in china. i would like to hear how would you use your important long and trusting friendship with president xi and what i expect will be your growing knowledge of china as you visit every province to really make intellectual property and stopping the theft of me,'s inventions a key priority in your role as governor if confirmed. >> well, senator coons, the incident that i was mentioning a few minutes ago actually involved dupont pioneer. as you know, we share dupont pioneer. they've been a wonderful american company and we think it's critically important that the rights and i'm aware of the fact that they're doing some important business in china. we also have the world food prize in iowa, and one of the recipients of the world food prize is the chinese gentleman that was involved in rice. and there's opportunity for dupont pioneer and they're also going through a potential merger right now, there's opportunities for them to work together for the benefit of not only these great american compani

in china, and the recent, "unmade in china." he has conducted many briefings about chinese trade and u.s. competitiveness to members of congress, senior military officers and the business community. his analysis has been featured in the wall street journal, the financial times, u.s. news & world report, npr, bbc, and other cable and other media news outlets. with that said, please help me to welcome jeremy haft. [applause] jeremy thank you very much. : thank you all for coming today. thank you for the world affairs council of colorado springs for hosting us. i confess that i was the one who voted for no podium. i tend to get lost. it's the darndest thing. when i started doing business in china 20 years ago i was 6'4". , part of the thing i want to talk to about, the view on the ground in china is very different from what we hear in our politics. the topic today is timely. we have president xi arriving to trump meet with president to talk about a host of pressing issues. and so doing, i want to bring your attention to a study tha

on china and china has been providing ballistic missile technology in all probability, and we know that they have been providing components and semi processed missile materiel to the program that is obviously unacceptable to us. so there is a lot of negotiation right now between washington and beijing, but eventually, president trump has to make a decision that if the chinese can't solve it, he will, as he has told everyone, he will solve it himself, and that is going to be extremely ugly. >> i askcolonel jack jacobs thi before, and i will ask you again, this is the on going threat for some time, and any discussion of having a real missile defense system in that region? >> we have the terminal high altitude missile system deployeded on the korean soil, and that is two weeks now. and the new president of south korea moon jae-in wants it removed and this is a matter of contention between washington and seoul for some time. the united states is quite effective with missile defenss s if we move the aegis missile destroyers off of the coast of north korea, but also, we don't have much in the

s economic dependence on china. the two allies should think seriously about new bilateral energy partnerships that could reduce south korean energy dependence on china in the middle east. washington washington and seoul's policy offices can work together to map out a strategy for engaging india, as well as asian countries. the chinese have proven with their coercion over the thaad issue that south korea's future welfare cannot be left in chinese' hands. finally, the united states should encourage new government to tack a stronger stand in supporting blackgoods off the peninsula in neighboring waters. in particular as part of a new engagement strategy, the u.s. with the support, south korea could show willingness to -- this would win partners among countries and be a distinctly positive platform for the united states and its regions. >> before we go to you, we have a quorum. i ask the economy to consider the list of 5,550 military nominations. is there a second? all in favor say aye. the motion carries. dr. freedberg

taiwan and china split amid great acrimony at the end of the chinese civil war, and china claims taiwan as its sovereign territory and threatens to said china must recognize that its efforts to diplomatically isolate taiwan are not beneficial. trade agreements that taiwan manages to sign with , and any mores trade deals with taiwan, would be beneficial for both taiwan and for china. trade or is talking up it is he doing anything else, any other overtures, to improve the relationship? >> this was one of the most interesting things he had to say. he was keen to point out that taiwan needs innovation, investment, but the other thing he says taiwan needs is immigration. when yous at a time anti-immigration rhetoric and the united states, brexit, so this is a remarkable thing from the premier here. he said taiwan needs to attract more talent into taiwan to make up for what he says is the biggest threat to taiwan's economy, the brain drain, talented come young, ambitious people in thai one are being taken away -- people in taiwan to being lured away singapore as wages have stagnated for more

baker: do you think china will? china seemed to have been more aggressive with south korea recently in its response to the aadployment of the th missile system. seems to be more aggressive at south korea than it has been with north korea. you talked about the limitation of coal but do you -- is china moving in the right direction there or does it seem to be still wanting to keep that close relationship with pyongyang in a way that is not putting much pressure on them? pm abe: translator: for china, the one belt, one road, the extremely important forum was organized during the weekend. on that day, the missile was launched. were deeply chinese perplexed that north korea chose that date, how china would receive the message of north the point. would be so north korea is provocative behavior. for that, japan will strongly appeal to china. this is the time we need united solidarity and action. as for in terms of sino-japan relationship, last year at the g 20 meeting, i did have a summit meeting with president xi jinping.

