this trilogy basically is to rewrite what we call that second part of world war ii, to call it an asia-pacificwar, not simply the pacific war and that is specifically intend today write in into the history, what i call the arc of asia and in 1937 the ark ran east across china to japan and also ran southeast to what is now called indonesia demand the region there were over a billion people. yet among the well population and region most of the people lived in colonialism and there were only four nation states that would claim and japan actually had sovereignty and mongolia which was the soviet satellite and had no real sovereignty and china which had highly compromised sovereignty. everywhere else it was a colonial institution, the one, special case out of the philippines, they were effectively an american colony and they were promised independence in 1984 and managing domestic affairs. they all have sovereignty and the story of how they got to where they are today is fundamentally connected to what happened between 1937 and 1945 and that is a long-term arc of the trilogy, it's not just what hap

his trilogy basically is to rewrite what we call that second part of world war ii, to call it an asia-pacific war that simply the pacific war. and that is specifically intended to write in to the history what i call the ark of asia. in 1937 that arc which basically ran in the west from what was then india which is also pakistan and bangladesh, ran east across china to japan and it also ran southeast to what estelle called indonesia. in that region there were over a billion people, very close to half the population of the globe, if not half. yet among that whole population, that whole region, most of those people live in the colonialism and the only four nationstates with any claim of sovereignty, two, siam which are shortly bee thailand, japan actually had sovereignty, and mongolia which was a soviet satellite and had no real sovereignty, and china which had highly compromised sovereignty. everywhere else it was a colonial institution. the one notable special case, the philippines work effectively in american government but they've been promised independence and their acting as a commonwealth

tonight he will be speaking about the intended trilogy of the asia pacific theater that is called tower of schools. volume one july 37 through may 42. it's my pleasure to call my friend to the podium. richard frank. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you to the museum so one of our traditions is we like to tell stories. graduating from the united states naval academy in 1841, was a survivor of the uss arizona and awarded the navy cross for his heroism in 1945. and finally he says tell us about your days at the academy. actually i did very well. i was very strong in math and science. but my downfall was english. my parents were jewish. we lived in france i spoke french and then we moved to new jersey but they don't speak english they are. [laughter] so this is something we don't speak about which is the trilogy we have been talking about the asia pacific war. one of the greatest stories in human history that touches the estimated two.3 million human beings that is a long time arc of the trilogy how those events formulated what happened with all of these other nations which is now s

of pacific asia travel association on skype from bangkok nice to see you mario when we talk about and maybe you can give us the example from thailand or asia more widely when we talk about a tourism job which may be lost that can actually be any number of things can't it not necessarily something that directly deals with a quote unquote tourist. no because the india acts in terms of. revenue generated from term tourism is far wider than just actually flights and hotels and tourism activities to farmers producing food into farms to pretty tourist to consume are also affected people are running day you've been a taxi isn't it grabs the next hour of oh so affected entertainment is affected and it goes far far beyond just travel and tourism so the indirect is quite significant it's billions trillions of dollars as you mentioned before across the world that will be lost specifically in asia pacific and represents over $800000000000.00 of losses forecast of this year and as you mentioned about $49000000.00 jobs in the asia pacific region specifically and so anyone associated with the touris

chairman andn the ceo for asia-pacific, michael issenberg. rate 1200 hotels in the asia pac reason -- region. tell us how the hotels of been impacted by the pandemic and how they are doing compared to other regions like the u.s., europe and latin america. >> good morning. it's nice to speak to you again. , a terrible time for our industry. we have been impacted probably more than any other hotel along with the airline industry. could much the entire world is suffering, no question. fortunately, the one bright spot in the world in the region is china. of course, that's the number one question at the moment about what's happening in china, because everyone is looking for that as a telltale sign from the future. so what kind of telltale signs are there? what kind of recovery are you expecting in china and will that be a reflection of the rest of the world? it's big in china, but it's definitely rebounding. february was the bottom in china. it was single-digit occupancies across the country. march, we managed to climb into the teens, but the secon

