but it's certainly not going to be around 5% as xi jinping claims.ryl: the truth is always fascinating. john lonski, get in there. >> yeah, gordon. you know, i can't help but think that the chinese economy is going nowhere as long as they remain closely allied with countries like russia and iran as opposed to seeking warmer, friendlier relations with their major customers like the united states and western europe. i just don't get the chinese economy a chance. my view is the chinese communist party made a horrible decision as far as what is in the best interest of long-term economic growth in china and a long-term improvement in living standards. >> well, that's absolutely right. because china's economy right now depends on exports. and the united states and the european union and even countries in the global south are now starting to tariff and otherwise restrict chinese purchases of chinese products. that is a death sentence for the chinese economy. and they need to have good relations with brussels, with washington, with all sorts of countries aro

xi jinping is in total control of the chinese economy and he will not back down to donald trump. not foresee a very clear road going forward. >> steve? >> dennis, he might not wouldn't to back down to donald trump. reminds he of the cuban missile crisis. you don't think that he will blink first, but some analogy has been made to japan and china being in a deflationary spiral where japan lost 25 years. do you see the similarities to china in a deflationary spiral as well? >> yes and it no. no, because japan has about 185 million people. china has ten times as many people. there are multiple levels in china where xi jinping can put pressure on, particularly on foreign companies that are doing business there. and i think that is really why xi jinping is much more of a challenge than it was with the japanese. do i see a deflationary economy in china? i think this year will be worse in growth than it was in 2024, but i don't see any significant value added because of it that. >> dennis, this is karen. when you see this tit-for-tat ratchet up, where does the u.s. threaten to withhold g

xi jinping and the us president and maybe to some degree the uk have to be involved. i would tell remind the that there's probably nothing that has a lower cost and potential higher than the relation jimmy and some of the other political prisoners in hong kong. yeah i mean they've they've made their point daily's presses are not going to be running again. yeah. yeah no it's striking though that the trial, it's as though they're waiting from beijing to hear should be done before they finish the trial, which is kind of interesting, which means that perhaps means that xi himself is not certain what what he wants out of this. so besides what besides shutting down. yeah, i again, i think they've made point with hong kong. i would say let's not up on hong kong, let's not forget there are more than 7 million people there. six out of ten from that first election in 1991 until the last free election at the end of 2019, more or less six out of ten people have always voted for the pro-democracy candidates. you know, certainly the people of hong kong want freedom. they better tha

xi jinping got a red carpet treatment. meeting and that shows you how important china is to these countries how unimportant we are. mark: for the viewer out there and even for me this is so daunting. we look at the islamist terrorism movement how it is infiltrated the country, our culture so much of the activities that take place here. look at what the chinese communist chinese hcommunist che to do. i did not also with the biting regime. it certainly has expanded enormously with the biting regime. it's going to take a presidency, one heck of an administration and a united country to push back and all of these is in it? >> it certainly is. by the way the chinese have listing posts in cuba and probably that got a military base there as well. this is cuban missile crisis number two in the works. >> plexus is white donald trump will be and needs to be a historic president. this is why the house republicans seem to get their act together braid this is why senate republicans need to unite and stop with three, four, five of them

not wonderful news for xi jinping. they have very different interests. as of now, we don't see that having very much of an impact. for years, go back 5, 10 years. chinese-israeli relations were quite good, china was investing a fair amount of money in israel. high tech stuff. and russian-israeli relations were good. they collaborated to make sure they did not get in each other's way in syria. the israelis were bombing syria all the time to try prevent ringing arms going to hezbollah. they do not get in the way of russians in syria. that has changed now in 2024. and i would say it has changed because both of them had to ask, china and russia, that is, what is the game here, what are we doing here? and the key issue is the united states. the key issue is to diminish american influence. for example, it is good for china to have a high tech relationship with israel, but it is being destroyed. they are willing to take that destruction because there is a bigger game. the bigger game is u.s. influence on the world. rush: i think that sounds right. thank you to

