Stars sulli found dead in her home, just 25 years old. Thats all. Stay with bbc world news. Theres more on all our stories on the website. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Trade war warning. The us trade secretary threatens china with tarah pike said the dealers instruct by the middle of december. Chinese buyers in dubai. By the desert City Property market is attracting investors from the peoples republic. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Glad you could join us. Lets start off with the us because the treasury secretary has warned that new tariffs on 156 billion worth of chinese goods will be imposed to betray dealers not finalised by the 15th of december. Steven minusian said he hoped the deal would be formally approved but the comments contrasted sharply with Donald Trumps optimism. A former economic adviser to donald trump told me why he thinks its still on track. dont think much as changed since friday. The conversation we had on monday from the 0val frid
This month on the social networks controversial cryptocurrency. We have details. And whistleblower speaks. One of the people from the Cambridge Analytica scandal joins me. On the riskslie ahead of the 2020 election. Highlevel trade talks picked up this week in washington after tapering off in july with no clear breakthroughs. Chinas vice premier was greeted by treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and trade representative Robert Lighthizer before talks resumed thursday. The stakes were extremely high as President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on 215 billion worth of chinese goods on october 15 if there was no progress. The Technology Sector paying close attention to those discussions as intellectual property is playing a prominent role in the negotiations. I spoke to someone from a firm who helps u. S. Firms protect intellectual property. Eric a fairly Large Company in china, 1600 people, just sub 100 million in revenue that files and protects intellectual property for clients t
Now, do we want our banks to continue financing fossil fuel projects such as Oil Exploration . Well, europes Climate Change credentials face an acid test today. Eu finance ministers will decide whether to back a plan by the blocs lending arm, the European Investment bank, the worlds biggest multilateral lender, to end loans to coal, oil and Gas Companies beyond next year. The decision comes against a backdrop of investors increasingly offloading their fossil fuel holdings, among them norways sovereign wealth fund, the Worlds Largest, which is dumping more than 13 billion of investments. But, despite millions of eu citizens joining climate strikes and rallies in recent weeks, the eibs plan is opposed by the European Commission and countries including germany, italy, poland and latvia. They want to keep funding gas projects to help the move away from coal to renewables. Germany is aiming to close its Nuclear Power plants by 2022, but doesnt plan to phase out coal Power Generation until 2
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