China is experiencing a rare episode of sliding prices. Japans economy experienced this back in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, this comes hot the heels of disappointing china trade data on tuesday, which showed that exports sank at their fastest rate since the pandemic, dropping by more 14 in the year tojuly, with imports also falling by more than 12 in the same period. Joining me now is duncan wrigley, Chief China Economist at pantheon macroeconomics. Thank you very much for being with us today. The Rest Of The World looking on in amazement. Considering the inflationary pressures the rest of us are dealing with. What do you read Between The Lines in this latest data . Between the lines in this latest data . Latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some shortterm latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some shortterm factors i are some short term factors that push down the data for this month, there has been a surge of seasonal vegetables, the big pictu
the senate message to tech ceos today. you have blood on your hands. the lead starts right now. the heads of facebook, tiktok and other social media companies tumble today with bipartisan criticism on capitol hill over what the companies are and are not doing to protect your kids. what led mark zuckerberg to stand up in the hearing and apologize. that is coming up. a pennsylvania man accused of decapitating his father then posting a political rent online. why was the horrifying video left up online for hours? we are expecting a major ruling at any moment from a judge that could come and will have serious repercussions for donald trump and his future. welcome to the lead with jake tapper . big tech ceos face blistering questions about what they are and are not doing to protect kids and teens. the u.s. senate judiciary committee hearing today focused on the leaders of tiktok, meta, which owns facebook and instagram, x, lee forman onus twitter, snap, which owns snapchat an
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for just one second. see if he takes any questions. [ applause ] [ speaking non-english ] we re going to keep following president biden on this trip, but in the meantime, here at home pressure is growing for him to respond after new information revealed that classified documents were found in his private office late last year. and just in to cnn we are learning more about what is in those documents and also about what the attorney merrick garland is doing about them and how lawmakers in both parties are reacting today. president biden has not responded to questions on the issue twice today. you saw him there again with reporters but he will face reporters again later this afternoon and we ll see if he responds then. in the meantime, we have full team coverage here with evan perez and phil mattingly in washington. also with us cnn legal analyst and a former obama white house ethics czar norm eisen. we re getting new information right now about both what is in the documents a