President donald trump called it a substantial phase one agreement but any talk of a truce of the trade war is pretty wide of the mog washington hasnt removed any tariffs and got a little relief for its famous beijing got crucial access to pork after its pig farmers were decimated by swine flu substantive issues still remain and theres an ongoing economic war in all but name washington slams 28. 00 Chinese Tech Companies with sanctions for their part in the repression of weaker muslims meantime beijing is using access to the Chinese Market as a weapon against those who criticize its policies and handling of hong kong protests the n. B. A. Was the latest to step into the chinese quagmire as a serious rob matheson reports from beijing. He sees one of the fastest ways for u. S. Basketball to risk losing billions of dollars of Chinese Investment has been a 7 word tweet double money general manager of the Houston Rockets n. B. A. Team voiced his support for hong kong protesters now Chinese
Senate return for legislative business next tuesday and now we continue our coverage of a conference on middle east strategy. And i think this counter goes of whoever is in par with regard to the presidency and regardless of who the resources available. So i think going back to what was mentioned in the Previous Panel with regard to the impact of maximum pressure and what max impression was intended to decide allegedly because of lack of clarity among u. S. Policy intention and strategy on iran but one of the argument was the position of sanction and maximum pressure, iran behave in a region would be contained. Unrest with diminished. We clery see the opposite. One of the reasons is iran continued its policy with regard to its support of allies and proxies but also its continuation of the interest. In syria with continuation, and iraq and lebanon the same, in yemen we have not seen any change since 2018 in particular. If anything weve seen a more by iran to showcase as was mentioned be
Any fast ones with the m. P. s and kind of preventing going accidentally on purpose if you like to a no deal bracks its on october 31st despite the votes in the house lets hear though from the Prime Minister trying to encourage m. P. s that his deal is the best thing that they have that is why hes now so urgent for us to move on and to build a new relationship with our friends in the e. U. On the basis of a new deal a deal that can heal the rift in british politics you know you. Unite the warring instincts in our soul and now is the time. For this great house of commons to come together and bring the country together to do. And paul not surprisingly a stinging rebuff from Jeremy Corbyn he said look you know the government cant be trusted d. He said that labor will not back what he described as a sell out deal what more that he have to say when he said labor wouldnt be duped i mean on friday the government came out and in a bid to try and win over some labor votes some labor m. P. s sai
Current news from northeast syria. We have great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollack, dana stroul and were also pleased to welcome back in the eye senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program bilal saab after a oneyear fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of the six experts is eric schmitt. Eric is a writer covering terrorism and National Security for the new york times. Since 2007 he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to pakistan, afghanistan, north africa, southeast asia, among others. He is a coauthor of counterstrike, the untold story of americas secret campaign against alqaeda. Published in 2011. Before joining the times, eric was an education reporter at the tricity herald i
In the policy shift in syria. Spoke at the Atlantic Council for about an hour. [applause] i feel like im talking to these he rose here. I will try to maintain eye contact with everybody. Thanks for the invitation. Facilitating my presence. Im very glad to be back at the Atlantic Council to discuss the topic of great interest to me. I must admit i spent quite a bit of time thinking and writing down my thoughts. Will reach down to me in middle of the summer to ask me to do this. Ive been thinking about it a lot and i actually was struggling with this topic. I think i got it figured out, what i wanted to say, on sunday afternoon while watching the vikings dominate the giants. I got it down in writing. We will see how it goes. Numberlso good to see a of colleagues with whom i served while i was in uniform. Im happy to report to retirement is going well. The other day i overheard my wife telling one of her friends for 39 years he never expressed a view around the house, now he has an opinio