and agents in this protest movement is they don t want people to believe that people have the agency, protesters have the agency to ask for a better future because they don t want chinese people to fall into it. nonetheless, it seems to me, you end up, on some of your missions, your advocacy work, feeling disappointed with what you hear from politicians who want to maintain trading links with china. we just saw, in the recent past, president macron of france, chancellor scholz of germany, making very high profile trips to beijing, wanting to deepen trading ties, despite everything that we ve discussed. how deep is your disappointment? well, i ve criticised a lot of global leaders for not being as assertive as they should be, facing the threat of the chinese communist party, and that shows i am really independent of their influence and i m representing at least a large, significant proportion of hong kong people s opinion. it may also show that your
and agents in this protest movement is they don t want people to believe that people have the agency, protesters have the agency to ask for a better future because they don t want chinese people to fall into it. nonetheless, it seems to me, you end up, on some of your missions, your advocacy work, feeling disappointed with what you hear from politicians who want to maintain trading links with china. we just saw, in the recent past, president macron of france, chancellor scholz of germany, making very high profile trips to beijing, wanting to deepen trading ties, despite everything that we ve discussed. how deep is your disappointment? well, i ve criticised a lot of global leaders for not being as assertive as they should be, facing the threat of the chinese communist party, and that shows i am really independent of their influence and i m representing at least a large, significant proportion of hong kong people s opinion. it may also show that your message isn t cutting through and tha
U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak forge a historical security alliance, focusing on advanced technologies, clean energy, and critical minerals.
so great here. matt, can you help us better understand how all americans could soon feel the brunt of this? the u.s. and canada have one of the largest trading relationships on the planet. and that relationship supports millions of jobs and the production of billions of dollars of goods. the ambassador bridge in particular is really central to these trading ties. we re talking about every day 10,000 commercial vehicles crossing this bridge, carrying $300 million of goods, nearly 30% of yearly u.s. canada trade crosses it. all of this is being disrupted right now by these protests. the auto industry is particularly exposed to this disruption because you have factories on one side of the border that rely on parts being built on the other side of the border. now we learned that everyone from ford, gm, toyota, honda and chrysler parent stelantis have had some production impacted. and we just learned the ford plant in ohio that makes pickup