so in the way that china response expectations of the global community, we would also like to urge china to move that direction. >> and finally, prime minister, a new president has taken office in south korea just last week. he favors not only a more conciliatory relationship with north korea than his predecessor, but has taken a tougher line with japan over the issue of the comfort women. he said during the campaign he rejects the agreement you signed with president park a couple of years ago. i think you had a conversation with president moon last week and i'm sure this issue came up. are you prepared -- is japan prepared to do more on this issue given the importance to you and to korea and to the united states of a healthy, productive relationship between japan and south korea? is japan prepared to make more concessions and to acknowledge more responsibility for comfort women in the way that president moon would like? is that a basis for a deal you can get again? prime minister abe: the other day with the new president moon, we had a telephone conversation about we would like to furth

of china. you can imagine there is further downside ahead when it comes to the aussie dollar. the aussie dollar fallen for a fourth straight week going by how the decline has been. we have first word news with paul allen. paul: new korean president moon is-in has told china he aware of concerns about the u.s. missile shield and will try to resolve the problem. in a phone call with president xi jinping, he said it would be easier to settle differences if north korea were to stop being so provocative. president xi jinping to examine restrictions on korean companies working in china. likehizer clear as the u.s. trade representative. the white house told lawmakers that china is one of america's leading trade problems. preparing for a widening of a ban on laptops and large electronic devices on planes bound for american airports. they are meeting the department of homeland security to discuss the decision, though it is not clear if there will be an immediate announcement. the march ban affects fligh

china should properly take actions. china should understand. between the united states and understand the fact that there were talks on this regard. >> china seems to be more aggressive with south korea recently in the response to the deployment of the missiles. china deployed economic south korea,inst they seem more aggressive with south korea than they do with north korea. is this china moving in the right direction there? or are they still trying to keep a relationship with pyongyang in a way to not put much pressure on them? road form one was organized on the day the missile was launched. that china do not like that north korea chose that date. how china would receive the message of north korea, that would be the point. north korea has been provocative. the provocative behavior is what we have to stop. that, japann for with strongly appeal to china. relationship last year at the g 20 meeting, i did have a summit meeting with the chinese president. this year is the anniversary of our friendship treaty with china. the presidents have agreed.

end technology story in china. we are seeing there is a split in china's economy. the manufacturing sector is still under pressure, but it looks like still relatively resident at this moment. i think this is kind of a part of china's economy at this moment. if we do see another disappointment on these numbers again, we saw what happened the previous month and what seemed to spark this route and commodities. do you think there is still not much of an end in sight in terms of iron ore and copper prices? see that the commodity prices, especially copper and iron or prices, have peaked already. if you see that the commodity look at the overall china's investment momentum, it looks like the momentum has slowed and the new projects have dropped a lot from the big levels. don't think hand, i it is a bad thing, because we know that china's debt is at relatively high levels, so china needs to find a balance between all the indicators. investment should slowdown in the future and consumption should pick up a little bit. on the other hand, we do see that the impact of the phys

this. >> do you think china will? china was more aggressive with south korea recently in its response to the deployment of the thaad missiles. seems to be more aggressive at south korea than it has been with north korea. you talked about the limitation of coal but do you -- is china moving in the right direction there or does it seem to be still wanting to keep that close relationship with pyongyang in a way that is not putting much pressure on them? >> translator: for china, the one belt, one road, the extremely important forum was organized during the weekend. on that day, the missile was launched i'm sure the chinese deeply perplexed that north korea chose that date, china would receive the message of north korea that would be the point. so north korea is provocative behavior. for that, japan will strongly appeal to china. as for in terms of sino-japan relationship, during the apec i had a meeting with president xi. this is the 45th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic relationship. and president xi and we ha