presence in the asia pacific but also about china's role in the region and so everyone's hedging and so you'll find that the military budgets have been on a general increase as well even you know in southeast asia. but yes for india it's definitely not something right towards monitoring the reports coming out of meat not a growing public criticisms against these. priorities he's increasing a military spending people are saying that he should be improving health care and infrastructure in particular to deal with the $900.00 situation he's parties are skewed towards arming india to the teeth and that's not so sure in for just the indian citizens but also for the rest of the region and speaking of covert 19 what impact sisi the coronavirus crisis and its economic fallout having on future military spending because these figures of course were from 2019 but now we're dealing with a crisis what impact is that likely to have going forward. that's a great question and i think what's going to happen is that you will stop at military missions of that article even in china and india you will hav

the world health organization says the epidemic is far from over in the asia-pacific, urging countries in the region to prepare for large-scale community transmissions. a moment of silence would held across italy remember 12,005 hundred victims of the pandemic. the country remains the hardest hit. paul brennan has more. peopletaly has lost more to coronavirus than any country in the world. their names risk being overlooked, lost in the statistics of this pandemic, but at noon across italy, every single one of them was her mentor -- was remembered. local mayors stood outside their town halls for a minute of silence, and emotional gesture of solidarity, attribute and an indication of hope. [speaking italian] >> all the mayors gathered .ogether in a kind of hug there is grief for the people who have died. it is a sign of respect to their families in their small communities. we are giving a message of hope. madrid rain,bleak spain's gravediggers go about their task. the virus claimed 840 nine lives here in the previous 24 hours. lockdown means burials are lonely and grief. .- and brief eff

there about the increases that we've seen around the world but what's the picture coming out of asia pacific. yes we were so mixed picture. in there where we can say that the same happened in the pacific region last year 'd we saw the lowest number of exits using country in the region for the 1st sign since 2011 with afghanistan thailand and they were stopped in their excuse and within their execution are now on hold at the same time we also saw dignity and drops in the 2 countries that. are looking for that plan in singapore. and were positive. development we also saw a number of protests harvin that that's your are. a user in the region remains a matter of great concern from its international. to continue to view us for such as dogs or should not be allowed to be punished by that and the international law and secrecy remains a great concern you mentioned china earlier and thousands of excuse and we can report on you can simply we can add that is our but is anyone still up light says where we got a stance from us and past us you go but it are meant that if you send rates remain high but we

trump a stray leah's prime minister has praised the world health organizations response in the asia pacific region scott morrison also announced lockdown measures will be kept in place for at least another 4 weeks more than $6400.00 cases of the virus have been confirmed in a strain. well the pandemic will cause economic growth to stall at 0 percent for the 1st time in 60 years that's the latest dire projection from the international monetary fund the outbreak has taken an unprecedented toll on the region it's expected to rebound next year but the outlook remains uncertain and nigeria is facing its west recession in more than 30 years the i.m.f. predicts that africa's biggest economy will shrink by 3.4 percent this year the pandemic and global lock downs have pushed down oil prices and about millions of people are expected to lose their jobs amid interest reports from a bridge or the global coverage $1000.00 pandemic is taking a human and economic toll on nigeria its main resources oil demand and the market price is falling was quite adding to the crisis a dispute between major producers sa

yes and asia pacific market strategist steve thank you for being with us so it is morning where you are and we are expecting the japanese prime minister shinzo abbate to declare a state of emergency across multiple prefectures in japan when this announcement comes how do you see this impacting markets in asia. you know there's an interesting dynamic that sovaldi around the whole covert 19 narrative that is that containment measures stricter containment measures are actually being viewed more favorable by the markets the situation here is they're using china as a blueprint basically china went to some what were called at the time extremely direct kone and measures but they're proving to be effective they're starting to see this play out in the rest of the world and this is why markets are reacting a little bit more favorably because the coronavirus case count curve is flattening because of the stay at home narrative now listen japan's a different kettle of fish altogether the job cultures of immensely different people are so used to going to the office and they stay at the offices all ho

