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say that no we are not part of china and we are not going to pursue indication with china even though some of the local candidates in this election might have the tendency of pursuing better relations with china but seeing them you know pursuing a policy of unifying with china is going to be wrong and up to all this is a local election and dog the course of relations has not been debated in this election in their. for relations or trying to factor is not the key factor in this election and therefore we should not interpret the election as if taiwan people choose to unify was china or to choose to push through another route was china you're in charge of spreading taiwan's message to the world but how hard is that when taiwan's not part of the united nations you're not part of the world health assembly interpol how difficult is it for you the main the frustrations must be enormous you're absolutely right i can not think of any other country that has a more difficult foreign policy then taiwan china's been trying very hard to isolate taiwan internationally to prevent taiwan from having official relations

there will be a lot of exits we see in the local china market if the board goes out.eople talk about the challenges. from reuters, they say it is not a big issue. is this a challenge for you? >> no. the best funds have the best time to fundraising. there is always money especially in the u.s. dollar market. there will be few people are we have few r&d deals. it will make things tougher. but the core, a lot of the core technology startup space has been u.s. dollar anyway. tom: and it is good to focus on the consumer upgrade story. economists have said maybe we are at a peak now given retail spending is slowing, which group -- wage growth is softer. what is your view? >> there is still a lot of growth, but it is slowing down. consumer upgrades in its entirety is more segmented. people are more targeted like second-tier cities, third to fifth tier cities, so i that products are more segmented. consumer upgrade for the fifth tier city is different for the first. products are different. pdp is not a downgrade but an upgrade for the underserved. tom: do you expect fewer lis

china. apparently that is savor as well as spicy. because of the localization, he said that the company was able to move this product into the market withinour months which he described as china speed. for nightly business report, i'm eunice yunn sujo sfla spicy chicken other owe hmm time to look at upgrades and downgrades. beginning with dean foods downgraded from hold to buy at the company turn around is said to take longer than anticipated. price target $6. falling half a% to 5.95. square downgraded to neutral from positive. they c citedcerns of the vote position. and price target $77. dropping 9%. closing at 75.23. archer daniels midland upgraded to buy from hol at argue as. citing strong performance in the oileeds appear nutrition divisions. price tart is now $53 process that stock rose half a% to 48.57. ill ahead the rise of dna testing and some of the controversial issues involved. >>> today's jobless claimsrt reas another reminder of how hot our job market is. new applications for unemploymenty benefits fell 1,000 last week remaining near a 45-year low

i'm also a heads taiwan change its name for the olympic games a yes vote in local elections risks inflaming tensions with china. would you be here because your day there is the center of gravity of this when the u.n. envoy to yemen visits the port city of the day that says he secured an agreement paving the way for the for the rebels to attend talks. at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the waters are rising we join a bosnian border patrol on the watch for a migrants who are risking their lives hoping for a better future. hello pressure is growing on the u.s. president to act on intelligence reports suggesting the saudi crown prince ordered the murder of journalist. the democrats have to leave the house intelligence committee when the newly elected members take office says donald trump's response will become part of an investigation rosalyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . it should come as no surprise that democrats say that they're going to investigate the way that the trumpet ministration has been conducting its business once they come to power in the house in early januar

but there are locals here to see china as a friend.woman is the ambassador for the china papua new guinea friendship association. chinese businesses he pulled the money together to fund it. when we need something to help us, the chinese people come into the country and a perception needs to change about chinese people here in papua new guinea. they are here to help. australia has traditionally been the biggest donor and investor in papua new guinea but the chinese presence in growing rapidly and is increasingly visible to fears grow as to what beijing wants from this region. when you look at what china has done in djibouti and sri lanka where they have taken ownership of a lease of a pot they don't build themselves, you can extrapolate that out through the pacific. that is the concern, but they will get a foothold in the pacific and overtime they will slowly slice the salami to appoint where in 20 or 30 years we have a fully fledged military installation in the pacific. that is why this country is now so important to the us and its all

