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Good evening: The show begins in Ukraine where the Kremlin assigns a new commander to carry the battle the remainder of the year... 1859 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor First Hour 9:00-9:15: #UKRAINE: NEW FRONT COMMANDER. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND, USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL 9:15-9:30: POTUS: GOLDEN DOME RISING. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND, USA (RETIRED) 9:30-9:45: 1/2: POTUS: VS SOUTH AFRICA IN THE OVAL OFFICE, MAX MAIZLISH, FDD 9:45-10:00: 2/2: POTUS: VS SOUTH AFRICA IN THE OVAL OFFICE, MAX MAIZLISH, FDD Second Hour 10:00-10:15: PRC: MANUFACTURING DECLINE. ANNE STEVENSON-YANG. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 10:15-10:30: PRC: POTUS SELLS AI TO THE GULF AHEAD OF BEIJING. BRANDON WEICHERT 10:30-10:45: PRC: ATTACKING THE FIRST ISLAND CHAIN. JIM HOLMES, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 10:45-11:00: USA: TRIAD UPGRADE. PETER HUESSY. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL Third Hour 11:00-11:15 (1/2): VATICAN: VS COMMUNISM FROM PIUS IX. JON MILTIMORE, AIER, CIVITAS INSTITUTE 11:15-11:30 (2/2): VATICAN: VS COMMUNISM FROM PIUS IX. JON MILTIMORE, AIER, CIVITAS INSTITUTE 11:30-11:45: POTUS: THE GOLDEN DOME. MARK MONTGOMERY, BRAD BOWMAN FDD 11:45-12:00: #RUSSIA: SANCTIONING THE SHADOW FLEET. MICHAEL BERNSTAM, HOOVER. Fourth Hour 12:00-12:15: FRANCE: NUCLEAR POWER FLEET. SIMON CONSTABLE 12:15-12:30: EU. DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN RETHINKING NUKE POWER. SIMON CONSTABLE 12:30-12:45: Moon: ISPACE lander june 5. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 12:45-1:00 AM: MARS: CURIOSITY CLIMBING. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
PRC: MANUFACTURING DECLINE. ANNE STEVENSON-YANG. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1960 MAO
GOOD EVENING: The show begins in kashmir along the line of control...Good evening: The show begins in Kashmir along the Line of Control... 1947 PARTITION CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 1/2: #KASHMIR: FOREBODING AT THE LINE OF CONTROL. BILL ROGGIO, FDD. HUSAIN HAQQANI, HUDSON INSTITUTE. 9:15-9:30 2/2: #KASHMIR: FOREBODING AT THE LINE OF CONTROL. BILL ROGGIO, FDD. HUSAIN HAQQANI, HUDSON INSTITUTE. 9:30-9:45 #UKRAINE: WHAT IS NEEDED. JOHN HARDIE, BILL ROGGIO, FDD 9:45-10:00 #UKRAINE: PUTIN FOOT-DRAGGING. JOHN HARDIE, BILL ROGGIO, FDD SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 #ISRAEL: MARCH OF THE LIVING 2025. MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1 @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 10:15-10:30 #ANTISEMITISM: HARVARD 300 PAGE REPORT INADEQUATE. MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1 @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 10:30-10:45 1/2: #HARVARD: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER INSTITUTION 10:45-11:00 2/2: #HARVARD: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER INSTITUTION THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 #PRC: DID THE US AND EU BANKS SEE THE BUBBLE? ANNE STEVENSON-YANG, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 11:15-11:30 #USS IOWA: REMEMBERING THE GUN TURRET TRAGEDY. JAMES HOLMES, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 11:30-11:45 #PRC: WASHING CHINA EXPORTS TO THE US. CHARLES ORTEL, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 11:45-12:00 #CIA: INEXPLICABLE HOLLYWOOD MELODRAMA RECRUITING. GRANT NEWSHAM, "WHEN CHINA ATTACKS." FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 #NEWWORLDREPORT: BOMB PLOT RIO. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 12:15-12:30 #NEWWORLDREPORT: EBBING PINK TIDE. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 12:30-12:45 1/2: #CYBER THREAT & WHAT IS TO BE DONE? ANNIE FIXLER, FDD. 12:45-1:00 AM 2/2: #CYBER THREAT & WHAT IS TO BE DONE? ANNIE FIXLER, FDD.