back from the steve 'd steve innes over in bangkok thailand asia pacific market strategist thank you so much for your expertise. thanks for having me. and iran is vowing to never seek help from the u.s. in its fight against the corona virus outbreak foreign ministry spokesman rejected the possibility and accuse the us of trying to use the current situation to force iran into negotiations now in the middle east iran is the worst hit by the virus and is an urgent need of medical equipment the country currently has about 60000 confirmed cases about 3000 reported deaths. and over to the philippines where a man was shot dead at a calorifier checkpoint that man who was reportedly intoxicated at the time was confronted by a village official for not wearing a mask a man then threatened law enforcement using a site police shot him dead at the scene this is the 1st incident of police shooting a civilian after president rodriguez a war and that troublemakers and those defying orders be shot dead. and white house officials are describing this week's covert 19 p. as a pearl harbor moment but not

ari sarker, asia-pacific copresident of mastercard. breaking news.e than 2%, in fact 2.2%, the most in three weeks. it is the first time since february that the rupiah has been trading on the stronger side of the movie day average. -- moving day average. investors have been dumping indonesian stocks for 12 straight days, the longest selling streak since august. uncertainty over when a partial coronavirus lockdown will end in several cities. the extension did take place earlier. a lack of earnings guidance also adding to those concerns. indonesia seen as among the countries late in responding to the coronavirus. the rupiah climbing 2.2%, the ,955 in three weeks, to 14 versus the dollar. india's biggest company by market value says it could be debt-free by early next year. we ask what to expect from reliance industries results, next. this is bluebird. -- is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: india's largest company by market value is planning to sell shares to its investors for the first time in 30 years. it steps up efforts to pay down debt. this is the third fundr

the international monetary fund is expecting the asia pacific region to post 0 growth this year this for the 1st time since the 1960 s. massive drops in industrial and retail activity major supply chain disruption and a huge collapse into demand from europe and north america has been felt across the continent since the beginning of the year. now over the past few weeks millions of people have begun working from home for many this means taking part in video conference calls as a result of platforms that offer these services like zoom have seen exponential growth but the trend has also exposed a range of worrying security kitsis. and age of coronavirus people keeping their distance are seeking to gather list digitally using platforms that don't want some familiar millions working from home uploading sensitive data to klout servers or chatting about work related matters germany's top data protection official kevlar is worried. believe him. when attention illustration catch up authorities and businesses are now noticing that the infrastructure was only part of their body and now they hav

he says the epidemic is nowhere near over in the asia-pacific region. >> let me be clear, the epidemic is far from over in asia and the pacific. this is going to be a long-term battle, and we cannot let down our guard. >> in a video conference, kasai said that current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying timime to prepare for large-scale community transmission. >> we have found common tactics in this country. those are finding, isolating and testing cases early, tracing and quarantining. >>> in indonesia, where more than 1,500 cases have been confirmed, president joko widodo declared a public health emergency on tuesday. the government also imposed new regulations, including suspending all arrivals and transits by foreign nationals. it had already implemented tougher measures on mobility between regions and greater social distancing. >>> the vietnamese prime minister has ordered citizens to refrain from going outdoors except to buy food and in emergency cases, and to limit public gatherings to no more than two people. the decree will remain in place for 15 days. the gove

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says that the asia pacific region will experience 0 growth this year for the 1st time since the $960.00 s. due to the massive economic damage caused by the corona virus and a new report warns that the impact in asia will be quote severe across the board and unprecedented massive drops in industrial and retail activity major supply chain disruption and a huge collapse in demand from europe and north america have been felt across the continent since the start of the year. well clifford couldn't from v.w. business is covering this story for us and joins us now in the studio good to see you clifford so we know the coronavirus is having a devastating impact impact on economies around the world what are the biggest factors affecting asia according to the i.m.f. well i think one of the things that we've seen is there's never a good time to have a global pandemic but it's a particularly bad time for asia as it's slowly emerging from a very bruising trade war seeing a lot of slowing growth in the in the region's biggest economy. also in the other side these days in areas so the i.m.f. is calling

also, a sizable boost in the asia-pacific region.s certainly played into the surge and the global lockdown clearly apply. snap was on fire. shares surged as much as 22% in late trading. that was after they said that the app's popularity was accelerating during the lockdown. coursend daily users of blew away analyst projections as well. they are also saying it is too soon to know if this surge in usage will boost revenue. that is because advertisers are expected to trim budgets during the outbreak. we will be interested if this transitions into the regular trade. we did see a lot of social media stocks kind of rise after hours with strong reports from both netflix and snap. rishaad: thanks for that. su keenan joining us from new york. news coming out, headlines from this. the chinese banking and insurance regulatory commission. coffee, a terrible ride of it the past few weeks. they are saying china bank should closely monitor loans to luckin. that is where we are with just those headlines in the regulatory body saying that chinese ins

