Beijing may finally be winning its war on smog. Plenty more on those stories over the next couple of hours. Calendar today is trade numbers out of china for the month of december appeared rounding out has been a year of significant recovery when it comes to chinese exports in particular. 5643. After the declines over the past couple of years we do see two years of decline followed by that recovery. We are looking at december, a 10 year on year rise when it comes to exports coming in dollar terms. Thats a little moderation from novembers 12. 3 rise. Imports looking to pick up significantly. The brighter spots in that. Continuing to paint a picture of synchronized global recovery. Such a stronghad base to come off of in 2017 we might be struggling to hit doubledigit numbers in 2018 for exports. Certainly there is also the cloud of trade tensions between the u. S. And china lurking ever in the background. We are 30 minutes away from the opening china and hong kong. Sophie, we were thinkin
Revealing more about the 10th anniversary iphone, apples most important new product in years. Welcome to daybreak asia. You, thewere showing devastation by Hurricane Irma as it made landfall today in florida. Bring up those pictures again of what it looked like an ft. Myers. Certainly very scary as the storm moves westward. We are tracking the path on our bloomberg here. Hurr , irma taking a different direction, more westward. The severity of the storm is continuing to decline. By monday at 2 00 a. M. , a category one storm. That may be why we have seen various estimates, including one reducing estimates of damages from 200 billion to 48 billions 48 billion. It is a movable feast, isnt it, as we assess that different kinds of damage to property. There are households without power and some may go without power for weeks to come. Some of this infrastructure damage will need to be built from the ground up. We will be talking to a Real Estate Developer with property in miami and get his ta
You have a hard act to follow. Believe me, this is the guy to follow it. Because what we have done is now we are following it up with maybe our favorite programming partners, the u. S. Army command and general Staff College in fort leavenworth. For the better part of the past century, it seems, we have been trying to figure out our relationship with china. Are we allies, adversaries . Sometimes it seems we are both at the same time. Worlds two biggest economies. Right now, we see china as a linchpin in what might happen with north korea. We are fortunate to have with us one of the foremost authorities on u. S. China relations. He will examine a key 50 years in the relationship of the two countries, in this case from 1900 and 1950 that really set the stage for a lot of what was to come, including south korea, the korean war and the vietnam war. Its a period hes looking at the started with american involvement in conjunction with the boxer rebellion of 1900. This of course was before xi
And general Staff College in fort leavenworth. For the better part of the past century, it seems, we have been trying to figure out our relationship with china. Right now we see china as a linchpin in what might happen with north korea. Two countries with the most biggest economies, a fifth of our exports come from them, a fifth of their exports come from we do not know really we are allies are adversaries. We are fortunate to have with us one of the foremost authorities on u. S. China relations, jeff have. Babb. F he will examine a key 50 years been in the relationship of the two countries, in this case from 1900 and 1950 that really set the stage for a lot of what was to come, including south korea, the korean war and the vietnam war. Its a period hes looking at that started with american involvement in conjunction with the boxer rebellion of 1900. This, of course was before xi , jinping is even a twinkle in Donald Trumps eye, or maybe its vice versa, im not sure. As i said before th
Means a fed hike moving to the back burner. We have the numbers from the latest Hong Kong Survey and discuss the implications of tokyos election results. A terrible outcome for the Prime Minister. Tensions in north asia as north korea continues to worry leaders around the world. We will get an update from beijing on the latest. This is Bloomberg Markets asia. I am betty liu here in new york. It is just after 7 00 a. M. In hong kong. Busy monday in asia with president xi jinping delivering that 20th Anniversary Gift hong kong, right . The bond connects set to launch this morning. We are expecting a ceremony at 9 00 in hong kong. Also, japan as well, a major setback for Prime Minister shinzo of days party shinzo abes party. We are looking at manufacturing a sectors and how they fared. The Manufacturing Sector has probably done pretty well in japan. Exceptingght, msci china ashares, and now the bond things, so it looks like are on fire there in china. We will see how things go. Setting up