protect the south china sea. the reclamation of the coral reef cannot be tolerated and that is the place where -- there may increase japanese safety and japan to collaborate with the rest of the world so that japan could convince china to follow the rules set by the international community. the difference between north korea and china is that china is able to consult diplomatically. in north korea, the policy cannot work, and therefore, the crisis facing us is north korea should be at the top of the list, the top of the ranking but currently, china using the lateral approach in trying to tame -- change the south china sea. japan and russia used to have very good relations. -- the ukraine is a distant place from japan, but we should not tolerate the coercive change therefore and together with the united states, japan carried out the sanctions and japan and russia, the relations have been somewhat strained, but if the change of status by force, i think that is a universal principle, so anything which is contrary to

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in china. i would like to hear how would you use your important long and trusting friendship with president xi and what i expect will be your growing knowledge of china as you visit every province to really make intellectual property and stopping the theft of me,'s inventions a key priority in your role as governor if confirmed. >> well, senator coons, the incident that i was mentioning a few minutes ago actually involved dupont pioneer. as you know, we share dupont pioneer. they've been a wonderful american company and we think it's critically important that the rights and i'm aware of the fact that they're doing some important business in china. we also have the world food prize in iowa, and one of the recipients of the world food prize is the chinese gentleman that was involved in rice. and there's opportunity for dupont pioneer and they're also going through a potential mesrgr right now, there's opportunities for them to work together for the benefit of not only these great american compani

is $45 trillion wealthier man china. -- than china. that includes national debt, the famous $20 trillion national debt. china has a lot of it too. we subject -- subtract that from the balance sheet. and the u.s. is $45 trillion wealthier than china. the federal reserve and credits, the u.s. household wealth totaling about $82 trillion. china is about $62 trillion. and the gap in national wealth is growing, not shrinking. merica is becoming wealthier while china stagnates. i would argue that this is a more relevant metric to size of the national economies than gdp, while china stagnates. i would which is not only looking at arbitrary metric spending, but we are also taking the chinese gdp numbers -- which all chinese officials know is absurd. the officials do not ven believe their own numbers. it is true. the last head of the bureau was on trial for corruption. part of the reason is chinese statistics are done at the local level. imagine if all 50 states in america each had their own fiscal bureau. imagine if there was one party rule, a

policy with china. i'm also interested in your thoughts as to what we may see by way of cooperation with china on north korea going forward. i understand that what the president has asked of china, but i remain concerned that we've seen this movie before and we really haven't seen any change in china's position as it relates to north korea. many of us are concerned that they'll only go so far, but they're concerned about the stability of the current regime will prevent them from take the necessary steps that change the equation for north korea. we welcome your thoughts on that matter. so let me lastly mention one additional issue. you will take, if confirmed, the oath of office to project and defend the constitution of the united states. before president trump took the oath of office, many of us urged him to take steps to avoid a constitutional conflict with the emolument clause, and he's the 07b8 president that has not divested or set up blind trusts for his financial institutions. that is not your doi

neighbors in the east china sea and south china sea. they attempt to use the threat of military force to address territorial and regional disputes. as you and i discussed when we sat together recently in my office, i am deeply concerned about the deterioration of human rights in china and the environment for civil societies, independent voices in the country. when i joined the senate foreign relations committee on east asia president xi jinping became the president of china. at that time many of us hope that china would be on the verge of a more progressive or reformed era. that along with growing interaction with the outside world and the significant economic development of human rights would indeed improve. yet, the opposite has proven true. president xi jinping has adopted a slew of laws that violate the most basic of human rights of the chinese people. that presents challenges to you as interests and values as well. the community of civil activists in china thrive in the 1990s and 2000 partly as a result of the us engagement both di

also i'm convinced we've got to push back on china's militaryism in the south china sea, the east china sea, and take a comprehensive approach to dealing with china. what they have successfully accomplished inside the country and outside the country is they want to have economic relationships but accept us politically in all the challenges we cause politically. that's what goes on inside the country and goes on outside country geopolitically, and we have got to push back on them comprehensively. lou: as we look at their economy slowing, their debt rising and production capacity obviously has been built up to a point that's unsustainable now with those economic challenges china becomes more likely to be destabilized or adventurous or both. general jack keane, as always, great to have you with us. >> good talking with you, lou. lou: we're coming right back. much more straight ahead. much, much more. stay with us. as north korea's threats against the united state escalate, the pentagon today carried out a successful interception of an icbm missile. >> the bottom line is it would be a catas

