the prc announced it was resuming relations shift gambia. for now i think we know that beijing pulled off on establishing diplomatic relations for reasons we know now. on may 20th tsai was nation rated at the first female president of taiwan. she maintained her campaign pledge and eye lyinged her administration's approach to cross-strait relation based on the contribution, the relations between the peoples of the taiwan area and the mainland area, and throw, historical fact of the 1992 molding. beijing some rigged off the speech and indicate an unemployment test paper. the prc announced it was spunking high-level government dialogue. channels remain froze ton this dade. the prcs a political warfare machinery went to work so people who are interested in a deep dive of what was formerly known as the plate wall department, i recommend every to study that by my colleague mark stokes. in september 2016, organization with ties to the pla, the china energy fund committee which describe its as a high end institutal think tank hosted a conference the

prc?the role of the i think it's important to recognize that the pla is one the prc hasany that in its ambitions to y to absorb twan. far more consequential i think in everyday terms are the economic, diplomatic and informational tools that china uses to try to cut taiwan off, isolate it, disincentive other cooperating with taiwan, and craft a narrative that removes the legitimy of taiwan and say it has separated china, but it will ultimately be resorbed. the pla does have an important role in providing psychological warfare angles, united front capabilities, they have a lot of the cyber intrusion tools that allow penetrated and intimidation and war fighting if the chinese leadership decides for whatever reason have to try to attack taiwan. aspects ofy other how decisions get made in china, sensitive policy questions with respect to taiwan are something of a black box. reading quite good at it but my sense is within the pla pla has a voice affairs with the iwan office and ultimately rememb

and china is north korea's only real ally although they keep saying they'll help us negotiate, the prcith a nuclear armed north korea. china is helping us as much as when they crossed the river to aid the north koreans during the korean war they've got nothing to fear. yet the stock was sold relentlessly the stock should have been a buy, not a sell. we saw a wave of selling in nvidia nvidia is at the heart of internet of things and artificial intelligence, like what powers so many smart home assistance the chips are behind so many of the devices that are selling so well what else got slammed after hours? how about apple, all-time high today. that was breaking down into the mid 50s last night that's crazy tomorrow, we'll listen to warren buffett, most likely praise the company, and we have a new iphone release did somebody expect a delay in the launch because of north korea? if you want to take a grim view here, traders should have been buying apple and selling samsung, because if a conflict does break out, samsung's head quarters is right at the epicenter. i noticed that the ferocity o

. >> so what prc is, procedure where you remove the very surface layer of the cornea, scratch son theornea, then you shave down the top of the cornea. with lasix what you're doing is taking either a blade, maybe you had a blade procedure, years ago, now often time it is done with a different lazer, that creates a flap. so it cut maybe 20% of the cornea, with the flap that has little hinge on the side. so take that flap, move it over to the side. then you use the lazer, same lazer as prk to shave down the middle of the cornea. then you put the flap back. >> so prk the flap doesn't go back? >> there is no flap. there is just a big scratch on the cornea. and that scratch heals over the next few days, after surgery. >> snow would he have this so he could see down the field better both of these surgeries, prk and lasix, ends up with the same result. most people looking for good distance vision. >> yes. >> un corrected distance vision. it is just different ways of shaping down, shape, reshaping also differences in the recovery, more down time with the prk? >> the disadvantage to prk, are th