Im fairly ok well currently in st and today were looking at activists in iraq being in danger as simply for protesting some headlines queer eye which is why were looking at todays story have a look here on my laptop theres some high profile assassinations of activists to see a summer in according to the workers against terrorism was kewl sue political reasons. Prominent female activists killed by unknown gunmen ambassador we got to youre going to hear more about in just a moment even a high profile terrorism expert has shami was shot dead in baghdad now according to government figures for the last few months. More than 560. 00 protests is included security personnel have been killed that is our story today i know if youre going to want to weigh in i need to be part of the string. Such a panel today looking forward to introducing them and then they will introduce themselves to you hello bill said tell our audience here remind them because i know they would have seen you before and al ja
Zealand he is a New York Times number one best selling author of china mirage as well as host of his own pod cast untold pacific right gentlemen across up rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to new zealand 1st james. China is mentioned over and over in this election cycle in the United States though both parties like to differentiate themselves it seems like its the message is the same in following this election and how china is. Objectified i would say what is the biggest misconception about china as its reported by the media. Too big of a question it would take too many hours if were going to talk about misconceptions about china no i would make the case that with chinas population number one country in the world its the least understood country by americans fewer americans have been that china over the last 400 years compared to going to europe but in terms of the election if i was president Trumps Campaign advisor this is
United states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line. Hello im daryn jordan this is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week cracks in the Global Economy stocks saw to record highs despite the coronavirus pandemic billionaires become richer but the poor get poorer so is it time to finally confront capitalism. Remaking china on the world in president cheese image is the middle kingdom looking inwards as the chill of a new cold war threatens the factory of the world. And global debt saws as government spend spend spend on the world cope with even more debt. Well no nation has been spared from the coronavirus pandemic with 22000000 cases and almost 800000 deaths the Health Crisis is far from over a secondary spikes flare up we may have seen some of the worst economic costs but most pain could be lurking as we head into the final few months of the year well most of the industrialized world has
Amplifier is going to be around the plane china strategy the g. O. P. Amount all they came out a few weeks about a month ago talks explicitly about that when anything comes up blain china issue that to me is that may be a good political strategy the question is whether. Thats really going to set us in a good position as we move forward as james pointed out 1. 4 percent and people. A large economy growing all the time how are we going to assure that china doesnt become a nightmare more than a dream where we can find ways in order to Work Together we need to get past this election cycle and whoever is elected is going to have some repair work to do to assure that chinas rise doesnt come that the u. S. Is demise ok well james if this kind of begs the question because. People are commenting about a new cold war i dont like that phrase because the cold war that all of us remember was very specific and it was very ideologically driven this is not the case here so it does does america need ch
A lot of folks thinking it was over and done. Ck upof those sto sharply. Nothing is changed for these companies. What is changing as investors saying we have gone too far, too fast, so now we are seeing a pullback. Again,take a look at the we are seeing a pullback. If it is a fearful look for stocks, you can see those haven assets rallying. The point wisely yesterday. What is going on with softbank . There is a Financial Times report that what triggered this is they went big and some options on big tex. Abigail that is an interesting point. I do not know if it has to do with softbank, but theres been a lot of unusual options activity where you have folks buying shortterm call options. That is expiring this week, next week, betting that after the huge move up, the nasdaq up 80 from the march lows come after that it will go even higher. Some thinking that is not so stable. What we think because of all this is it is technical selling down to the 50 Day Moving Average. If the 50 Day Moving