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After the chinese government chose not to announce any additional measures today. Chinas chief economic planning official, zheng shanjie, told a Press Conference earlier hes � fully confident� the country can hit its 5 Growth Target for the year and had no further policies to reveal to boost chinas struggling economy. For more im joined by Alicia Garcia Herrero chief asia pacific economist at the bank natixis. Has that disappointed investors . Did they expect more . Yes they did because ther...

Mr. putin saying, hey, were trying to do this diplomatically. we dont want to go to war. and they are doing a good job of it as nic said. its a continual effort. not only the u.s. but many of the french nations, the uk, french, german, italian, romanians have approached putin saying we are unified in this approach, and russia is trying to deny it. second, information. russia has failed to control the information environment, which they have attempted to do so many times in the past. they are on ...

Well. -- the russian index is down almost 30% so this idea that a lot of this was already priced into russian companies and russian markets, its been proven not so true this morning. i think it also behooves us to remind viewers that, from a sanctions perspective, with the white house will be focusing on, and of the major western powers as well, well be energy but already in an energy crisis in many parts of the world. russia counts for about a quarter of all natural gas exports. and he disrupti...

Issue i keep coming back to -- two-countries i keep coming back to, china and germany. tonight, germany, a phone call to president biden, could say, you know, were going to have to sacrifice in the short term. we need to cut russia off from the swift banking system. they have explicitly come out against that. your reaction to that given how much kounthryes are asked to sacrifice here to help ukraine in their hour of need. >> the source of sanctions like that is outside of my expertise. from the ...

But what he is really looking for is a hands-off policy with regards to ukraine. one that gives him the impunity to launch a host of different ways to destabilize ukraine. he is looking for that signal. he is looking for some weakness on that front. i think the possibility of war is high because he cant necessarily take the assurances from the west. he cant take the, you know, this idea that the u.s. will withdraw the support its been offering to ukraine. it is going to have a hands-off policy. ...

Annexed crimea. seven years later, post-2014, russia still controls this part of the country, calls it part of russia, even though the u.s. and the rest of the worlds view, this is part of a sovereign nation of ukraine. russia is occupying a whole portion of the eastern part of ukraine. the sanctions applied for seven years since then has not changed the calculus on the ground at all. so the question is, what can the u.s. do to raise the economic price, the targets appear to be putins financial ...

Direction, proof is something separate, but if we get to that proof, how do you hold them accountable? what is a realistic way to do so? >> sure, that is a great question. there are several ways to do it. first of all we have some bills by tom cotton and marsha blackburn that would strip china of their sovereign immunity. weve seen attorney generals around the united states try to sue china. i think that those are worthy. we should consider to pursue both options. the problem they rely on intern...

Have an adventurous foreign policy in places like yemen and in the gulf and syria. and so they have been trying to reorient the strategy. that is to say iran has to normalize its behavior. so were not just talking about its nuclear program, were talking about its missile program, its support to terrorist groups, its human rights violations, all the things that its doing as a disruptive force in the middle east and beyond. and so thats the frame of reference for the trump administration. thats wh...

Specifically of zte with the president? >> i did. we spoke about it may be two months ago. we just have a difference of opinion, with is normal and life and in american politics. he viewed it as, you know, one way, and kind of focused on it from a sanctions perspective. and he pointed to the fact that, you know, the previous administration did nothing about zte sanctions violations and he did. and hes right about that. and i tried to explain it as its more than just sanctions. we have a differen...

Level, they would probably impose something like the territorial-based sanctions weve seen on iran in which case there is no exception to the sanctions. you look at the country, the entire country is sanctioned, not just the government and certain individuals or institutions within it. thats the direction i would expect the trump administration to take. it would align the approach we use on north korea from a sanctions perspective. with the approach weve used on iran. we treat north korea the sa...