but there are locals here to see china as a friend.pua new guinea friendship association. chinese businesses he appalled their money together to fund it. we need something there to help us, people the chinese people coming into the country and getting everything that papua new guinea owns but it has to change and position has to change about chinese people here in png are here to help. australia has traditionally been papua new guinea's biggest donor and investor but china's presence here is growing rapidly and is increasingly visible, and fears are growing as to what beijing wants from the region. you ta ke beijing wants from the region. you take a look at what china has done in sri lanka, taking ownership of a 99 year lease of a port that they themselves built and you can draw themselves built and you can draw the thread out to the pacific. i think that is the great concern, but they will get a foothold somewhere in the pacific and it may be opportunistic as to where it may be an overtime they will slice of the line to a point where

for example, china's local government are suffering from high debt. the fragile financial system is also becoming a risk.se secondly bec the top market has increased the pressure, my investments have shrun quite a lot. >> reporter: doesn't go well for foreign brands, whichend to ess higher in this market across industries. if the consumption downgrades as it's being called here holds, there could be two pential outcomes -- policymakers here could have a bigger headache on their hands as they try to manage and meet their economic growth targets, and this could be another potential head wind for u.s. markets. vichbters are already worried about a china slowdown so if there's a widespread retrenchment of consumption, that could hurt u.s. companies. for "nightly business report," i'm yunus un in beijing. >> and from th chinese economy to the u.s., where demand for new vehicles remained strong last moh, despite higher interest rates on auto loans. and drivers are also willing to shell out more money for those vehicles. >> reporter: from suvs to pickup truc

should taiwan change its name for the olympic games a yes vote in local elections risks inflaming tensions with china. at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the waters are rising we join our bosnian border patrol on the watch for refugees who are risking their lives for a better future. hello the us president donald trump's defense of the saudi crown prince in the wake of journalist. murder is expected to be part of an intense congressional investigation early next year the democrats hope to lead the house intelligence committee says there are plans to uncover trump's possible financial ties with the kingdom but u.s. presidents in a series of statements has cast doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agency that crown prince mohammed bin sandman ordered killing were also in jordan has been following those developments from washington d.c. . it should come as no surprise that democrats say that they're going to investigate the way that the trumpet ministration has been conducting its business once they come to power in the house in early january but when it comes to

well china has welcomed the overall defeat of taiwan's ruling pro independence democratic progressive party in saturday's local elections that led to the resignation of president zine when as chairwoman of the d.p.p. beijing says the results show that people want peaceful relations with china a germ brown cover story joining us from taipei this is a big blow for the ruling party adrian. yes daryn and that certainly reflected in the newspapers here in taiwan on sunday this is the front page of the liberty times to figure stand out fifteen and six fifteen being should number of cities that the opposition now hold six being the number of cities that the ruling party have been a picture of a very glum looking zion when that picture taken during the news conference she gave on saturday night when she confirmed she was resigning as leader of the d.p.p. of course big questions being asked here today as to whether the zion when will now run in the twenty twenty presidential election that will be held in just fourteen months time in january two thousand and twenty there's no obvious successor at the moment but it's qui

it's a local election being closely watched in china taiwan's midterm voters seem to have the popularity of the pro independence ruling party chinese government leaders are accused of meddling so how will the results of affect ongoing tensions with beijing this is inside story. welcome to the program.

of tying one because beijing doesn't like her china policies so is an election about china or is an election about local issues in many ways it's a bit of both trust and truth are also issues in this election as they were in the the us midterms and claims by time in these officials that china has been meddling in these elections in the run up to the election what evidence is there of that it's an excellent question so politicians are talking about it the media here in taiwan is talking about it we know it generally does occur or the t.v. i t experts have pointed to where some of the ip addresses are what we have not seen yet though are prosecutions for violations of the law so if there is evidence that people have engaged in illegal activities for example have received financial assistance from overseas from china or other places in violation of taiwan's electoral laws then it's incumbent on the government to actually prosecute people so we'll see if that happens in the coming days and weeks as of yet it's more talk it's more political tools to use against one's opponents but we haven't seen prosecution