#PRC:DID THE US AND EU BANKS SEE THE BUBBLE? ANNE STEVENSON-YANG, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1907
Preview: Colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang comments on what the China-US deal will include for China to deliver -- the ask. More later. 1972 Shanghai CONFUCIUS
#PRC: "LOSE, LOSE." ANNE STEVENSON-YANG. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1920 SHANGHAI
Good evening; the show begins in the markets and stays on topic for the day's trade war chatter... 1945-1949 INDONESIA WAR OF INDEPENDENCE CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #MrMarket: VIX drops 20 points. Brett "Break the Glass" Arends, MarketWatch 9:15-9:30#Iran: What Trump must demand from Iran's nukes, chemical, missiles, assets. Andrea Stricher, FDD 9:30-9:45 #PRC: End of the market distortions and imbalance. Elaine Dezenski, FDD 9:45-10:00 #Populism: Left and right and Europe too. Peter Berkowitz SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 #Ukraine: Kursk salient and Russia information war. John Hardie, Bill Roggio, FDD10:15-10:30 #Ukraine: Partition and ceasefire debated, denied. John Hardie, Bill Roggio, FDD 10:30-10:45 #Iraq: Kataib Hezbollah decries Al Sharaa of Syria. Ahmad Sharawi, Bill Roggio, FDD 10:45-11:00 #Syria: Russians shield Alawites from Damascus jihadists. THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 #Houthis: Air campaign continues. BC 11:15-11:30 #Syria: Not improving. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson 11:30-11:45 #NewWorldReport: Daniel Noboa of Ecuador needs everything. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 11:45-12:00 #NewWorldReport: Jair Bolsonaro medical risks from the stabbing in 2018. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 #Malaysia: Xi inbound. Charles Ortel 12:15-12:30 #Indonesia: Vibrant growing manufacturer. Charles Ortel 12:30-12:45 #Japan: Weathering the trade war. Lance Gatling, Nexial Research. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 12:45-1:00 AM #PRC: "Lose, lose." Anne Stevenson-Yang. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
Preview: Colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, author "Wild Ride," comments that the PRC is badly positioned to carry on a trade war. More later. 1969
Good evening: The show begins in Afghanistan where there is a rumor that the US will lift the bounty reward on mass killer Sirajuddin Haqqani of the Kabul elite. 1872 TJIKISTAN CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #AFGHANISTAN: RUMORS OF THE HAQQANI NETWORK. BILL ROGGIO FDD, HUSAIN HAQQANI HUDSON 915-930 #YEMEN: USN AND USAF VS HOUTHIS. BILL ROGGIO FDD, HUSAIN HAQQANI HUDSON 930-945 #GAZA: THIRD DIVISION PUSHES INTO THE HAMAS LAST DITCH. DAVID DAOUD, BILL ROGGIO, FDD 945-1000 #LEBANON: HARASSMENT ROCKETS TO INTIMIDATE RESIDENT RETURN. DAVID DAOUD, BILL ROGGIO, FDD SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #IRAN: MYSTERIOUS OIL PATCH FIRE AT ABADAN, MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1 @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1015-1030 #TURKIYE: CRACKDOWN. MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1 @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1030-1045 #PRC: DEFLATION. ANNE STEVENSON-YANG. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1045-1100 #CANADA: CENTRAL BANKER CARNEY CLAIMS REVERSAL ON GREEN POLICIES. CHARLES BURTON, OTTAWA THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #NEWWORLDREPORT: TREN DE ARAGUA ON THE HILL. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 1115-1130 #NEWWORLDREPORT: "WEAPONIZED MIGRATION." JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 1130-1145 #NEWWORLDREPORT: #ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERISTAS CALL A STRIKE. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 1145-1200 #NEWWORLDREPORT: ECUADOR AND PANAMA SUFFER PRC BULLYING. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #RUSSIA: RT RETURNS. IVANA STRADNER FDD 1215-1230 #SERBIA: RT FIRMLY PRESENT FOR THE DISORDER. IVANA STRADNER FDD 1230-1245 #UKRAINE: BELGOROD GAMBIT. JOHN HARDIE, FDD. 1245-100 am #UKRAINE: BLACK SEA CEASEFIRE PROPOSED. JOHN HARDIE FDD
#PRC: DEFLATION. ANNE STEVENSON-YANG. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1890 PEKING
