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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot com. Contentions just keep rising between the US

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Speaker 1: and China. The latest the US is moving to curtail

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Speaker 1: Huahwei Technologies chips supply. This is part of what's been

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Speaker 1: driving down semiconductors shares. But this just builds on a

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Speaker 1: whole host of rhetoric coming out of Washington as well

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Speaker 1: as Beijing back and forth, raising the question what's the

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Speaker 1: end game? Here? Are we entering a new Cold War?

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Speaker 1: Leland Miller joining US now chief executive officer of China

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Speaker 1: beige Book International. Leland, what do you make of this

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Speaker 1: back and forth in the latest move against Huahwei. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the move itself is quite misunderstood, and for

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Speaker 1: good reason. I mean, almost nobody can figure out what's happening.

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Speaker 1: But I think the best way to look at it

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Speaker 1: is the United States has extraordinary leverage over the Taiwan

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Speaker 1: semi conductor because it provides inputs that are important for production,

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Speaker 1: and it is the largest UH purchaser of of semi conductors,

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Speaker 1: and so it's extraordinarily important UH customer. And what the

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Speaker 1: United States government has said it will do, starting supposedly

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Speaker 1: today is require any UH any relationships with Huawei to

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Speaker 1: get a license. So in order you can't just sell

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Speaker 1: them to Huawei, if you're using US technology in your

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Speaker 1: in your product, you have to actually apply for a

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Speaker 1: license with the Department of Commerce. Now, if this is

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Speaker 1: held to that standard and they don't grant the license,

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Speaker 1: then this is an enormously powerful mood. If they do

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Speaker 1: grant the licenses, then this is an empty moot. So

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Speaker 1: it's less about what this has done and how it's

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Speaker 1: how they're going to treat this in the future. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's why this has led to an extraordinary

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Speaker 1: amount of confusion. So Leland, how does China view I

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Speaker 1: guess we'll call them renewed trade tensions here? What's kind

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Speaker 1: of their perspective? Do you think? I think that they're

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Speaker 1: looking at them on several several different levels. Now you

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Speaker 1: have some things that are happening. Uh, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Phase one trade deal is in real trouble. It's it'll

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Speaker 1: be toast by this by September. I think I think

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Speaker 1: we were were at the very end of the trade

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Speaker 1: deal talk. On the other hand, you have some very big,

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Speaker 1: very aggressive moves being talked about, like abrogating US debt obligations,

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Speaker 1: ripping away sovereign immunities from the Chinese. These aren't serious moves,

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Speaker 1: but if they move, you know, if the White House

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Speaker 1: And then there's certain things where they're just trying to

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Speaker 1: digest these moves piece by piece. What's happening to Huawei,

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Speaker 1: what's happening with the government pension fund cutting off flows

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Speaker 1: to China. So there's so much going on that I

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Speaker 1: this as what's important, what can we live with and

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Speaker 1: what is an absolute deal breaker in the relationship where

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start having real serious retribution. What's the end goal?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just extrapolating forward. Is there a red line?

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Speaker 1: And then once we cross that, we move to Phase X,

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Speaker 1: where why happens is there something like that that you're

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Speaker 1: sort of foreseeing, not yet, because everybody understands it's so

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Speaker 1: much of what's going on in the U. S side

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Speaker 1: is about the election. So President Trump realizes that there

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Speaker 1: are domestic difficulties with COVID and and the state of

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Speaker 1: the economy right now, and the safest the platform is

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Speaker 1: it to go tough, tough, tough on China. So the

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Speaker 1: Chinese understand that what they want to see is how

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Speaker 1: they can't pick it up in January. If if President

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Speaker 1: Although you get some loud talk if you ever saw

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Speaker 1: serious movement towards ripping sovereign immunity away from from from

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Speaker 1: How is President Trump's relationship with presidency of China. I

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Speaker 1: mean President Trump has touted it as very strong and

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Speaker 1: it's an extent that they can get on the phone

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Speaker 1: relationship to diffuse tensions if they want to pull that

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Speaker 1: this is just politics. It's domestic politics right now, where

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Speaker 1: tough on the Chinese. So a lot of this again

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Speaker 1: politics empty writer, We still need to see what it's

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Speaker 1: going to be durable past the election, regardless of whose president.

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Speaker 1: When you talk about Jim Ping, I wonder how much

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Speaker 1: his power is being challenged, especially given the data that

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Speaker 1: we got overnight. Yes, we got factory output surging more

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Speaker 1: not coming back that quickly. What do you foresee economically

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Speaker 1: The problem is their order books are collapsing because there's

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Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why China sort of you

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Speaker 1: and and really just backtracked to convincing their domestic population

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Speaker 1: all things China. Leland Miller, chief executive Officer of China

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Speaker 1: Beije Book International. At least it's uh, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: really interesting. I always appreciate Lenian's perspective here suggesting here

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Speaker 1: We will certainly be paying close attention to that. You know,

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Speaker 1: the question is what does that mean for the real

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Speaker 1: doing in terms of real estate? That get some good answers,

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Speaker 1: We welcome Jonathan Millard, President and chief executive officer of

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Speaker 1: Miller Samuel based in New York City. Jonathan, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for winning is here interest rates you know at

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Speaker 1: consumers are behaving here as it leads to real estate. Well,

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Speaker 1: people view cities. Jonathan. There is a question, though, is

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Speaker 1: help these state and local governments. UM, you know, move along.

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Speaker 1: I mean on the flip side of what you mentioned

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Speaker 1: certain states that UM have not been managing their pension

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Speaker 1: issue through through the years. UM know that that's really

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Speaker 1: the sticking point. It becomes becomes quite political. Kathleen, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We appreciate your perspective on

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Speaker 1: the municipal bond market. Kathleen mcnamar's senior municipal bond strategist

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Speaker 1: for UBS Global Wealth Management. And at least it's can

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Speaker 1: be really interesting to see the political um kind of

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Speaker 1: between the Democrats and Republicans as it relates to this

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Speaker 1: new fiscal stimulus plan. The prior fiscal stimulus plans were

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Speaker 1: generally bipartisan passed fairly quickly. This one appears to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit more contentious, and I think it does

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Speaker 1: go in part, as Kathleen was suggesting to, you know,

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Speaker 1: funds for state and local municipalities. Yeah, this is the

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Speaker 1: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bill. It's a three trillion dollar bill.

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Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, the Senate leader, Majority leader, has said it's

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Speaker 1: dead on arrival, so it's not going to pass the

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Speaker 1: Senate in its full form. But he is going to

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Speaker 1: take cues to some degree from j Powell and Steve Mnuch,

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Speaker 1: who are testifying together in front of the Senate Banking

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Speaker 1: Committee next week on Tuesday. Very curious to hear what

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Speaker 1: they have to say. Yeah, and when you think about

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Speaker 1: some of the data points we've seen this weeklies in

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Speaker 1: terms of the jobs claims and then the retail sales today,

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Speaker 1: there's certainly enough economic data out there to prod both houses,

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Speaker 1: both sides, to move forward with some fiscal steelers, because

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Speaker 1: there is real pain out there in the US economy.

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