Aspen Institute Security forum. We are privileged to have with us the current Us Ambassador to the United Nations, kelly craft. This is the first time the aspen security form has been able to host the u. S. Ambassador to that u. N. So we are particularly grateful to you for making the time. Kelly craft hails from the great state of kentucky and served as our permanent representative to the United Nations since september of 2019. Before then she was the u. S. Ambassador to canada for two years and during that time, very complex time, she worked on the revisiting of the nafta treaty now known as the u. S. Mexico canada agreement. To interview the ambassador we , have a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion covering National Security and foreign policy. Ambassador craft, we look forward to hearing your views on the Trump Administrations engagement with the United Nations and other international institutions, the critical upcoming vote, possibly extending the iran arms embargo and all your great
At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing
I would point to a couple of Opinion Pieces that have opened my eyes about the risks in the South China Sea and possible skirmishes or tensions. We focused on the premier of china addressing in a press conference the National Peoples conference and we heard from Tom Mackenzie that this is not the forum for him to address what is happening in hong kong with the strong response from the u. S. Tom our conversation moments ago from lord patten, the 28th governor of hong kong for the united kingdom, his clear message is what is needed is a coordinated response, not every developed economy for itself. Right now, our first word news. Havea lawmakers in china defied the threat by President Trump and passed a proposal for National Sweeping security legislation aimed at hong kong, curbing potential freedoms in the city, a day after the u. S. Declared hong kong was no longer a tana miss. Autonomous. U. S. , milestone for the more than 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus, the worlds highest death.
Of a vaccine. The state to asks move on over a row over his aid. A lot of the focus is on equity markets. Our question of the day was why we see such difference between what Financial Markets are doing and what the real economy is telling us. Today the focus is not on the tensions between china and the u. S. , a question that has been escalating, we are looking at treasuries. Investors are weighing in these fresh fiscal stimulus and what that will do to prop up the economy. Im also looking at crude oil and then gold, a good litmus test out there. China has approved its controversial new security law over hong kong in defiance of President Trump and his secretary of state. Who says the city no longer has any meaningful autonomy from china. Joining us now from beijing. Thank you for joining us. They just voted to endorse a National Security law. What comes next. No surprise that the nationals People Congress approve the proposal. They are circumventing the Hong Kong Legislature to pass t
26,000 american deaths. So there are more than 14,200 graves here, many of them who died in the meuseargonne area, but also some civilians and other soldiers brought from other areas . Yeah. But basically most of the soldiers here died during the meuseargonne, the final result which was dramatic for that battle. It was over 26,000 soldiers killed, 96,000 wounded, more or less. Its almost a half percent of the soldiers that are still buried here in france in that cemetery. We have few civilians, maybe well see some of the graves later on. Especially nurses, people from the American Red Cross, from the ymca, some special graves we will see walking in the graveyard. The cemetery itself, graves that were consolidated from smaller cemeteries. So when soldiers died in battle, they were buried in small cemeteries around the region, and then the American Government had made the decision that they would allow families to repatriate their loved ones after the war. So about 60 to 70 of the famili