this is good but it's the one business show you can't afford to miss or in washington coming up the united states has made the call to shutter china's consulate in houston texas further chilling relations between the world's 2 largest economies straight ahead we analyze the rising tensions and how markets are reacting to the growing rift plus as the race break open 1000 vaccine continues to heat up among medical firms concerns about nonprofit distribution are coming to light later we take a look at the quest for a cure and the state of the corona virus spread around the globe and later in the program we analyze the state of trademark squatting as one n.f.l. franchise announced it would be changing its mascot today so let's dive right in.

and we leave the program with the latest on the back and forth between the world's 2 largest economies as the united states state department has ordered the closure of the chinese consulate in houston texas now morgan ortega a spokesperson for the state department says the decision was made to protect american intellectual property and the private data of its citizens following this decision the houston fire department responded to reports of documents being burned in the courtyard of the consulate general of china however no further details on this incident were provided meanwhile secretary of state spoke about the situation while in copenhagen denmark on wednesday. we are setting out clear expertise for how the chinese communist party is going to behave and when they don't who are going to take actions that protect the american people protect our security our national security and also protect our economy and jobs that's the actions that you're seeing taken by present trump will continue to engage in those and

a spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry responded to the decision saying china is ready to retaliate if needed maybe function to the u.s. claims a lack of reciprocity in relations with china this is just it's old ploy that's completely unjustified as a matter of fact the u.s. far outnumbers china when it comes to diplomatic missions and staff in each other's country we urge the u.s. to immediately revoke this rainiest decision should insist on going down this wrong path china will react with firm countermeasures the chinese government is a resolute defender of cyber security and we have been consistently opposing in combating all kinds of cyber attacks and cyber crimes we urge the u.s. to immediately stop the smearing and slander against china on cyber security issues . so let's go ahead and take a look at the economic consequences of this latest move and the impact on relations

between the 2 countries with co-host kristie i opposed the economic update professor richard wolfe thank you both for joining us today professor wolf i actually want to start with you on this this is a big dramatic move to close the consulate in houston what brought about this decision and what does the u.s. hope to gain in doing this. well to be honest with you and with your viewers this is political. yes exactly on relations golding a conflict i'm sure of the deal it doesn't matter that much but it may come to what we were doing there can be done by the public claims that china in the united states. drama for people who want to believe that mr trump is doing something they were always about the chinese he isn't and he hands mate going to factors you know are simple number one the united states needs china it has

greater profits for american corporations then they were able to get here in the united states. now christy sensually the the chinese are basically saying exactly what professor wolf said which is that this is political it's theater it's just trying to rile people up and they're saying that they are ready to retaliate if necessary so what else are we seeing in their response exactly there is no real punishment for closing down this consulate but the fact is it really is just a slap in the face and on the political stage as this is one of the world's oldest consulates in the u.s. since the 2 countries normalized diplomatic ties in 1979 so china vowed to retaliate wednesday saying that the u.s. consulate will also be closed. so i mean this is the 1st time in over 40 years that this has happened so it's pretty unthinkable that the 2 sides didn't have any communication at all before escalating this issue so at this point it might be time

to consider the possibility that president could decide to sever diplomatic relations with china some day very soon and this is a really an unprecedented escalation so further de-coupling is only to be expected now professor wolf what would be the impact i mean not only on the relations between the 2 countries of the economy if we were to as kristie said if there was to be a full de-coupling of diplomatic relations between china and the united states no of course you say like there's other consulates here in the united states so this one in houston obviously symbolic because it's the all this one however you can still do your business elsewhere but what happens if these tires are cut where happens if u.s. pulls out of china and vice versa. well let me just give you an idea of what. much of the craft of it would be other american corporations in the last 20 years and it's come because they have it be in the united states to take it in the general or way to china i don't mean chinese market if that were told or you would

