Rather welcome to going underground china in the news probably more of a coronavirus but people will know that chinas one child policy arguably may have helped it become the superpower of the 21st century people are going to be surprised when reading your new book that there was no fostering programs for children one of the side effects of that one child policy before you turned up on the scene well thats right thank you very much for having me yes when we landed in china they want me to see i had known no understanding at source of course most of the children. That were abandoned. On their way into ended up in institutions and for the very little younger babies got the opportunity for International Doctrine but there is nothing happening in china now i know you write about your child in oratory speaking to me from how that. The book tells of how you were a navy Royal Navy Submarine a juror in the cold war why is it you didnt seem to have any of the prejudices which are arguably being
Hostility toward russia per chance. They see company stay with r t a day said half an hour. Im after a time they were going underground as britains code recovered pm Boris Johnson flies to brussels to try to negotiate with the largest trading block in the world and as this country tries desperately to stem a worse coronavirus death for capita rate than trumps usa or both are now as brazil coming out of the show 42 years since the communist party of china voted Deng Xiaoping paramount leader of the peoples republic paving the way for lifting 800000000 people out of poverty we speak to the britain who introduced foster care to the global superpower of the 21st century it is routinely defamed in the west for terminating us. And is the un predicts coronavirus may push of a 200000000 more people into extreme poverty we speak to a book a long list of novelist about his portrayal of londons underbelly of ultraviolet crime arguably created by upper class political ideology and ask why politici
Headlines and what it means for markets with our markets correspondent, abigail doolittle. Tech continues to outperform today, and it is something we have seen in recent weeks. Where is the leadership tech typically provides . It was not there on the day. That has to do with one of the headlines you were talking about, ratcheting up tensions between the u. S. And china. They have been there in recent weeks, but markets ignoring it to some degree. Last year, every other week risk on, risk off, depending on the headlines. Right now, there are concerns those headlines, the war of words between the u. S. And china, taking down tech. A lot of these Companies Receive quite a bit of revenue from china. Apple, the tech heavy weight received about 20 from china. The ship sector chip sector is super sensitive to china. We see the s p 500 tech index down more than 1 . The stock down even more. Over the last nine days, we have seen a real roller coaster ride. Last week was risk off. This week we h
Timothy carneys new book and a discussion about its claims and i think you will find both tims remarks and the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in strictly right now so i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion withCharles Murray who is known to probably everybody here. Hes a high chair and Cultural Studies here at aei and Megan Mcardle who is probably known to all of you, Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while and you are all aware of his columns to his previous books on cronyism are what any of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and obamanomics. But this new book alienated america is a New Enterprise for him, adeep dive into whats going on in the heartland and im holding this book up
And weeks this is the way through. The british Prime Minister vols to round up testing after a wave of criticism and a record jump in daily deaths. Also a u. S. Aircraft carrier in quarantine its captain finally succeeds in persuading the pentagon to allow his crew to leave the infected warship. Kind of Pakistani Court overturns the murder conviction of a man accused of killing a wall street journal reporter daniel pearl. Welcome to the program spain has just reported a record jump in daily deaths from the corona virus anywhere in the world 950. 00 people have died in the past 24 hours bringing the toll there to just more than 10000 with another 8000 people infected the number of confirmed cases has now surpassed 110000 the latest numbers put spain on par with italy barter herrera joins me now live from madrid a martyr i mean even more sort of sobering and depressing figures coming out of spain. Yes 950. 00 grand of virus dead in spain since yesterday again did that last day and with a