Preview: Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of 'Wild Ride,' explains the curse of the deflation that has now infested the PRC, perhaps for a generation of discouragement. More later. 1900 CHINA
GOOD EVENING: THE SHOW BEGINS IN A CENTCOM DRONE STRIKE ON AL QAEDA IN SYRIA...GOOD EVENING: THE SHOW BEGINS IN A CENTCOM DRONE STRIKE ON AL QAEDA IN SYRIA... 1930 TRIPOLI CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #SYRIA: CENTCOM STRIKE ON AL QAEDA IN IDLIB & WHAT IS TO BE DONE? BILL ROGGIO, FDD 915-930 #AFGHANISTAN: WHAT IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION POLICY WITH AL QAEDA IN AFGHANISTAN AND SYRIA? 930-945 #UKRAINE: DRONES ARE THE STORY. JOHN HARDIE, BILL ROGGIO, FDD. 945-1000 #UKRAINE: THE OVAL OFFICE SHOWDOWN. SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #ISRAEL: GAZA RESUPPLY HALTED 1015-1030 #WEST BANK: MASSIVE HAMAS ATTACK BLOCKED. 1030-1045 #PRC EMPTY BUILDINGS AND DEFLATION. ANNE STEVENSON-YANG, AUTHOR "WILD RIDE." 1045-1100 #PRC: STILL A PERILOUS TRADE. CHARLES ORTEL, GORDON CHANG. THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #RUSSIA: READY FOR PEACE. KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL 1115-1130 ESG/EV: THE PUBLIC AND CORPORATE TURN AWAY FROM CASSANDRA. @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1130-1145 #GAZA: 400,000 RESERVISTS READY FOR CALL-UP. DAVID DAOUD, FDD 1145-1200 #LEBANON: CASH ARRIVING. DAVID DAOUD, FDD FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 UK: THE BRITISH MILITARY UNREADY. LT-COLONEL TIM WILSON, UK (RET). 1215-1230 USAF: MISSING IMAGINATION & WHAT IS TO BE DONE? GENERAL BLAINE-HOLT, USAF (RET) 1230-1245 #NEWWORLDREPORT: PETRO FAILING. BRAZIL AND THE MAGNITSKY ACT. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 1245-100 AM #NEWWORLDREPORT: VENEZUELA BULLIES GUYANA. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE
#PRC EMPTY BUILDINGS AND DEFLATION. ANNE STEVENSON-YANG, AUTHOR "WILD RIDE." 1890 PEKING
#TAIPEI: Sparkling: Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3297180/chinas-henan-urges-local-entrepreneurs-dare-invest-amid-slowdown 1942 Taipei
PREVIEW: TAIPEI: Colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang reports from downtown Taipei that the fastidious Taiwanese enjoy prosperity and a sparkling city. 1924 Taipei
GOOD E: The show begins in the Pacific Palisades destroyed by wind and fire 1940 Ice Plant in Bloom on the Pallisades, Santa Monica, California Postcard of an Ice Plant in Bloom on the Pallisades [sic], Santa Monica, California. CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-9:15 1/2: PACIFICWATCH: LA wildfires "unprecedented." Jeff Bliss 9:15-9:30 2/2: PACIFICWATCH: LA wildfires "unprecedented." Jeff Bliss 9:30-9:45 MOSCOW: Hard year ahead even if the war stops. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures 9:45-10:00 RUSSIA: ARMENIA GOLDFINGER. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution SECOND HOUR 10-10:15 PRC: Discounts handling in old rice pots to spur the consumer. Anne Stevenson-Yang, Gordon Chang 10:15-10:30 PRC: Beijing reels. Alan Tonelson, Gordon Chang 10:30-10:45 Trudeau intends to resign. Charles Burton, Senior Fellow at Sinopsis 10:45-11:00 PRC: Proscriptions. Brandon Weichert, author of "Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower" THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 NewWorldReport: Venezuela brutality. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis 11:15-11:30 NewWorldReport: Fragile Ecuador. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis 11:30-11:45 NewWorldReport: Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis 11:45-12:00 NewWorldReport: Panama under scrutiny as a security risk. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis FOURTH HOUR 12-12:15 FRANCE: The bourgeois commodities soar. Simon Constable, Occitanie 12:15-12:30 FLASHBACK: The AOL and Time Warner fiasco. Simon Constable, Occitanie 12:30-12:45 SPACEX: The FAA remains the cop on the beat. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com 12:45-1:00 am SUN: Double peak maximum? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
PRC: Discounts handing in old rice pots to spur the consumer. Anne-Stevenson-Yang. Gordon Chang Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, https://www.ft.com/content/ca79e423-7c0f-4883-a295-6fe1c73a2819 undated Shanghai
