i did not know there was such a thing as hunan food.w york, i had my first hunan cuisine, which is just two provinces away from me, so that is the kind of thing, a very complex formation story of chinese restaurants. and as you go across that balloon and around the world, then you get information from what i call globalized chinese food. we talk about there is a national dish in french soup in madagascar. it is nothing but won ton soup. it was brought in by chinese immigrants and adopted as the national cuisine, and people eating for breakfast, for dinner, and for lunch, and i guess we can talk about chicken tikka masala as the national food of england and general tso's chicken was never heard of before in china, but it is a new york invention. >> chicken tikka masala, that was not random. it was adopted as the british national dish because it came out of the diaspora and it was really popular, but the british government and british authorities made a conscious effort to replace the roast beef , why? because they wanted to show it was p

i did not know there was such a thing as hunan food. in new york, i had my first hunan cuisine, which is just two provinces away from me, so that is the kind of thing, a very complex formation story of chinese restaurants. and as you go across that balloon and around the world, then you get information from what i call globalized chinese food. we talk about there is a national dish in french soup in madagascar. it is nothing but won ton soup. it was brought in by chinese immigrants and adopted as the national cuisine, and people eating for breakfast, for dinner, and for lunch, and i guess we can talk about chicken tikka masala as the national food of england and general tso's chicken was never heard of before in china, but it is a new york invention. >> chicken tikka masala, that was not random. it was adopted as the british national dish because it came out of the diaspora and it was really popular, but the british government and british authorities made a conscious effort to replahest beef , why? because they wanted to show it was par

there are i interviewed some people who had survived the aids outbreak in hunan province there was onean i met in particular who told me that 25% of the people in his village died. everyone started getting sick all the sudden. at that time there was very little education in china regarding aids. it was a different social situation than there was in the united states regarding education and awareness so a lot of people who told me got sick and died without knowing what had killed them. so there was this stigma around it even 10 and 20 years later. i think still held these places back and never quite gone away. >> sounds like a horrendous tragedy for so many people. you said in your book that early on you will relying on u.s. plasma even when you're living in china and you kind of esteem that the u.s. had a better system than what he saw and china. when did you start to maybe reconsider that? >> that's a good question i have to think about it. i definitely fell into the really easy trap of believing in american consent john mica exceptionalism. i was writing about the plans and china on

know, josh, when i have a quick recap for those of us who don't know what's what happened with the hunan banking crisis. right. i mean, i can yeah. so this was a this was a situation that happened has been sort of happening over the course of a year. there was essentially a group of rural banks that had that in part had been involved in a fraud. and the chinese government, as they were investing ending that fraud, froze all of the funds in the in the accounts. and so people who had deposited money, sometimes their life savings in these accounts got really angry and they and they staged a surprise protest on the steps of the bank regulator in zhengzhou, in a city in hunan province and and it really surprised the security officials there. it's very unusual these days for for people to be able to organize a large protest like that. so so the second time, you know, after nothing had happened, the protesters were getting prepared to come back to jiang jo. and as they were about as they were coming out of the train station, you know, in china now everyone has a health code app right? that sort

down but workers with over a dozen federal agencies are coming and going hundreds with health and hunan services are working from home. >> a memo went out earlier this month citing conditions at the federal building. so hhs employees are allowed to telework for the foreseeable future. the department of health and human services has a role to play in this. >> the optics of telling their employees that they should stay home is terrible. >> supervisor matt dorsey represents the district that includes the pelosi federal building concerns about federal employees. i would like to see the u.s. marshal service and the federal protective service making sure that the entire block is protected. we're not talking about a small private enterprise or small business. we're talking about the government of the united states of america. >> aides to pelosi says she's already asked the u.s. attorney's office to address tenant concerns at the federal building while also securing more federal resources for san francisco to fight the fentanyl crisis that's causing dangerous street. but for now, feelings of un

the capital of hunan province announced this week actually that they are going to allow a lower thresholdes, and also they will consider cutting the interest rates off existing mortgages. that is going to be key, cutting the borrowing cost of the current mortgage holders will definitely help to reduce interest expenses and help drive up demand for consumption, which is key at the moment when exports are staggering. and because of geopolitical tensions. from a policy point of view, the policymakers keep saying they want to drive up demand for their home market, but based on what we are reading, they are not returning to the old days of creating a bottle in the market and making the economy rely too much on the property for growth. kathleen: in a couple of years, the beijing government took some major steps that hit the housing market, it hit tech companies and some of those entrepreneurs you mentioned were like heroes in china, right? how easy, out possible will it be for the chinese government to restore the kind of confidence in them and their policies that they need to restore in order

hunan. whole neighborhoods went under water. somewhere. its level has risen to a height of 6 m.escuers move between office buildings on boats and called people out of concrete traps. and in canada , forest fires continue to rage, they led to a record for north america by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. its volume is estimated at 290 million tons, the previous record has been doubled, and at least 100 million people have been affected by air pollution. meanwhile, the causes of disaster are by no means the climate, as the country's authorities say. it's just that in canada , allocations for forest protection work have been reduced over the past years. dead wood was not cut down here and fire hazard monitoring was neglected. terrestrial yes, plus 37° is expected this weekend in belarus an orange danger level has been declared a tropical wave will cover a large part of the country the strongest air to split in the gomel and mogilev regions. tomorrow south. rain in some areas. loads and strong winds with gusts up to 20 m/s are possible. during the daytime saturday and su