so they have everything going for them in china. china. so they have everything going forthem in china. but china. so they have everything going for them in china. but there is a huge market within china, as well, where other players will potentially command. —— come in in the new future. in other business news, western digital is seeking international arbitration to stop toshiba from selling its chip business without consent. the two companies maintained their largest facilities. the cash bonus could be a boost for tissue. the japanese company has warned of a net loss of around $8 billion us, due to its bankrupt us nuclear business. the manual macron has called for a reconstruction of europe, following talks with the german chancellor in berlin. on his first foreign trip as president, emmanuel macron said that he would agree to draw a roadmap to changes to the european union. the two lea d e rs changes to the european union. the two leaders stressed the need to deepen integration in the eurozone, and said they would be to change treat

policy with china. i'm also interested in your thoughts as to what we may see by way of cooperation on north korea going forward. i understand that what the presidents ask of china but i remain concerned we have seen this movie before and we really haven't seen any change in china's position as it relates the north korea. many of us are concerned they will only go so far. they are concerned about the stability of the current regime will prevent them from taking the necessary steps that changed the equation for north korea. we welcome your thoughts on that matter. let me ask one additional issue. you will defend the constitution of the united states. before president trump took the oath of office many of us urged him to take steps to avoid constitutional conflict. he is the only president that has not set up blind trust for his financial institutions. that is not your doing. your doing is to represent our country if confirmed in china and must take steps to make sure that our constitution is not violated

-china relations. you had the recent president trump and president xi meetings in mar-a-lago, and this week madam fu ying, one of the top chinese foreign relations foreign minister officials is going to be in washington meeting with a number of us. so it's something that i believe this body needs to focus on more, this important issue, the issue of u.s.-china relations. mr. president, you know that our country faces a lot of significant challenges -- national security challenges around the world. in my view, however, the most significant long-term geostrategic challenge we face -- it's not isis, it's not al qaeda, it's not iran, or russia. these are very serious concerns. but the most significant long-term challenge we face as a country is the rise of china and the threat it poses to the post world war ii -- to the post-world war ii international order led by the united states. this has been made clear in a series of writings by the well-known and respected harvard professor graham allison, beginning t

and china is in position to finance that. this is the largest capital project since the marshall plan. nationr before has one carried a greater responsibility for the fate of others in time of peace. sharyl: the marshall plan was the u.s. initiative to help pay and to rebuild europe after world war ii, named for secretary of state george marshall. if we were to go in the direction of "america first," would that cause the united states to really lose global market opportunities and fall behind? prof. morici: if you are going to hardball people and bully smaller rivals and so forth, i think it really weakens american leadership. the only way you can fix the trouble spots in the world is if you have the support of your allies. sharyl: what do you think changes because president trump did not follow through on his promises the way he stated them? prof. morici: what sadly doesn't change is not a lot changes. we will continue to have a large trade deficit. when it comes down to it, donald trump didn't stand up to china. he let down

the only country that did not say china was china. there is a reason for this. but we can understand why we feel this existential angst about china, because all the economists echoed this point of view. anybody that reads the newspaper sees china, the world's largest economy. now, we have been told it is -- it is the world's largest economy. anybody reading vanity fair in the summer of 2015, there was an article by joseph stiglitz, called "the chinese century," where he said china just surpassed the united states as economy. how could we not feel existential angst? how could you whether you voted for trump are not somehow feel a yearning that the best days of america are behind us and we should somehow try to make ourselves great again question mark china is the thematic ground to this desire. doeso we get this, where joseph stiglitz say china is the world's number one economy? it is based on a number, all the stuff is based on numbers and this is why it is difficult to get this across in sound lights and bumper stickers but it is important. economies are sized

