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Speaker 1: News when you want it With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. China has warned the United

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Speaker 1: States not to interfere in Taiwan affairs. Over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: Taiwan voters elected a US friendly candidate, Lei Ching Da

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Speaker 1: as president. Life signaled he would cooperate with China moving forward,

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Speaker 1: but it's unlikely formal talks could restart anytime soon. Kerry

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Speaker 1: Brown is professor of Chinese studies at King's College, London.

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Speaker 1: He still thinks there is room for a relationship going forward.

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Speaker 2: Taiwan has forty five percent of its trade with China,

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Speaker 2: so that that alone means there's got to be some relationship,

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Speaker 2: even if it's not a particularly friendly one.

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Speaker 1: Lie one with forty point one percent of the counted vote.

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Speaker 1: That was the lowest winning percentage since another three way

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Speaker 1: race back in the year two thousand. Bloomberg's Jenny Marsh

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Speaker 1: says a number of issues were at play.

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Speaker 3: It was just a sign of the fact that people

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Speaker 3: are kind of they're fatigued by the DPP, they've been

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Speaker 3: in power for eight years. People sort of frustrated with

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Speaker 3: the economy right now, Like house is a very high

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Speaker 3: wages not rising fast enough. And also, you know, the

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Speaker 3: rising of the military tensions with Beijing has spooked people

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Speaker 3: in a little bit. So all the conditions were sort

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Speaker 3: of ripe for a changing power. DPP had no party

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Speaker 3: had ever ruled Taiwan for three consecutive terms.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Jenny Marsh Beijing said the election result will not

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Speaker 1: change Taiwan's status, and after the victory for lie, President

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Speaker 1: Biden reaffirmed that the US does not support Taiwan independence. Well,

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Speaker 1: it looks like a US government shutdown could be avoided,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzmann with more.

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Speaker 4: Congress has unveiled the stop gap spending built, a vertic

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Speaker 4: partial government shutdown that would take place on January twentieth.

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Speaker 4: The temporary spending bill would fund the agencies that face

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Speaker 4: the January twentieth deadline until March first, while the bill

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Speaker 4: would fund the agencies that would shut down a February

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Speaker 4: second until March eighth. The Senate will next begin procedural

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Speaker 4: votes on the stop bill on Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader

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Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer says it will take bipartisan supporting both branches

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Speaker 4: of Congress to pass The bill has Majority leader Mike

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Speaker 4: Johnson defended the deal, saying it eliminates many of the

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Speaker 4: budget quote gimmicks. Dan Schwartzman Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump has gathered a commanding

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Speaker 1: forty eight percent level of support in a closely watched

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Speaker 1: poll in Iowa. It puts Nicky Hayley in second with

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Speaker 1: twenty percent. The results of the NBC News Des Moines

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Speaker 1: Register poll suggest for the trouble for Ron DeSantis. He

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Speaker 1: has dropped to third place with sixteen percent support. Candidates

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Speaker 1: head into the Iowa caucuses on Monday. Meantime, frigid weather

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Speaker 1: is gripping the United States and may threaten to alter

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Speaker 1: the course of the twenty twenty four presidential election. The

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Speaker 1: National Weather Service issued an advisory for quote life threatening

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Speaker 1: wind chills and that is forecast to persist through noon

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Speaker 1: Central time on Tuesday. The weather already to disrupted the

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Speaker 1: National Football League playoffs, with some thirteen hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: flights or so into and out of the United States

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Speaker 1: reportedly being canceled. The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

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Speaker 1: is hospitalized in good condition, with no date set for

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Speaker 1: his release. He has been hospitalized for prostate surgery. The

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Speaker 1: President says he still supports Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary.

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Speaker 1: In NFL playoff action, the Green Bay Packers shocked the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys forty eight to thirty two to move on

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Speaker 1: to the next round. Against the San Francisco forty nine Ers,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones ran for three touchdowns and Jordan Love through

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Speaker 1: for three. In other action, the Detroit Lions beat the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams twenty four to twenty three in a

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Speaker 1: tight one to advance to the next round. Armonros Saint

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Speaker 1: Brown had seven catches for one hundred ten yards. And

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Speaker 1: that's news when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg