Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us exactly one week before possibly the most consequential u. S. Election secretary of state mike pompei own defense secretary mark esper has flown to india to meet with their counterparts its almost as if theyre running against the clock rolling out as much of their age policy in case their boss President Donald Trump loses the election india has signed a military agreement with the u. S. To share sensitive satellite information and the 2 will participate in naval exercises next month those are war games along with australia and japan all members of the quad a partnership of india pacific democracies. Joining us is korea mohan of the German Marshall Fund for more agreement pump aoe and the esper are in india but this is as much about china isnt it. Absolutely so this meeting comes in the backdrop of chinese aggression at indias border region which shows no signs of abating it also comes in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic t
We were both at the wall street journal my partner and i for many years, Peter Fritsch, and the News Business went into a downturn in the late 2000s thanks to the internet. It started to evolve into a less fulfilling job for me. I was in my mid40s and i decided what i really, really loved to do in journalism was investigate complex cases and that there was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news, and so i decided to try to see if i could do that sort of work in a private capacity, as a consultant. Host what kind of stories did you work on at the wall street journal . Guest i started at coming american politics in washington in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and investigating politicians for possible corruption, writing stories about campaignfinance abuses, ethics in washington and government. Over the years that evolved into different types of Investigative Journalism involving financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals like the s
So theres a debate about just how much we should actually punish north korea at the expense of humanitarian assistance to you know to the people who are you know literally tearing a professor of International Relations at chris on national investing always great to get your insights on out of there robert thanks for have now south korea is threatening to hit back against japan for cutting exports of materials used to make smartphones and other high tech care its now feared a long running dispute over wartime forced labor is evolving into a trade fight problem bride reports from sell. Ironically this dispute comes just days after japan hosted the g. 20 summit of World Leaders went to foster good neighborly relations and promote free trade and it could harm south korea where it hurts most in its production of semiconductors. The restrictions made it will be harder to export essential materials from japan to korean manufacturers. As one of the worlds leading producers of chips especially
Deal tesco hales a strong start to the year but uk sales slow in the latest quarter and a calmer day in hong kong after massive protests against the extradition bill turned violent forcing the closure of government offices while beijing looks to allay investor concerns about the unrest good morning its been a relatively strong start for the day across europe you can see the ftse is 0. 15 higher dax in germany trading 0. 40 higher in paris, the cac 40 is slightly above the flat line. In italy, the ftse mib trading about a quarter percent higher lets look at the sectors behind those numbers to see where the positive signs are coming from the healthcare sector up almost three quarters of a percent. Telecoms trading twothirds of a percent higher real estate a half percent up on the day. The bank stocks, you can see across europe, they are trading lower as are Household Goods and some of those media companies. A huge focus of the media space in europe over havent days. That will be somethin
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