hello from rhode island where i live as we are sticking close to home to starve that virus and no matter where you are you are navigating the perfect storm the virus is resurging in places that jump the gun on reopening the economy collapsed so many people are out of work a bad cop in minneapolis opened an old wound about racial injustice and cities have seen riots so with all of this on our plate it's understandable if we are tuning out some roiling hot spots elsewhere in the world which could eventually

come back to haunt us where let's ask john siddha levy's of washington based trilogy advisors he is a consultant to the u.s. state department john long time no see and if you had to pick one what would you call the number one story elsewhere in the world that is being under reported here at home. well that's being underreported i would say one of the most important developments the last few days hollande is the chair of the massive china iran oil for infrastructure deal it's a 25 year deal worth about 400 $1000000000.00 and it provides a vital lifeline to iran and in many ways is beijing's way of calling the trumpet ministrations maximum pressure campaign on iran to get that country back to the negotiating table to put together a better nuclear deal so i think that's going to be

a story we're going to have to watch very closely because it's going to pretentiously up in middle eastern politics and it's certainly going to affect the trump campaign the trumpet ministrations campaign to isolate iran so it's going to be a major problem in the u.s. china relationship. when our president and their president meet they're all smiles for the camera but what else does a china represent that it is a real ongoing threat to us. how and i would say in many ways the u.s. and china have a deteriorating relationship that is going to put both countries into a new cold war if we haven't moved there already and it really comes from a solo on the sly strategy from beijing over the last 8 years under the leadership of president xi jinping made in china 2025 to achieve global dominance in advanced

breakthrough technologies in ways that undermines innovation research the intellectual property in the united states and in europe the south china sea strategy to claim international who are always in violation of the united nations convention on the law of this city as sovereign chinese waterways which greatly in dangerous free and open shipping and now we also see china through huawei trying to penetrate leading countries 5 g. networks so they'll be installed in the years ahead in ways that will allow the chinese communist party a back door into the infrastructure in telecommunications networks of countries that could be used for sabotage purposes or otherwise to undermine economies of countries that are not obeying beijing's directives. yeah this is a real issue with 5 g. being the plumbing of the self driving cars and a lot of the things that we are expecting in the perhaps near future john dateline

hong kong both sides are dug in and the pictures aren't pretty what do you predict is the inevitable outcome and how will that impact us here in that stack of bills on the kitchen table. it's a very important question you ask columned and unfortunately i think the near term future for homecoming is rather bleak this was a violation of the agreement that china had in and conducted with the united kingdom that we grant autonomy and freedom for the 2 systems in one country for hong kong dating back to 1997 it was supposed to last 50 years and the chinese have withdrawn freedom and autonomy from hong kong 27 years prior to what was permitted under that agreement now we have the trump administration that has removed special privileges from hong kong and effectively treating that region as part of mainland china but the us is also imposed sanctions on chinese government officials who are

helping to implement a new national security law in hong kong and the real question is where are the financial. hong kong is a global financial hub it's enjoyed that status for decades but now if it's going to be treated just part of mainland china do you have a banking giant such as h.s.b.c. which is based in london and does about 60 to 80 percent of its profits in asia will it draw from hong kong and if it does how does china engage in that kind of high stakes financial transactions with the world that h.s.b.c. in hong kong have allowed there's really no replacement for han concert china any time soon and ultimately it's the citizens of hong kong who are being deprived of freedom and liberty that's maybe the saddest part of this story overall. there is. a common thread through everything you have said so far and it strikes me as cultural that we americans change our presidents every 4 or 8 years we tend to think shorter term we haven't got much of

a cultural attention span it seems like china has a built in advantage because they think so far down the road is that simplistic. it's not simplistic at all i'm not sure it's a good thing i think it's very good that even though we have a democratic process that can often be messy here in the us and europe and other free who are democratic parts of asia i think when you have a dictatorship dictators whether it's the chinese communist party in china or whether it's individual to it is an authoritarian in other countries they tend to believe they're going to be in power absolutely perennially until their deathbed and so they tend to take a longer term strategy and especially in china where you have the communist party outlasting any individual leader they can take it 102030 year horizon and they're planning it doesn't mean it will be effective and that's very important you can have gross incompetence when you don't have democratic politics and opposition

parties in the light so i think it will depend on a case by case basis but if you want to talk about long term planning having a dictatorship certainly facilitates that. when you and i were sitting on the set 6 or 8 months ago there in washington the big headline was the gulf a drone was shot down there was tough talk and it seemed like something was going to a pop at any moment other than this deal iran has made with china what is the status of anything in that tough neighborhood that could threaten the usa. the middle east being the middle east it's going to be a troublesome region of the world for a long time to come i'm looking at 2 other areas right now one still involves iran because iran is such a maligned country line actor in that region and that's in syria where iran is proposing to install anti aircraft missile systems in syria in ways that will prevent israel from being able to attack hezbollah militia operations that are

