now the official line out of china by the chinese commerce ministry spokesman has said that's going dawn . of course in the south of china, the resurgence of cobra. 1900 cases yet, hadn't yet yet led to a pronounced impact on foreign trade. what do you make of that statement? is that just a p r spin? to be honest, you know, there's, there's different regions in china and each of them, they're kind of reacting differently. so i can't really comment because i haven't seen the statement, but what i would say is, but you know, it's like, and they make is here. and here for good as it seems, and as you said earlier on, is like crew in the shipping sector has been tires because it was difficult to make changes, you know, with the current situation. vaccination is going really slow with the crew over there in sipping. so we really have to take a holistic approach and we shouldn't really and you know, postpone the decisions or say, or that someone else problem and not mine. we really have to take actions today in order to prove resilience in the, in the logistic sector. because if we don't do th

chinese steelmakers, are so far unaffected. australia believes it's the victim of economic coercion. china's commerce ministry. and as china celebrates 100 years of communist party rule cub australia is wondering where this vital trading relationship heads to next. phil this vital trading relationship heads to next.— donald rumsfeld, one of the principal architects of the invasion of iraq in 2003, has died at the age of 88. he served as secretary of defence under president george w bush, and he played a leading role in promoting the bush administration's so—called "war on terror". 0ur north america editor jon sopel has more. military band plays donald rumsfeld served four presidents over five decades. hawkish in outlook, and a waspish personality, he was a key architect of america's response to 9/11 — the invasion of afghanistan and, most controversially, the invasion of iraq. a navy pilot in the 1950s, rumsfeld later became an illinois congressman. richard nixon and henry kissinger saw in him a cold ruthlessness and gave him a job in cabinet. a strong defence posture gives weight to our values and our views

executive orders related to chinese apps. president joe biden called for commerce department review of security concerns related to the that in response, spokes person for china, ministry of foreign affairs called the move a quote, positive step, end quote. mid tensions between the world's 2 largest economies. and nearly every company is bringing workers back to the office, but a return to business travel is shaping up to be a lot slower than anticipated. and while this can cost the airline and hotel industry millions, if not billions in los revenue, that everyone stands to lose with fewer business trips. so just how big is corporate travel and who stands to lose the most of more of that story we're doing by rti correspondence science avager. so brand travel is a business traveler, i should say, is a trillion dollar industry. now according to the global business travel association and majority of the travel budget is spend on flight. and while business passengers represent just 12 percent of the airlines total passengers, they make up 75 percent of the airlines profit. and now bigger other b components and companies travel budgets are spent on hotel and food. and then

ministry of commerce. he performed this work during a l critical period, when our government was actively exposing huawei as a chinese spy company and applying sanctions to it. he also wasn't just a longtime lawyer in private practice with long-standing clients to include foreign clients. he had spent most of his career in government, primarily in national security roles. i cannot imagine that he was not aware of the china threat in general or the huawei threat in particular. after all, the house intelligence committee had produced a landmark report exposing huawei in 2012 while he served in the obama administration. now i recognize he didn't do all that much work for huawei, just a few billable hours here and there, but the fact remains that he first served huawei and now he wants to serve in the united states government. nor is he willing to foreclose the possibility of working for such companies in the future. unfortunately, mr. fonzone is far from alone in his lapse of judgment. there's a rapidly revolving door in washington, d.c. that shuttles people in and out of government. unfortunately some of those people g