Show threwing a High School Student to the ground. Ill be here with all your sport, including wins in the finals. The United States plans to intensify the Coalition Campaign against the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. On tuesday defense secretary ash carter said that washington will launch more attract and better equip local forces fighting isil. Plus the countrys top military commander indicated he would consider sending i. Troops to reinforce iraqi units. The u. S. Has invited iran to talks on the conflict in vienna on friday. On the grounded the fighting continues. There is upsurge in violence that has displaced 120,000 syrians in the last month alone. That includes airstrikes carried out by russia. Rosalind jordan has the story from washington, d. C. The u. S. Military is rolling out a new version of its counter isil strategy. Theyre calling it the three rs. Taking over raqqa, and the ramallah area, an. Conducting such missions directly. Carter eights statement comes after la
For cross relations. The big thing is this. Taiwan now with xi jinping has created so many enemies. He has to consolidate his power so next generation of leaders will be, of course his appointment. During this time i thing xi jinping will not make it easy on taiwan. What will china do . I dont think china will take drastic measures against taiwan. Instead china will tighten the screws with gradually. That will hurt taiwan people. Taiwan people are very sensitive to what china has to say or do. So even though the measure is not that drastic, relatively mild, in the former chinese perspective that will hurt china. What im concerned this will have a negative impact on taiwans domestic politics which will internally have a negative feedback loop on china. So thats the thing that we have to pay very close attention to. So of all the measure, the mild measures that china may undertake against taiwan, i think the harbinger of communication between the two are the most important one. Even more
Strait relations. Most taiwanese people see little practical value in changing the status quo toward legal independence. So, taiwans policy has been to cut rate is good relations with the prc, but avoid being drawn into political talks that could erode the islands freedom of action. Thats whats keeping taiwan in check. What is keeping the prc in check are at least three things, im sure many of you could think of many more. First, the prc recognizes that acting to change the status quo, mean a noncoercive way, would definitely be difficult, definitely be costly and definitely be risky. So its safer and easier to kick the can. Second, bay shipping believes that time is on its side. Its relative power is growing, as is taiwans economic dependence on the prc. Then third, chinas internal challenges are very significant and we have heard a little bit about that already today, but they are manageable as long as the leadership keeps giving them sufficient attention. So, having serious but mana
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Well Oil Prices Fell to their lowest level in nearly five and a half years. They settled at 63. 05 a barrel, barry worth the price of carrying this barrel along. And getting below 63 in the trading session, sometimes creating a good plan for people trying to get more gas at the pump. In less than six months the price of a barrel of oil has dropped about 41 . The main culprit for this is an oversupply of oil in the world, and decreasing demand. At the same time, americas fracing boom is adding to the oversupply. There might be as many as a million extra barrels of oil than the world demands. Saudi arabia the swing prices upward if he wants to. It says it is keeping his levels at the same level for the foreseeable future. Gasoline prices have come down to their cheapest level in four years. The National Average has falled to 2. 67 a gallon. Thats more than a gallon lower than it was in june. But that is bound to drop to 2. 50 a gallon after christmas. And oil prices could dip to as low a