be slapping many of the biggest corporations in america with no real word on there are actually it's at a. and demick and economic crash if you words. there's no real way to say that probably true. oh no i was going to tell me that we're going to go into markets here professor well if i go ahead and finish your point i apologize i'll get not a problem thank you saying is that those corporations also were involved in bringing goods from china to deny to the states wal-mart in all their major department stores so you'll jim ounce of chinese goods to the american working class at every low writers if you rank it produced those who are didn't a strong grain the wages americans prepare you or to raise their prices when at a time when we're already in economic difficulty and that is going thinkable additional

burden on the american economy so there's lots of hand-waving like that certain will resume but to really did a couple would be a crisis in the best of times and then this situation literally you were recently a man trying to get reelected who are literally destroys everything in the process ringback and now professor what i want to add about about u.s. markets they've been in a melt up mode for the last quarter amid the pandemic but now cases are growing here in the u.s. again the nation's reopening has been halted and geopolitical tensions between the u.s. and china are higher than ever are we at risk of a market meltdown here and what would be the catalyst for something like that as we see this this issue between time in the u.s. continue to escalate. almost any english now there were reports this morning that one larger than normal number of americans corporate executives are selling the shares of their own company for exactly that that's

a very serious so i'm going in the way it was originally planned than anything in the way of a stalemate in congress so the best. name exploiter only absorbent compensation isn't handled by kong congress by the end of this month anything like that or any let's delay should with these are extremely dangerous alexion games that are being played here you know kristie i want to hit on this quick it looks like china is shoring up its strength as shoes in paying rallies china's tech champions and promised continued support for their operations what's the latest in the tech race between the china china and the u.s. so on some posing of tech leaders was held on tuesday as the tech war between the u.s. and china continue to escalate so this gathering called on chinese entrepreneurs to align their business strategies and their business interests with national means and this speech came amid the rising tensions between u.s.

and china and the desire by some foreign firms to reduce supply chain dependence on the country so this is very similar to what we reported earlier on in the week with an financial opting to list as i.p.o. in shanghai instead of new york china is increasingly turning to groom homegrown tech giants and tech champions to compete with the u.s. in china so in attendance i gather what i'm very familiar names such as hc vision as an as mit as well as other companies in the fields of ai semi conductors and smart manufacturing boom bust co-host christiane and professor richard wolfe thank you both for your time thank you thank you. and now for the latest in the race for a vaccine the u.s. has entered a nearly $2000000000.00 agreement with drug companies pfizer and bio intact to produce $100000000.00 doses of their experimental vaccine now if the vaccine is

cleared by regulators the government also has the option to acquire an additional $500000000.00 doses as part of this deal now it should be noted the vaccine which has done well in preliminary trials is set for late stage testing later in this month according to the companies involved the vaccine would be provided to patients free of charge and this raises the question of whether drug makers are looking to profit from this pandemic during a hearing in front of a congressional panel on tuesday the chief patient officer for merck said the company will be looking to make a profit from any potential vaccine and be selling vaccine at cost of them is very premature. really understanding the cost basis of leg room that's the no. during the same hearing a representative from the dirt a leading vaccine candidate said they will also expect a profit from their efforts and in just a reminder here there's a lot of money flowing into pharmaceutical companies as part of the operation warp

speed program merck was awarded just $38000000.00 from the government while mcgurn and noble backs neither of which have ever successfully brought a product to market have received 500000000 and one point $6000000000.00 respectively astra zeneca and johnson and johnson which both testified they would price any potential vaccine at no profit while the pandemic is ongoing have received $1200000000.00 and $4.00 point or 456000000 respectively and of course that list goes on and on so with all of this and by let's go ahead and take a global look at the spread of the virus with our t. correspondent side of tablature so where are things around the u.s. is really heading in the wrong direction with new cases now just in the last 24 hours over $1500.00 people have died from the virus here in the u.s. which is now surpassed confirmed cases to over $4000000.00 now globally there's been over 862-2000 deaths about $8600.00 of the deaths have been in the last

