though investors have generally remained cautious on Chinese assets due to the rising growth risks. The Trump administration also has been trying to curb Beijing’s progress in developing advanced semiconductor chips which it says could be used for military purposes, and last week imposed port fees on China-built vessels to limit China’s dominance in shipbuilding. AI chip giant Nvidia said last week it would take $5.5 billion in charges due to the administration’s curbs on AI chip exports. China’s President Xi Jinping visited three Southeast Asian countries last week in a move to bolster regional ties, calling on trade partners to oppose unilateral bullying. Beijing has said it is “tearing down walls” and expanding its circle of trading partners amid the trade row. The stakes are high for Southeast Asian nations caught in the crossfire of the Sino-U.S. tariff war, particularly given the regional ASEAN bloc’s huge two-way trade with both China and the United States. Economic ministers from Thailand and Indonesia are currently in the United States, with Malaysia set to join later this week, all seeking trade negotiations. Six countries in Southeast Asia were hit with tariffs ranging from 32% to 49%, threatening trade-reliant economies that have benefited from investment from levies imposed on Beijing by Trump in his first term. ASEAN is China’s largest trading partner, with total trade value reaching $234 billion in the first quarter of 2025, China’s customs agency said last week. Trade between ASEAN and the U.S. totalled around $476.8 billion in 2024, according to U.S. figures, making Washington the regional bloc’s fourth-largest trading partner. “There are no winners in trade wars and tariff wars,” Xi said in an article published in Vietnamese media, without mentioning the United States.

YIWU, China — Hammers, hats and hair clips. Toys, tech, socks, baseball caps and Christmas decorations. If it’s a cheap manufactured product, it may well have come from the world’s largest wholesale market in the Chinese city of Yiwu. With 75,000 suppliers spread across six buildings, it was once a one-stop shop for American companies, big and small, looking to buy cheap goods and export them back to the U.S. Today it is on the front line of President Donald Trump’s trade war, and after he upped U.S. tariffs on Chinese-made goods from 10% to 145%, vendors told NBC News on Wednesday, their once reliable American clients have started to put orders on hold or cancel them altogether. Nicole Zhang and her husband, Huang Fangchao, whose Yiwu Dowell Accessories Co. makes hair accessories for major brands using machine-cut and hand-finished materials, said around 60 or 70% of her 6 million pieces were destined for the U.S. But as tariffs have soared, she said American clients like Target have halted orders and put two shipping containers full of her products on hold. “They want to see what is happening in the future,” she said. After stunning trading partners and global markets in early April, when he announced a raft of “reciprocal” tariffs on imports from more than 180 countries, Trump subsequently paused higher targeted tariffs for 90 days for most countries. But he did not include China, which was hit hardest of all and has since imposed retaliatory tariffs of up to 125% on U.S. imports. In Yiwu, the effects have started to take their toll. Chen Jinsai, a vendor selling press-on nails, said she didn’t think she’d shipped anything to the U.S. “in the first half of this year” mainly “because the export taxes have gotten way too high.” Goods that were ready to be shipped have “just been sitting there,” she said, adding that customers had not asked them to suck up the extra costs from the tariffs. “If I had to pay the tax, I’d be losing money. Our prices are already quite low, so the tax is definitely something the customer has to handle themselves,” she said. It’s a reversal from last year when the provincial, development and reform commission in the district of Zhejiang, where Yiwu is based, reported that the city’s total import and export value reached 668.93 billion yuan ($91 billion), an increase of 18.2% from the previous year. With U.S. trade uncertain, some of the traders in Yiwu said they were already focusing on markets in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East and Asia. Sock vendor Lou Jinling, meanwhile, said only around 10% of her business was in the U.S., “so we’re not heavily affected.” “Since tariffs, some clients asked me to help share the cost, but I won’t do that because the margin is already very thin,” she said, adding that one of her American customers “told me he managed to clear out his warehouse stock as people were panic-buying from him.” “For us, we have ways of offsetting the losses by selling to other markets,” she said. “But I feel sorry for everyday Americans, as they are the ones paying for the rising cost.” One of the people who might have to pay more to import into the U.S. is Vicky Eng, who said she’d noticed her clients back home in the U.S. had become “a lot more hesitant” since the tariffs were introduced. Eng, who flew in from Chicago with her sister Vivian Eng, 29, to source hair clips and other accessories for their company, Adorro, said they sold them on to American retailers, mostly in the Midwest and Florida. “We haven’t raised prices since the tariffs have been announced because we don’t want to pre-emptively jump the gun with any price increases if it’s not necessary,” Eng, 30, said. Nonetheless, their clients, she said, were “placing much smaller volume orders.” Most of their customers were “relatively small businesses,” Eng said, adding that since the tariffs were introduced, it had become “a little harder” for people to operate. The Chinese vendors were “just like us.” she added. “They can’t have an empty store.”

