annmarie hordern
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Early mornings with @bsurveillance, Chief Political Correspondent @BloombergTV, term member @CFR_org, LDN-DC-NY, friends call me AMH.
"Oh, I don’t know,” Zelenskiy, 46, laughs when I ask him if he could imagine doing his job at 81.
“I know exactly what happened in that debate,” said Hunter Biden in an interview, citing former President Biden’s age, travel schedule, and “Ambien to be able to sleep.” “And what's the conspiracy? Did Joe Biden get old? Yeah, he got old. He got old before our eyes.”
Hunter Biden on Joe Biden's nightmare debate performance, which ultimately led to him dropping out of the presidential race
Microsoft says two Chinese nation-state actors have been exploiting vulnerabilities in SharePoint, per blog post. microsoft.com/en-us/security…
Surprised this wasn’t already standard operating procedure…
BlackRock has told staff traveling to China for business trips to use temporary loaner phones and not to bring company laptops, underscoring growing concern among some global firms about employees working there bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
NATO ambassador Matthew Whitaker on Fox Business: “China, I think, has miscalculated…they need to be called out for their subsidizing this killing that is happening on the battlefields in Ukraine.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“There’s nothing that tells me that he should step down right now,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Fox Business about Jay Powell.
Secretary Bessent tells Fox News he will meet his Chinese counterparts in Stockholm Monday and Tuesday.
Mohamed El-Erian: "If Chair Powell's objective is to safeguard the Fed's operational autonomy (which I deem vital), then he should resign."
This morning, US government criticism of both Federal Reserve Chair Powell and the institution itself has broadened to include "mission creep" and the effectiveness of other officials. The developments of the last few days reinforce my view: If Chair Powell's objective is to…
Japan’s chief trade negotiator met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for more than two hours last night, per a statement from Japan’s cabinet secretariat. This is trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa eighth time trip to the US for trade talks.
State Department confirmed a US Patent and Trademark Office employee has been barred from leaving China. “We are tracking this case very closely and are engaged with Chinese officials to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
ICYMI the Fed released this video tour of the renovations underway. youtube.com/watch?v=PPeSFE…
Politico: The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president’s weekend trip to Scotland, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Politico.
Bessent: “The Chinese, unfortunately, are very large purchasers of sanctioned Iranian oil, sanctioned Russian oil — so we could start discussing that.” China has bought 47% of Russia’s crude exports, per CREA. And more than 90% of Iran’s oil exports now go to China, according…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the next round of US-China talks could include a discussion of China’s purchases of Russian and Iranian oil bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
South China Morning Post: Trump might visit China before the APEC summit this fall, or meet Xi on the sidelines of the summit in South Korea.
The US is now seen pushing for a near-universal tariff on EU goods higher than 10%, with increasingly fewer exemptions limited to aviation, some medical devices and generic medicines, several spirits, and a specific set of manufacturing equipment that the US needs, said the…
EU and US negotiators are heading into another week of intensive talks, as they seek to clinch a trade deal by August 1 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
WaPo: A Chinese American man who works for the Commerce Department and traveled to China several months ago is being prevented from leaving the country after he failed to disclose on his visa application that he worked for the U.S. government, according to four people familiar…