As much as 140 points lower as the opening bell rings in an hour. The chinese said they have to impose these Counter Measures because of the trump trade war. And what theyre going to do is beginning september 1st and december 15th theyre going to impose a 5 tariff. If you remember those dates they pretty much mirror the dates President Trump has on the tariffs that are imposed on chinese imports on those 300 billion of chinese goods and that 10 tariff. So this is clearly yet another step, another escalation in this tit for tat tariff war. And whats interesting is the timing of this. This is happening on a day that kind of stole the show. Meaning whats happening in jackson, iowa, weve got a meeting of central bankers of the fed at this big conference where wall street is keeping its eyes on because it wants to get an idea about whether or not j. Powell, the head of the fed is going to go ahead and cuts rates again at the next meeting in september. And this comes on the backdrop, jim, of
Compliance. Russia hasnt been complying with the treaty for about six years now dating back to the obama administration. They have deployed these missiles that are actually prohibited by the treaty. But what the u. S. Can now do that the treaty is over is they can start developing and testing their own version of these missiles to compete with russia in this space. Now, Senior Administration official told me that these tests are not considered to be provocative. And thats because they are initial tests. The u. S. Is years away from potentially deploying these missiles in the countries surrounding russia. That would take awhile. But what we are monitoring today is the fact that there are a lot of experts who are worried about an arms race breaking out now that this treaty is no longer. The other story is that very important today is that the Trump Administration is in the process of scaling down its personnel footprint at its embassy in afghanistan. Now, that is the largest u. S. Embass
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