Day or thinks. We dare to ask. This is whom boss the one business show you cant afford to miss for in washington coming up tensions are on the rise between russia and the European Union its sanctions have been imposed over the poisoning of election of all of the straight ahead we bring you up to speed on how the escalation could affect business between the 2 and a mystery ongoing trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies china u. S. Imports have exploded leading. Up to the 2020 president ial action later on were going to bring in 2 experts on International Trade on what the trade gap means in these critical times with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the European Union stating wednesday that it will impose economic sanctions against russia after russian Opposition Leader alexina of only a corruption investigator and longtime opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was reportedly poisoned with a nerve agent now according to German Autho
This is boom bust so one business show you cant afford to miss for in washington coming up tensions are on the rise between russia and the European Union is sanctions have been imposed over the poisoning of electing a volley straight ahead we bring you up to speed on how the escalation could affect business between the 2 and amid the ongoing trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies china u. S. Imports have exploded leading up to the 2020 president ial election later i want to bring in 2 experts on International Trade on what the trade gap means in these critical times with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the European Union stating wednesday that it will impose economic sanctions against russia after russian Opposition Leader alexei no bawly a corruption investigator and longtime opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was reportedly poisoned with a nerve agent now according to German Authorities know bawly is in germany. And is now r
Competition and illegitimate sanctions but also by creating instability on our borders. And joining us now to discuss this boom bust cohosted investigative journalist bents one whos been following the story now but i want to start with what we know about the poisoning of alexina bali. Yeah we actually dont know a whole lot about it according to reuters there is some information he was traveling apparently between siberia and moscow in august he became violently ill he was an air flight into germany where doctors began to treat him and they say that he was poisoned with some kind of a nerve agent and so the details of exactly how he was poisoned are not known at this time and the fact that russia and specifically certain members of the russian government have been accused by the french of the germans as being responsible for this is a little bit strange because we dont have any details surrounding that having said that it was enough as you just said for the e. U. To say that theyre goin
These critical times with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the European Union stating wednesday that it will impose economic sanctions against russia after russian Opposition Leader alexei no bawly a corruption investigator and longtime opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was reportedly poisoned with a nerve agent now according to German Authorities no bawly is in germany and is now recovering this week e. U. Foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on russian officials fish tales and organizations blame for the poisoning these sanctions according to Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov are not surprising and could lead to further economic strains between the 2. The question is not just whether business as usual is possible but with the any business with the European Union is possible a tool the e. U. Behaves arrogantly towards us and looks condescendingly down with russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we
Debated by leaders as they tried to decide how to deal with destroyed economies, failed empires, and competing political ideologies. Jason i want to extend a welcome to all the viewers joining us. It is a great pleasure to talk to my friend and one time colleague mike neiberg, from the army war college. Mike and i were colleagues. This is going back a ways, so 2006, in the History Department of southern mississippi, we have stayed in touch quite a bit as we both moved on. We have always had shared interests. It is great to be here with you today and to have a conversation on a subject that is extremely timely, which is really responding to crisis. Obviously what needs to be said is the audience has seen all of the evidence they can of the current crisis, the economic downturn that will be the serious issue for leaders, for everyday people. It seems a good time to talk about two major 20thcentury crises. At the end of two world wars and how leaders responded, and to raise an issue about