in the business of moving stuff in and out of the country instead it's localized its operations earlier today i spoke with the chinaef who told me that localization has helped the company to be able to generate a tremendous amount of business despite the trade war. >> we are seeing as a company that is rooted in china. we like openness as a multinational. we like free trade as much as anyone i would not say it has influenced a lot we make and bake for china >> he says that china generates $1 billion in sales for the company here it's also one of the fastest growing markets for mondelez it's increasingly becoming more important. part of that is because of the oreo cookie. when i was speaking earlier, they say what researchers do is they come up with the idea and talk about what flavors are popular in china that means savory as well as spicy. so he said because of all the localization that the company has, they were able to move this product from the idea to the market in just four months he called that china speed it is really amazing how quickly it sold out. nine hours for the first batch >> eunice, i want to hear

president is in dallas after her ruling party suffered losses in last week's local elections worsening relations with china seem to have contributed to those poor results and in an exclusive interview with al-jazeera taiwan's foreign minister is accusing beijing of meddling in the island's politics adrian brown has a report now from taipei. in the lobby of taiwan's foreign ministry the flags of the dwindling number of countries that recognize the island republic just seventeen now in the past three years five diplomatic allies have been lured away by beijing taiwan's foreign minister joseph woo told me it's all part of china's strategy to isolate taiwan internationally and that each defection hurts and of course our people here feel betrayed and can be very strong here you know they decide to choose china you know that's their choice and the important thing for taiwan is that we want to make sure that those diplomatic ilyse remain loyal to taiwan china's diplomatic squeeze of taiwan began after the election of president zion when almost three years ago her party leans towards independence china regards tai

local government. for example, linkedin, china is much easier. we are not about all the world's information.e are about maximizing your economic opportunity, so that works well there. it is challenging for google because the chinese government says we want to control which information our populace sees, and that makes it challenging for google and one of the problems they need to sort out. david: what about technology helping us with climate change, education, poverty, inequality f income and wealth? reid: so many big problems, the solution is technology. i do think tech companies, which have the abilities and power, should focus on his. in a linkedin contact, how do we have constant upgrades of skills for the new jobs. that is a linkedin responsibility, microsoft responsibility. i think climate change is probably the best addressed through new energy technologies making coal clean. i have been investing in some of the energy tech companies, partly with the breakthrough energy coalition that bill gates has pulled together. i think the ability to apply technology to solving these undamental h

local government. for example, linkedin, china is much easier.are not about all the world's information at your fingertips. we are about maximizing your economic opportunity, so that works well there. it is challenging for google because the chinese government says we want to control which information our populace sees, and that makes it challenging for google and one of the problems they need to sort out. david: what about technology helping us with climate change, education, poverty, inequality of income and wealth? reid: so many big problems, the solution is technology. i do think tech companies, which have the abilities and power, should focus on this. linkedin , in a context, how do we have constant upgrades of skills for the new jobs. that is a linkedin responsibility, microsoft responsibility. i think climate change is probably the best addressed through new energy technologies making coal clean. -- lf as an invest major, as an investor,i have been investing in some of the energy tech companies, partly with the breakthrough energy coalitio

percent this election and the referendums happening alongside it are about local issues but there's another unavoidable one china whose leaders regard taiwan as part of their territory you know how with the without the laughter and the money dependence we taiwanese decide our own future we are always taiwanese and unlike us they are chinese. i'm fine with that referendum to decide whether we go for independence or unification but i personally support maintaining the status quo and the governments of both sides should cooperate. this election serves as a report card on president saying when he was elected three years ago china's leaders promptly cut off communications with her last month she accused china of meddling in the election campaign by spreading disinformation they are trying to undermine the reputation of the. ministration they are trying to balconies if you will or split the relationship between central government and local governments and very much excess or bache and widen the contradictions and divides that exists within taiwan the society so as to undermine its cohesion and ability to present its o

