yeah, john wong is a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations. he says the concerns about travelers coming from china are understandable or impart because the re, yes, 0 coby to approach that. not all arrayed, any new fashion, even though as resolved, most of the people in the country was not re exposed to the buyer. and because of the epic, the re, a lack of effort could be of the chinese that being so the and high body level most the chinese people walk very low. so that allows the virus just to, to bang and again, the back in the country by the way, the be resolved of these 0 coby approach. well, i think people in the country have reason to be concerned about the i was trying to . but i don't think it is reason to be the pastor or so by there is no evidence of emerging new stuff bearing from china and given that most of the destination countries have learned with the fire in the, in the chinese visitors and not going to be to the spike up in the country. around 200 people have been moved to safety and a hill town in northern india, after their

wong dong and shenzhen. rishaad: hong kong chief executive john lee there.laying out still from yesterday and we also have this other story on property and the easing, according to people familiar, of restrictions on developer borrowing. ever since news emerged some 20 minutes ago, we have seen a movie about .8% to the upside. we are looking at also the hang seng tech index, which has put up to the market overall continuing its stellar start of the year and the benchmark for hong kong up by more than 1%. we kick things off with the potential impact of the border reopening this sunday. how does this move the dial? eric: i think definitely, it is a big boost to growth all of this year. i think the movement -- we were expecting growth this year, but i think the movement had been quicker than expected due to china's quick exit of covid zero. i think our baseline, like if the reopening starts in midyear, the growth will be somewhere between 2% and 3%, but i think now, the timelines -- rishaad: it will fix everything, though, will it? >> probably not. it will brin

friend john stankey on 5g -- >> you're such a -- chat gpt will actually produce a lot of internet of things remember, that's an nvidia-based product. they get a little bit every time dr. jenson wongor wong, i call him da vinci. he has other guys involved that i computing and gaining, you're selling it ahead of what could be the bonanza of chat gpt >>> the opening bell is a little more than five minutes away. by the way, don't forget you can catch us any time and anywhere by listening to and following "squawk on the street" opening bell podcast >>> the market in the space of really six, seven months has gone to corporate profits will be up 12% this year, inflation coming down to 2%. the fed may be easing at the end of the year. that's pretty much nirvana if you're a bull. >> that's reflouned short seller jim chanos on fast money offering his take on the markets. a lot of that thesis he doesn't necessarily believe. >> yes, the yield curve says that can happen. most people who i know are saying we have bad wage inflation. powell has said we're going to have to stay longer higher now we have commodities coming back up. copper coming back up, lumber is up big and getting positive stor