i never saw him in the meetings with xi jinping say, what are you doing in shipping lanes in the pacificor even looks at donald trump has done in first couple weeks of his transition, talking about the strategic value of greenland and panama canal and monroe doctrine we're back on our heels, now, we're going to have a bigger footprint that is -- kind of came out in this hea hearing. we have to recover our foreign policy. america first. >> no question. pete did a great job of addressing that. including through the menu of failures that you just dunder this current president. but contrast, when donald trump was president, he either ended wars or prevented them. he didn't oversee the beginning of one, now i think you see him insome wars that joe biden has helped oversee. and probably ukraine quickly and probably, even who knows in israel. because he is so engined, a -- engaged, a lot, deterrents is not just a weapon system it is an attitude, attitude where you back up your words with actions, and where your words mean something, to our adversary and allies, and donald trump has that. pete h

we know for a fact that xi jinping and the ccp want to undermine if not destroy american leadership.smokeless battlefield of the internet and information and ideological warfare and the power of short videos and discourse but we repeatedly ignore the threats. that's the critical difference in why it's about ownership. it is about changing ownership because it would be an act of self immolation or suicide to allow our enemy to control this. >> martha: people who expose themselves to tiktok a lot basically have a different view of china because they are not allowing adverse views about the chinese communist party to be on tiktok and the only thing i want to point out that i always go back to his china does not allow tiktok in china. chinese kids cannot use tiktok the way that our kids and adults do. they have a different version that pushes out chinese history through their viewpoint and math problems essentially. they don't allow kids to spend 3-4 hours using their screens on tiktok all day. it says a lot. we will be watching this. the 19th is the deadline and mike gallagher, head of

president xi jinping announced this morning that he issued instructions to ensure that civilian casualtiesa minimum, and those who have lost their homes can be at least housed somewhere warm, and somewhere dry for the time being. that is going to be a challenge, becausejust as getting rescuers in there is going to be difficult, it will be really difficult to get aid trucks into these mountainous regions. so we are monitoring chinese state media, we are seeing the pictures coming in and we are hearing the updates through press conferences, and the last one we had in the last hour, said that 95 people had been killed and 135 have been injured. that is the latest figure we have. we are hearing that the french far right figurehead john marie le pen has died. that is coming in from reports to the afp news agency, the news in that the far right figurehead jean—marie le pen has died. he was president of the national front party from 1972 through to 2011. he was a former presidential candidate in france, that mantle taken on by his daughter now, marine. he was born in 1928 on the news is just into

. >> you talk about deterrence and i suggest xi jinping is watching what we do very carefully. if we aband i don ukraine, thats the strongest message possible to xi jinping that he can take taiwan without anything from this country. >> thank you, senator. >> i want to introduce two records that testify to mr. hegseth's record americans concerned for america. and the senior advisor stated there's been no better leader, championing our fighter and military and veterans mp. he was instrumental in 2014 and 2017 in ensuring that veterans had health care choice. the second letter submitted by mr. kasen sparrow digital media director stated pete brought incredible energy, focus, and a clear vision to the organization and showed in everything that the team accomplished together. >> and i similarly asked to submit to the record a letter from paul j. roberts retired colonel u.s. army special forces speaking to the unwavering integrity of mr. hegseth. is there objection? without objection, those three will be admitted. senator scott. >> all right. first, congratulations on your nomination

not wonderful news for xi jinping. they have very different interests. as of now, we don't see that having very much of an impact. for years, go back 5, 10 years. chinese-israeli relations were quite good, china was investing a fair amount of money in israel. high tech stuff. and russian-israeli relations were good. they collaborated to make sure they did not get in each other's way in syria. the israelis were bombing syria all the time to try prevent ringing arms going to hezbollah. they do not get in the way of russians in syria. that has changed now in 2024. and i would say it has changed because both of them had to ask, china and russia, that is, what is the game here, what are we doing here? and the key issue is the united states. the key issue is to diminish american influence. for example, it is good for china to have a high tech relationship with israel, but it is being destroyed. they are willing to take that destruction because there is a bigger game. the bigger game is u.s. influence on the world. rush: i think that sounds right. thank you to