em, we by china. jonathan: china has not rolled over em. why? oksana: it is going to take some time. jonathan: greg, help me out here, why? greg: em at the end of the day is still a higher yield asset class. i think until you see things -- something fundamentally change in that space, you are going to continue to see investors flocking after higher-yielding products and that is driving some of the flows we see into the em complex. oksana: here is an interesting point, too, there is certainly a global surge for yield and it seems to be a huge benefit for em. yet we have another asset class, high yield bonds, which are not getting the love em is getting, even though there are pockets of that market offering significantly better compensation even on a default adjusted basis and anything around default and restructuring is a very well-delineated process where you know exactly what to expect. jonathan: where in high-yield would you be buying right now? oksana: to echo earlier comments, it is hard to argue for bargains within this market. within high-

has been slowing in china. there is not as much our ring and rising debt, and there has been more and more restructuring. issuing, giving china a push, saying we are watching this problem, and maybe this is a warning to say, make sure you are addressing this. a small downgrade now, but something china has to address to stay on track for the future. haidi: right, let's move onto the previous story, which is top meeting of personalities in the central bank space in tokyo today. governor kuroda did not adjust the boj's goal to hit 2% within the time they wanted, but he talked about how hard it is to shift inflation expectations, as did ben bernanke. it is animal spirits, being able to shake this off after some years of deflationary expectation. was defendinge the bank of japan more or less. he said it is vital for the boj to pursue its target. higherve to get an inflation rate. he said restoring the 2% target would restore stability. is stillledge the boj some distance from achieving its price target. thatso ackno

after normalization of relations inween china and south korea 1992, no north korean leader went to china for a decade because they were so upset with it all. of aaw a reemergence renaissance in relationship between 2008 and 2009 because the chinese signed a bunch of industry contracts with north korea. this was not a relationship with a kind of like each other. they actually both hate each other. thenorth koreans feel like chinese treat them like a poor province, which they do, and the chinese feel like north korea, everything -- every time to do something bad, china's name gets dragged through the mud -- every time they do something bad, china's name gets dragged through the mud. north korea leverages that greatly to their advantage. indochina will never allow north china willey know never allow north korea to collapse. they are willing to push the envelope as well as they can. that creates problems for the united states because the united states has a policy that is aimed at treating china as part of the solution, which is that if 85% of north korea's external trade is with china, we c

still to calm, live in beijing to the morgan stanley china exportso find out why from china could see the best year since 2012. , ahaad: just coming up german plastics maker for its plan as asian demand surges across as part of the world. ♪ rishaad: you are back with bloomberg markets. i am rishaad salamat in hong kong. haidi: amazon has truly delivered for jeff bezos. his personal fortune has left almost $21 billion this year at the stock surges towards and tops $1000. the stock is up 40% from a year ago and double-dip 15% gain of the s&p 500. power's success shows the of e-commerce. its market value of $470 billion is twice that of walmart. fired theber has executive at the center of a legal spat with his former employer, alphabet. he was hired to lead uber self driving program after spending years at googles unit. waymo sued uber claiming he stole trade secrets and patents. he was given a stock option worth $250 million when hired, and it was forfeited on his departure. traders have bond called no witnesses at the trial. are schapiro and to others betting that the prosecution evi

there many fa ns snooker in china and are there many fans of ding as well as of the game in china? sure, sure. snooker in china is growing much more bigger than before. we have to say it is because of ding, his performance and his achievements to promote this business into such a big one right now. we saw the game becoming very popular when ding junhui first hit the scene a number of years ago, but now he's had a bit of a setback. do you think the game will continue in such popularity in china? definitely it will. actually more and more young people, young guys are involved in this sport in china. most of them are huge fans of ding himself, so that's why i'm thinking... the business is growing up thinking... the business is growing up very well right now. obviously you were saying earlier he is still fairly young. do you think he will get there eventually as a snooker world champion? definitely he will. we are all expecting that. actually the year before last year, and last year into this year we were all expecting that but he's really trying. i believe that not very far away, may

shouldn't be worried by china and the china and u.s. have normal trade ties. >> and rose on higher business. while had cash profits hey fell to over 200 milcon. commonwealth margins fell on competition. a campaign and trade disruptions with the u.s. and grain worries about its unpredictable neighbor. tell us about expectations for the day. >> presidential candidates have already started voteing about an hour ago, one cast his vote here. people are lining up tore cast a vote. there are more than 13,000 polling stations across the station and get exit polls after polls close. but give quen this is such an unprecedented vote after the ouster of the former president, there is still questions about what will happen next. at least, we would see a transition team with a president-elect. the president will immediately resume power and the winner of the elections. you can imagine that the interest is very high and not surprising and seeing the lines for all of those voters trying to cast their ballots and the national election commission said a

