Francine welcome to the pulse. I am francine lacqua. Manus i am manus cranny. Next 40 course of the minutes, we are joined by unicredit chief, it is erik nilsson in the house. Francine first, china stocks posted the biggest two day climb. Manus it rallied on news the government is considering shipping two major companies. Francine after data shows a large drop in it worse last month with the steepest decline in nearly six years. Curranef economist enda joins us. What do the figures tell us about economy . Enda curran a very soft reading. Some of chinas biggest customers. Illustrate how soft chinas economy is when you strip away the impact of the big stockmarket boom we had in the second quarter. Left with a lot of sluggish areas like manufacturing and factories and real estate sector. Car sales falling for the first time in 17 years. To one ofn on exports the big engines of growth for china. Into the second half of the year, pretty sluggish outlook right now. Manus lets talk about the
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The director is a soldier, lawyer, entrepreneur, congressman, it is doing great work at the cia and is doing great work with the cia. I think what we want today is talk about not just the issues of today that are in the newspaper, but some of the trends and issues you have to deal with as the director of the cia in the Intelligence Community. We often get captured by the immediate, and you obviously have to not only deal with that but deal with how we are thinking about our National Security five, 10, 15, 20 years out, so i want to make sure we talk about some of those issues. Theres no question there is a sense of dislocation in the world, a sense the map is shifting in some ways, that power itself is shifting, including with the role of nonstate actors. Major issues before north korea, with major policy shift the fall of the putative capital of isis, Chinas Communist Party event happening as we speak. Lets get into it. Mr. Director, First Talking about iran, the president gave his sp
Take time to reflect on the nationals could issues of the day. Theres no secret here, im not an unbiased journalist here im a fan of this directory. I worked on his transition. Frankly, i love the man. I believe in the concept of putting your biases upfront before beginning the questions. But welcome. Its great to see her again and thank you for taking time. Its great to be. I would not a condition parents to that you be the moderator, but it all worked out. Thank you. Appreciate it. The director is a soldier, a lawyer, an entrepreneur, congressman and is doing great work at cia it would think we want to do today with the audience and with those joining us via live stream is talk about not just the issues of today that in the newspaper but some of the trends and issues yet to do with as the director of the cia and in the Intelligence Community. We often get captured by the media as you have to not only deal with that deal with how we think about our National Security five, ten, 15, 20
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