certainly not globally and possibly around our neck of the woods here in asia-pacific.nd quarter of the year in terms of growth out turns will be very severe and we're looking now at an economic downturn twice as severe as the 2000 nine financial crisis. it is something that is really unprecedented that we have not seen in a long time. as i mentioned come it is economies with a high debt burdens we will be watching most closely. the likes of malaysia went into the crisis with a high debt load. you are just speaking about japan which has the highest public debt burden of any sovereign rate. india is another large emerging market economy with a large public debt. other than malaysia which we have a negative outlook on, the areng for india and japan stable at the moment but we will be watching given the fiscal responses and upward pressure that will put on public debt burden. plungingch is the quality prices amplifying the negative affect on these emerging economies? areman sachs says they poised for a substantial selloff and when it comes to global oil, theirstability --

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a straight is prime minister has praised the world health organizations response in the asia pacific region scott morrison also announced that lockdown measures will be kept in place for at least another 4 weeks more than 6400 cases of the virus have been confirmed in straight. and nigeria could be facing its west recession in more than 30 is the i.m.f. projects that africa's largest economy will shrink by 3.4 percent this year the pandemic and global lock downs of push down oil prices and millions of people are expected to stay at jobs well those are the headlines the news will continue here on al-jazeera after people and power stay with us. join me steve clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u.s. politics and society i'm changing but the institutions frequently don't the system itself is set up to benefit those who understand that you have people who actually believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line on al-jazeera. alaska's far north as one of the world's last pristine environments but now the trumpet m

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crisis will significantly slash growth this year for emerging and developing economies in the asia pacific region. the adb projects 2.2% growth for the area excluding developed economies such as japan and australia. that's down 3 percentage points from last year. the bank cites the growing impact o of the pandemic onn tourism and trade. china's economic is forecast to expand 2.3% down 3.8 points. the adb says thailand is especially hit hard as tourism and exports. the bank cut its outlook to a contraction of 4.8%. the country grew 2.4% last year. the pandemic is forcing many people in japan to work from home and this has sent sales of home office equipment soaring. major electronic seller says headsets have been selling more than twice as well compared to last year. printers are also in high demand. >> translator: we expect people to continue to worork fromm hom for awhile. so we'll make an effort to meet demands and respond to our customers' needs. >> major home improvement chain launched a website specializing in work from home furniture last month. desks and chairs have been popular wit

>> we had just -- this was an asia-pacific summit. so it's 30 countries, the countries that touch the pacific ocean. and the president and first lady had just arrived, but prior to that, they took -- the chileans had taken the secret service advance agent away from the site. and so we had a slight delay, but at this point, i thought that it was okay to go, so we left. the president and first lady, we talked about it. as we went, what happened was that i stayed back a little bit to allow the press to take the photograph of the president, the first lady along with the president of chile, and the first lady of chile. and then security started closing in behind the president. and he now hears me yelling. [ laughter ] so he was trained well. [ laughter ] so it was, i was fortunate, because -- [ laughter ] and so it is like moses parting the water. and the first lady is here, so she can attest to -- they heard -- they were hitting me, and i'm not sure why, but in all seriousness, i actually thought for that moment -- because this is like a

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says that their asia pacific region will experience 0 percent growth this year the 1st time since the 1960 s. massive falls in industrial pretty major supply chain disruption and a huge collapse in demand from her in north america have been felt across the continent since the beginning of the year. kenya and its capital nairobi where about 2 and a half 1000000 people live in cramped conditions in urban slums many children belong on schools for their meals but they're not closed food banks are rare in kenya so some businesses and n.g.o.s a quarter of the public for donations of money food and goods for those in need the w's sell an eco reports. with the arrival of the coronavirus in kenya a young group of volunteers set up an initiative to distribute food to those who can't stock up together with community activists they now do reckon with runs in poorer neighborhoods around nairobi and. we get light on donations from the public so we get donations and then we buy food in bulk. and repack them in smaller relief box which we call sanitation and food packs so in the packs there's like 2

