We start in china where as youve been hearing telecoms giant huawei has launched a new legal challenge against the us. Its appealing a decision last month to stop us mobile phone companies from using government grants to buy its equipment. It follows a similar legal challenge in may against a ban on Us Government agencies from buying its kit. Lets get more on this story from our correspondent in shanghai, robin brant. What does huawei hope the practical effect of this will be . What do they hope to achieve with this challenge . They want to overturn a ban and we will have to wait and see what the us court of appeals thinks about that. But what it is also trying to do is demonstrate that it has the resources and the desire to push back and there is also a Public Relations exercise ongoing here, one in which huawei is spending a vast amount of money as it continues, frankly, in its fight with the Us Government. This is a fairly technical moved today, the second attempt in a year by huawe
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Thank you for coming. Welcome to infrastructure week. We have been looking forward to this awhile. Infrastructure was a thing that all pundits after the election when we were in this fractured state after the 2016 election, will democrats and republicans be able to Work Together on anything, people said infrastructure. Why . Democrats like spending money and donald trump likes having things built, sees himself as a builder. We were supposed to get something. We havent gotten something yet, and well, policy always proves more complicated in practice than in promise. And thats the complexity of this, why we assembled the excellent panel we have today. Anybody that follows stuff about transportation infrastructure, the way cities work follows nicole. Senior fellow, contributing editor and columnist at new york post. Nick lawyer is of heritage foundation, focuses on energy, environment, regulatory issues. A Deputy Director of the thomas rowe institute for Economic Policy studies. Finally,
Thank you all for coming. Welcome to infrastructure week. We have been looking forward to this for a while. Infrastructure was a thing that all pundits after the election when we are in the fractured state after the 2016 election, democrats and republicans, will they be able to work on anything . People said infrastructure. Why . Democrats like spending money and donald trump likes having things build. He sees himself as a builder. So, we were supposed to get something. We have not gotten something yet. Policy proves more complicated in practice than in promise. That is the complexity of this. That is why we assembled the excellent panel we have today. Anybody who follows staff about transportation infrastructure, the way cities work follows nicole. She is a senior fellow at the manhattan then we have nick of the heritage foundation. He is an economist. He is a Deputy Director of the thomas road to toot for Economic Policy studies. And finally we have Heritage Action tim chapman. He is