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Treasury secretary janne .

yelm says the U. S. And china need to find a way to work .

together today. She's washington's latest demons' to beijing, trying to ease tensions with talk.

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Treasury secretary yEllen is the second U. S. Cabin official to visit beijing in a month on the heels of a trip by sector of state Anthony blinkin. Yelland has an agenda that includes meetings with china's new premier and other top officials who have a hand in the economy.

The last time U. S. Treasury secretary visited china, washington and beijing were in a trade war.

Since then, the trade relationship is even more strained. So can the U. S. In china compete while they also collaborate in paris.

International correspondent Emily fang has been following all of this from taiwan.

Good morning. Em, good morning.

So what does yelling hope to achieve with this trip? And and what's SHE up against?

She's up against a lot. And i'm having a little bit of djvi actually because I started reporting on china for in p in two thousand nine. And as you mention, the trade war was in its most intense period at that point ah but all the issues that yEllen is up against are from that time period and chat p bound has been tracking those terrace that were imposed during the trade war.

He's a trade expert at the Peterson institute for international economics in washington, D. C. And almost four years later, as yellow lands in china today, he says this.

the U. S. china. Trade relationship is basically unchanged. None of the that were imposed or that we're in place as of when the president terms face one agreement, women into effect. None of those have been removed.

That's because the bite and administration shows to keep these twenty five percent tabs and chinese goods coming to the U. S and vice versa. And so yEllen faces all these old chAllenges. And on top of that, you have new sources of friction, for example, american export controls to prevent china from getting certain advanced I conduct or technology. And so tom says yEllen needs to talk about not just trade and baLances now with china, but also national security concerns.

When president trump was conducting his trade war, IT seemed to just be all about the us. And economic relationship in trade. Now it's not now. It's about geopolitical conflict, military conflict, potentially taiwan.

ang kong a, there are so many things that the two sides disagreed. What can the U. S. And china agree on?

Well, at least they both say they want to talk. But again, american officials are really downplaying expectations for her trip. They say this is just to maintain contact, so the two sides understand each other, even if they disagree with each other.

Yell's also in china this week to try to convince china that these expert controls that china hates are the fact that U. S. Companies are moving some of their supply chains away from china.

This has been done to protect U. S. Interests, are just as china does things to protect its interests that the U.

S. Also doesn't like. And she's trying to convince china that this is not meant to completely d couple of the two economies. And in fact, the two countries have a lot to CoOperate on, for example, combating climate change and addressing in global dead.

Yeah and do we have any idea whether he can make any headway on those objectives?

That's the question. really. There's only so much you can do because right now, if you're a foreign business in china, the trends are pretty worrying. China is past these new laws that can let them sanctions foreign companies, their new data control laws that make IT really hard for companies to Operate even there. Add to that there's a new counter sp and oh law past this year that so broad american businesses are genuinely concerned that their Normal activities week at the accused of .

being spice no epr is Emily flying in taipei.

Thank you so much. Thanks, rob.

Many have tried to replace twitter since elon muk took over the platform.

Now mark zuker is trying to host the go to place for online discourse. Like yesterday, facebook's parent company met up, launched a service called threads.

but we would succeed. Mp r tech reporter Bobby Allen joins us to discuss good morning.

Bobby rap. So threads .

sounds like a not so hip clothing line, but IT is, in fact, another social media side. What's IT like?

Yeah, no shocker. IT feels a whole lot like twitter, but IT has some advantages over a run of the mill twitter arrival in the form of data. right? Matter has a lot of this. When you down, love the threats APP.

You can instantly put over all of your instagram photos, your bio, all of your instagram friends, if all of your friends on instagram join threads and you can sort of keep your your network that you have on instagram. Now in terms of technology at self, rob, for twenty twenty three, this is not exactly a break through innovation for a social media out. Actually, this feels very twenty ten, but people are still joining.

I think that really shows just how much frustration there is with the current city of twitter. And it's first seven hours. More than ten million people have joined threats, and people have already found some pretty funny named force. Some are calling IT twins to gram. Others are calling IT twitter killer, so we will see how cos twitter killer.

Twitter has been around from most two decades. Why is mark OK doing this now .

towards elan mask since he took over twitter? It's spend less reliable. It's spend less credible. Masks of brought policy changes have often alienated twitters.

Most loyal users just this last weekend must cap the number of tweet non paying users can read each day. Then he made IT impossible to view tweet unless you are signed into the platform, which has now been reversed. But the damage is done for some users, rob.

Many are just fed up with twitter. It's two chaotic in glitchy and must clear has one goal in mind, right? And that's getting more people to pay for twitter, but people are leaving in droves. Socket berg sees opportunity there um you know backing up for some context or socket burgan must have long had a rivalry um and a decade goes I have tried to buy twitter but twitter went sell and zahara as long and be twitter for being the public square of the internet.