china has viewed democratically governed taiwan as its territory.hinese president xi jinping has alsoccused the taiwanese leader of being a separatist. in his new year's speech today, she said no one can stop china's reunification with taiwan. okay, before dawn this friday, you may be able to see this year's first annual quadrantid meteor shower. showers caused by debris from an asteroid, nasa says under clear and dark conditions, you can spot more than 100 shooting stars an hour during the shower's peak. no special equipment is needed, so you just have to look up to the sky. celestial show is expected to stay active until january 16th. sounds beautiful right? garvin thomas joins us now with what's coming up next. right now at 6:00, tragedy on bourbon street. new year's eve celebrations in new orleans turned deadly after a man plows a pickup truck into a large crowd. it was the most bizarre thing. like something that you like the least expected thing. we are tracking the developments from the historic new orleans site, where authorities are now looking into whether the suspect was con

rescuers themselves, hundreds of people, hundreds of rescuers have been despatched, president xi jinping announced this morning that he issued instructions to ensure that civilian casualties are at a minimum and those who are at a minimum and those who are lost their homes can be at least housed somewhere warm, and somewhere dry for the time being. that is going to be a challenge, becausejust being. that is going to be a challenge, because just as getting rescuers in there is going to be difficult it will be really difficult to get aid trucks into these mountainous regions so we are monitoring chinese state media, we are seeing the pictures coming in and hearing the updates through press conferences and the last one we had in the last hour, said that 5 people had been killed and 135 have been injured. that is the latest figure we have. is that is our correspondents monitoring events in beijing. let's speak to journalist bhadra sharma who joins us from kathmandu. i understand that the tremors were felt as far as kathmandu? yes it was... many people who are still in their bed, they were sl

so i could easily imagine xi jinping saying, look, i perfectly well understand greenland is close tothe united states. taiwan's close to us. trump won't rule out the use of force on greenland. exactly our position. we won't rule it out on taiwan or vladimir putin could say, look, i certainly understand that ukraine is critical to our national security. we are using force. and, you know, frankly, if the united states invaded greenland, which, by the way, has u.s. troops stationed there today, uh, i vladimir putin wouldn't oppose that. it shows trump again, not understanding the broader context that his remarks are made in and the harmful consequences that this is having all across nato right now. >> you're saying that president xi and president putin could use this as a as a way to justify what what they argue about ukraine and taiwan, but you're also what you're saying there, maybe indirectly, is that trump sounds like president xi and president putin, when he's making an argument that greenland should belong to the u.s. because of national security reasons, and that he's willing to

i would submit that xi jinping is watching what we do very carefully. if we abandon ukraine, that would be the strongest signal possible to xi jinping that he can take taiwan without significant resistance from this country. >> thank you, senator king. senator scott of florida. >> mr. chairman, i'd like to enter into the record two letters which testify to mr. hedgepeth's leadership record at concerned veterans for america. >> the first letter submitted by mr. darren zelnick, a senior advisor at cfr, stated that there's been no better leader, policy champion or fighter for the military and veterans and that he was instrumental in 2014 and 2017, in ensuring that veterans had health care choice. >> the second letter, submitted by mr. carson spero, digital media director of cva from 2015 to 2017, stated pete brought incredible energy, focus and a clear vision to the organization and showed everything that the team accomplished together and i similarly asked to submit to the record a letter from paul j. >> roberts, retired colonel, u.s army special forces.

plucked this clip of kamala seemingly tying as she realizes the presidents club is the latest xi jinpinghange with peter doocy. >> it looked very friendly i must say. i didn't realize it, how friendly it looked. i saw it, wonderful network a little while ago before i came in and they look like two people look like each other. we are little different philosophies. but i get along with just about everybody. we met backstage before we went on the bottles of beautiful service we all got along very well. the. [applause] >> when he was asked. i love the scene as a whole because it is a real housewives reunion. the funeral to round that up. i'll start here, my community college teachers told me how important jimmy carter was important for the mets. [laughter] great arm. the kid, what happened to that exchange? >> your detention room buddies are going to get this one. they were talking about got to throw the first spitball at kamala and she heard it and that's why -- she couldn't believe obama wanted to throw the first ball. how are you going to do me like that? is it true kamala went up the sec