national appetite for wine has matured in china most of the vineyards production is sold abroad consumption of imported french wines continues to rise in the country but local wine drinkers still have to be convinced to sit made in china vintages. so the. technology. market. made in germany. your business magazine d w. i'm not laughing at them well i guess sometimes i am but i say laughing with. the german thinks even for german culture looking at the stereotypes clad in here thinks he's a country guy now i'm playing. the piano needed to take his grandmother there . it's cold out there. i'm rachel joins me from the german sunday w. . post. through flood. plain.

the mines and factories however has sent shock waves through the local economy unemployment is high here the problem is common across china's coal heartland cities struggle to strike a balance between environmental concerns and keeping their economies afloat many here are critical of last winter's small crackdown factories were forced to close whether they'd implemented pollution controls or not this year beijing has promised to be more business friendly gin chang however is unlikely to enjoy any leniency because of its past failures. so i see that all many cities here in the region rank the lowest in the country when it comes to environmental law enforcement and information disclosure that this means the ability to implement loss to regulate these industries is very weak to father to me. now the local economy is placing its hopes in gas rather than culled the area is rich in me thing which can be used for heating and it will provide jobs to china is determined to reduce its dependence on coal by twenty twenty coal should make up fifty eight percent of total energy use that's down more than ten percentage points in a decade

it's a local election being closely watched in china taiwan's midterm voters seemed test of popularity for the pro independence ruling party trying to use government leaders are accused of meddling so how will the results affect on going tensions with beijing this is inside story. over welcome to the program i'm laura kyle millions of taiwanese voted in mid-term elections on saturday on the ruling democratic progressive party was dealt a severe blow to the vote is being closely watched by government leaders in beijing which regards taiwan as a breakaway territory reports from taipei. well behind me one of the one hundred fifty thousand places where votes are being counted in these local elections as well as the ten referendums that are happening alongside it as always in an election in taiwan china has been the dominant overriding issue that's because for the past few years relations between beijing and taipei have gone from bad to worse they started to get bad when president zine when was elected in january two thousand and sixteen relations with the previous government here in taiwan

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and china's even racing to position itself will need a local wine market now and it's being backed by legendary luxury. this is your business update on how the whole frame but then glad you could join me the countdown is on for the government in rome has until later on tuesday to come up with a budget for twenty nineteen which brussels agrees with european commission is already kicked out the current one saying it flouts a commitment to reduce the country's debt and that debt is sizeable the second highest in the euro zone as a proportion of g.d.p. now brussels says if rome does not come up with the goods later it will start disciplinary steps against rome later this month. the italian government is not backing down over its budget despite e.u. commission warnings to dress to clear reduce its budget deficit target after talks with euro group president mario same thing or italy's finance minister said it would be political suicide to cede to the e.u.'s demands they could at least give full and i mean. we are going to reiterate our budget fundamental characteristics and rationality that

really in the business of moving stuff in and out of the country instead it localizes its operations earlier today i spoke with the chinald me that localization has helped the company to be able to generate a tremendous amount of business despite the trade war. this is what he said >> we are seeing as a multinational, also as a company that is rooted in china. we like openness as a multinational. we like free trade as much as anyone i would not say it has influenced a lot we have our sales people here, our factories here, our r & d center here. we make and bake for china >> he also said china generates about $1 billion in sales a year for the company. it is becoming an increasingly important market for the company, and that's thanks to this little cookie so just to ask him exactly how this is made, he said the researchers came up with the idea because they were wondering what flavors are popular in china. it is savory as well as spicy. so he said because of all the localization that the company has, they were able to move this product from the idea to the market in just four months once it hit the market it sold out in