against israel's national interests in my own senses israel will not allow iran to deploy those missiles in syria and so if there is an effort to do so by the iranian military you may see conflict between israel and iran in syria and then a few 100 miles to the west holland you have a horrific civil war inside of libya just south of italy and it's become a migration suv into the european union for african human trafficking pipelines and you have a situation now where turkey and cutter are working with one side russia egypt saudi arabia france are working with the other side and you have a very very difficult situation at the u.s. is looking to completely avoid and i believe president trump means it when he says he doesn't want to get involved in what he calls stupid wars in the middle east so despite the best efforts of a number of our partners to try to bring us in i believe the white house will stay

out of libya and stay out of syria at least through november. john i wish i had an hour to talk the a but i'm down to 2 minutes i want to squeeze in 2 questions you have been held helping us follow the venezuela story all along give us a snapshot of what's going on there now. well in some ways we're in a status quo nothing much has changed since you had this group in south american countries brazil argentina chile peru and colombia all coming together to voice support for the opposition leader who are you know of courting to the venezuelan constitution but to nicolas maduro has some very strong allies in moscow in tehran and in non-corrupt and so they're able to help him out militarily and economically as a matter of fact iran has broad shiite has a lot are produced into venezuela for illegal gold mining that's being used to

bring hard currency to the villas whaling economy and to keep majority of float but we're very concerned there about the possibility of destabilization of important latin american allies of the united states we're concerned about that and trying to prevent its oil coming a failed state and possibly triggering millions of migrants towards the u.s. so we need to be very careful about what's happening there but it has to be done in a lawful manner and so former juror has been able to withstand the opposition within the country and internationally. you've got 9 lives john you've got a hell of a rolodex every day you're speaking to contacts all around the world and just this morning i heard a public health official say that miami is the new wu han there are 29 e.u. countries that won't let us in check toronto blue jays are going to play their home games in buffalo so they don't have to cross the border how is the usa

treatment or a lack thereof of this pandemic playing to people and world leaders around the world give me 30 seconds. but 1st of all and there's only one will hire that's with this virus originated and unfortunately chinese either covered it out or were engaged in gross incompetence and spread a local disease and turned it into a global pandemic on miami day it has a large number of elderly people and it also has many apartment buildings there are conditions that are unique to miami dade county they don't apply to other parts of florida and we see this in other parts of the united states as well in the southeast we not only had we openings but we had many people from did new york city area traveling down there for the summer holidays and the like possibly infecting their southern neighbors in the united states we also have large multi-generational families from central america coming into texas into louisiana into arizona there

are multiple factors how but the thing to keep in mind is 50 states each state has a different protocol for dealing with covert this is not a parliamentary democracy like in europe it's a federal republic all the time do is provide all the support the states and governors need. yeah and i think you make a good point about the snow birds because the virus has gone mobile just from a seasonal migration john said ladies trilogy advisors washington i look forward to seeing you back in the our t.v. broadcast center when they let us come back to washington meantime stay safe. coming up we've all been cooped up at home for months do you have find yourself waking up wondering what day it is. stuck. around all day reliving the same. players. jurisdiction over misplaced i don't think so check the kitchen.

we'll talk about making the most of this moment we have right now with psycho therapist nancy collier when we come back this is the big picture on our t.v. america.

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or inmate in the shallows. none of us asked for this shutdown and we're all wondering when it will end and what the new normal will look like as the virus resurgence and places that jump the gun reopening but for now even as we feel in limbo are we making the most of this respite let's ask the author of among other books the power of off the

mindful way to stay sane and of virtual world nancy collier usually joins us from the r.t.e. studios in new york but like your genial host she stepped in closer to home and nancy i'm going to begin by asking you a question you ask the folks you counsel how are you lately. you know how i'm going to be here. and where. things like a lot of people were there just to move into the next day just personally i broke my foot in the middle of all of that so it's been a real interesting i'm. positing there's tidally ha into sickly really being asked to get a deal. but i will i will say i you know i recognise this just during and incredible stuff that's been going on in the country i have also seen it

