Philosopher story here regard, but im going to do it here, because i think it is relevant and he said that life is best understood backwards, but you need to limit forwards and i think what we will try to do here today is to try to understand trumps north korea policy backwards and think about some of the things that happened in order to understand how are going to be living at forwards and what is coming in the coming year and i think thats really important because for several reasons, one, this is one of the Biggest International issues of our time, and at stake right, now and whether the approach is effective or not, it is not just whether we address the north Korean Nuclear threat, also a chance for reconciliation in north korea, and our efforts to stop the spread of Nuclear Weapons are also its state. In, addition i think its a critical window into understanding how President Trump conduct Foreign Policy. This is a signature Foreign Policy issue and i think its also important beca
Welcome to our afternoon panel. Hope lunch was well. Our topic for our panel today is, the trump approach to north korea, effective or not, and we have an amazing panel that i will introduce shortly. I dont start every think tank panel with a quote from the 19th century philosopher, danish philosopher story here regard, but im going to do it here, because i think it is relevant and he said that life is best understood backwards, but you need to limit forwards and i think what we will try to do here today is to try to understand trumps north korea policy backwards and think about some of the things that happened in order to understand how are going to be living at forwards and what is coming in the coming year and i think thats really important because for several reasons, one, this is one of the Biggest International issues of our time, and at stake right, now and whether the approach is effective or not, it is not just whether we address the north Korean Nuclear threat, also a chance
Panel with a quote from the 19th century philosopher, but im going to do it here because i think it is relevant. He said that, you know, life is best understood backwards, but you need to live it forwards. And i think what were going to try to do here today is to try to understand trumps north korea policy backwards and think about some of the things that have happened in order to understand how were going to be living it forward and whats coming in the coming year. And i think thats really important because for several reasons. One, this is one of the most the Biggest International issues of our time and at stake right now in whether the approach is effective or not is not just whether we address the north Korean Nuclear threat but also a chance of reconciliation between north and south korea and the efforts to stop the threat of Nuclear Weapons are also at stake. In addition i think its a critical window into understanding how President Trump conducts Foreign Policy. This is his sign
Weakness at the french retail unit hits Third Quarter profit. And game on for unisoft after it blows past Second Quarter sales forecasts. We are roughly one hour into the trading session. Lets see how things are opening up a bit of a soggy day in line with what we saw in u. S. Equities yesterday having a bit of a down day the picture is mixed behind me a bit more red than green on the heat map which points to an overall performance of the stoxx 600 which is underwhelming lets look at how individual sectors are doing. Ftse 100, treading around that 0 mark. Slightly in the green. Xetra dax also really treading around the flat line we did have earnings earlier on. Well get into that in more detail shortly i want to point out ftse mib is down 0. 5 . We did have some weaker results out of one of the banks there. Banco bpm is down 5 or so in early trading. Lets look at asian markets. Clearly a lot of focus on this trump is in the region meeting with various leaders nikk nikkei, a bit of a we
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