Pull down signs and messages left by antigovernment strikes. China and the Solomon Islands have established formal diplomatic ties the pacific nation switched its allegiance from taiwan to china this week tempted by the promise of Economic Investment from beijing and the 15 countries still recognize taiwans independence from china. Parachutists have played a starring role at a ceremony in the netherlands commemorating one of the biggest ally defensives of the 2nd world war in september not in 4435000. 00 paratroopers landed in on an operation to capture roads and bridges from the nazis is remembered as a heroic failure. This is day w news from berlin you can always find the latest headlines at the w. Dot com or you can also follow us on twitter. On this edition of world stories. Northern iraq recovering from war. Madagascar a tallit hes from measles but we start out in bangladesh where over a 1000000 will hinge are living in refugee camps theyre not allowed to work so they live in abje
eastern, live on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. u.s. army secretary ryan mccarthy talks about the importance of having a u.s. military presence in the indo-pacific region. he spoke at an event hosted by the brookings institution. ladies and gentlemen, good morning. welcome. before i begin my remarks i would just like to say on behalf of the institution that we are thinking every moment about the challenges that australia is facing with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way. they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. as well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. all of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. i m john allen, the president of the brookings institution. we are very honored to have you with us. happy new year. we re very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, who is our distinguishe
Investors unnerved by claims against the chairman. This is a Bloomberg Markets asia. Taking a look at the markets and investors really checking themselves, taking money off the table and there is plenty to take off the table after equities had one of their best starts to any year. In 2018,he most so far and that negativity is trickling through, a lot of it coming from the selloff. 2. 7,d the 10 year pushing and that level is creating nerves when it comes to contagion. Take a look at the early asian sessions, the nikkei 225 just off. Topics also turning lower. Singapore lower ahead of the open. Thenoble group, one of biggest movers, really taking after investors restructuring the debt. The company saying the commodity trader will be safe from bankruptcy, but control will be handed over to creditors and essentially wiping out current shareholders in no ball. A lot of what has been happening with appreciation is down to dollar weakness. That is all seemingly changed in the last 34 hours w
Since september. Bigdr pepper is todays winner surging on the news of a 18 billion approach from coffee keurig. Yo betty that is a lot of caffeine to start your morning with. We saw ageold in the treasury market. They, it was really about bond market, and that is spooking investors. I want to pull up this chart. The yieldlking about curve flattening, there was a miss read of that, and we know primarily a big reason for that is the shorter end of the yield curve was rising faster than the long curve. Now it seems the 10 and the 30, which were lacquered, is finally playing catchup. Given the movement we saw today, that catch up might move up pretty quickly. We talked about what a wild week it was for traders. Announcing how much issuance theyre going to be having for this year, and also the report is a recipe for higher yields, and also the dollar catching up with this rising yield. You heard analysts with reports saying it is not going to last they arebecause saying, you cant exactly re
Relationship between china and taiwan. From the Global Taiwan Institute this is just over hour. All right. Okay. Well good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Global Taiwan Institute. My name is russell hsiao, im the executive director here at gti. Gti is a 501 c 3 thinktank dedicated to taiwan policy research and analysis. Our mission is to enhance the u. S. Taiwan relationship through public education. We undertake several major programs that include a weekly publication called the global taiwan with brief, where we invite experts to contribute timely articles. We also have a Seminar Series that you are all participating in today where we invite practitioners as well as scholars to focus on current developments related to policy issues that affect the u. S. Taiwan relationship. Coming up very shortly we will be hosting our inaugural annual symposium on september 14th and this is going to be our flagship event. Were expecting a large turnout of people within government as well as acad