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Speaker 1: Ye. Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene

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Speaker 1: Jay Lee. We bring you insight from the best in economics, finance, investment,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course, on the Bloomberg We

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Speaker 1: begin with the top story, A big question. Is Washington's

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Speaker 1: trade war with Beijing go on a potentially irreversible course.

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Speaker 1: The Treasury Department is planning to heighten scrutiny of Chinese

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Speaker 1: investments in sensitive US industries under an emergency law. Prepared

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Speaker 1: to hear a whole lot more about this story through

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Speaker 1: the week. We can begin by heading over to Ways

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Speaker 1: and catching up with and acar In, our chief Asia

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Speaker 1: economics correspondent for Bloomberg News. And I'm really pleased to

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Speaker 1: say he's joined with us late in the evening over

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Speaker 1: in Hong Kong. So and the great to have you

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Speaker 1: with us on the program this morning here in New York.

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Speaker 1: Get us up to Spain and what's about to happen

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Speaker 1: this week. So it looks like Jonathan, at the very least,

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Speaker 1: the US are going to step up their scrutiny of

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Speaker 1: Chinese investment in the US itself. Now this matter is

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Speaker 1: because it goes to the heart of the U s

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Speaker 1: conterterns concerns about China's future industrial strategy. Remember, China wants

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Speaker 1: to create this high tech world leading economy and technology

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Speaker 1: with a little help from the state, and the US

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Speaker 1: is going to please about it. But for China to

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Speaker 1: do that, they of course need to source a lot

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Speaker 1: of technology from the US itself. So it seems like

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Speaker 1: their components from the US at the very least, trying

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Speaker 1: to slow down at that advancement. So I think it

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Speaker 1: illustrates that this trade spat is getting ever deeper by

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Speaker 1: the week. So we've got the external pressures on the Chinese,

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Speaker 1: we've got the internal pressures they're responding to as well.

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Speaker 1: And to what extent was the triple our cut the

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Speaker 1: reserve requirement ratio cut over the weekend to address the

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Speaker 1: softer on his economy. Yeah, I think benefit of the

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Speaker 1: doubt in this one. I think it was more driven

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Speaker 1: by domestic issues, Jonathan, rather than external per se. They

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Speaker 1: have been saying for some time now that smaller companies

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Speaker 1: that they're explicitly easing policy are looking to juice up

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Speaker 1: growth overall. It's a fairly targeted, modest to measure. But

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Speaker 1: at the same time, though, it's hard to completely ignore

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Speaker 1: the broader macro backdrop of a slowing Chinese economy at

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Speaker 1: the same time that the trade tensions are getting ever worse.

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Speaker 1: So it's an indication that the policy makers are ready

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Speaker 1: and willing to active need be. And there's a Harley

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Speaker 1: there's one of three Harley Davidson's stores in Shanghai. So

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Speaker 1: is the basic theme here They're gonna stop selling Harley Davidson's. Well.

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Speaker 1: The US companies operating in China are considered the vulnerable

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Speaker 1: in all of this, Tom, There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: And the auto sector especially you mentioned motor bike sector

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Speaker 1: up a big, big manufacturing plant in China. So if

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Speaker 1: the trade tension, to read the point, reach a point

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Speaker 1: made a lot more awkward for those you has companies,

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Speaker 1: including Harley and the Current. We've gotta let you run.

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Speaker 1: So thank you very much for joining the program later

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Speaker 1: on in Hong Kong to get us up to speed

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Speaker 1: on what is happening in China. Sonny Krasinski, I'm ready

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Speaker 1: But Pimco's executive vice president and market strategist Tony can

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Speaker 1: you imagine that Tom and a Harley, Well, I have

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Speaker 1: it since my youth. It's the thing, one of my

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Speaker 1: less land to ride on. Very cool, very cool. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about China. I haven't really heard many people talking

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Speaker 1: about a slower Chinese economy. You lays a focused on

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Speaker 1: that at the moment. Yes, it matters a lot. Global

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Speaker 1: are looking at, of course, is that these are these

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Speaker 1: that billion dollars of price change for US consumers peanuts

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Speaker 1: ninety five trillion dollars. And to put in perspective for

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Speaker 1: the fact that China has so much of our marginal growth.

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Speaker 1: course the United States. And that's Donald Trump's issue. He

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Speaker 1: but we buy about US Americans five So we're not

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Speaker 1: getting These policies are not going to lead to boosted

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Speaker 1: There will be more of this soul than that salt.

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Speaker 1: And if these trade tensions side, what are you watching

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Speaker 1: and that's un England. But in the well, I'm not

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Speaker 1: So I'm not tough times. It's tough times, but we

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Speaker 1: meaning it we take a lot of data and new

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Speaker 1: You'll know this, Tony KRESSENDSI with his dirt bike when

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Speaker 1: of Boston this morning. On a merging market, jeff, how

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Speaker 1: course technically you're right, Tom that you should be looking

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Speaker 1: now unwind itself. I think people have moved along dollar

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Speaker 1: is General Electric breaks up and up? How many more

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Speaker 1: What do you think Nelson Pelts wants him to do?

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Speaker 1: I think in Power they know that they have to

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Speaker 1: of the thing that's frustrating people. Are you Are you

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Speaker 1: in England just to watch Belgium, England and football? Now

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Speaker 1: I'm here for a conference that there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of talk about that. Trying to get up to speech.

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Speaker 1: You'll know more than me. Karen Lauren, thank you with

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