I want to get jones and this is a Business Asia welcome to the u. S. China trade war is taking its toll on global stock market shares are heading south from asia to europe this is beijing gets ready to ramp up retaliation to u. S. Measures blacklisting some quote unreliable foreign firms and hiking tariffs on a range of u. S. Goods starting on june the 1st u. S. Time so where are we up to in this conflict now so far the u. S. Has imposed tariffs on chinese goods worth 250000000000. 00 thats almost half of the goods china sold to the u. S. In 2018 now beijing retaliated by imposing tariffs on 110000000000 Dollars Worth of u. S. Goods entering china and thats almost as much as all of us exports to china in 2018 hours washington keeps up the pressure threatening to raise more tariffs on chinese Goods Beijing has responded by threatening to stop supplies of rare metals crucial for many high take items now meanwhile on the u. S. Doorstep the president on a trump has said he will levy a 5 pe
a major recalibration if you look at mexico today mexico was kind of filling a gap in a way that to be made by by china with the chart us china people were looking at mexico as a way of producing there perhaps as a way of getting into america about ways to lead up to or as close as well seriously seeing these 2 huge areas which were so symbolic in a way all of the kind of global trade to be part of the last 3 or 4 decades are now facing major sanctions from the world s biggest economy but with mexico it came as a surprise i mean mexico is the united states biggest trading partner this new nafta deal was basically it s ready to go ahead why mexico well we were all looking at east of course and then suddenly it happened in mexico. trump says it s down to immigration as the main reason but there must be there s also it s ties in very much with his protectionist mode on with his stance that he takes on these things so i think it was kind of inevitable at some point that it would be politic
control legislation. i mean, the the argument by the republicans just frustrates the heck out of me, i will be nice about it. it doesn t make any sense. you are talking about expanding criminal and mental background checks, filling a gap. you are not talking about some onerous piece of legislation. background checks take about five-plus minutes. but this is part and parcel i think the strategy of some of the republicans who oppose this, which is to slow it down to make it impossible to come to any kind of reasonable compromise and hopefully, the american people are going to shift to some other issues. the unfortunate thing, we the tragedy is we are going to be back here again. there s gonna be another shooting tragedy in this country and we are going to be talking about this issue again. and i i m just puzzled at why the republicans don t see this as a common sense, reasonable reform. chris, as you say this though, there are people on the left who are dragging their feet, speci
reverend jesse jackson from washington. good afternoon, sir you heard how newspapers have characterized these protesters. what do you think? i will watch the same type for public accommodations and we march for the right to vote. these protesters, occupation is a spirit. it is filling a gap of disparity and we bail out the banks and not linked to lending of the reinvestments. it s about that. student loan debt and credit card debts. so many banks have deals that put students in the position where they either want to apply to college or can t guarantee the job of graduation. it is the economic disparity driving this protest and we should hear the language of the protests and not just react to