suggests china s post covid boom is clearly over, unquote. economists say this that china is counting the costs of weak demand both at home and abroad. there was flesh out data that came out last week. china reported the exports fell at its fastest pace in three years in june. and anotherer the scarring effects of covid, the uncertainty, caused consumers and businesses to save more, instead of purchasing more. all eyes now on what policymakers in china are going to do next, rahel. yeah, i think a lot. people expected chinese population to spend more than they did, as you point out, thank you. let s take a look at markets around the world, you can see asia markets are mixed with hong con, positive one-third of a percent. european markets solidly lower. paris is off 1.4%. let s look at u.s. futures, quickly. across the board, red arrows worse among them. stocks closed mixed, jpmorgan
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that can lead, you know, with the persistence that hal described, that can lead over the long term to success. so, hal, you explain in the book and if you could just explain for our viewers here why we have a return of the great power rivalries on christmas day 1991, the soviet union fell. we thought that a democracy could grow there. boris yeltsin proved it could not. americans were investing and hong con was, you know, the center of commerce and in asia. that s all changed radically over the past few years. talk about the return of these great power rivalries. one thing that history teaches us is great-power rivalry is basically normal.
began. another u.s. journalist, nathan hmong was detained in march when his offices were raided. a family friend of nathan told cnn that the editor and chief was core toured for two weeks after his arrest. the 44-year-old was severely beaten around their heads, burnt on their stomachs, knees and thighs with cigarettes. the committee to protect journalists has described the abuse as unconscionable. both danny and nathan are hold in the notorious insane prison, a monument to brutality, housing more than 10,000 prisoners, of which hundreds are political prisoners. anna coren, cnn hong con. let me bring in rose and buddy fenster, danny s parents. thank you so much for joining us
pla plans. staging a sit-in in hong kong s international airport. it s part of an ongoing two month long battle over a bill that has been suspended. reports could extradite people from hong con. the protests have expanded to include other democratic demands. ben wedeman is there to describe the scene for us. pamela, we re at hong kong international airport, the eighth busiest airport in the world which is very busy today with this massive protest. there are thousands of people here in the departure lounge calling for democracy and freedom in hong kong. they re using signs. they re using all sort of things. they re even passing out boarding passes that say flight hk 809 from hong kong to freedom and in chinese below it says the