Tent. Im the editor at large of kirkus reviews, and im the host of the fully booked podcast, if youd like to subscribe. And i am absolutely honored to be in conversation with Samantha Power today. [applause] Samantha Power is a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy school at harvard law school. From 20132017 she served as the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a member of president obamas cabinet. From 20092013 she served on the National Security council as special assistant to the president for Multilateral Affairs and human rights. She began her career as a journalist reporting from places such as bosnia, east timor, kosovo, rwanda, sudan and zimbabwe, and she was the founding executive director of the carr center for human rights policy at the kennedy school. Her book, a problem from hell won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. She is yeah. [laughter] a big one a while ago. [laughter] she is also the author of the New York Times bestseller chasing the game. Her chasing the fl
Other asian economies im joined by our director of the mocker Economic Research division of the Asian Development bank so good to have you with us lets start 1st of all with this latest development what do you make of china asking the u. S. To be rolling back levies so that they can buy Agricultural Products of beijing that cash strapped its a bit funny. Chinas a 12 trillion dollar economy they can obviously afford to buy more of a cultural products if they want what is true and whats maybe not so funny is that the trade the trade war has really had an impact on the chinese economy and our Asian Development all of that that came out 2 weeks ago our estimate is that the tariffs currently in place have already of will impact china by. Taking away about 80000000000. 00 and of g. D. P. And about 3 or 5 more than 5000000. 00 jobs so in that sense its nontrivial they do what they do want the terror. Its rolled back just a postponement of the tariffs today is not enough and if china needs bas
Other than that is going to be a pretty day for the beach. There is advisory in effect. We will not go much warmer than the 70s. We have our live shot we have been keeping our eye on. We were seeing a backup at this point. They may be clearing the. A box truck involved. It looks like things are improving. It looks like they may have cleared everything over to the shoulder. We wi keep an eye on that until everything is confirmed out of the way. List let right now. That offer. We are getting reports of a crash. Looks like there was only brought there as well. You have some brake lights working away was. Making that track into the livermore valley. A wildfire burning in lake county. This will happen on highway 29. Around 8 pm last night. Facebook video showing the hills along with flames. Runout has been reduced to about 10 acres. This part remains close right now. Some people in that area were told to evacuate those orders were lifted around 2 pm. The Public Utilities commission has call
A thread of your to. Go through point of a more on the impact of this protracted trade war is having on china as well as other asian economies im joined by our director of the mocker Economic Research division at the Asian Development bank so good to have you with us lets start 1st of all with this latest development what do you make of china asking the u. S. To be rolling back the levies so that they can buy Agricultural Products beijing that cash strapped but thats a bit funny to all the chinas a 12 trillion dollar economy they can obviously afford to buy more of a cultural products if they want what is true and whats maybe not so funny is that the trade the trade war has really had an impact on the chinese economy and our Asian Development i think that came out 2 weeks ago our estimate is that the tariffs currently in place have already of will impact china by. Taking away about 80000000000. 00 and of g. D. P. And about 5 more than 5000000. 00 jobs so in that sense its nontrivial th
A more on the impact of this protracted trade war is having on china as well as other asian economies im joined by our director of the mocker Economic Research division at the Asian Development bank so good to have you with us lets start 1st of all with this latest development what do you make of china asking the u. S. To be rolling back levies so that they can buy Agricultural Products of beijing that cash trucks but thats a bit funny. Chinas a 12 trillion dollar economy they can obviously afford to buy more of cultural products if they want what is true and whats maybe not so funny is that the trade the trade war has really had an impact on the chinese economy and their Asian Development all of that that came out 2 weeks ago our estimate is that the tariffs currently in place have already of will impact china by. Taking away about 80000000000. 00 and of g. D. P. And about the 5 more than 5000000. 00 jobs so in that sense its nontrivial they do what they do. The tariffs rolled back ju