#TAIWAN: No PLA attack expected. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author "Wild Ride" 1949 Red Army
GOOD EVENING The broadcast opens with a discussion of Shamsud-Din Jabbar in New Orleans, examining what remains unknown about this case... 1889 NEW ORLEANS CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-9:15 NEW ORLEANS: What we do not know about Shamsud-Din Jabbar. Bill Roggio, FDD 9:15-9:30 Al Qaeda: More threat than ever. Bill Roggio, FDD 9:30-9:45 TAIWAN: No PLA attack expected. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author "Wild Ride" 9:45-10:00 SOUTH KOREA: Yoon gains support. David Maxwell, Center for Asia Pacific Strategy SECOND HOUR 10-10:15 1/2: Ukraine: Kyiv counterattacks in Kursk Oblast. John Hardie; Bill Roggio FDD 10:15-10:30 2/2: Ukraine: Kyiv counterattacks in Kursk Oblast. John Hardie; Bill Roggio FDD 10:30-10:45 ISRAEL: Rumors of hostage deal. David Daoud, Bill Roggio, FDD 10:45-11:00 LEBANON: Hezbollah refuses to comply with 1701, countdown to end of the ceasefire. David Daoud, Bill Roggio, FDD THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 New World Report: Brazil Lawfare against the DF. Venezuela planning to barter with POTUS Trump. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 11:15-11:30 New World Report: Argentina Beacon of Freedom for the Americas. Ecuador failing. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 11:30-11:45 1/2: POTUS-Elect: Trials of Trump for sentencing January 10. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness 11:45-12:00 2/2: POTUS-Elect: Trials of Trump for sentencing January 10. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness FOURTH HOUR 12-12:15 1/2: AI: Nvidia accelerates into robotics. Brandon Weichert, National Interest 12:15-12:30 2/2: AI: Nvidia accelerates into robotics. Brandon Weichert, National Interest 12:30-12:45 CUBA: Rogue State, Terror State. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ 12:45-1:00 am ITALY: Iran takes an Italian journalist, Cecilia Sala, hostage. Lorenzo Fiori, Milan
PREVIEW: TAIWAN: Colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, reporting from Taipei, comments on the low probability of a PRC/PLA attack on Taiwan. More details tonight. 1900 Boxer Rebellion
PRC: Deflation: Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, on @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/12/china-stresses-plans-to-boost-growth-at-top-agenda-setting-meeting.html 1937 Niels Bohr at Peking University
GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Lebanon as the guns fall quiet for the first hours of a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanon government... 1836 Lebanon CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR (9:00-10:00 PM) 9:00-9:15: HEZBOLLAH Part 1: Ceasefire and Side Letter with Jonathan Schanzer, FDD 9:15-9:30: HEZBOLLAH Part 2: Ceasefire and Side Letter with Jonathan Schanzer, FDD 9:30-9:45: ANTISEMITISM Part 1: University Failures with Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution 9:45-10:00: ANTISEMITISM Part 2: University Failures with Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution SECOND HOUR (10:00-11:00 PM) 10:00-10:15: PRC: Inadequacies with Anne Stevenson-Yang and Gordon Chang 10:15-10:30: HUAWEI: Theft with Brandon Weichert and Gordon Chang 10:30-10:45: TARIFFS: Unknown to Unwelcome with Fraser Howie and Gordon Chang 10:45-11:00: USMCA: New Trade Representative with Alan Tonelson and Gordon Chang THIRD HOUR (11:00 PM-12:00 AM) 11:00-11:15: UKRAINE: ATACMs and Mines for Kyiv with Col. Jeff McCausland 11:15-11:30: UKRAINE: Hybrid Warfare with Col. Jeff McCausland 11:30-11:45: NASA: Manned Risks with Bob Zimmerman 11:45-12:00: MOON: Moon Buggy Contracts with Bob Zimmerman FOURTH HOUR (12:00-1:00 AM) 12:00-12:15: AI: Talk or Transformation? with Chris Riegel 12:15-12:30: CANADA: Green in Eclipse with Conrad Black 12:30-12:45: RUSSIA: Ruble Collapses with Michael Bernstam
PRC: inadequate. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.ft.com/content/a897109d-8af2-480b-9138-4d8592078f2f 1926
PREVIEW: PRC: PROPERTY CRATER - Colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang explains why the CCP has not found a way forward from the debt-laden municipalities. More tonight. 1912 Imperial University football team
