Already read from the u. S. And its presence in foreign markets to those fearful of china the trend is disturbing heres arties alex the highly bitch with the latest information on that. From mines in Canadas Arctic to farms in america the sleeping dragon china is continuing to spread its wings and some dont like it if the free world doesnt change doesnt change governments china will surely change. Cant be a return to the past practice because theyre comfortable because theyre convenient currently reside he is high amongst anti china factions in canada as Chinese State run shamed on Gold Mining Company moves to buy a mine in the Arctic Circle some experts fear that chen dogs plans put canada at risk as the gold mine sits in a strategically important region known for resources and shipping routes Richard Fadden who is National Security advisor to both Prime Minister trudeau and former canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has gone as far as to say this purchase should not go forward the
Arizona, and hospital cases in california all marking new highs. Plus top advisers to President Trump are set to urge the u. S. To undermine the hong kong dollar peg to punish china for its crackdown in the city. Ons get a quick check up how markets are set up for the open. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie in asia this wednesday, we are seeing a mixed start to the session with focus on china and if mainland stocks can keep up that rally we have seen for six days. Futuresd 14 so we have in the green for the most part. Hang seng futures settling higher after the rally did stall in hong kong on tuesday. Switching out the board, checking in on the hong kong dollar, which continues to have the 7. 75 mine as they continue to defend the peg, we are seeing little reaction in the curb. Jumping into the terminal for a big picture book, low 200 pips after the spike we saw in may but staying elevated on economic and political uncertainties. Tracking any reaction to a bloomberg report
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Donors he would get rid of most of trumps tax cuts. That wouldnt be good for stock prices or your 401 k . Right now we see the dow losing maybe 90 points at the opening bell, 25,400. The s p will be down and the nasdaq is off about 20 points. No serious selloff at this point. But we do have dramatic stories breaking this morning. Overnight, a young black man, 16 years old, shot and killed in the seattle chop zone. Its the fourth shooting there in nine days. Democrat mayor durkin said the zone would be removed. It is still there. In new york city, the city votes on taking a billion dollars out of the budget the police budgets. Mayor deblasio calls it real redistribution. This follows a devastating blow, the citys 15 billion theater industry will stay closed until next year. The democrats trash the president and mt. Rushmore. A tweet from the dnc says the president will be quote, glorifying White Supremacy when he attends a fireworks display there on july fourth. But its okay. They took
The institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media platform. This one is not a new problem, social media platforms continue to allow the dangerous disinformation during the covid19 pandemic and in so doing they expose how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role that they play in continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make