this, the headin of china's largest oil and gas producer, cnp see, china national petroleum corporation. that is a key issue as the energy security. and i asked him about russian pipelines digging gas from russia to china, why there were delays about it, and also prospects with u.s. energy, oil and gas, into china. >> china's reliance on imported oil is over 60%, which means that almost 300 million tons of crude oil are imported every year. the u.s. has very rich oil and gas resources while china needs to diversify in imported crude supplies. american crude will certainly be one of our options as the u.s. government is losing its restrictions on oil export. it is strategically important for china to expand the national gas ratio in his primary energy mix from the current 6% to 10% or 15% in the next five to 10 years. tom: would you consider investing in u.s. energy? we are interested in investing in u.s. lng projects now that america has lifted export restrictions on lng. opportunities in building natural gas plants and customization facilities were investing in lng projects, we will co

china and for japan the east china sea is important in the territory. therefore from the japanese defensive posture we do have to predict and south china sea the coral reef that cannot be tolerated in that is the place where the japan uses the ceiling . they have facilities built their safety and japan should collaborate with the rest of the world so that japan should commence china to follow the world by the international community. the difference between north korea and china that china is able to consult diplomatically. north korea diplomacy it cannot work. therefore, the thing facing us as north korea should be currently china is using the lateral approach trying to change the south china sea. japan and russia used to have a good relation and when i was the defense minister, it was first carried out very good relationship but at that point russia trade out being electoral the change of status in ukraine in the ukraine from japan but we should not tolerate the coercive that change of status and therefore together with united states japan carried out

the south china sea. meanwhile, with a rebalanced policy, too heavy on rhetoric and too light on action, years of senseless defense cuts and now the disastrous decision to withdraw from the trans-pacific partnership, u.s. policy has failed to adapt to the scale and velocity of china's challenge. that failure as called into question the credibility of america's security commitments in the region. this committee has grown increasingly concerned about the erosion of america's conventional military overmatch as states like china and north korea develop advanced capabilities to counter our ability to project military power. while america's military remains the most powerful on earth, we must adapt to the new realities we face. we must think differently about forward basing and posture, logistics and modernization and our joint force for the renewed reality of greater power competition. specifically on the issue of munitions, this committee has heard testimony each year about the qualitative and quantitative sh

and second—tier markets in china and second—tier markets in china and second—tier markets in canada. likewise, around the world. however, i think the issue remains what is going back and forth between the two countries. is that trade balance? what are you expecting and what are you looking forward to in this one belt one road summit taking place in beijing?” think what comes out will be interesting. much of it will be details that a prearranged in that, we all know that infrastructure is going to expand very greatly, um, we know that this will connect china to any countries in central asia, western europe. however, aside from just a building a lot of infrastructure, what services come out? i think it is a mystery to everybody. a mystery and an ambitious plan from the beijing government. if the us policy for america first pushing its allies to look to china for better global and regional leadership? on behalf of canada, definitely. they have, the us have slapped a tariff on canadian lumber, china is our second biggest market for our lumber. canada has spent decades selling wood into

aligned with china or want to improve relations with china, if china is even doing it then i think the problems will continue. >> yeah, beijing economic repression and retaliation that they are carrying out, it is actually not just hurting the koreans, it also hurts the people in china. why does china keep on doing this when it hurts them as well? so china wants something from us and by pressuring south korea china wants to see a change not just in korea but the u.s. and japan as well as north korea. by doing all of these they want the parties to come together. all of the interested parties to come together and discuss a resolution and because we have decided not to discuss or come to dialogues and china is frustrated because they are unable to bring any resolution. so that -- in that regard i blame her. she refused to talk with china on these various issues including security issues. i think it's important that when ever we take measures that we don't do it on our own but actually as a result of having discussed what this is with other neighbors. >> i think they should focus rather th