#PR Stimulus inadequate: Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: https://apnews.com/article/china-singles-day-shopping-festival-f2a2ef53af878b61ce2c43e9196d7da5 1940 Wuhan
GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the markets, fretting the return of inflation... 1910 Financials nYC CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #MRMARKET: Inflation remains untamed. Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News 9:15-9:30 #MRMARKET: The ad hominem failure. Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News 9:30-9:45 #BERLIN: The coalition collapses. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin 9:45-10:00 #BERLIN: Trump and the weakened EU. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 #LONDON: The economists fail 2024. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ 10:15-10:30 #LONDON: Starmer and Trump and the special relationship 10:30-10:45 #ISRAEL: Rebuilding Gaza and Hamas will take 10 years. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD 10:45-11:00 #IRAN: Defense Minister Katz aims at Iran. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 #PRC: Xi Jinping the disdained figurehead. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 11:15-11:30 #ISRAEL: Will Netanyahu end the mullah regime? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 11:30-11:45 #RUSSIA: After Ukraine, seeking to rejoin Europe. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 11:45-12:00 #KING CHARLES REPORT: Naming the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 #PHILIPPINES: PLA threatens the South China Sea. James Fanell, co-author of "Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure" and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 12:15-12:30 #PRC: Stimulus inadequate. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of "Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism," @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 12:30-12:45 #JAPAN: Ishiba succeeds. Lance Gatling, principal of Nexial Research based in Tokyo 12:45-1:00 #PRC: 100,000 students on bicycles overnight. Charles Burton, senior fellow at Sinopsis, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
PREVIEW: CHINA: Investment analyst Anne Stevenson-Yang evaluates Beijing's new stimulus plan to rescue debt-laden municipalities, finding it inadequate and worse. More tonight. 1957 Zhou
#PRC:capital flight. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/14/chinas-ministry-of-finance-tackles-debt-problems-before-economic-challenges.html 1957 WUHAN
PREVIEW: Colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the book "WILD RIDE: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy", will comment on the unlikely event that Xi Jinping can revive the sinking "China Miracle" by emphasizing high-end manufacturing. More details on this to come later in the program. 1940 Charlie Chplin The Great Dictator
#PRC: Turn in your passport: Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13933305/China-public-sector-employees-passports-President-Xi-tightens-grip.html 1898 Shanghai
GOOD EVENING: The show begins in targeting Iran, starting with the suspect nuclear weapons program... 1902 Persia CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #IRAN: Targeting and After. Richard Goldberg, FDD 915-930 #RUSSIA: War Keynesianism and the price of oil. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution. 930-945 #ISRAEL: What is Netanyahu's vision? What is Biden's vision? Jonathan Schanzer, FDD. 945-1000 "Peace Through Strength" is the plan. Jim Pfaff, The Conservative Caucus. SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #PRC: The market crashes again. Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. 1015-1030 #PRC: Turn in your passport. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1030-1045 #JAPAN: Ishiba takes command. Lance Gatling, principal of Nexial Research based in Tokyo, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1045-1100 #PRC: Xi's Secret Speech. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #NewWorldReport: Claudia Sheinbaum takes command of the Fourth Transformation. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis 1115-1130 #NewWorldReport: The cartel violence unchecked. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis 1130-1145 #NewWorldReport: Argentina inflation to monthly 3.5% Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis 1145-1200 #NewWorldReport: The Amazon River vanishing. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 1/2: #FRANCE: Hunting season and the price of everything. Simon Constable, Occitanie. 1215-1230 2/2: #FRANCE: Hunting season and the price of everything. Simon Constable, Occitanie. 1230-1245 #SPACEX: The fifth test, Sunday October 13. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 1245-100 am #SUNSPOTS: The unpredicted fade. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