24 hours which brings the total confirmed cases out of over $15000000.00 globally and the top 5 countries with the most cases are in order u.s. followed by brazil india russia and south america but the viruses excel orating the fasces in the americas which now count for more than half of the world infections and deaths brant now in the u.s. where are the hotspots where are we seeing surges in cases so a lot of states are actually reporting record breaking numbers of new cases then there are states with the most cases for example california they were the 1st state to shutdown months ago but now they've become a hot spot surpassing the total number of cases of new york but in california. 50 percent 57 percent of new cases in l.a. are reported in people under the age of $41.00 sort of peers that young people are driving the spread of cases in california and also while new york at what point had

the most cases or only 28 percent of the total cases of new york actually active right now versus in california were over 75 percent of the cases are active now other searches are happening in florida and texas in florida right now 90 percent of the 369000 cases are currently active in texas 48 percent of the 353000 of the cases are active in new jersey just like new york that have under 25 percent of the cases that are active and then you might think just how much worse will but will this get well here's president trump on tuesday night who has resumed a starring role in the white house corner of ours briefing after a 3 month gap now the only difference is that he's kept the stage for himself this time without any public health experts. it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i don't like saying about things but that's the way

it is the way he that's what we have you look over the world it's all over the world. tends to do that. so what president trump just said is pretty remarkable having and nationally played down the virus and reluctant to wear a mask just until recently but i also want to get to my point earlier that i made just how worse they can get well let's take a look here you know the 1st case of a covert 1000 was reported in the u.s. on january 21st i was 180 days ago we had the 1st case now 99 days later we reached 1000000 cases in april right now we took only 43 days for that number to double to get to 2000000 cases and almost half that time to get to 3000000 cases and only 2 weeks later we reach 4000000 cases so now these are the confirmed cases and i want to go to the forecast at cases so this is what we're forecasting that by given the current speeds by august 8th we're going to be reaching $5000000.00 cases

and then by october it's also predicted that we could have almost $10000000.00 cases and a prediction also by the university of washington now projects that over 224000 will die by november 1st based on current scenario brand r.t. correspondents are tablature thank you for keeping us up to date. and time now for a quick break but here because when we return we analyze the state of trademark squatting as one n.f.l. franchise amount that would be changing its master we bring in some professional malices on the subject but as we go to break here are the numbers of the quote. the old.

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and welcome back the owner of the n.f.l. is washington redskins has found himself in a series of fights lately and one of them surrounds something called trademark squatting in the case of the redskins who have finally agreed to change their name it turns out that a number of possible names are already being held by a man named martin mccauley who calls himself and get this the trademark hog mccauley says that he has offered to give the names to the n.f.l. for free but does what the n.f.l. franchise to donate to organizations of his choosing including those exclusive to native americans macaulay holds the rights to several notable trademark names including monuments americans veterans red tailed hawks and federal the n.f.l.

issue aside this actually raised our interest because. what exactly does it mean for someone to trademark squat and how prevalent is this joining us now to discuss his trademark copyright attorney preston 1st necked and boom bust co-host investigative journalist ben swan thank you both for joining us today a press that i wanted to start with you you being an expert in this field i know much of an issue is trademark squatting and help our audience to understand exactly what that is. so trademark squatting is the concept of acquiring and sitting on trademark rights that someone else might be more interested in with the hope of precipitating a transaction or getting them to somehow purchase your rights as far as how prevalent of an issue it is there will always be a race to the various intellectual property offices to try to protect rights in a particular name or an invention or something like that but squatting itself the

occurrence varies over the world and some countries are better protected and better equipped to deal with the situation and ironically the united states some of the best protections i'd argue in the world to avoid this situation now in the situation of the redskins now this gentleman who has all these trademarks he doesn't exactly have any vested interest in the football team besides maybe being a fan so would a good trademark lawyer for the n.f.l. or for the franchise be able to get those trademarks taken out because he's not actually using them in a sports related purpose. i think they have a pretty good chance the united states system requires an applicant at a certain point to prove that they're using the market they're trying to perfect rights and so on this particular case this trademark car this gentleman and he may have perfected some rights for some trinkets for example cups or mugs or apparel