You took about a rivalry. We've planned a cage match. What's happening with that?

Yes, they may may not fight in a cage match. I think it's it's theatrics. I think there's a good chance that IT won't happen at all. But photos have leaked of elan training for this cage match. So yeah.

I see what happened. Let's just stop feeding into the theatre. So that will threads be any different than the other attempts to replace twitter?

You might know some of them, by name or not, mastered on blue e guy. Post list goes on. The obvious difference here is scale across its apps.

Meta has more than three billion users. Now the question is, can IT recreate the culture of twitter? That might be hard. When I tried to copy tiktok with the service called real that has worked out so great, I talked to this tech analyst name, fame Green wood, about whether met as threads has a shot. And SHE is pretty skeptical, and it's because of something SHE calls the terrible uncle problem.

So the terrible uncle problem is the issue that comes about when all of your relatives, your colleagues, your high school classmates are able to find you on social media.

Yeah, basically everyone is on facebook, including your terrible uncle. And that is a bad, especially for Younger users who see facebook sort of as a party they would never want to go to.

Younger people are turned off a black form. They feel like they have to sincere. What they're saying have to modulate with their saying that I want to do what literally everybody they know commenting on their post.

Has elon mosque responded yet to threatens?

Not yet. I emailed him to get a sense of how he's thinking about meta taking a direct shot at twitter, but I had not yet her back.

And here is Bobby Allen. Bobby, thanks.

thanks.

More than half of all americans say they're at least thinking about an electric vehicle .

for their next car purchase, but I want to know where will they plug them in? A big sticking point .

is the lack of public evy charges about this problem. A lot even on a road trip SHE took last week with the sector of energy. Can you is back from that and with us now? Hello, hi rob. How important is the availability of fast charges that people can find on the road?

Yeah, it's funny because the vast majority of electric hick charging actually happens at people's homes, or maybe they are work. But psychologically, charges on the road are really important. Americans love a road trip that studies actually show. This is the number one barrier, keeping people from buying electric vehicles even ahead of sticker Price.

So what's the state of the american EV charging infrastructure then?

It's not great. So last week, like you mentioned, I was the secretary of energon for grand home, went on this road trip to the south, and I was tagging along. We were travelling in electric vehicles. And I want to play some tape from one charging stop that the secretary took in tennessee. This is a secretary.

grant holy. We need more high speed charges. We were sitting .

in the back seat of an electric cattle, eric, and went on to talk about this federal push to incentives, charges and Green .

manufacturing. IT has been a burster.

but then grand home gestured at her press secretary, fanning herself some air conditioning here, because this is her staff had actually turned off the ac to try to make the car charge faster. This was one of several charging stops were charging went much slower than IT should have seriously yeah, it's really so we actually interpreted the interview at this point to step outside the vehicle.

Oh, man, OK, so that didn't sungen. This was during a big heat wave though, and will be covered that a reminder of what's I stay care, right?

Ultimately, this is about climate change. Getting people to adapt evs is a big part of of the push to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions. You do need people to be on board, right? And and people are buying you these increasingly, people like homes at a Green. She's from level kentucy and SHE was waiting in the in the shade by that electric vehicle charger while her vote flag and I D four was charging. And SHE loves that car.

but he is so much. Other than that, I I wouldn't take one thousand dollars for this car.

SHE won't sell IT for one hundred thousand dollars, he says. But he also says there just aren't enough charges. And this is really the situation right now, right? The charges aren't fast enough, they're reliable enough and there simply aren't not enough of them.

Lots of problems. What's being done about this?

Well, on the tech front, there are two fast charging standards, teslas, and everyone else is testers, charges. This is not just my opinion here, rob. This is, this is data.

They are Better. There are more reliable. Other companies are now embracing tesla charging standard, which is A A brand new, very interesting development. But the biggest thing that's happening is that there's just a pushed to build more of the federal government is spending .

billions of dollars on that is that can .

be enough IT really depends on who you ask, right? Car companies are going electric. The federal government could potentially speed that up.

There are proposed standards that could mean two thirds of new vehicles are electric by twenty thirty two. The big traditional automated, their lobbying group, is currently saying that simply not feasible. But the need for more charges is one reason why they said any more time.

Environmental groups, all electric auto makers, they say the speed is doable, and they point to things like all the money that's going to charges. Now these federal rules are being hammered out to some intense as all negotiating positions. But one thing everyone agrees on is that we're going to need more .

of the thanks and paris community dominus.

I thank you. thanks.

And that's our first for thursday alizad six i'm rush .

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