#PRC: "Balance Sheet Recession" Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.scmp.com/economy/policy/article/3278845/chinas-retirement-delay-offers-respite-beijing-robs-rich-help-poor 1890 Shanghai
PRC: Inadequate fiscal stimulus, says Goldman Sachs. Anne Stevenson-Yang, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, https://www.wsj.com/world/china/more-debts-or-not-beijing-faces-a-thorny-question-de0ef110 Hong Kong 1925
GOOD : The show begins in memories of Afghanistan thanks to a Substack site, Grumpy Combat Vetern and Friends -- comments and tales from vetrans who regret the losses dearly... 1890 Afghanistan CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-9:15 AFGHANISTAN: Unending despair. Bill Roggio, FDD. 9:15-9:30 IRAN: Tehran is the enemy. Bill Roggio, FDD. 9:30-9:45 ISRAEL: West Bank Front. Gaza Front. Seth Frantzman, FDD and Jerusalem Post. Bill Roggio, FDD 9:45-10:00 LEBANON: How long to wait for the IDF to go north? Seth Frantzman, FDD and Jerusalem Post. Bill Roggio, FDD SECOND HOUR 10-10:15 ISRAEL: Hostages abused, starved, executed. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness 10:15-10:30 LEBANON: Drone attack on Nahariya high rise. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness 10:30-10:45 UKRAINE: Strike what in Russia with NATO long range missiles? John Hardie, FDD. Bill Roggio, FDD. 10:45-11:00 UKRAINE: Outnumbered 10 to 1 Donbas. John Hardie, FDD. Bill Roggio, FDD THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 #NewWorldReport: VENEZUELA: Edmundo González Urrutia flees to Spain. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 11:15-11:30 #NewWorldReport: Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 11:30-11:45 #NewWorldReport: ARGENTINA: Foro Madrid in Buenos Aires Old Post Office. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire 11:45-12:00 #NewWorldReport: Amazon drought. Sergio Mendes 1941-2024. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire FOURTH HOUR 12-12:15 JAPAN: All the candidates regard Japan a National security risk? Nippon Steel rejected, Josh Rogin WaPo 12:15-12:30 GERMANY: AfD and Wagenknecht rising nostalgia. Antonia Colibasanu @GPFutures 12:30-12:45 PRC: One-sided Visa providing. Bill Gertz, Washington Times. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 12:45-1:00 am PRC: Inadequate fiscal stimulus, says Goldman Sachs. Anne Stevenson-Yang, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
PREVIEW: PRC: UNEMPLOYMENT: Conversation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang re the refusal by PRC to print credible employment data. More later in week. 1940 Wuhan
HOUSING COLLAPSES, IRON ORE PLUMMETS, MANUFACTURING SHRINKS, CONSUMERISM NOWHERE: 2/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X https://www.sharecafe.com.au/2024/08/19/iron-ore-prices-plummet-amid-chinas-property-crisis/ How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. 1937
HOUSING COLLAPSES, IRON ORE PLUMMETS, MANUFACTURING SHRINKS, CONSUMERISM NOWHERE: 4/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X https://www.sharecafe.com.au/2024/08/19/iron-ore-prices-plummet-amid-chinas-property-crisis/ How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. 1943
HOUSING COLLAPSES, IRON ORE PLUMMETS, MANUFACTURING SHRINKS, CONSUMERISM NOWHERE: 1/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X https://www.sharecafe.com.au/2024/08/19/iron-ore-prices-plummet-amid-chinas-property-crisis/ How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. 1936 MOSCOW
HOUSING COLLAPSES, IRON ORE PLUMMETS, MANUFACTURING SHRINKS, CONSUMERISM NOWHERE: 3/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X https://www.sharecafe.com.au/2024/08/19/iron-ore-prices-plummet-amid-chinas-property-crisis/ How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. 1936