it was a strong end to the week for the asia-pacific markets the asia markets followed suit shrugged hopes with big moves out of jan and and south korea more than 3% let's look at the china market contracting by 6.8%. this was worse than the average of analyst forecast out there that went for a decline of 6.5%. other partals in march retail sales sliding by 15.8%. industrial production was only down 1.1% on this time one year ago. take a look at what happened in hong kong. markets higher but more corporate update. sands china operating. casino in macao will scrap dividends for 2019 japan, high for the nikkei sony will be delaying release of the full-year earnings due out the end of this month. australia higher as well shares of rio tinto after surprisingly said it shipped more iron ore despite the virus impact >> thank you, matt let's watch what is happening with europe with julianna tatelbaum. good morning >> good morning, dom european markets look to be ending the week on a high note with the main benchmark the stoxx 600 rallying the pharma space no doubt lifting the sentiment with

and the indication is that he did that they did not and in fact you had the they commander of asia pacific. order in the roosevelt in the vietnam as a show of force and to show the flag notwithstanding the fact that it was already known that grown a virus had given up in the northern portion of vietnam. you know if we can't go to movie theaters or shopping malls to your earlier point i can just imagine how several 1000 sailors on a ship is just a petri dish and you mentioned the president recently he tweeted i have instructed the united states navy to shoot down and destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea is this matter of shooting down boats to some skeptics surmise the president's attempt to spike oil prices which are in negative numbers for the may futures and did rise up a little you think there's anything to that conspiracy theory. well i think that there's something to that it did it did jack up just a little bit the price of oil and for other reasons but i think it's part of a coordinated effort right now along with israel too and the fact that they now

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what does china see as a concern for its security particularly in its part of the world in the asia pacific region what is driving china mainly. for the same there are a number of things but the the increasing contentiousness of u.s. china relations is certainly on beijing's mind very much but also a potential taiwan scenario as well as potential contingencies in the south china sea where china has often claims that are disputed by other powers that my bringing u.s. power play so i think china is playing for number or scenarios but taiwan is south china sea being on the top of that list are right gentlemen unfortunately we are out of time to get in the so the so much more to discuss but for another day but thank you for the moment for joining us it's to peter was a man to and the other me and to andrew smith and to thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site al-jazeera dot com and for more debate go to our facebook page facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you know to join the conversation on twitter we are at 88 inside story from m

internal displaced persons and they all are focusing concentrated in the middle east africa europe asia pacific and the americas just just in the in the middle east so alone you have the concentration the palestinian refugee camps that have been there forever in jordan west bank gaza syria lebanon. and in oh there are about 1500000 of these camps just in that region but officially but unofficial you just double that 3 to 4000000 so what we're talking about here is are areas of concentrations of people that are already are living in very squalid conditions they have no access to medical hardly any medical care whatsoever they're in very crowded and densely populated areas so that it's impossible to do any kind of spacing out as socially distancing yourselves from anybody and and the fact that they cannot get these these vital necessary personal protection equipment. let alone ventilators tells me that if this if the if the virus is to these areas these concentrations it's going to be kind of catastrophic but cataclysmic catastrophic cataclysmic you did me one better pardon me for being mr obviou

is predicting that the asia pacific region but experience 0 percent growth this year the 1st time since 1960 is the downturn of course is because of the massive economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic their latest report warns that the impact on asia will be severe across the board and unprecedented massive drops in industrial and retail activity a major supply chain disruption and a dramatic collapse in demand from europe and north america have been felt across the continent since the start of the year. now volkswagen says it will not meet its current 2 year forecasts also because of the pandemic the german carmakers to 1st quarter profits tumbled more than 80 percent to 9. 100000000 euros he was restarting production in stages and plans to reopen its facilities in the german city of. the slovak capital bratislava next week. the jobless claims in the united states have risen dramatically again more than $5000000.00 people apply for unemployment benefits in the last week that brings the total jobs lost in the past month dollars 22000000 the highest spike in unemployment in u.

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