think the chinese might be worried about these tariffs cutting into their long term plans for the belton road initiative you know they are making all these great moves with with sort of in a vacuum of the u.s. right with the south america with the europe trying to to some extent i guess you could say co-opt them a cynic would say co-opt them into being part of this one belt road initiative but do you think they have that in their mind in dealing with the trade war. well we should all be worried about trade wars trade was have never ever been good for anybody even that people are not in the trade or have suffered because trade wars have negative ramifications all over the world we should all not just the chinese not just we should all be worried about trade war all of us except mr trump and a satellite houser and a few other people but trade wars are not good for anybody and they never have that jim. market afficionado watch this all the time international investor and and we do see the markets moving mightily based upon you know every day until with regard to trade wars and positive sign

think the chinese might be worried about these tariffs cutting into their long term plans for the belton road initiative you know they are making all these great moves with with sort of in a vacuum of the u.s. right with south america with europe trying to to some extent i guess you could say co-opt them a cynic would say co-opt them into being part of this one belt road initiative but do you think they have that in their mind in dealing with the trade war. what we should all be worried about trade wars trade was have never ever been good for anybody even the people who are not in the trade or have suffered because trade wars have negative ramifications all over the world we should all not just the chinese not just we should all be worried about trade war all of us except mr trump in a satellite houser and a few other people but trade wars are not good for anybody and they never have that jim. market afficionado watch this all the time international investor in and we do see the markets moving mightily based upon you know every day until with regard to trade wars and positive signs comin

think the chinese might be worried about these tariffs cutting into their long term plans for the belton road initiative you know they are making all these great moves with with sort of in a vacuum of the u.s. right with south america with europe trying to to some extent i guess you could say co-opt them a cynic would say co-opt them into being part of this one belt road initiative but do you think they have that in their mind in dealing with the trade war. well we should all be worried about trade wars trade was have never ever been good for anybody even the people who are not in the trade or have suffered because trade wars have negative ramifications all over the world we should all not just the chinese not just we should all be worried about trade war all of us except mr trump and a satellite houser and a few other people but trade wars are not good for anybody and they never have that jim. market afficionado watch this all the time international investor in and we do see the markets moving mightily based upon you know every day until with regard to trade wars and positive signs comi

i also wanted to shout out to my friend troy belton. he is with good media entertainment. he is responsible for my guest this morning as he was back in february with donna lacey junior. the actor and comedian. i know this guest also will be stimulating and give us a lot to learn from his great gifts. we also have -- ahmat car. one of my favorite things is autobiographies and memoirs. i love people that have -- that tell the story. let's start there before we begin with your organization. >> i have been in radio for almost 20 years. 20 years next year. >> they call you the voice? >> yes. i don't know why. when i discovered that, i left here -- i am originally from the bay area. i left the bay area and went to los angeles to start my radio career. everybody was saying, you should do radio. i was like, okay. let's give it a try. i have been in love with radio since the old days. i took a chance. i took a risk. based on my confidence and said, i will move to la. so i went to la. i was in la maybe two months before i got my first radio job which was actually working for cbs rad

welcome to to ruth kershner ruth is a freelance journalist and china expert and she argues that china's belton road initiative is a good idea in principle but she goes on it lacks transparency. and ties participating countries into an oath already tarion system. thank you all three for being here with me today i'd like to begin with you on this with a big statement to show you say china has a plan for the economic domination of the eurasian lunch and sees so how close is beijing to realizing that goal beijing has a long time horizon which is one of the things that distinguishes turner from the western democracies and it also looks far back in the chinese narrative china once was the economic superpower of the world in your middle ages the tongue in a city and on words and then came the great humiliation at the hands of the west when the western countries through the industrial revolution passed by and left to be our aim told of the chinese psyche yes and they dwell on it to day. to an extent it's surprising to us they're the opium wars and whatnot. but in their narrative it's now all about ree

and the one belt one road initiative are both chinese proposals belton road is a chinese led initiative will be is can see it as a multilateral development institution. russian president vladimir putin freshly sworn in for a fourth term on monday says he plans to make russia one of the top five global economies by twenty twenty four russia's economy currently ranks twelfth incised analysts say the russian that russia's economy would have to increase by fifty percent to achieve the goal mr putin will also face some added difficulty with such an economic expansion given the troubles of recent years including economic sanctions and a recession. in two thousand and seventeen russian gross domestic product g.d.p. grew weakly at one point five percent still it is a nor girl address at the kremlin on monday president putin called for a modern and dynamic economy and later signed a decree prioritizing technological development manufacturing and agricultural notable among mr putin's inaugural audience was former german chancellor gerhard schroeder mr schroeder is now chairman of the russian stat

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conflict and i don't mean that in the true sense of the word, but economic division of labor, with belton road as it runs through central asia and getting into russia, very traditional markets as well. >> so russia hopes to gain economically from belgian road as well. central asian deal on its surface, between the russians and the chinese is that the chinese will bring the money in, and the russians will bring that security. >> that's a division of labor. >> it's not that clear that russians bring security and it's not, the chinese, it's not that clear that the chinese trust the russians for any security. so that looks good on paper. not sure it's clear in reality. i think the russians are concerned about encroaching chinese influence in central asia. and the chinese are being very careful not to overflay their hand in these countries. because they could, they've got those economies, they effectively, they have so much economic weight in central asia. that if they particularly wanted to, they could give the russian as real run for their influence. but i don't know that they're particularl

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and the one built one road initiative are both chinese proposals belton road is a chinese led initiative while he is conceived as a multilateral development institution. russian president vladimir putin freshly sworn in for a fourth term on monday says he plans to make russia one of the top five global economies by twenty twenty four russia's economy currently ranks wealth in size analysts say the russian that russia's economy would have to increase by fifty percent to achieve the goal of mr putin will also face some added difficulty with such an economic expansion given the troubles of recent years including economic sanctions and a recession in two thousand and seventeen russian gross domestic product g.d.p. grew weakly at one point five percent still it is a nor girl address at the kremlin on monday president putin called for a modern and dynamic economy and later signed a decree prioritizing technological development manufacturing and agricultural notable among mr putin's inaugural audience was former german chancellor gerhard schroeder mr schroeder is now chairman of the russian sta