HONG KONG — Marcus Wu’s home racing simulator setup needs one more thing: a manual gearshift. A decade ago, one from a Western brand would have been a no-brainer for gamers like the 12-year-old Hongkonger. As President Donald Trump’s trade war with Beijing escalates, the fact that Wu opted for a gearshift from Chinese manufacturer Moza illustrates how far Chinese manufacturers have come in competing with their Western counterparts on affordability and quality. The deepening economic conflict between the U.S. and China, the world’s two largest economies, has the potential to wreak havoc on a complex web of globalized commerce. And Trump’s attempts to claw back manufacturing to American shores could have unintended consequences, including giving Chinese technology manufacturers an edge at a time when American products are already becoming expensive. Wu and his father-cum-financier, Mingfai, have already made their choice, opting for a Chinese alternative over American brands such as the Oregon-based Thrustmaster. “If only the price was good but the quality wasn’t, then I wouldn’t have bought this,” the elder Wu said. “But this is cheaper and works great.”The duo were browsing Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po computer market — a sprawling hub of small tech stores selling everything from computer parts to gaming equipment for casual gamers and enthusiasts alike. To residents and tourists from mainland China — a country with a gaming market of half a billion users — the market is a one-stop shop, featuring top American brands including Dell, Corsair and the Nasdaq-listed Swiss manufacturer Logitech. Those are just some of the companies competing for market share in a gaming industry that accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates will be worth $300 billion by 2027. According to China’s Game Industry Report, China’s gamers contributed $44 billion in sales revenues to the industry last year. To be sure, Western brands are still popular when it comes to big-ticket items like monitors, processors and storage devices, but sellers at the market told NBC News that Chinese brands have been knocking it out of the park when it comes to accessories, like mice, keyboards and simulator setups. “So many Chinese manufacturers popped up after the pandemic,” said Dennis Leung, a sales assistant at a store that specializes in gaming peripherals. “They often provide an extremely cheap and bargain price compared to the whole market,” he said.Standing in front of a table of 30 mice, Leung held up two with identical feel and weight. The Chinese option, which was cheaper and more powerful, had been outselling its Western counterpart, he said. The Trump administration last week issued a memorandum saying that electronics including computers, smartphones and some components will be temporarily exempt from levies imposed on Chinese imports. But Trump’s indication that duties on semiconductors and other technology could be on their way means it’s still unclear whether electronics could get more expensive in the U.S. and whether prices of American-made products could go up for the rest of the world, too. That uncertainty may already be causing nervousness at companies such as Dell — the $56 billion tech giant has a 20% share of the global gaming market — as well as the $12 billion market cap for Logitech and specialists such as Corsair, which is worth $630 million. The administration’s market-roiling tariffs come at a time when the quality of Chinese products has already vastly improved. That’s giving Hong Kong’s vendors a chance to capitalize.When it comes to buying gaming accessories, shoppers don’t really care where the end product is coming from, Kira Fong, manager of another store in the market, told NBC News. “Most people just look for quality. They still want the best equipment,” he said. Analysts expect Chinese-made tech products only to get better. “People are choosing more Chinese-made products in each industry, not just personal computers, gaming, smartphones or electric vehicles,” said Xiao Feng Zeng, who analyzes China’s gaming and esports industry at Niko Partners, an Asian and European gaming intelligence firm. “Their quality is better and the price is cheaper,” the Shanghai-based vice president said, adding that Trump’s policies will hurt America’s ability to compete for young gamers. The policies of the president, who refers to himself as “Tariff Man,” are already feeding through into higher prices. Hyte, a gaming PC sister brand of the California-based iBuyPower, said this month on X that while it was standing by increased prices, those prices will not be sustainable long term. That was not a problem for Marcus Wu, and more importantly his dad, at checkout at the Sham Shui Po market. With his son excited to go home and play with his new gearshift, Mingfai Wu breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s Chinese,” the elder Wu said. “That’s why it’s cheap and good!”