Businesses are failing, tourism has collapsed, and confidence is shot. Sweeping new security loss for hong kong later on tuesday after imposing visa bans on americans it says are interfering in its affairs. Look at the take a set up after the u. S. Paring back some of the gains. Betterthanexpected housing data overweighting these continued can turns and continued resurgence. Continued returns and continued resurgence. Sophie. Sophie futures are pointing higher. Chinese pmi is expected to show some stabilization from manufacturing while Services Face a setback. From south korea, we are getting a may industrial output. That was a bigger contraction than the expected 4. 5 via well vol that was seen in a survey. Nikkei futures in chicago heading higher and this is adding up the topix for the best quarters 2016. Since 2013, for the last of market rights, raising concerns with heavy concentration on japanese growth stocks. The yen wrapping up a sleepy quarter. Valuations as cheap as they com
Admiral blair serves as a member of the Energy Security leadership council, the National Bureau of Asian Research, u. S. China relations in the atlantic council. Previously served as director of National Intelligence from january 2009 to may 2010 and prior to retiring from the navy he was after 34 years commander of u. S. Pacific command, admiral blair will provide testimony on the drivers of chinas development of expeditionary capabilities. After admiral blair we will hear from kristin, chief executive officer of Vantage Point asia llc, a consultancy that provides expertise on the Indo Pacific Region with a focus on Chinese Foreign policy and Security Issues. She also holds a position of abject senior policy analyst at asd, formally she served director of the navy asiapacific Advisory Group at the pentagon. And was a senior project director for Chinese Military writtenrity, she has extensively on Chinese Foreign policy security and military affairs. She will address how bri furthers t
[inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second hearing of the u. S. China economic and security review commissions 2020 annual report cycle and thank you for joining us, especially to our witnesses for the time and effort that they have put in to the testimonies. Youre going to be treated to some really, really good things here today. Wed also like to thank the House Foreign Affairs committee for securing this room for our use today. Todays hearing examines chinas ability to project military power and influence beyond its shores. And the implications of these growing capabilities for u. S. Interests. In january, 2016, after communist Party General secretary and Central Military Commission Chairman xi jinping reorganized the Peoples Liberation army, this commission explored the push toward making the pla a force more capable of conducting Global Operations and i think commissi commissioner was the cochair for that, too. And four years later were exam
With me is mark davies, ceo at the strategy consultancy, camberton. Thank you very much for coming in to go through some of these papers. Interesting, the story, the brexit story. The brexit barometer of course, over this whole has been stolen, the value of the pound. Whenever deal looks more likely, at the pound goes up, went so slack with the pad goes down. , has anything changed 7 with the pad goes down. , has anything changed . It is moved to 122, lets not forget it started this process at high one 405, 150, thats only your referendum to po55ible dish. People thought of going to bolivia with a deal and we have started going to bolivia with a deal and we have 5ta rted into going to bolivia with a deal and we have started into territory it went down to 120. The fact that it is moved to 122 is a small move but i wouldnt say its terribly significant. A decibel locations. If there is no deal will probably end up there is no deal will probably end up ataround there is no deal will probab
6 00 in the morning, so we have a few groggy members here on the committee. In the heat of he 2016 election, as the russian hacking and dumping operation became apparent, my freedom unanimous concern was that the russians would begin dumping forged documents along with the real ones they stole. It would have been too easy are russia or another malicious actor to seed formed documents among the how then tick onestake toe make almost imfor identify or rebut the fraudulent material. Even if a victim could expose the foreign ricer the damage would be done. Three years later were on the cusp of a technological revolution that could enable even more sipster forms of deception and disinformation by malign actors, foreign or domestic. At vanses in a. I. In Machine Learning let to emergence of advanced digitally doctored types of media, so called deep fakes, that enable malicious actors to foment okay or crisis and disrupt entire campaigns, including that for the presidency. Rapid progress inar