tom: this is about china and xi jinping trying to recast globalization in china's image. use investment and infrastructure to link at this overland route and maritime route, linking asia to the middle east to europe, to africa , and they want to open up new markets. president xi jinping said this was a project of the century and would be a force for peace in a and theth many traumas difficulties, and he committed to an extra $70 billion of funding. china's development bank has allocated $240 billion, and it is thought china makes 10 $500 billion to this project. president xi jinping lang this out in front of many dignitaries, including president putin of russia, president erdogan of turkey, who sent the center of economic gravity is now moving east. this is also about china securing its energy supply because china is the number one importer of crude. it has become dependent on other countries for its energy needs, and it is on that note that we spoke to the chairman of china national petroleum corporation, the largest oil and gas producer and china, and we asked about the

does that push china closer? this trip comes amidst further signs of a cool down in the chinese economy. what are the latest data points telling us? we are getting pmi this week, but we are you have a good idea what this will look like. is crystallized around this idea that we will see a cooling chinese economy in the second half. we did get stronger industrial profits for april, up 14%, slightly lower than what we got in march, 23%. we have a terminal that shows what has been happening, #8130. in 2014-2015,t you saw week industrial profits in china. in 2016rted to pick up and powered ahead from december 2016, then this huge pickup in march, so april still strong, increasing 14%, but we did find out from their data that there is increased pressure for chinese exporters when it comes to credit and the expense of credit, so that may start to push down profits going ahead. we also got ford indicators, some syrup -- ford indicators, some surveys that china is starting to weaken and wobble somewhat. we have a standard

bring it backto to china. what opportunities do you see there in the bond market, especially with the bond connect the pboc is pitching at some point in the future? >> i am not the biggest export in that expert in chinese markets, rather european markets, but i must say that as i said before that i see the positive.ther i am not afraid of immediate downside effects. what everybody is watching of course is what is happening in the chinese real estate market, and it depends on how you value that. you also look at different ivels of debt in china, but believe any speculation of bond markets to the people who make money in it and who know that best. there, andrtunities of course you are there in tokyo. how is it going with the third arrow? a also come you are asking question which i would hope you would ask the japanese government. i think we need all three arrows in japan. notclose that is or not is for me to say, but it is important to have all three arrows being shot at some point in time because it is a packag

countries going into pro-china and anti-china camps. tom: will they d develop a political silk road? they need to do it within a new body of contract law and rule of law. do you anticipate a better rule of law in china? keyu: over time, yes. the question is how quickly that can happen. for china to enter the next stage of growth, in the us to develop good institutions and intellectual property rights. borders likeoss infrastructure, it's not only about connectivity physically. it's about regulatory connectivity and customs connectivity. it's going to be a very complicated issue. francine: when you look it china, i want to ask you a currency question. this is a mixture of funding costs, surging with speculation that policymakers are basically intervening, but what does it mean for investors? how should an investor look at china? do they say i want exposure but not direct exposure or because regulators have this in hand and they won't let anything that happene to the economy, i want to go in? eric: depends on what type of investor you are

we are 30 minutes away from the china. in looking at the theme today, it's hard to get away from the higher bys drive, led the cohesive comments from the oil ministers of russia and saudi arabia and beijing yesterday, saying that they want to go another nine months when it comes to this supply cut deal that was reached. and began in january. take a look at this chart. to the supplier that opec can't control. u.s. inventory numbers drilling reports as well. 2017-2018, and 2019 consensus forecast as well as the number for wti is all leading to $50 a barrel. the question is whether we can put higher -- put higher. we are seeing risk appetites and lifting, broader commodities as well. we are seeing a nice recovery for the lack of iron ore. most of these base metals are doing nicely in the day, but we are looking at the longevity of rally.l singapore, taiwan, and malaysia are coming online. we will see nice gains today. let's go to sophie for a look at how things are tracking. sophie: oil prices are continuing to plot on that p

while you look at the situation of china, and the island in south china sea, fighter seem. further they adjust in training or diplomacy. they say aircraft will not be used but military aircraft exist there that is the fact. and therefore as time passes, strategy balance weigh more heavily to china. and therefore, this not a deal in it should be taken care for the best to great interest. >> stage here and then in the front row we have best and brightest of japan's national security thinkers.ve the and the reality is we could probably get more and more members to fill the rows who would agree with what you're saying. members i think there is a pretty strong consensus among political elites about japan's strategy going forward and people can tell me i'm wrong later but i would argue among american treaty allies there's more consensus in japan than there is anywhere particularly in europe and include europe and australia. and that's all quite impressive. at the same time, the national security legislation was a hard, hard legislative fight. and almost half of japanese opposed i