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firmly opposed ill intension and biased attempts to interfere in affairs of our local government or rashly criticised china over its internal affairs. i'm just wondering what do you do what is possible. i mean to me two things jump out one is we need to get independent credible investigators into sion jam and we really haven't had that we haven't had the un have the ability to go there and produce a comprehensive report from the region itself or we at human rights watch had to do all of our research from outside of the country and although we heard heartbreaking stories about kids we came up in the middle of the night missing their parents or families being separated of torture of deaths we're doing all of this remotely so people need access that's the first thing and then the second is that other countries need to stand up to china and say that this is unacceptable you can't do something like this in the twenty first century to millions of your citizens just with the flimsy excuse that you're fighting terrorism there are ways that you can fight terrorism and then there are ways to really just be repressin

lot of opposition to what china was toing to do with respect this idea of infrastructure and forcing debt down their throats, and in fact, using chinese workers, not even local workers. there is a lot of opposition to what china is doing. i don't want to conclude anything. it will come to a head at the g20, that is the key point. but vice president pence, as he always does, defended american interest. >> what about the volatility in the markets? >> i knew you would ask me a volatility question. morning, thes licks, they're not bad. it was a lot worse 10-12 years ago. >> path forward on the china do? -- deal? >> keep the faith. god knows you don't want a kudlow prediction. but i'm just saying that the basic economy has reawakened and is going to stay there. i am reading some of the weirdest stuff of the session from around the corner. my personal view, our administrations you, recession is so far in the distance i cannot see it. >> do you have any reaction to a ivanka trump's use of a private email account. it has been described as a proxy given your criticism of hillary clinton. >> let me just say this, i think the absolute world of a ivanka trump, who is a

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china . you set out to conquer the sector. local partners seeing delighted by the deal. but i did wonder why china had suddenly decided to compete with france in italy in china tomato sauce isn't even on the menu. i spent two years investigating the circumstances behind this new trend. i discovered different kinds of tomatoes genetically modified tomatoes which are still largely unfamiliar in europe. these are. very firm fruit you can drop the label on first. i discovered a misunderstood and fascinating industry an industry born from the success of italian the strong money. saved and reinvented in the united states in china by a few entrepreneurs who turned it into what they call red gold. in california i met one of the leaders. this industry a multimillionaire obsessed with efficiency and success. in italy i saw workers exploited in africa farmers facing ruin. for the past two years i think collecting source's juices soups concentrates peel tomatoes and catch up from around the world the story i'm going to tell you is not simply about the canned food it's a story about t

china really does reflect what we're seeing globally. we are blessed with this growth driven by the network effect. they exist locally. re seeing in china is interesting. the same dynamic and trends we saw earlier which is when airbnb was first launched the majority of the users were millennials. if you look at the china market right now about 85% of our consumers are millennials. keeping in mind there are going to be 400 million millennials n china right? people going from china abroad. what is happening is they come back and they begin to travel domestically and airbnb begins to grow as a result of that. so the type of growth in beijing is actually replicated, similar numbers depending where you are looking throughout the country. china is a place you have to get up every day and work incredibly hard. we have a president of the business from china based on the ground there, an incredible team made up of chinese folks in beijing and other offices around the country. feel good about where we are but know we have to keep working at it. emily: you quietly removed some listings in the jewish west bank settlement. this is

it's a local election being closely watched in china taiwan. independence . so how will the results affect on going with this story. and welcome to the program. millions of taiwanese voted in mid-term elections on saturday the ruling democratic progressive party was dealt a severe blow to the vote is being closely watched by government leaders in beijing which regards taiwan as a breakaway territory reports from taipei. well behind me one of the one hundred fifty thousand places where votes are being counted in these local elections as well as the ten referendums that are happening alongside it as always in an election in taiwan china has been the dominant overriding issue that's because for the past few years relations between beijing and taipei have gone from bad to worse they started to get bad when president zine when was elected in january two thousand and sixteen relations with the previous government here in taiwan had been good some say too good which is why resign when was voted into office her crime in china's eyes is this she refuses to accept the