#PRC: Busted. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/china-weighs-letting-local-governments-issue-bonds-to-buy-homes https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-home-prices-just-plunged-most-2015 1931 Group (Photo: Including Mao)
GOODEVENING: The show begins in Venezuela, scene of a brazen clumsy, cynical theft of a presidential election that was being watched closely by the US and its allies... 1950 Caracas CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #NewWorldReport: Maduro gets away with it. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllishttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-government-has-authoritarian-bias-says-brazils-lula-2024-08-16/ 915-930 #NewWorldReport: Gustavo Petro failing to deliver. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllishttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-government-says-will-not-unilaterally-end-eln-peace-talks-2024-08-15/ 930-945 #NewWorldReport: MEXICO MAY INVITE MADURO. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis 945-1000 #NewWorldReport: PANAMA STARTS THE FLIGHTS. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/panama-launches-us-backed-deportation-flights-aimed-discouraging-migrants-2024-08-20/ SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #PRC: What does Beijing make of the Harris-Walz ticket? Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hillhttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/20/democrats-policy-platform-pitches-tough-but-smart-/ 1015-1030 #PRC: Busted. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/china-weighs-letting-local-governments-issue-bonds-to-buy-homes https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-home-prices-just-plunged-most-2015 1030-1045 PRC: Peril. James Fanell, co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hillhttps://www.newsweek.com/us-sends-mutual-defense-treaty-warning-over-south-china-sea-collision-1941585 1045-1100 #PELAU: The 80th anniversary of the Battle of Peleliu. Cleo Paskal, non-resident fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://apnews.com/article/palau-china-surangel-whipps-beijing-pacific-influence-045ec0a4f8e67e48d2a4adf0cbd13918 THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #RUSSIA Putin fears his exposed weakness. Ivana Stradner, FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/08/17/is-russia-raising-specter-of-dirty-bomb-to-prime-public-for-false-flag/ 1115-1130 #PRC: Preparing the Indo-Pacific for the US vs PLA. Brad Bowman FDD.https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/08/16/the-us-needs-more-pop-up-air-bases-worldwide-to-keep-enemies-guessing/ 1130-1145 #GE: The miracle of Golden Rice and its enemies. Henry Miller HenryMillerMd.orghttps://henrymillermd.org/27989/greenpeace-cruel-war-on-genetically-engineered 1145-1200 #France: Perfect climate as the commodity prices retreat. Simon Constable, Occitanie. FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 Operational Energy 1st Edition by Alan Howard (Author), Daniel Nussbaum (Author), Brenda Shaffer (Author)https://www.amazon.com/Operational-Energy-Howard/dp/3110796473 1215-1230 #BAKU: Site of COP 29 in the Caspian Sea Basin. Brenda Sha https://www.amazon.com/Operational-Energy-Howard/dp/3110796473 1230-1245 #NASA: Building a space tug that already exists as a space tug. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 1245-100 AM #DINOSAURS: The suspect was an asteroid. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
PREVIEW: PRC: HOUSING BUBBLE: Conversation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang re the collapse of the housing bubble that used iron and resources, now the abode of pigeons. More tonight. 1900 Forbidden City
#PRC: Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3272987/chinas-property-bender-has-led-long-tough-hangover-economist-mao-zhenhua 1960 Manchu
PREVIEW: #PRC: CCP: Conversation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of "WILD RIDE: The Rise and Fall of the China Miracle," regarding the question: Why does the Chinese consumer not rule as the American consumer does? 1925 Koumintang
PRC: No way out from the decline. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, on the Third Plenum@GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3272435/chinas-politburo-pledges-support-sending-stronger-expected-signal-boost-economy 1940 Wuhan University
GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Moscow, where the Kremlin is again speaking of nukes and boasting of war exercises with tactical weapons called Iskander missiles. 1953 Atomic Cannon CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #Ukraine: Loose Russian nukes. Moscow and Kyiv waiting for the Election. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/31/russia-train-troops-ukraine-nuclear-weapons-battlefield/ 915-930 #VIETNAM: The passing of William Calley and the My Lai massacre, 1968. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol https://www.military.com/history/war-criminal-or-scapegoat-william-calley-and-enduring-memory-of-my-lai-massacre.html 930-945 #HOTELMARS: Las Vegas hosts AIAA and Space Geeks. David Livingston, SPACESHOW.com https://eppro02.ativ.me/src/EventPilot/php/express/web/planner.php?id=AIAAASCEND24 945-1000 #IRAN: Ayatollah threatens Israel directly. Behnam ben Taleblu, FDD https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-31-2024/ SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #NewWorldReport: The Maduro Regime collaborators. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/how-they-are-reporting-it-venezuelas-disputed-election-2024-07-30/ 1015-1030 #NewWorldReport: The Maduro Regime refusers Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/costa-rica-is-prepared-offer-asylum-venezuelan-opposition-leaders-minister-says-2024-07-30/ 1030-1045 #NewWorldReport: Semi-collaborators: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico - Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/how-they-are-reporting-it-venezuelas-disputed-election-2024-07-30/ 1045-1100 #NewWorldReport: US, EU, and OAS and Carter Center reject the regime's victory. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/washington-mulls-individual-sanctions-following-venezuelan-election-2024-07-30/ THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 PRC: No way out from the decline. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, on the Third Plenum @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3272435/chinas-politburo-pledges-support-sending-stronger-expected-signal-boost-economy 1115-1130 #PRC: Taiwan and the presidential Election: Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-29/harris-won-t-dump-taiwan-that-s-why-china-likes-trump https://www.voanews.com/a/a-look-at-harris-views-on-u-s-policy-toward-china/7709060.html 1130-1145 #PRC: Not ready for war with PLA. James Fanell, co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill : https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/29/us-military-prepared-fight-major-war-congressional-panel-warns/ 1145-1200 #VENEZUELA: PRC in the Americas: Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9r3v67w095o https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3272383/maduro-congratulated-china-after-claiming-victory-contested-venezuelan-election FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 FRANCE: Heat wave, cooling stations in Paris, pollution in the Seine and sunflowers, Simon Constable Occitanie. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/world/olympics/seine-olympics-triathlon-postponed.html 1215-1230 #England: Labour raises taxes, rewards public sectors and builds public housing, Simon Constable Occitanie. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/31/tory-areas-six-times-bigger-increase-housing-targets-labour/ 1230-1245 SPACEX: Boca Chica and the slow-walking FAA. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 1245-100 am #SCOTLAND: Game of Spaceports. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
PREVIEW: PRC: Conversation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, author WILDRIDE, rethe Third Plenum meeting in Beijing and its focus on domestic affairs, not tariffs and embargo. More tonight 1949 Moscow
PRC: Despair: Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, on the Third Plenum, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/15/china-off-limits-business-debt/ 1877 HONG KONG
AS THE THIRD PLENUM STRUGGLES: 3/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. 1927 WUHAN POSTCARD
AS THE THIRD PLENUM STRUGGLES: 4/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. UNDATED PEKING STATION