Wow tonight the world is on the brink and the white house is n the brink and the white house is panicking because joe bidens president , the United States, now sponsoring a double proxy war against the iranians and the russians. China is eyeing taiwan and north korean weapons were just discovered in gaza. The State Department has just issued a Worldwide Travel warning to all countries. When is the last time thats happened . Americans arent even safe in france. Our enemies are being mobbed by angry muslims. Our Military Bases are under attack in iraq, and we just had to shoot down two iranian made missiles. How was your week . Well, this right now breaks putin is in china meeting with xi, where theyre coordinating mideast policy. Two American Carrier strike groups are in the mediterranean in. And biden just tested one of our new nuclear weapons, detonating a massive bomb in nevada. And we keep catching middle easterners, sneaking across the secure southern border. Axios reports top Offi
but is that now unravelling, and how much damage could it do to the global economy? amid growing hostilities, politicians, they ve been putting up more barriers to trade, in particular when it comes to the technology of the future. in may, the us slapped a range of new tariffs or import taxes on china, hitting products including electric vehicles, their batteries and solar panels. and the european union, it s announced new tariffs of up to 38% on chinese electric cars, which are set to come into force onjuly 4th. now, if talks fail to solve the differences, china, it s reportedly looking at tariffs on europe s farmers, including the pork industry, as well as french cognac and luxury cars. so, why is all of this happening? well, the world s two biggest economies want control of the technology of the future, and in the west, at least, politicians want to protect jobs in the hopes of winning votes. china heavily subsidised all of these products, pushing chinese companies to prod
drive-through testing site. and no, this is not for march or april 2020, it s from today. in the department of health warns that the nation supply of covid test could be overstretched as omicron hits, and christmas travel begins. i m sorry, but, almost two years into this, pandemic in almost a year into the biden presidency, and there s thousands of american who die from covid every week, that is just not good enough. here to discuss more on where we go from here is epidemiologist and you novelist michael mina, formally armed harvard university now chief science officer them. under a boston university school thank-yous both for coming back on the show gloomy start with. you are we ready for the kind of mass testing we re gonna need in the coming weeks? isn t it shameful that more than a year and a half after this pandemic and a year into a non trump administration, we still haven t sorted out testing. i want to get tested yesterday, there was a two-hour wait in