and really no practical solutions from xi jinping.s i don't think you can have good commercial relations with china right now. >> so. so would you say the labour government has got the wool pulled over its eyes when it comes to china? and they're just going over there and china's going to sell, sell, sell china. but actually the outcome for britain could be horrendous, particularly as you predicted the chinese economy may collapse. >> yes. right now, you know, you hear rachel reeves talk about, well, we want to even up the playing field. we want to have good relations with china. and yes, you know, western leaders have said that for decades, but it's just right now, with xi jinping closing up the chinese economy, with him sort of taking almost semi—emergency measures, it's just not possible to have those type of commercial benefits for britain or for any other country at this particular time. >> do you think, as a result of us trading closer with china, that that trump, who's been very tough talking, tough on tariffs might actually ma

heck this month, that pictures from china, the meeting there between hunter biden and president xi jinpinghy did biden go down to angola give the angolan government, controlled by one party, a marxist kru krucorrupt party since 1974, why give them 600 million dollars for a crazy railway project in light of what happened in china, a lot of people are suspicious? >> you know, i watched this i could of hard working people of this country truck drivers and people working at stores and second shifts, we're taking their money out of their pockets with our high taxes and sends that money to an angola. the railway they are supporting is run by the chinese, we're underwriting a chinese railway project with a corrupt communist dictatorship, poor folks in tennessee and texas and utah working second shifts in factory, we're taking their money to send it to the marxists in angola, it makes no sense, president trump has opinion -- been 100% right on this s he sees where america is getting ripped off. we need to bolster our defenses even. it is saying calling people on -- saying this is happening. come j

a speech from president xi jinping does not seem to have rallied the market at all, but the data is not encouraging, whether it is the emi or the caixin numbers today below expectations. there is a story going around that the pboc have been injecting liquidity into the money markets over the past few we say and some people in china suggest that means a delay to interest rate cuts this year and that is obviously not something investors were looking for. they were hoping the pboc would step up really likely, but there would be at least a reserve ratio cut in the early part of january, and the low crime rate would be brought down. looks like that is being postponed. investors do not like that. january will be a tough month in the chinese region. we have not just the inauguration of trump coming up, but the year is coming earlier than usual. that is in january so investors are looking for recent data on the sidelines, there are plenty. that is what it looks like with a negative start for hong kong and china today. lizzy: misting to juxtapose that with the optimism of resident xi 's new year

in october of last year, president xi jinping proposed the global a.i. governance initiative. comprehensively illustrating china in three dimensions. the resolution of enhancing international cooperation on capacity, building of a.i. which was tabled by china was adopted later on. promoted and established the group for international cooperation on a.i. building. at the g20 summit, president xi jinping stressed the need to strengthen international governance and cooperation on a.i. and ensure that a.i. works for good and for all rather than becoming a gain for the rich and powerful. under the frame work of brics china and or members agreed on a study group for information exchange with a view to formulating a.i. governance framework, norms and standards, enjoying broad consensus. on the military application of a.i., an issue with significant implications on the future on humankind, the responsibility as a responsible major power in 2021, china submitted to the convention on certain conventional weapons, on regulating the military use of a.i. we maintain that all ies should domt

relations with america's friends before donald trump returns to the white house so you have seen xi jinping on the charm offensive with japan, australia, india, doing what he can before another round of terrace kicks in and this visit is another part of that. >> did the market turmoil at home overshadow this visit? >> for u.k. reporters of course this is front and center at the moment. there had been pressure for her to cancel the trip. she responded that her fiscal rules are nonnegotiable, which basically acknowledges that if the office of budget responsibility when it comes back in march says she has no headroom she will have to make a choice between spending cuts and tax rises and she of course has indicated her choice would be spending cuts. we'll have to see whether this messaging is enough to calm the markets. you talk about what the indications are for traders in the options market and 8% fall and stirring -- sterling potentially today and as you remember last week the 10 year gilt yield at its highest since 2008 so really interesting to watch the moves in the u.k. market at the open