but it's a longer shot for him to prove that he's actually using these marks. for professional football and so in that sense it's probably going to be an uphill road for him to outsold writes arcs and now ben this is especially big issue for companies that launch in one country and then attempt to move overseas as presidentially just mentioned tell us a little bit about that yeah i think he's making a really good point when he says united states has a different standard than a lot of the rest of the world and what we find is that this is really a huge problem for american businesses setting football in the n.f.l. aside a big issue for businesses that try to you know they create products in the united states they trademark those products and then they try to expand to a global business and what they find is that they move their those products overseas and the trademark is already owned by someone else there and it could be an exact replica of what they've created it can be the exact product that they've created and what we find is that a recent survey actually was done by the u.s.

trademark office and found only 15 percent of small businesses doing business overseas know that a u.s. trademark of course is regional and it only applies to the united states and so a lot of business owners think if they go to the trademark office they get a trademark that it extends all around the world and it does not now preston in what has become an increasingly global marketplace is something we talk about every day here on blue bus are we seeing more cooperation between nations to prevent trademark squatting. i think there's been some meaningful progress in this area but there are still a lot of gaps and so china is one of the countries of focus in this particular area and i think they've made a lot of the improvements they've actually addressed a lot of bad faith filers and are willing to sort of do trademark rights if if people inside their country have attempted to perfect names from overseas companies

they've shown a willingness there there are also some treaty mechanisms that allow companies to use. trademark registration in one country as a harm to acquire in another but the fact remains that most of the countries in the world don't require an applicant to prove and that remains a big problem as was mentioned earlier and now a lot of these countries people will apply for the marks and then just sit on them knowing that there are someone interested in them are going to be coming after them and i believe so well years ago one of the more news or happenings in this area was when apple paid ands of millions of dollars to go check his trademark registrant name i phone. now ben as press just question is you know china has been working on this and they just issued a ruling that helps prevent trademark squatting in their country tell us a little bit more about this ruling yeah doesn't pull out prevent it but it certainly makes it easier and well essentially that ruling found is that.

essentially if there is a registrant who goes in there and has a disputed trademark they have to show that they had the existence of that applicant's trademark and they reasonably avoided applying for the mark essentially meaning that you have to show that you did not know that i phone was on its way to china before you went and registered for iphone and that you did so in an actual innocent way as opposed to you went out found a company that you knew was eventually coming this way and you sat on that trademark so china is trying to make some efforts in this area we'll see how all of that pans out based on the discussion you guys at the beginning of the show between us trying to relations right now well absolutely i was just going to mention that as i mean when you look at all the intellectual property issues and some of which the government says is at the center of this dispute between china and the us there's a lot there preston for us necked copyright attorney and trademark attorney as well thank you for joining us ben swann as well who both coasts always appreciate it.

and finally video game streaming site twitch dot tv announced that beginning wednesday it would be introducing sports as a standalone category now this is a big move as twitch is parent company amazon has been increasingly getting into streaming live sporting events to launch the new feature a showcase will take place hosted by former m.l.s. soccer player jimmy conrad featuring interactive content from the n.b.a. arsenal f.c. and the u.f.c. the site also announced the collaboration with 4 major soccer teams including rail madrid and paris st germain now meanwhile earlier this week rapper logic who recently announced his retirement from the music industry after his final album signed a 7 figure deal to stream exclusively on the platform logic says that he will be streaming games some studio sessions as well as guest interviews and that's interest on you can catch boom bust on demand on the brand new portable t.v.'s built on smartphones and tablets through google play and the apple app store by searching portable t.v. portable t.v.

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