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people's republic of china. >> theha cesrg provide a rare glimpse into the efrts telepho s of the prc to esas.cl >>ed overd a from 2015 to 2018, a complaint added xuehua peng conducted numerous dead drops in georgia and in the bay area, acting as an illegal peng allegedly used hotel room in newark and oakland to leave a bag of cash for an informant, usually in exchange for an sd card loaded with sensitive information. a card that peng would personally deliver to chinese g.icials in beijin >> d cdard is potent combination of age old spy craft and modern technology. >> on friday inmo home. a neighbor shared these still photos with abc7 news. according to the neighbor, agents spent several hours at eouse gathering evidence. >> it' really surprising. th's crazy. >>ing that you thought was suspicious? >> he seems like he had a lot of money. i mean driving a porsche, a tesla. every day he almost had amazon orders coming in. >> peng is being held without bo he is schedulednd to be back in san francisco federal court on wednesday morning. if convicted on all charges, he faces up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine
people's republic of china. >> theha cesrg provide a rare glimpse into the efrts telepho s of the prc to esas.cl >>ed overd a from 2015 to 2018, a complaint added xuehua peng conducted numerous dead drops in georgia and in the bay area, acting as an illegal peng allegedly used hotel room in newark and oakland to leave a bag of cash for an informant, usually in exchange for an sd card loaded with sensitive information. a card that peng would personally deliver to chinese g.icials in...
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s, the fight was to the rampant theft. at the time i uttered those, the u.s. computer software industry, hollywood videos all were being ripped off by the peoples republic of china. chinese pier asy was costing the .s. $225 million in software sales. the reality is despite efforts in 1992 at the end of the bush 41 administration and vigorous efforts by clinton's trade nothingors, essentially happened. president clinton threatened to impose 100% tariffs on select imports if beijing didn't enforce mr. clinton's 1995 intellectual property rights. does this sound familiar? is this the exact conversation we are having today in 2019? what happened in 1995? meeting after meeting was held and agreement after agreement as signed and still the piracy continued. and my point to the world delivering a known set of sanctions that china must clearly understand the consequences of noncompliance, instead, china was rewarded and admitted to the w.t.o. in december, 2001. sadly, pirated goods have only increased. recently, the business software alliance, the same folks i quoted back in 1992 now estimate at 70% of software installed in china in 2015 was unlicensed. and the u.s. tra
s, the fight was to the rampant theft. at the time i uttered those, the u.s. computer software industry, hollywood videos all were being ripped off by the peoples republic of china. chinese pier asy was costing the .s. $225 million in software sales. the reality is despite efforts in 1992 at the end of the bush 41 administration and vigorous efforts by clinton's trade nothingors, essentially happened. president clinton threatened to impose 100% tariffs on select imports if beijing didn't...
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republics. i get to think about that every day, i get a share that with people every day. i meet people from all over the world who might not know who those. s are, but they understand what freedom means. the original idea was by a state historian and they had conceived of carving statues. he was going to carve all the way around and have people like lewis and clark, chief red cloud, fremont and when he hired his artist, he said you are not thinking big enough. selecting the four people up there, that was the artist, utzon borglum. you can figure out why they were selected. george washington, the first president. the person who gave up the power. he could have stayed in power. he was very popular. thomas jefferson, a lot of people say that is because of the declaration of independence, but that is not why the artist borglum chose him. borglum chose him because of the louisiana purchase. doubling the size of the country. lincoln, you can probably figure that out, keeping the country together during the civil war. taking care of the nation. the challenging one, theodore roosevelt. selected by the artist, but he was not the most popular guy at
republics. i get to think about that every day, i get a share that with people every day. i meet people from all over the world who might not know who those. s are, but they understand what freedom means. the original idea was by a state historian and they had conceived of carving statues. he was going to carve all the way around and have people like lewis and clark, chief red cloud, fremont and when he hired his artist, he said you are not thinking big enough. selecting the four people up...
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with the crowd and as i said, this commemorates the founding of the people's republic ochina some this is a communist celebration but very s muhto have arrived on the world stage as great power.at p t >> woodrufwhat extent, though, is that now overshadowed by what's going on in hong kong >> ye completely changed the narrative. as i said, the chinese are so proud of today. they have been working on that for months. an now we are covering hongv kong. when we have a split screen, literally, between the tw things. and so all of the pomp andce circumstan on the left side in lashesg, the protest and c there on the right in hong kong. these arethompletely different ideologies. on the left celebrating one party rule. celebrating how far china has come. on the right, people fighting right saying that the people on the left represent authoritarianism. i talked to a lot of these protest leaders who are protesting there on the right. and they say they created today's protest in order to embarrass beijing, in order toha this split screen that you see today. and so what prosters are talking about today is they're the victims of police b
with the crowd and as i said, this commemorates the founding of the people's republic ochina some this is a communist celebration but very s muhto have arrived on the world stage as great power.at p t >> woodrufwhat extent, though, is that now overshadowed by what's going on in hong kong >> ye completely changed the narrative. as i said, the chinese are so proud of today. they have been working on that for months. an now we are covering hongv kong. when we have a split screen,...
