The EU is also preparing more technical measures to keep the concerns of farmers from turning into a geopolitical problem that would make the EU look weak and divided as Russia continues to occupy large swaths of neighbouring Ukraine
But a huge breakthrough on the president s agenda with news that democrat senatorjoe manchin will finally support a bill that injects billion into key climate policy. and in ukraine the counter offensive is on with progress to report around the city of kherson but will the supply of weapons from the west come quickly enough to sustain the momentum? tonight with the context, the republican strategist rina shah and chief political commentator for the i paul waugh. hello, welcome to the programme. it has been a while. four months in fact, sincejoe biden and xi xinping spoke, on the phone. today the two leaders talked for two hours 17 minutes. a long time. but let s be honest, there s plenty to talk about. the war in ukraine, china s behaviour in the south china sea, trade embargoes,
Action against taiwan, if they were to take any type of economic action against taiwan. they would be concerned about the reaction of the west. however, sanctions, significant s sanctions against china for let s say going after taiwan would also risk repercussions to the west because so many western companies from europe to the united states sell products into china. and so if we get into a huge tit for tat sanctions, trade embargoes, tariffs, et cetera, et cetera, it would also impact western consumers, western companies, from american farmers, soybean farmers, wheat farmers, boeing airplane company, to all kinds of companies. and so just as europe is, you know, feeling the effects and worried about cutting off all supplies of oil and natural gas from russia into europe, western
In response to Russia’s recognition of the so-called DNR and LNR separatist regions of Ukraine and Russian troop deployment to these regions, the U.S. has imposed new blocking and sovereign debt sanctions, as well as new geographic region-based trade embargoes.
South korea that the united states would turn north korea into a parking lot to use: powell s words. i think frankly, donald trump came along after three presidents including the one i worked for him also the same thing and try to do the same things with north korea none of the work. i think donald trump is on the right track here speaking differently, acting differently. this is what north korea and china need to hear. under president obama, they always said the military option is on the table. it was a very low table that no one could see. it was a miniature table. it was incredible. it wasn t real and that s one of the reasons north korea proceeded. shannon: i want to jump off and the point that you made about china because we talked a lot about how many of these messages are for north korea versus other players in the region. so expand on that, about why this is for china as well. the best hope for peace is for china to use their influence, trade embargoes against north korea and carry them forward and carry them out. if china is convinced that the