moved discharge nuclear water into the sea. we will bring in more of the story when we have it but for the moment let s turn our attention to the business news. us treasury secretary janet yellen is on a mission to restore communications between the world s top economies. ahead of her meetings, she tweeted: we seek a healthy economic competition that benefits american workers and firms and to collaborate on global challenges. and she went on to say: we will take action to protect our national security when needed. billions of dollars worth of import taxes or tariffs are still in place between the two sides. more recently tensions have flared over washington s efforts to limit chinese access to advanced computer chips. just this week, beijing tightened export restrictions on two rare minerals, both used in the chip industry. monica miller in singapore reports. let s speak to ali wyne, senior analyst for global macro geopolitics at the eurasia group in washington, dc.
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progress, perhaps climate change? perhaps climate change. and maybe fentanyl which is important for the united states and which china i think because they are in a weak position, because they know what they are doing, they are supporting the fentanyl gangs, they might actually relent a little bit. xi jinping must be worried about vladimir putin, so maybe there is some ability to prevent china from actually supporting the russians as they have in the past. there are a lot of little things, but some are actually quite important that might actually be progress. but i think that it will be hard to achieve them. on chips, the tit for tat between the two really ramping up even this week with some of the chinese export restrictions on raw materials. where do you see the conversation going there? well, the chinese will try to bargain to try to get us to rescind our chip restrictions, but this export ban that everybody is talking about is a lot less fearsome than it actually is because al
cost him $18 million. we can t put anything close to a dollar figure on this at the moment. we may get a clearer idea after today s court hearing. it is not too fanciful to discussion that kostner s lifetime divorce costs could be north of $2 hundred million. julie: jonathan hunt, thank you. this week treasury secretary janet yellen is headed to beijing in an attempt by the biden administration to ease tensions over tech trade between the u.s. and china. the communist regime with a slap in the face of america ahead of her visit. china imposing strict new export restrictions on key metals the u.s. needs for semi conductors, computer chips and satellites. gop critics says the u.s. looks weak as it enters talks with china.