but is very controversial here in mexico china has welcomed the overall defeat of taiwan's ruling pro independence democratic progressive party in sas days local elections there's also brought the resignation of president in when as chairwoman of the d.p.p. beijing says the result so they've won peaceful relations with china has the latest from taipei. the reaction of taiwan's media to the opposition's emphatic win in saturday's local elections here in taiwan has been pretty overwhelming this is the liberty times newspaper that has two figures on the from page fifteen and six fifteen referring to the number of cities that the opposition now holds six being the number for the ruling party and a picture of a very glum zine in when that picture was taken as she was talking to journalists last night at a news conference when she confirmed she was resigning as leader of the d.p.p. and of course there are plenty of questions now being asked as to whether the cia in when can and will be the party's candidate in the twenty twenty presidential elections she remains president but her influence and power has been greatly reduced say analysts china has al

china? are local elections, so they have little to do with national policy or international policy.sually fought on local issues, things like big topics in this election were air pollution. they were wages and things like this. people have stressed this was not an election fought on china policy. the big challenge for the president now is there are 14 months to go before she stands for reelection in january 2020, and this election has done nothing but re-energize the opposition guarantee that she swept from power comprehensively two years ago. can she do to turn things around? what are the topics that could be pressuring her? she has to reach out to her own base and re-energize those people, young people and progressives. a couple of people have suggested she try to push harder even with reforms, the election on saturday there was a number of referendums including same-sex marriage that was comprehensively voted down by the electorate. one thing suggested what she should push harder on reforms like same-sex marriage to reach out to her base and re-energize young people. our taipei b

aircraft we know that china has a growing middle class as well as an upper class they like to buy their own private jets the middle class likes to fly a lot more so you need smaller local planes to be flying around china and elsewhere in asia and this is what china will be hitting of course bigger planes will be affected as well here check out this graph this sort of gives you a good idea of what's going on here top two thousand and seven u.s. exports exports to china what's at the top the list gets a lot of its aircraft so this is a big hit if it goes day out and look at boeing knows boeing knows what's happening here based out of chicago we've got an american company here we're looking at the next twenty years china is going to be ordering close to seventy seven hundred planes that translates to one point two trillion dollars in business that america could be shut out of also now the orders with the bigger planes thirty or forty percent of those orders can get moved over take it away from boeing and given to boeing's biggest competition which would be air bus from france so when you look at this though this is a this is a telling when you have china airlines which is

one hundred people were on board at the time china has welcomed the defeat of taiwan's pro independence ruling democratic progressive party in saturday's local elections beijing said the result shows people want peaceful relations with china its al-jazeera correspondent now. i am. in a new jazz fascinated me ever since i was a teenager. it is stunning strange warm and manna sing all at the same time. i moved here shortly after my wedding day sixteen years ago my husband and i had been a guitarist in a punk rock band and i was the singer. wonderful carefree days at an all grown up now and in search of a new adventure. into a house in a local neighborhood of jakarta indonesia had become our home. i was by dan a television reporter and andrei became my camera man. to gather we embarked on new careers as foreign correspondent. one event affected andrei and me more than any other it happened you know early years here and it continues to trouble me today. it is a story that i need to revisit it is a journey that i need to make again sadly it is a journey that i can only make alone. i'm back in east timor a country that i came to many times in the

lego has won a new intellectual property case in china, after a court agreed that four local companiesally copied its building blocks and miniature figures. the guangzhou district court ruled that the firms should immediately cease the production, sale and promotion of the toys and pay compensation. lego won two similar cases last year. americans go to the polls later today in one of the most competitive midterm elections in years. it's being seen as a referendum on president donald trump. one of the states with a tight senate race is indiana, which is the biggest steel making state in america. it's also the country's fifth largest producer of soybeans. they're the two biggest industries that have been caught up in the trade dispute with china and other countries. kim gittleson went there to find out what role it's playing in the race and the answer might surprise you. hey there, sir, didn't mean to disturb you... for the past few weeks derek morris has been going door—to—door to convince his fellow steel workers to vote for labour—friendly candidates. he's talked about health care and