will never attack ukraine. we re here to help. how do we balance all of this? what do you realistically expect to come out of this call. beijing is going to try to maintain its either/or status, and biden is going to push them to choose a side. as weeks go on in this battle, it s going to get harder to stay with a foot in both camps. think back to the olympic when is china and russia announced a limitless relationship, surely behind closed doors when putin briefed xi on this upcoming military operation he described it as a special military operation that will be over and done very quickly. he looked like a rising savvy leader who could be part of the new offensive idealogically against the united states and the west. now he s becoming a global pariah, economically, and embattled, it seems, even if his own country the way he s lashing out at people who were his
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Asia-Pacific Shares Plunge as New Coronavirus Strain in UK Threatens Global RecoveryAustralian shares fell on Tuesday as a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain in Britain threatened to disrupt a nascent global economic recovery.
Dec 22, 2020 07:59 AM GMT
The major Asia Pacific stock indexes tumbled on Tuesday, extending a sell-off from multi-year highs hit last week on fears a highly infectious new strain of COVID-19 that hit the U.K. could lead to a slower global economic recovery. Investor sentiment continued to sour even as the U.S. Congress on Monday approved a long-awaited $892 billion coronavirus aid package.
In the cash market on Tuesday, Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index settled at 26439, down 278.03 or -1.04%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index finished at 26090.59, down 216.09 or -0.82% and South Korea’s KOSPI Index closed at 2733.68, down 44.97 or -1.62%.
turn of events. when you think about the fact that just a short time ago a lot of people were ridiculing kim jong-un, calling him the leader of a global pariah. now he has world leaders literally lining up to meet with him. moon jae-in, the president of south korea next week. next month, potentially president trump. xi jinping may be preparing to visit pyongyang. also next month, possibly before or after president trump s summit. then also word that japan and russia also want to meet with kim jong-un. it is just truly extraordinary. will, is the change the president of the united states? reporter: i think the legitimacy that a summit with president trump provides kim jong-un is something that the north korean leadership has craved for some time. they want respect. they want to be seen as legitimate on a global stage. and the fact that president trump agreed to this meeting has really been a game changer. kim jong-un almost wins going into this. of course, the stakes are much higher
will turn away from him, he ll become a global pariah, and the ability of him to get his family and his intimates out of the country goes down precipitously if the rest of the world watches syrians die by nerve gas from the hand of their own leader, jon. jon: but the russians and the chinese have been very much in his corner to this point. yeah. but this is a game changer. i think secretary clinton s discussion with the russians just yesterday, i think, reinforces that. and, oh, by the way, the russians and the chinese at the end of the day want to be on the right side of history. the last thing they want to have on the record is the fact that they supported a brutal dictator who not only killed 47,000 of his own people with rockets, bombs and bullets, but he also gassed them with nerve gas. that s not a good place for even russia and china to be at the end of the day, jon. jon: want to turn your attention to pearl harbor day, general. it is, it is upon us again. i just wanted to get
huge ace up his sleeve. that ace is called george w. bush. the american people think of the bush administration as a lengthy period in which america was became a kind of global pariah. we weren t popular around the world. we had these wars that seemed to go on without end and without effect. they began on dubious premises. romney is going to have to we supported all of those things, i have to say. i m telling you, this is the perception that president obama is going play on. unless romney is able to say, to distinguish himself from bush, obama is going to have an advantage in this debate. he has to say, when i look to my predecessors, i think of ronald reagan and harry truman, i think of the idea of peace through strength, american credibility, a strong economy that gives america the credibility it needs in china and elsewhere in the world. if romney pins him as another bush, he s in trouble. well, i think romney has to