as an incredible opportunity to be where we are to get off the hamster wheel and being with people around the president because there's nowhere else to be so i'm also truth be told enjoy this moment of shining meaning we all meaning in the everyday in doing the dishes i don't think i've ever been more from a president in making the bed or. trying the dishes. if we were into quarantine and you felt like doing some more vacuuming i did hear my address but. you were the very 1st guest i had on the very 1st show when we started broadcasting remotely from here in rhode island and at the time i asked you for adjectives to describe a suddenly shutdown new york and i was so struck when you use the word beauty now

that the city is reopening in very deliberate baby steps give me some adjectives about the vibe there today. wow. and feeling. and even if lebron turi quality to the vibe. and what it people are out there out there are wearing masks and will say here that i had to new york. and there is a cry for quality right now in your we need shield in new york strong new york crowd we did our part i think we did it well down in the last number where i understand and. just dance strange and cry and it's kind of lovely. out of energy there's

a lot of you know there are ads when they're about to run it they were kind of there. in that good day here we're speaking with the new york city psycho therapist nancy collier and i wanted to share with nancy and you. some results of a survey recently conducted of 425 employers this was done by h.r. consulting firm operations and and with many employees remaining wary of contact at work or on public transportation to work listen to this 57 percent of those employees or employers surveyed say we will allow these employees to continue to work from home only 6 percent say we will stand by our safety measures and insist that these employees come to the office with their coworkers and 37 percent were unsure at the time of the survey and the wall street journal has recently reported. the people are actually rethinking where they live

because their choice of that residence was predicated on commuting to a work space which all this telecommuting has since obsoleted mansi among the city people you talk to and i know you counsel people from all over in your using zoom etc but of the people who live right there in n.y.c. how many of them talk about bugging out completely and have you talk to any real estate executives in the retail and office space down off the ledge lately. it's ringback only you say that i'm just great before getting on with you i hang up we're going to real estate person connecticut. and she says she can not see the property that's on the market they're selling like hotcakes people in new york are wanting if they can afford it a 2nd home people who thought it was necessary instead to rear in the study

no longer think it's necessary. huge exodus from the city huge rethinking not just where do i need to be for war which is a gigantic one but where do i want to work what where do i want to relive what kind of life do i want to create you know we we've had such an x. ideas about what we're supposed to do where we spend to live the kind of life we're supposed to use to i kind of what we have to do you and there's m.d.m.a. has grown that the wind. nothing is to have to anymore if we can who are mostly if we can be over it without reading the way we or kind of 247 back to back out have it packed with activity. what do we want or kind of like a lot of people in my day. are talking about wanting more nature wanting out of the

us hours. ago our local. where i live i live in the real estate people there say in the city people are here in droves kicking the tires on someplace other than the city i want to show you some video with parental permission this is rose age 4 who lives in maine riding a zip line that are dead hooked up in the back yard and as many older kiddos a college and university students are irked and vexed by the big question mark that hangs over the fall semester and cash strapped parents are wondering why am i paying all this dough for what's going on now to a correspondence course many college students are taking a gap year so nancy i have a 2 part question for you cannot that year be a positive experience not just for those students but can't we all decide to make

this a time we will remember fondly. absolutely absolutely the one thing i would say about the students and yet here is a lot of the programs that would make a gap year and calculate and growing are not available so it's a little bit like cobbling together you know what. if it's true there's going to be on i mean as you say correspondence course without all the important social and developmental disabilities and you know that freshman year off yes why not use it it's accurate and what do you it's a dilemma for families or ask around ups absolutely to minden gas as they say is just an opportunity not when things go back in a grail it's not just get into the anesthesia and our busy lives. not to get right back in that same survey and be sure

doing because again we should write we should be everywhere we should see everyone and we can really use this as an opportunity to become more mindful to become more present in our lives as i said before that presidents in the every day task in a sense of gratitude that we feel for things we never even noticed we were doing have a chance now to hold on to these residents after unused is done you know i can't tell you how many people have confessed to me how much. they have in this time along with the fear and all the other challenges of course but i sense it really need not have been. writing bad hours at the feet of productivity is the moment the news productive this is a moment too numerous to lose this release and empowerment in our lives

after this to make a more meaningful like. i've been at home since early march i still haven't cleaned out the cellar so i take some comfort in the fact that we're going to be cooped up a little longer because i do look forward to checking off that bus so i call therapist and author that's a collyer thank you for joining us from new york i hope your foot feels better and stay safe. now a scam alert update from author attorney professor and ace scam buster stephen jay jay wiseman and wait till you hear this steve reports a federal trade commission warning that e-mails purporting to come from the f.t.c. claim to offer a much needed money from the global empowerment fund. it's bogus emails instruct the needy to qualify for a grant from this global empowerment fund by providing guess what your bank account

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