they would rather write their social security number and put it on a post-it note and put it on xi jinping'sme talk, too, that some of these people who have moved to red note. will do weekly bans. reels, what's app. et cetera. >> there is a certain sense of irony, that mark zuckerberg has cozied up. >> there's a lot of goofiness going on here. but at the end of the day, i'm not sure the app is banned. i think you can't download it. there's a host of other things. but isps would have to block it. >> it would just degrade. eventually, it will cease to work. >> yeah. the kids will use it, though. they're obsessed. >> like guy. >> you say that in jest. but meanwhile, who was thest adapter -- >> of pint arrest? >> pinterest? >> people tell me to open this. and i don't do it because you need to be on tiktok. >> isn't red note going to be banned? the only one that needs it, snap needs it for their stock performance. snap only had one quarter of profitability since 20 top. so if anyone needs a ban on tiktok. it's them. >>> coming up, more accurate reveals. >> carter and julie's acronyms are back. fa

the ccp, xi jinping acid china wants to be the dominant player by 2030.they did ten nukes in the last are about ten more coming. they are authoritarian state. they control all the data. the data goes into these. we are ahead in the chips but they control a trash -- can throw massive resources. at these. if i connect the dots here. one of the things both members here, because of spent on thinking about this and be smart on it by the u.s. government is going to have to buy computer for u.s. government purposes but i mentioned earning 107 $5 billion after looking at best. they need to make sure the economics work for a return model. if the u.s. government can do a backstop by prepaying for committing to buying that compute it unlocks that capital to come into this country to invest come into these data centers. that's a get an interesting potential avenue for public-private approach. common has to buy this, they have to do it anyhow. if you make this commence to bring the capital in globally in the expect the velvet of the data centers that we need. those da

if imposed as advertised, trump's tariffs could deal a hefty blow to china, xi jinping would have noasy remedies, i was shocked to read that yeah. second on energy trump will take immediate action to release america's vast energy reserves. this despite a pitiful move by joe biden today announcing that he is expanding territory that is off limits to offshore drilling. thanks. trump is just going to undo that on day one. third on immigration, trump can't move fast enough to deport the millions who have gamed our system. including the monsters who joe biden's policies allowed in, like nicholas jose francisco, just charged with sexual battery. i want to see his photo, against a 5-year-old girl in palm beach, county, florida, yeah. fourth. trump is ready to reform our woke military. the pentagon has an almost $900 million budget and, yet, america hasn't won a war outright since world war ii. that's despite our brave troops. so, it's time to ditch transmania and social justice experiments at the pentagon and all the fantasies about how that is going to make us a stronger fighting force. th

. >> president biden: there's nothing i can tell you about my conversations to xi jinping or putin.othing of our adversaries and competitors crushing china would like more to cs tied down afghanistan for another decade. for all those reasons and ending the war. >> president biden talking about china's economy of growing the american economy will never be a concern again and says a new china threat is emerging. >> of its china and not the united states determining the ar on the planet that says the sticks of that are just profound. >> the president is leaving office with the war in ukraine but he wants credit crediting volodymyr zelensky and creating a long train ride to ukraine once. >> president biden: when putin invaded ukraine he thought he conquered kyiv in a few days and the truth is i'm at the center of kyiv and not him, like we ever have. [applause] think about it. >> for almost four full years we've heard this president talk about strengthening nato and today he claimed america has more allies than ever. >> martha: peter thank you. let's bring in the former vise chief of sta

xi jinping, vladamir putin, kim jong-un, hezbollah and al shabaab and houthi rebels and because we have someone in the pentagon going to follow donald trump's lead and make sure there's peace in the world again and closer to world war ii than in my entire lifetime and time to project peace together and peace through strength and pete hegseth and pete is going to bring america across the line and protect our citizens and allies for the first time in the last four years. it's fantastic and we're thrilled and there's a bunch of navy seals and my brothers in combat and arms that came here today to support him and very very, very thankful that republican members and thank you, senator, that got pete hegseth into office and let's go. america is back. larry: by the way, hegseth was not afraid to fight back. do we have the clip of him fighting back about the anonymous smears. take a listen, gentlemen, pete is a fighter and strong guy. here it comes. >> a small handful of anonymous sources were allowed to drive a smear campaign: all they were allowed to do was destroy me. why? because i'm a chan

