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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, along

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Speaker 1: with my co host of Bonnie Quinn. Every business day

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. Well, under the Trump administration,

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Speaker 1: the tensions the with and the relationships with China have

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Speaker 1: become rather strained. First it was trade tensions, tariffs, uh,

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Speaker 1: and mostly on the economic front. Now it's kind of

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Speaker 1: spilling into the political realm as well. We can get

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Speaker 1: the latest on all things he was China. We can

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Speaker 1: do that with Stephen Orleans, president of the National Committee

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Speaker 1: on US China Relations based in New York City. Steven,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us here. You've had such

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Speaker 1: a long history in China, dealing with the US and China,

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Speaker 1: the relationship they're doing business in China as well. What

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Speaker 1: if you could give us maybe your thirty thousand foot

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Speaker 1: view about the US China relationship right now from both sides. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've been working on it, i guess for forty three years,

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Speaker 1: since my time in the State Department and at Leban

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Speaker 1: the National Committee on US China Relations. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's fair to say this is the worst that I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen the relationship. And it's a confluence of three factors,

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Speaker 1: and you have to look at the factors are related,

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Speaker 1: but to some degree there's still separate. One. You have

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Speaker 1: attacked on coronavirus issues there to say we banned Chinese

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Speaker 1: this very strong uh statements by the administration to blame

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Speaker 1: China for everything. That's that's one, So electoral politics is

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Speaker 1: a role. Second is what are called of the Navarro

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Speaker 1: China is an existential threat and they want and it's

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Speaker 1: going to change our way of life, and they're trying

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Speaker 1: to put in place policies which are irreversible. And the

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Speaker 1: third is Chinese actions where their actions in Hong Kong's,

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Speaker 1: not huge opposition to these policies which get put in place.

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Speaker 1: And we're seeing pushback on on TikTok on w chat now,

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Speaker 1: when you say irreversible policies, what do you mean what

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Speaker 1: for sale of TikTok, that's irreversible. So if Microsoft and

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Speaker 1: So how you spent and was just getting you can

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Speaker 1: you can now reverse that sale. So those kinds of

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Speaker 1: actions are irreversible, setting kind of a putting in place.

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Speaker 1: You know, the the Houston consulate closing is not irreversible.

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Speaker 1: That actually, you know, a new president or President Trump

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Speaker 1: So Stephen, you know, I think maybe one of the

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Speaker 1: most reasonable views I've heard is that uh, okay, we

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Speaker 1: we as the United States, need to take a tougher

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Speaker 1: What's your view, It needs to be multilateral. To go

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Speaker 1: about this unilaterally will not work. So take as an

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Speaker 1: example one which kind of matters to your listeners, the

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Speaker 1: When you do that unilaterally, you're playing whack a mole.

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Speaker 1: We haven't agreed with Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, London to

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Speaker 1: they feel that his unilateral approaches, you know, his tariffs

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Speaker 1: big difference is multilateral versus unilateral. Alright, Steven, thirty seconds left.

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Speaker 1: What is your view or what do you think the

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Speaker 1: There are people in the Chinese government with different views.

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Speaker 1: make those decisions. Stephen, we have to leave it there,

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Speaker 1: but it is an excellent, you know, chance to speak

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Speaker 1: the cold face of retail and husband for decades, Craig Johnson,

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Speaker 1: as president of Customer Growth Partners. Craig, where are we

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Speaker 1: in the bankruptcy you know cycle? Are we halfway through? Yes?

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Speaker 1: It's really a sign of weeding out of the poor

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Speaker 1: seems like when we've listened to a lot of the retailers,

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Speaker 1: there have been cutbacks that the department stars. Remember you

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sure who is next. We don't

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Speaker 1: the mistakes they make. Absolutely, So you take let's take

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Speaker 1: And I'm I really fear for not so much the

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Speaker 1: stop being intransigent and uh, you know, so eventually there

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Speaker 1: think about uh you know, but but really what would

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Speaker 1: that mean? You would need some of the faults? Uh

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you know he's a couple of Chapter

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Speaker 1: nine bankruptcies at the local level. Um, you know that,

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Speaker 1: but but a whole the doomsday scenario is so oversold

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Speaker 1: and not accurate when it comes to meetings. So I know,

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Speaker 1: that market, just desperate for yield. How's that market trading

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Speaker 1: right now? How's the fund slows the new issuance? How's

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Speaker 1: that market looking to you? Oh? Baby, taxable bonds are

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Speaker 1: are you know, it's like the it's the flavored d

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Speaker 1: which as you say, are attractive to uh, out of

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Speaker 1: could sell those taxable and refund advanced refund bonds that

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Speaker 1: they sold the tax exempt market a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: most recent tax Act prohibited the use of the tax

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Speaker 1: exempt financing for advance refundings. So, yeah, taxables are going crazy,

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Speaker 1: and you know one of they uh you know it's uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a portion of the market. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty billion out of the point nine

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Speaker 1: truly beauty market. But I read a report this week

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Speaker 1: that you are an analyst said, you can easily see

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Speaker 1: it go off to you know, nine hundred billion portion

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just we'll keep an eye on that.

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