The committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record subject to the length, limitations in the rules. To insert something in the record please have your staff email the previously mentioned address or contact of the full committee staff. I see that we have a quorum and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, miss pelosi, will be stopping by this hearing and i ask unanimous consent she participate in any point she arrives during the hearing. So ordered. There she is. Madame speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan house and senate, democrats and republicans, with one
H shares in now and hong kong up by. 5 . Pretty marginal gains here in the last half hour or so with it brings us near the top of the 2015 bubble. On the other of the argument hsbc is cutting china to neutral f this rally. Something to keep in mind as we take a breather here from the exuberance weve seen in chinese stocks. One more thing were watching is the hong kong dollar. Now 15. 7 billion hong kong has been injected into the system there. Solid that pair and the renminbi with a six handle for the First Time Since march. The strength of the renminbi certainly helping the equity markets as well. And gold still holding. Some breaking news from sri lanka, the federal bank cutting its lending rate to 5. 5 . Its a big cut, a 100 basis point cut bigger than expected. Economy expanding at a pace of 3. 8 in 2021. Much bigger than anticipated. Lets dig deeper into the ofkets and bring in ahead forpacific thank you joining us. Lets talk about china. Its going gangbusters in the last seven da
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Journal, live at 7 00 eastern thursday morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. Announcer the House Foreign Affairs Committee Held a hearing on the implications of chinas new National Security law in hong kong, which has led to arrests and clashes between police and protesters. The new law coincides with the 23rd anniversary of the handover of hong kong between the United Kingdom and china. This is almost 3. 5 hours. Forum. E have a and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi, will be stopping by, and i ask unanimous consent that she participate at any point she arrives. And there she is. Madam speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan hous