xi jinping asked the leadership what's the deal with deflation, but it will pick up on what you saidendulum. it feels like everything is going to such an extreme and their currency is weakening further and our dollar is strengthening and it will be an each bigger headwind for manufacturing and so forth and right as trump and team will take office and where we're so much in balance, and the things happening in the market are making all of that worse and now they have to try make it better without upsetting the applecart. good luck. >> absolutely. look at the u.s. dollar index, and we're at 110. i know you guys were talking about that earlier. that's a 24-month high and that makes doing business with the u.s. extremely expensive for people that are using currency other than the u.s. dollar and having to convert their currency to dollars. also, it's interesting because you see assets like gold. gold in u.s. dollar terms continues to be incredibly strong. we are now trading around 2700 in a market where the ten-year note yield is up 100 basis points and the u.s. dollar is up 10% in three

a lot of things about two years ago, saying they had specific intelligence that the president, xi jinping told his military that he wants to be ready for a land invasion of taiwan in 2027. and the reality is that he may or may not do that but he wants his mill troy be ready and i think what -- military to be ready and i think what we're seeing is the preparations, the cable cutting, the cyber attacks and the recently reported landing preparations. maria: do you believe they will go into taiwan in the next couple of years? what do you expect here? >> i'm not -- time will tell but clearly what they want to do is threaten. they want to coerce taiwan to submit to beijing and so i think what we need to do is sort of stand by taiwan in a sort of at tit-for-tat thing. if they will start cutting cables, we need to do what we can to support taiwan so they can for the best of their ability maintain their independence, in the case of communication or supplies, much like we did -- remember the early cold war, the soviets, we responded with the berlin air lift. that was president truman. that was an e

inauguration, the new york post of chile, peru, nigeria chomping at the bit to attend trump invited xi jinpingown and we know a top chinese adversary will be there instead in his place, italian prime minister giorgia meloni said she will try to get there to the inauguration. argentina's president javier planning to attend and brazil's former president receiving an invitation as well. trump preparing for 100 executive orders right after the inauguration on day one upon taking office. joining me heritage foundation and heritage action president the author of dawn's early light taken back washington to save america kevin roberts back with us. good to see you, thank you for being here. the inauguration is going to be a big event, a lot of foreign leaders want to be there and right after he swore again he'll go right to the oval office and start with his pen on 100 executive orders, what do you expect this to be. >> i expect the first minutes after president trump being sworn in to be the beginning of the golden era of america as he's been saying in we've been saying the last few years that heritag

xi-jinping sending an emmesary to trump's inauguration and mr. trump is preparing a flood of new executive orders to overturn joe biden's big government regulatory socialism. to name just a few that may come immediately on january 20, remain in mexico, ending catch and release, deportations ending illegal migrant air fights, ending the ev mandate, reversing the offshore drilling ban for fossil fuels, re-opening an war, ending the lng export moratorium. in effect mr. trump is ending the biden administration and it's ill-advised policies and even today's jobs report which surprised wall street on the upside, well, some are touting that as more proof of the trump effect. meanwhile, in light of the massive jump in small business confidence that immediately followed the election, it could well be that a chunk of december's job gains are in fact related to the incoming president's pro-growth agenda. meanwhile, financial markets today are throwing a temper tantrum at federal reserve head jay powell because he got the interest rate and economic story com

if imposed as advertised, trump's tariffs could blow a hefty blow to china and xi jinping no remedies coach i was shocked to read that. trump will take immediate action to unleash vast energy reserves. this despite a pitiful move by joe biden today announcing that he is expanding territory that is off limits to offshore drilling coach at thanks. trump's will undo that they want. third on emigration trump can't move fast enough to deport the millions who have gained our system including the monsters who joe biden's policies allowed man, like nicholas jose francisco just charged with sexual battery. i want to see his photo, against a 5-year-old girl in palm beach county, florida. fourth, trump's ready to reform to welcome military. the pentagon has $900 billion budget and yet coach america has not won a war outright since world war ii despite the troops. it is time to ditch trance mania and at the pentagon and all the fantasies about how that will make us a stronger fighting force. that didn't work. fifth, trump needs to end the ukraine war and his delta did this. by the way, zelenskyy