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s. we don't want to go back to that the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if we're going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty this going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president john clune. problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous when he heads off as expected on a tour of e.u. capitals later this week john a whole al-jazeera. given recent events in the u.k. parliament regarding that it might seem fitting that a banksy painting has $1000000.00 a record price for the british street artist devolved parliament is what it's called it depicts the house of commons full of chimpanzees so actually painted 10 years ago who keeps his identity secret tweeted record price it's a shame i didn't still. and sport fara has more on how ireland got back to winning ways at the rugby world cup. time for sport far has more world athletics championships and. greg. welcome back to the khalif international stadium
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s. we don't want to go back to that the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if we're going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty that's going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president john has called the plan problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous when he heads off as expected on a tour of e.u. capitals later this week john a whole al-jazeera. arab citizens in israel are staging process against what they're calling police in action in cases of violence against them hundreds some are protesting outside the police station in the upper galilee region and say there have been more than 70 killings recently but it's very and support taken any action arafat's that has more from west jerusalem. of the palestinian citizens of israel every few days brings a new news story involving violent crime and often death the town of most chrome in northern israel earlier this week saw a fight in which 2 brothers
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s. we don't want to go back to the us the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if are going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty this going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president john paul yorker has called the prime problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous emoluments when he had told fans expect a donor tour of e.u. capitals later this week jonah how al-jazeera london the youth unemployment rate in jordan has risen to almost 40 percent and despite having a high number of university graduates on able to find work in their chosen field many young jordanians are starting career is the never expected and to ship out of the capital. it's 7 years since a beer khalid graduated from university she struggled to find a job she wanted before starting over and finding a new profession i thought i would be fickle us for 6 years i tried to find a job either in the public or the private sector but there was
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s. we don't want to go back to that the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if are going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty that's going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president has called the plan problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous when he heads off as expected on a tour of e.u. capitals later this week john a whole al-jazeera. the activist group extension rebellion has returned to the streets of london spraying a government building with fake blood to demand urgent action on climate change but the stunt won a bit wrong when protesters lost control of a high pressure fire outside the u.k.'s treasury building there was no damage because the paint was made out of beetroot gees. divers are ex are looking at unexplored waters off the coast of french guyana it's part of a campaign to better protect the world's oceans but the 2nd of his reports from the region here's nick clark. alexy rose
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s. we don't want to go back to the us the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't let's go live now to london i was there is not is outside the houses of parliament and the parliament threw out the deal that boris johnson's predecessor to reason may agreed with the european union but once but 3 times are sure as the prime minister that he can get this deal through. well a.j. in listening to him there in the commons in the last couple of hours you'd think that he was just the pits to me a reasonable miss he talked about compromise said that this proposal was something which it might compromise on the party sides and would require compromise on the european union side as well but he was rebuffed by a number of a number of parties here in the commons hilary benn a labor opposition politician reminded him that he himself on wednesday had accepted the private plans would involve at least some physical customs checks votes went against both the good friday agreement and subsequent commitments as well the leader of the opposition told boris johnson that w
s. we don't want to go back to the us the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't let's go live now to london i was there is not is outside the houses of parliament and the parliament threw out the deal that boris johnson's predecessor to reason may agreed with the european union but once but 3 times are sure as the prime minister that he can get this deal through. well a.j. in listening to him there in the commons in the last couple of...
