and there was infanticide at scale to the western mind. therw the whole thing was repugnant and alien. but maybe the most un-american thing about the chinese, one child policy was a policya h itself. the idea that government could ment cf into the moste deta intimate details ofilof your private life struck most americans at a gut levell as incomprehensible. the whole point of america was to avoid plans like that. the whole point of america is personal freedom. that s where the country was founded. what you do in private on your own time, with your own money i within the boundaries of the law wanesss your own busines and nobody else s business wasn foundational point. and on that question, therequesi appeared to be thankon god , bipartisan agreement. conservatives believed in the bill of rights. liberals believed in personal choice. my body, my choice, they said government out of our personal ths. didn they said thatt for decades now we know they didn t mean it turns out th
factory floor asia has fewer things to manufacture. china, an economy second in size only to that of the united states, or of europe, has slowed. india has slowed, too. that means more than 2 billion people in the fastest growing nations in the world are buying less. this is one big storm. what is america doing about this storm? well, we ve got umbrellas. what we need are hurricane shelters. but you can t go out and build an economic hurricane shelter yourself. that s something you need help with. government help. congress, for instance, could help stave off the effects of the storm, but they won t because that would mean being honest with you about things that are getting potentially worse and not better. and that kind of talk doesn t win elections, so congress sticks to what it does best these days partisan bickering and blame. and then, there s an entirely different storm brewing in washington. not the election, it s the so-called fiscal cliff. series of tax increase
spain, italy, portugal, ireland could all be next needing emergency shelter and support n an economic storm, what that means is more bailouts and cut backs with europe means spending less money. that mean s the world factory floor, asia, has fewer things to manufacture. china, an economy second in size only to that of the united states or of europe has slowed. india slowed, too. that means more than two billion people in the fastest growing nations in the world are buying less. this is one big storm. what is america doing about this storm? well, we ve got umbrellas. what we need are hurricane shelters. you can t go out and build an economic hurricane shelter yourself. that is something you need help with. government help. congress, for instance, could help stave off the effects of the storm. but they won t because that would mean being honest with you about things that are getting potentially worse and not better. and that kind of talk doesn t win elections. so congress stick
of a vote in which she s running for a parliament and says she is encouraged by the rising political awareness of the people of myanmar. and audits of apple s largest supplier in china found a long list of workplace violations i including failure to adequately pay for overtime hours and the lack of true union representation, foxconn says it will bring itself into compliance within the next 16 months. much more ahead on cnn. world business today starts right now. good morning to you out there from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. an audit outlines failures at foxconn. so will factory reform there s signal a change for the industry? labor laws are also in the spotlight in spain today. austerity protests turned violent. and a story that s the talk of the town here in corruption-conscious hong kong, billionaire brothers have been arrested into a probe in alleged bribery. just an hour into trading here in europe, and look at the turn of events here, after spending a
strategy in the country. an american sergeant is suspected of the killings near his combat post near kandahar. afghan president hamid karzai has described the incident has unforgivable. the war in afghanistan and syria are certain to dominate discussions at the white house this tuesday as david cameron visits barack obama. they both have pledged to maintain the special relationship between their countries. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories this day. challenging china, the u.s. prepares to mount a fresh trade case against beijing s restrictions on rare earth exports. going against boeing. u.s. s sold subsidies were unfair but it still claims victory over the eu. and tensions rise in silicon valley as yahoo! sues facebook over a series of alleged inf