Dropped china from its list of currency manipulators at the same time washington is making headway in reducing its gaping trade deficit with china right before wednesdays scheduled signing of a phase one trade deal between the 2 countries. No obvious signs of enthusiasm on the chinese side vice premier the oha arriving tuesday to sign an interim deal that at 1st glance is more favorable to the u. S. Its an agreement thats already boosted u. S. Markets and stands to pacify American Farmers china will buy 80000000000. 00 more in American Goods like the soybeans and another 35000000000. 00 in Services Still theres more reason to smile of aging these days the economy is showing signs of life exports were strongly up in december for the 1st time in months oil imports are on the rise and significantly the u. S. Says it will stop labeling china a currency manipulator. A trade deal takes some pressure off china without digging too deep into stick here issues like intellectual property and tech
Investigation. And today the u. N. Security council is expected to vote on a resolution calling for full access to the crash site and an International Investigation. Well check in with our nbc colleagues in russia in a couple minutes. Also, we are closely following the situation in the middle east. Israeli air strikes pounding gaza again today. Officials say more than 500 palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the offensive. Yesterday was the deadliest day. 20 israelis have been killed including 13 soldiers who died during heavy fighting yesterday. And the u. N. Security general and u. S. Secretary john kerry are headed to egypt for talks on the crisis. Israel has every right in the world to defend itself, but were hopeful, very hopeful that we can quickly try to find a way forward to put a ceasefire in place so that the underlying issues, so that we can get to the questions, but you cannot reward terrorism. There cant be a set of precondition demands that are going to be
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