Seven others for violating the new law and about 180 people for Unlawful Assembly and other related offenses. It follows a tumultuous start to the day with protesters taking to the street to voice their opposition to the law. Beijing approved the new legislation on tuesday. It lays out four criminal acts it says endangers National Security. Secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign or external sources. If convicted, people could face life in n prison. Chief executive carrie lam defended the law in the ceremony to mark the 1997 handover. Translator the enactment of the law is the most important thing for hong kongs relationship to the mainland since the handover. Its a historic step as it has completeted a system to prprote our sovereignty and security. But critics say the law undermines the one country two systems framework which is supposed to guarantee hong kong a high degree of autonomy and judicial independence. The number of coronavirus cases here in japan conti
The Senate Committee is chaired by roger wicker of mississippi. Good morning, and welcome to the newly restored Committee Room of the commerce committee. I want to thank senator blunt of the rules committee and the architect of the capitol for their effort in restoring this room and welcome all of you to a history making hearing. The first hearing in the newly opened room. Today the committee convenes to discuss the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain, that is to say the equipment and services that make up a Communications Network. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief executive office of the competitive carriers association, mr. Jason boswell, head of Security Network Product Solutions at ericson, ms. Asha katie, Corporate Vice president and general manager of next generation and standards at intel, mr. Mike murphy, chief technology officer, americas at nokia
The Senate Committee is chaired by roger wicker of mississippi. Good morning, and welcome to the newly restored Committee Room of the commerce committee. I want to thank senator blunt of the rules committee and the architect of the capitol for their effort in restoring this room and welcome all of you to a history making hearing. The first hearing in the newly opened room. Today the committee convenes to discuss the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain, that is to say the equipment and services that make up a Communications Network. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief executive office of the competitive carriers association, mr. Jason boswell, head of Security Network Product Solutions at ericson, ms. Asha katie, Corporate Vice president and general manager of next generation and standards at intel, mr. Mike murphy, chief technology officer, americas at nokia
Vonnie may be the chinese economy is coming back. Maybe the government wants to get their arms around that and make it more transparent and a little easier. Peter the fact that there are more defaults is not by itself bad news. They were suppressed before. You had a lot of Zombie Companies that were being kept alive artificially. Now companies are being allowed to default. The late Carnegie Mellon economist used to say capitalism without failure is like Religion Without sin. David exactly. If you will have a healthy capital market, you have to have a way of people to falling. It is true in new york and london. Maybe it will become true in china and beijing. Peter today the chinese leadership came out with a concept for how to regularize defaults in china so that things are done by the book instead of in an ad hoc kind of under the table sort of way. Vonnie inc. David encouraging news out of china. Thanks so much to peter coy. Now we want to turn to sonali vasek. Talking about banks, we
Like it or not, we are big spenders and big borrowers, too. Now look at this. Boris johnson is the new Prime Minister of great britain. In a gracious victory speech, he said he would complete brexit, unite the country and beat the socialist jeremy corbyn. Hes the first to admit he has an uphill struggle but hes got a sense of humor and reminds me very much of donald trump. More on boris coming up for you. Look at this. Stocks going up again this morning. A series of Solid Earnings reports are clearly helping. Two dow stocks, cocacola, united technology, they are standouts. Obviously helping the overall average. Profits across the board are strong. Stocks also getting help from the budget deal. The governments not going to run out of money and they can borrow. The dow is going up triple digits, about 100 points. S p up 11. Look at that nasdaq, up 33. Thats close to a half percentage point gain. Summer doldrums . Not here. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart a little time with me. I