it's like he's saying, where are all of you, you are nobody, that will talk to putin and xi jinping.o are you? deliver greenland. he's a great guy, an awesome guy, he added. is making putin very happy. that's clear but my question for the trump base is, your side said that you wanted no more wars. he said he's willing to go to war to take these countries that don't want us. your side said they want to use, quote, stop dlg, a fake agency, to cut $3 trillion on the federal budget. where they getting the magic money to buy greenland and the panama canal it may be purchased canada? where are they getting this magical money they are supposed to be cutting? none of it makes sense and i just wondered if at some point, billionaires and billionaire funded podcasters telling maga that this is not a fantasy, start to crack and they start to think, wait a minute, we've been had. >> sure. we know that will happen at some point because we've seen this movie before. there was going to be awol. mexico was going to pay for it. there were all these things that happen. they didn't happen. trump was ele

structural issues and those are so big now, i literally don't know how they can be fixed, especially if xi jinpingaid what's the big deal about inflation. >> i think they are being very conservative with implementing this stimulant, they don't know exactly what those policies will look like but they don't have any choice, their back is up against the wall, a terrible performance of the shanghai composite, particularly this week, it is a thumbs down from investors in china saying you've got to do more and for any politician including president xi, when you get that thumbs down, that is a bad sign, so you're starting to see moves like ndrc , we think the supertanker is starting to move, just very slowly. >> appreciate it, it has been a rough stretch for chinese equities. coming up, and nvidia is the best performing max seven this week, but investors are looking to the next catalyst of growth, we could get some answers from the ceo's keynote address in vegas next week, we will look ahead to that next. what will you do when the power goes out? power outages can be unpredictable and inconvenient, but w

chinese president xi jinping has called for an all out search and rescue effort in the region. course we will keep you updated on that. reggie. >> thanks, cori. the man responsible for the infamous vallejo kidnaping is now facing new charges for a crime committed in 2015. police in the east bay believe matthew mueller is also the man behind a home break-in. that left the owners too scared to report the crime to authorities. abc seven news reporter lena howland is here with the details on that. >> reggie. the contra costa district attorney says that 47 year old matthew mueller unlawfully held two men and one woman for ransom in the san ramon area back in the spring of 2015. he demanded that one of those three withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from their bank account to secure the release of the others. the victims did just that, but they never reported the crime over fears that mueller would come back for them. the da tells us that mueller confessed to that crime during their correspondence with him last year. all of this coming after the netflix docu series american nightma

moving forward, we will fully implement the important instructions given by general secretary xi jinpingill spare no efforts to conduct thorough searches for trapped people, provide medical care, offer essential relief, and ensure the basic needs of affected residents. amna: chinese state tv says that more than 1000 homes were damaged in the remote region. and nearly 200 people were injured on the chinese side of the border, in addition to those killed. in florida, authorities say two bodies were found dead in the landing gear compartment of a jetblue aircraft. the airline says they were discovered last night during routine post-flight maintenance at fort lauderdale airport following a flight from new york. police say both individuals are believed to be men, but provided no further details. jetblue says it's working with authorities to understand what happened. it comes just weeks after another body was discovered in the wheel-well of a plane, that time on a united airlines flight from maui to chicago. the man accused of burning a woman to death last month in a new york city subway car p

chinese president xi jinping was invited but will not attend. mr. trump's team called it an olive branch to ease tensions. the leaders from argentina and el salvador are among those who have also been invited. the president elect is receiving support from three tech giants. meta and amazon are each donating $1 million to trump's inaugural fund, along with openai ceo sam altman. amazon will air the event on its prime streaming service. founders mark zuckerberg and jeff bezos have clashed with trump in the past, but now say they look forward to working with the administration. here are some key dates to watch ahead of donald trump's return to the white house and the federal government. january 3rd. the 119th congress will be sworn in, and members will pick a speaker. january 6th. congress will convene to count the electoral college votes. january 20th. white house move in day for the trumps and the inauguration. a reminder if you want to see this show again, you can see it on our fox local app. it's a free download for your smart tv or phone. you can

