China despite the spread of the coronavirus. The Global Smartphone market has been slowing down for some time. The coronavirus will only make it worse. Shipments will drop 2. 3 to around 1. 3 billion units. Paul allen and emily chang spoke with the privacy the ibc president on wednesday. We have a number of analysts looking at this. We would say the tightest ingredient in this is the people. People are not fully back to work. With think the manufacturers in china are mainly 30, 30 5 35 of capacity. They are slowly starting to ramp back up. China also has been a place where many components are manufactured. From that standpoint, what we have now is we believe the tightest components will be pc base and screens. That would fit with the story we have today, that if you are having trouble with replacement parts, what is one of the biggest parts . You drop your phone and you break your screen and you need a new panel. The idea that displays and screens are already starting to show up in sho
And his allies resign from the coalition government. Else which is Prime Minister goes to court over the murder of his former wife. State television is reporting the National Peoples congress will be postponed because of the corona Virus Outbreak that will be one of the 1st times in modern chinese history the annual session of parliament has been postponed it was due to start our march 5th its unclear when it was actually happen now the death toll round the world continues to rise in iran the Health Ministry says 12 people have now died although an m. P. In the city of call says the figure could be as high as 50 the outbreak is spreading across the middle east kuwait iraq bahrain and afghanistan all have confirmed cases in europe a 4th person has died in italys north there are almost 200. 00 cases there the highest concentration outside. Asia and south korea and factions have surpassed 800 and authorities have raised the Infectious Diseases warning to the highest level at least 7 peopl
A sense protect the leadership from this virus but also of course there are more than just 3000. 00 delegates you have journalists and staff in total about 8000. 00 people gathered in the great hall of the people for this annual session now the n. P. C. Is important because it illustrates the sort of legitimacy of the party its powerful symbolism this is when we see all chinas leaders on public show well thats not going to happen and we dont know when the m. P. C. Will convene visit because of course we still have no idea really when this virus will finally be brought under control on sunday night president xi jinping told the people of china there have been shortcomings by the government in the response to this crisis were not sure by that whether he was referring to the Central Government or the provincial government in harm but certainly he stressed that this was a very serious moment for china he said that this was the biggest Public Health crisis china had confronted since the fou
Affairs Committee Member looks at what the relations mean for u. S. Taiwan relations. Hello. Welcome everyone. Im walter logan. Im director of the Asian Studies center here at the heritage foundation. I really appreciate all of you coming out, thank you. I want to thank rustle shou for partnering with us on this program today. Im so glad we could work this out. You know, there was a little election over the weekend. I dont know if everyone noticed, but judging by the turnout, perhaps you did. You know, at the outset here i just want to say a couple of things about the elections in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and turn it over to our guests and our Panel Speakers to offer real advice on it, real insight. First of all, i think that the election says more about taiwan than it says about anything else. I not only highlight that because i think we all are immediately moving to what this means for china. For all practical purposes, all practical purposes, taiwan is really not a part of
Noticed, but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. Outset, i wanted to say a couple words about the election in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and then turned over turn it over to our Panel Speakers to offer insight. First, i think that the election says more about taiwan then it says about anything else. That only highlight because i think we all are immediately moving to what it means for china. For all practical purposes, taiwan is not a part of china. Why do we move immediately to talk about what this means for china . What it means most is that taiwan values the same things the rest of the free world values. It has conducted its seventh residential election president ial election. It is getting to be such a normal thing that it barely even merits congratulations anymore. We have an election every four years, every two years. The world does not congratulate us on having made this achievement. It has become commonplace in taiwan. It has become commonplace because they value th