it is a moment of huge national pride for china. they have had a few problems in terms of hitting the high standards demanded by regulators in the us. but they hope that the c191 will change all of that. now, this will change all of that. now, this will sell well here because domestic airlines are on board. but will foreign air lines buy it. they hope that someday you will fly on a home—made chinese commercial aircraft. earlier, i spoke with an aviation analyst who is the asia managing editor at flight global. i asked him whether it poses any commercial threat to boeing or airbus? for the time being, very little threat. boeing or airbus have a solid lockley and they have support networks. —— duopoly. they have proven products and our lines are comfortable working with them to be that said, the new plant is hitting the toughest part of the market. —— that said, the new plane. this is definitely going to get attention. so far, most of the demand is coming from within china. would there be any interest outside, do you think?

something like 80% of north korea's fuel comes from china. china won't cut that. although there are signs that it has turned the cap tighter recently. there is not much more that can be donein there is not much more that can be done in that way. one of the interesting fact is of the reaction from the white house was that the white house statement, in workers into account from donald trump, said russia should be worried, because this missile went very close to vladivostok, on these d&c border russia. russia took pains to say that it did not. but you get the sense that donald trump wants more diplomatic effort, and he is not getting it, really. and there is a big question as to whether he will get it. stephen evans nair in a blustery morning in seoul. they you for joining blustery morning in seoul. they you forjoining us. —— stephen evans joining us there on a blustery morning in seoul. we can bring you news now of a new world record — which was set on sunday, here in the uk — for the oldest person ever to go skydiving. verdun hayes parachuted out of a plane

this has offended china. it is india and the united states ganging up against china. that is one of the reasons why tensions are higher today than they were a couple of years ago. and your anxieties as well, about kashmir, why we should be more concerned, even more concerned now than we have been in the past? the united states and india, going up against china, china has forged closer and closer to pakistan. it is a counter ganging up against india, with china and pakistan. what has happened is that this economic corridor, as it is called, a massive highway through disputed territory, as mandated by the united nations. the entire area of kashmir is disputed, as far as the united nations is concerned. so, driving a highway, and economic corridor through territory which is disputed, is something which obviously india is not happy about. he has been mentioned already in the last couple of minutes, you can't avoid that, we must talk about the united states. you probably know that president trump is completing his first 100 days in office. jeffrey, you are not too long bac

and in london, china and the philippines hold their first talks the disputed south china sea later as they hope to ease tensions. and staying with the maritime theme we hear how scientists are searching the ocean for monsters with teeth from the deep. glad you could join us. it is seven in the morning here in singapore and midnight in london, seven in the evening in washington where president trump has spoken about the appointment of a special counsel to ta ke appointment of a special counsel to take over the russian investigation into potential ties to his campaign. he said the entire affair was a witch—hunt which hurt the country, as he put it, and he denied ever asking the fbi director to end the investigation into his national security adviser michael flynn. we have the details from washington. the president's just not happy with the scrutiny he continues to come under over his links with russia. the entire thing has been a witch hunt. and there is no collusion between, certainly myself and my campaign. but i can only speak for myself and the russians, zero. i think it divides t

>> do you think china will? china was more aggressive with south korea recently in its response to the deployment of the thaad missiles. put economic sanctions against alphabet. they seem to be more aggressive at south korea than it has been with north korea. you talked about the limitation of coal but do you -- is china moving in the right direction there or does it seem to be still wanting to keep that close relationship with pyongyang in a way that is not putting much pressure on them? translator: for china, the one belt, one road, the extremely important forum was organized during the weekend. on that day, the missile was launched i'm sure the chinese deeply perplexed that north korea chose that date, china would receive the message of north korea that would be the point. so north korea is provocative behavior. this is the time that we have to stop and see solidarity and united action. for that, japan will strongly appeal to china. as for in terms of sino-japan relationship, during the apec i had a meeting w