Good morning ladies and gentlemen. If you will kindly take your seats. Latecomers will be accommodated. There are handovers over on the right you will want to have with you or take away with you. Please help yourself to some coffee. Welcome to use China Business council. This is a press conference talking about our annual member survey, and it will be done in three parts. The first part i will introduce our president craig allen, and then after that our Senior Vice President jake parker will walk you through some of the highlights of the survey and then we will open it to questions. So at this point its my pleasure to introduce you to president alan. Good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today. My name again is craig allen and on the president of use China Business council, and would like to welcome you here to discuss our most recent survey which we are releasing here today. So thank you again for joining us. So just a couple of words of background at this sta
Business climate in china and how it could affect trade relations with the u. S. This is one hour. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. If you will kindly take your seats. Latecomers will be accommodated. There are handouts over on the right you will want to have with you or take away with you. Please help yourself to some coffee. Welcome to the u. S. China Business Council. This is a press conference talking about our annual member survey, and it will be done in three parts. The first part i will introduce our president , craig allen, and then after that our Senior Vice President , jake parker, will walk you through some of the highlights of the survey, and then we will open it to questions. So at this point, its my pleasure to introduce you to president alan. Alan good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today. My name again is craig allen and the president of the u. S. China Business Council, and we would like to welcome you here to discuss our most recent surve
Helsinki, Michael Mckee in new york, and Kevin Cirilli down in houston. There was a bloomberg report trumpday that president might have a ceasefire, and the president basically confirmed it. Pm johnson i see a lot of pres. Trump i see a lot of analysts seeing we will do a piecemeal. Easy or hard. Theres a deal or theres not a deal, but it is something we are considering. David there you heard it. It looks a little like the chinese may have responded this morning. Right. Xactly some economists are talking about a mini deal. Theres the prospect of china buying some u. S. Agricultural products and exempting pork and soybeans from additional tariffs. Expectedtowards these talks in october at a high level between both sides, there is a word of caution as well in all of this. China has always been in the market for more agricultural goods. Dating more pork in particular because of swine flu. Theres certainly evidence of some good gestures, but no signs of a major, sustainable breakthrough ju
Thank you. Moving on to our opening interview. Sometimes plan a does not work out. You have to be ready to improvise. That is one of the themes in our next story and conversation. I want to welcome the cofounder mates, aof post Delivery Service that is part of the race to remake the way beast shop and get our stuff. He has raised a quarter billion dollars. You know, average in cilic and ballet. Sharing how his company is facing the challenges and also introducing us to a new friends. Please welcome sebastian lehman. Ok, the Business Model is Pretty Simple. There are few other Delivery Companies out there that of gotten pretty big as well. But you guys have focused on innovating in certain areas can. Can you explain how you approach innovation . Bastion good morning first of all. Thank you for having me. Excited to be here. We like to complete not dollar per dollar but with innovation as you mentioned. And i think in many cases it is the smarter way to compete. Money is one angle and an
Summit this weekend, but our eyes are on just two of them. The United States and china. President trump and chinese president xi face a trade war, tariffs, and the question of intellectual property. The talks may be at the conference in japan or in beijing or in washington, but their effects are felt in silicon valley. From china, whed. Hes joining us now. China is the home to vm wares locations. Sanjay is in charge of all of them. Joined by John Schwartz and richard waters. I kind of want a deep review on your most recent trip to china. In the hotel bar, and youre talking with your chinese counterparts, who work for your company, and those who dont, maybe some of your clients, what are they saying behind closed doors . Thank you for having me on the show. First off, it was important an executive showed up, they were getting a sense of who is going to show up here. Low level person or the senior executive. I went there deliberately to reassure first time employees, we care first about