The. Christmas time double. China nears a trade pact with the u. S. And continues its massive Infrastructure Project to ease access to Global Markets have a closer look at the new silk road and talk to our correspondent about chinas trade ambitions. Also on the show christmas means well big business for many take a look at how retailers did this Holiday Season. This is the end of the business asia im Stephen Beers in berlin thanks for joining us. The u. S. Says its planning to submit its new trade deal with china during a signing ceremony in the 1st week of january china has yet to confirm the time line beijing has also been quiet about specific components of the trade agreement which up to now have been released by the us taken together theres uncertainty about exactly what is happening when. Next years Election Year in the u. S. And donald trump is not likely to risk in barking on tricky trade negotiations with one eye on the polls instead hes keen to declare himself the winner in th
Speak the ways and Means Committee will now come to order good morning we will consort considered a historic usmca the high watermark with trade deals moving forward it is the result of more than one year House Democrats and the ambassador light heiser who worked with us every time we met. Im very proud of the outcome we have reached. When we assume the majority this year we were asked to consider a renegotiated nafta in a number of areas including enforcement the environment and access to medicines that we start with enforcement as noted many times i did not vote for the original nafta and the chief reason was the lack of enforceability. The past 25 years we have seen the shortcoming much of which comes down to lack of enforcement in my view the improvements to the usmca finally makes the agreement enforceable n by preventing a country to block a nation dispute settlement attempt. Nafta has been symbolic and over 25 years there have been 39 petitions filed with zero enforcement action
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With President Trump live tuesday at 7 00 eastern as he holds a Campaign Rally in sunrise, florida, his first their sins changing his residency from new york to florida in late october. Live coverage on cspan. Watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Dale moore, he is with the American Farm bureau federation. He serves as their executive vice president. Thank you so much for having me on. If you are a farmer in america, what is her debt situation like these days . Right now, farmers have over 416 billion in debt. A little over half of that is real estate. That leaves about 159 billion Million Dollars that is shorterterm debt, buying equipment getting crops in the ground. That is a lot of debt for folks to have to deal with. If you look at maps of these a situation where farmers are hardest hit, the, midwest toward the west some of the hardest hit areas. Absolutely. It is one of those things and it tends to be a little bit cyclical. Everybody is hurt
Well welcome to you youre watching our national with me nikki erin its great to have you with us and our top story this hour following months of protests for a lot from the unrest in hong kong is now being felt much further afield for the 1st time since sunday government demonstrations began on the chinese territory activists have attacked the hong kong official who was visiting london. Was. Was very well the video that we just saw shows Hong Kongs Justice secretary terrys a chain who was actually at the time in the u. K. Giving a speech about successful dispute resolution how she was targeted by dozens of protesters who pretty much mobbed her as she left the car now the activists were yelling murderer and they also chase her down the street to put it show of the incidents the one that we just saw shows a chain being swamped and screamed ad and at some point she was even pushed to the ground and she injured her arm and she was taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment now an interes