it's a way to, i think, essentially act on the world stage in the way his apparent heroes, xi jinpingputin, these autocratic rulers that he has admired and talked about, he sees them going after bits of territory, trying to reshape the map of the world. what i think when you talk about make america great again, it's really a backward looking exercise, this idea of going back to some legendary time when things were so wonderful and great. and in this case, we talk about paris, we talk about other things. we are really talking about the 19th century and we are talking about going back to a period there -- >> mckinley. >> exactly. so we're talking about going back to a period when it was a kind of smash and grab and everybody was trying to kind of find as much territory as they could in the world, and that was the way that you got security. how did all of that end? it ended in world war ii and the holocaust. it ended in just astonishing human suffering and that gave birth to an international system that allowed us to find ways to resolve these kinds of disputes and talk to one another. w

trump said he wanted to invite xi jinping to his inaugural. who knows what's happened about that?ut it you know, it suggests something which is that somebody like elon musk needs a good relationship between the u.s. and china. he needs the chinese market to justify the kind of crazy value that's placed on tesla. but there are lots of people in trump land who want a much more hawkish policy on china. who's going to win? >> i'd bet my money on the business wing of the trump administration, because it doesn't appear that president trump himself has very strong commitments to defensive america's allies in the region, to the independence of taiwan. i think what the president's likely to be looking for is a deal that affects trade policy with china, and that's more likely to be aligned with the business wing of trump influencers. >> what do you think? >> i hope corey is wrong. i fear she's right. but there are different camps. there's the geoeconomics, if you will, as opposed to the politics. but yeah, i think the concern among a lot of us is that there's a deal to be had that the chine

course, that is precisely what vladimir putin says about the line between russia and ukraine, or xi jinping, about the division between china and taiwan. this is a world that makes russia and china great again. go to cnn.com/vote for a link to my washington post column this week, and let's get started that was donald trump jr. landing in the capital of greenland this week while his father, the president elect, continues to assert that american control of that island is an absolute necessity. greenland's prime minister has said that the territory is not for sale and will never be for sale, and is also calling for complete independence from denmark. anders fogh rasmussen is a former prime minister of denmark and a former secretary general of nato. he joins me now. anders, welcome. tell me what how do you react to this whole situation? >> well, i'm very calm, actually. i think this is not going to happen as outlined by president trump. but i agree that greenland has a strong strategic importance. and i also agree that the u.s. has a crucial role in the arctic. and that's why already today, we

but that was a relationship that both biden and xi jinping tried over the last year to manage to create and china is in a very difficult position economically right now, but trump is coming in and saying, i'm going to hit you guys with 60% tariffs. well, unless the chinese cry uncle and offer a deal that trump is prepared to accept, the reality is we will be decoupling further our economies, and there will be a global cost to that. there will be a cost to american consumers for that as well. >> is there also a more potentially violent cost to that? i mean, china hacked into our systems. they have control or have the ability to get into our energy grid, and all of our other infrastructure here in this country. they have also been listening to our phone lines. they're much deeper in than anyone thought they could get into our systems, and there's no real telling how to get them out. there's that, there's also just the influence game they're playing, the game they're playing with tiktok and the way it's completely consumed the attention of millions opinionup millions of millions americans,

. >> when xi jinping calls the smokeless battlefield, it'd be like if in the 1960s, walter cronkite wasiet spy. it's just nonsensical that this is somehow a first amendment issue. >> okay, let me get to what happened this week with donald trump refusing to rule out using military force to take control of greenland and the panama canal. now, look, it may seem like just a distraction, but now your republican colleague, congressman dusty johnson, proposed a bill allowing the federal government to repurchase the canal, which president carter turned over to panama half a century ago, in 1977. johnson is arguing china's influence on the vital shipping canal is a national and economic security risk. but here's the thing. you know, this region, i mean, we have this picture of you, you're there training panamanian troops in the canal zone during your time in the marines. panama says it is not interested in selling. so should this even be up for conversation? do you believe donald trump is serious about a revival of american expansionism this way? >> alex. you're right. >> ten years ago, i comman