president was in helsinki standing side by side with vladimir putin defending the russian leader. we ll take you there live. also, right now, wild weather coast to coast from tornados in chicago to flooding in the northeast, and more than 100 million americans under the thumb of a historic heat wave. we have your forecast. plus, setting the stage for another hollywood strike, first writers, now actors, what it could mean for all your entertainment. good morning, it s 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin in helsinki where we are just minutes away from a joint press conference with president biden and the president of finland, nato s newest member. let s go there now with nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba. walk us through the presidents day there in finland so far. reporter: well, ana, this is really a historic cap to a week of critical meetings for president biden overseas, and he s here in finland m
we need to hurry up, we need the speed. ukraine s president urging kiev s allies to speed up stands at a brace themselves. and a tense court appearance for the former police officer puts charged in the fatal beating of tyre nichols. his mother saying the defendant to say refuse to look her in the eye. plus nearly two weeks after the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, you ll hear from a survivor who says his young daughter helped keep him alive. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with paula nissan. few hours from now, u.s. vice president kamala harris is expected to deliver a major speak is the munich security conference where russia s invasion of ukraine is of course, dominating the agenda, the u.s. has been a big supplier of weapons and equipment to ukraine and harris is leading a large american delegation to the conference friday, she met with french president emmanuel macron who said europe s stability depends on beating ukraine. and they re meet
Participates in the process is going to be i think were the rubber hits the road for their external diplomacy. Because it reveals the constraints of their own domestic political system in their own Financial Stress at the same time as their external attachment to trying to provide debt relief and engagement with the global south as well. Chair cleveland just quickly, do you see that there will be a slowdown in external landing . Because that certainly would have diplomatic consequences for the Chinese Government also. Panelist we have already seen a slowdown since 2018 2019 over that time, and the rising risk of defaults and renegotiation of those loans suggests there will continue to be an ongoing slowdown in external loans. Commissioner thank you very much. Panelist if i can just add two points with regards to the question about trust of faith and evidence with regard to what extent the chinese model might be appealing on the question about faith, i think right now what we are observ
The seventh hearing of the u. S. China economic and secure review commissions 2023 annual report cycle. I want to first thank staff, many of whom worked on several other hearings. And so, i appreciate the heroic effort that was involved in getting this hearing set up. So, thank you, jonathan and daniel, in particular, charles, i dont see. Many of us that have watched china for years appreciate that the magnitude of the economic challenges china must address now are not new rather, they have been worsening for years and were amplified by covid and the poor policy choices made during that time. Notwithstanding the ccps push for chinese households and non state businesses to drive recovery. Household consumption has been cautious. Government lending practices continue to favor unproductive state owned enterprises, higher performing non state sector at the expense of higher performing non state sectors. In most cities, property prices have plunged and Business Confidence has eroded as defl
The seventh hearing of the u. S. China economic and secure review commissions 2023 annual report cycle. I want to first thank staff, many of whom worked on several other hearings. And so, i appreciate the heroic effort that was involved in getting this hearing set up. So, thank you, jonathan and daniel, in particular, charles, i dont see. Many of us that have watched china for years appreciate that the magnitude of the economic challenges china must address now are not new rather, they have been worsening for years and were amplified by covid and the poor policy choices made during that time. Notwithstanding the ccps push for chinese households and non state businesses to drive recovery. Household consumption has been cautious. Government lending practices continue to favor unproductive state owned enterprises, higher performing non state sector at the expense of higher performing non state sectors. In most cities, property prices have plunged and Business Confidence has eroded as defl