First of all why did you decide to write the book quick. This is my eighth book and in 2000 and wrote a book called the china threat that was called the china threat theory it was amazing that it predicted the emergence of a major threat posed by communist china ever since i wrote the book i tried to do another china book in every publisher that i approached we wont write another single topic. Why was that quick. I dont know with their concerns if it was cell then i dug in my heels to say its time to do it. Another threat from china as it is becoming greater back when the china threat was published. Your book is very timely. Let me ask you about the title. Deceiving the sky. Talk about the second half is very clear and understandable but where does deceiving the sky quick. They are steeped in ancient strategy and many people know of the famous strategist who comes from the warring states air. Theres also a book called the 36 strategies whose author is not quite clear but a compendium o
Afterwards is the weekly Interview Program with relevant guest house interviewing top about their latest work. Bill, congratulations and thank you for joining us today. We are going to cover a lot of ground in your book, deceiving the sky inside communist chinas drive for global supremacy. The first of all, why did you decide to write the book . This is my eighth book editing 2000, redbook called the china threat which was a play on what beijing calls the china threat theory. It was amazing. They really predicted the emergence of a major threat by communist china. This is never the book, i try to do another china book and every publisher approach, said we wont write a single topic try to book. You have chapters on time but we both write a single topic. Why was that. Tonight i really dont know. There are concerns or interest about and finally the deck in heels and i said it is time to do it another book on it from china as it is becoming greater then it was way back when the transfer wa
President biden imposes limits on u. S. Investments in china. Alibaba returns to growth across all of the main divisions, defying chinas economic turbulence. We will take a deeper look at the Supreme Court ruling in the epic case siding with apple, at least for now. The other big story was inflation, gaining 0. 2 last month. The slowest pace of gains for two years. The market starts thinking about the fed and then says maybe the fed will skip a rate hike in the next meeting. Why do we care about the fed . Higher rates discount the valuations for future cash flows for names on the nasdaq 100. The main text the main tech index outperforming but we are basically treading water. The other big risk as it is bitcoin. We are the same level we have out for two weeks. The u. S. 10 year yield climbing back up. Remember the story we keep reiterating. Yields have been coming slightly lower from 4. 2 on the 10 year to now nero took now nearer to 4 . The earnings story is disney. So many stories in
Including drones, missiles, armored vehicles, and communications systems. A Senate Homeland subcommittee set to examine which committees are producing the technology. And how russia has been using export controls to get it. The hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the chair blumenthal the hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the witnesses, some of you have come along way. And we greatly appreciate it. Just three days ago i sat across from president zelenskyy in ukraine along with me colleague senator hassan and three other members of the United States senate. As i sat across from him, what i saw was a steely determination to continue to fight, and that determination is shared by the ukraine people, overwhelmingly. President zelenskyy handed me a folder that i took from him then. It was the result of a conversation i had with him a week
The hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the witnesses, some of you have come along way. And we greatly appreciate it. Just three days ago i sat across from president zelenskyy in ukraine along with me colleague senator hassan and three other members of the United States senate. As i sat across from him, what i saw was a steely determination to continue to fight, and that determination is shared by the ukraine people, overwhelmingly. Their courage and strength, again on this fifth visit inspired me a new. President zelenskyy handed me a folder that i took from him then. It was the result of a conversation i had with him a week earlier in munich. It was asking for evidence, if he had any, of american manufactured parts and components in weapons used by russia on the battlefield in ukraine. The folder that he handed me was a powerful indictment of our export control and sanction system. A really searing piece of