Persistent challenge of china not playing by the rules. In the case of coronavirus, that was about china not telling the World Health Organization, not telling other countries, not telling their own people what was happening in terms of the coronavirus, not taking steps to stop International Travel early on. That wasnt playing by the who rules, the World Health Organization rules and the result has been devastation. Its been the spread of the virus and so much of that devastation weve seen around the globe in my view could have been avoided. Had they played by the rules. Unfortunately, not playing by the rules applies to china in many other areas, too. Weve talked about trade a lot on this floor of the senate to be sure theres a level Playing Field between china and the United States and making sure they play by the International Trading rules, but here is another one, where china and the Chinese Communist party has not played by the rules. And thats with regard to obtaining our intell
But i welcome the latest developments and look back at whats been happening over the last 7 days youre watching weekly here on r. T. International so lets start there with the latest numbers on the pandemic more than 2300000 cases have been confirmed across the globe at least 161000 people have died but the highest death toll in the United States and so far more than 10606000 people have recovered from the fires. Or today Orthodox Christians around the world are celebrating Easter Sunday but for most going to church is not an option to you to the pandemic so in Russia Services are being streamed on the internet the leader of the Russian Orthodox church. Patry our people to stay at home and pray he led an overnight vigil at the cathedral of christ the savior in moscow attended by a small group of clergy traditionally thousands to gather there to light candles from the holy fire flown in from jerusalem meanwhile the Russian Orthodox church has given some recommendations on how to bless t
Wall street is poised for a higher open. The historic impeachment of President Trump. Secretary mnuchin will join us exclusively in the next hour. We will discuss the postimpeachment economic agenda between now and the election the house readying that vote on the usmca, an important trade agreement. Plus, chips are continuing to outperform the rally the ceo will join us in squawk ali and iac is spinning off an online match group, all of it, shares are climbing ahead of bell now you, we begin, of course, with the market, one day after the impeachment of the president. Its an interesting evening. Yeah, it was. You know, david, this is the beginning of an under performance period if we find if we analogize to clinton. The only difference is that there were democrats who joined republicans in the impeachment process because they thought it was a cut and dry violation the lying about the section act. It was one count of perjury about lying about the sex act. You said there was a little more
That ubers expiration has taken place, they are trying to improve the Operational Performance and have been given profitability. You provide all of these things up inis is a good set terms of investors new point on the stock. You look at the Shareholder Base right now, you do not see a lot of longterm shareholders. Softbank and encz mark, benchmark is unlikely to be a longterm shareholder, they were an early investor. I think that these are all is on theand the onus company to execute and show Operational Performance. Guy on the positive and negative side of the lot of the ledger, what did kalanick bring . Mandeep he really started this company and was aggressive in terms of taking the uber brand global, and that is what helped uber expand so aggressively both on the ridesharing and the ancillary businesses, but i think they are at a point where the brand is known to everybody. Improving thet reputation. The cultural damage that took place when travis was running the Company Needs to g
Can everyone hear me . First we have to use my imagination a little bit because there is no fireplace here but we are thinking its a fireside chat. Im grateful to have this opportunity here, dr. Kissinger and i met several years ago, now. Dr. Kissinger has been a key person where you can go to for advice about both professional and career things as well as geopolitical event, right, very few friends can do both, but dr. Kissinger really needs no introduction. As all of you know hes one of the worlds most renowned geopolitical practitioner as well as thinker, and he did all of that well before ai came into bei being. He has that rare combination of a true intellect and i admire him for taking on something relatively new like ai after the height of his career, ai is pretty daunting, as someone also relatively new to it, dr. Kissinger decided he wanted to do a deep dive and learn more about the technology and implications of Artificial Intelligence for our political systems and for geopol