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s. we don't want to go back to that the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if we're going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty that's going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president john paul yorker has called the prime problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous in mali and that's often as expected on a tour of e.u. capitals later this week john a whole al-jazeera london activist group extinction rebellion have returned to the streets of london spraying a government building in fake blood to demand urgent action on climate change a stunt went slightly wrong when protesters lost control of the high pressure firehose outside the u.k.'s treasury building no harm done though apparently as the red paint was it out of beetroot juice purchased in tin you don't talk of the fire engine which was reportedly bought on e bay they say they've made 4 arrests. of several randomised back to hell and. 8 people
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s. we don't want to go back to that the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if we're going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty that's going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president john paul has called the plan problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous emoluments when he has drawn fans expected on a tour of e.u. capitals later this week john a whole al-jazeera london our team of divers are descending into the unknown off the coast of south america a unique expedition is charting the recently discovered amazon reef the clock joined them off the coast of french briana. here on the north eastern edge of south america lies an outpost of france where in the cooler tropical evenings they relax as they might do in paris or not but this is cayenne in french guyana and the launch point of a unique expedition to explore and dive a whole new world we jump on the expedition ribbon head out to see the shi
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s. we don't want to go back to that the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if we're going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty that's going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president john. problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous when he heads off as expected on a tour of e.u. capitals later this week jonah. of course president has declared a state of emergency as protesters block roads throughout the country over the fuel price hikes that. affect all transportation organizations say they will strike and definitely the decision as it were burst reports. taxi truck drivers blocked streets and. transport unions went on strike to protest the end of subsidies that have been in place for decades. to make what. we don't go out to protest because. the people the person is hurt because afterwards things will become more expensive the government announced a package of government measures worth more tha
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s. we don't want to go back to the us the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't well the proposals are also struggling to find support in northern ireland but members of the democratic unionist party have defended buttressed johnson blaming ireland for setting the u.k. on a path to no deal the proposal will be amended the proposal is there the proposal will get the support of the height of the commons therefore the european union needs to look very seriously at this proposal to very reasonable proposal as i say i hope that other european leaders will prevail upon the irish government to to look at this proposal in a fansub i'm serious way to do it they haven't done. ok let's get going joining us today on inside story from dublin on skype is the neckar obra coin a professor of politics at the school of law and government dublin city university in brussels we have peter club head of the think tank open europe brussels and in birmingham will be joined by alex the router that director of the center for breakfast studies at birmingham city university
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s. we don't want to go back to that the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't but if we're going to be in 2 different customs unions i think that creates a real difficulty this going to be very hard to reconcile separately european commission president john paul has called the plan problematic senior european parliament figures say they won't support it boris johnson will have to use his most glutinous emoluments when he had told fans expect a donor tour of e.u. capitals later this week jonah hill al-jazeera london 2 years are vegas shootings the family is and loved ones of the victims and reached a $735000000.00 settlement with the hotel that housed the gunman 58 people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history when the gunman opened fire from a 2nd set just 32nd floor of the mandalay bay before turning his weapon on himself . palestine is celebrating its 6th annual film festival and this year's focus is on the empowerment of women our stance in amman days showcases the challenges and dangers faced by those living in gaza and
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s. we don't want to go back to the russian the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't. well the proposals are also struggling to find support in northern ireland but members of the democratic unionist party have defended boris johnson blaming ireland for setting the u.k. on a path to no deal the proposal will be amended the proposal is there the proposal will get the support of the house of commons therefore the european union needs to look very seriously at this proposal to very reasonable proposal and as i say i hope that other european leaders will prevail upon the irish government to to look at this proposal in a sensible and serious way today if they haven't done. ok let's get going joining us today on inside story from dublin on skype is the nature of recording a professor of politics at the school of law and government dublin city university in brussels we have peter club head of the think tank open europe brussels and in birmingham will be joined by alex the router the director of the center for breakfast studies at birmingham city university w
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s&p 500. we also have raymond james. it will be interesting to see how they all adapt. david: a lot of pressure on those fees. coming up, on the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china, we talk to the woman who negotiated for the admission of china to the wto. that is coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ thise: this is -- david: is "balance of power peter: we turned to mark crumpton for bloomberg -- "balance of power." we turn to mark crumpton for first word news. mark: mike pompeo rejected of committees plan to take testimony from several state department officials. he says the panel appears to be trying to intimidate and bully them. mike pompeo says he will not tolerate such tactics. in hong kong, a demonstrator was shot by police during one of the most serious clashes since unrest began in june. numerous rallies against beijing's increasing trip -- increasing grip raced across hong kong after xi jinping oversaw celebrations overseeing 70 years of communist rule in china. hong kong police say an 18-year-old man was shot during a protest and was conscious when sent to a hospital. hong kong police are defending the incident, saying the officer made a split-
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s "our" not but what the constitution did. said, no, the people are sovereign. we the people. in people give permission the sense to their representatives to make decisions for them in this republic. and so, through the system of federalism, sharing of power between the national government and the state governments, they've figured out something the british weren't able to do. it was a real breakthrough. we often talk about american exceptionalism today. my answer to that is that america was very exceptional at the end of the 18th century, the only place on earth that had given people these rights. if we're less exceptional today it is mostly because other places have adopted those. kristen: and that was going to be my follow-up question. how unique is it today? >> a lot of these ideas america has exported to the world and people have made in different ways. so, i think it's less unique. but, you know, i say this about good teaching. . there isno plagiarism and good teaching . there is just best practices. the same thing is true in the making of governments. there a best practices. i think we have the formula. kristen: one of the things that strikes me as we think about the frame
s "our" not but what the constitution did. said, no, the people are sovereign. we the people. in people give permission the sense to their representatives to make decisions for them in this republic. and so, through the system of federalism, sharing of power between the national government and the state governments, they've figured out something the british weren't able to do. it was a real breakthrough. we often talk about american exceptionalism today. my answer to that is that...