Stats: Shanghai, Beijing Top Global Tourism Market | Sales Provider

Carmack also requested a meeting in April 2017 for Greg DeLancey, general manager of Taylor Motors in Murray, Ky., a government contractor that provides bus services, primarily to the Defense Department. Carmack wrote that DeLancey was “the Calloway county GOP chairman and about to be the first district GOP chair.” Chao met with someone from Taylor Motors in July 2017. When the McConnell staffer asked Inman to arrange a meeting for executive director Jason Vincent and other people from Pennyrile Area Development District during a March 2017 fly-in, he noted that some of the representatives were “friends.”

abode isn’t the first DIY security company to offer pro installs. Nest has its Pro service and LifeShield partnered with MasTec Advanced Technologies before it was acquired by ADT earlier this week.

The shifting dynamic is a costly distraction, at best, as tech companies come up with contingencies and look to shift production out of China. But the real worry is that as the U.S. and China try to protect their own interests, they may take down the entire tech ecosystem along with all of the innovation it produces.

"I know that some players have gone down south young and it hasn’t worked out, so being here just now is the best place for me. I just want to keep doing what I have been and keep playing well.”

Marc dos Santos says the Vancouver Whitecaps roster is likely set until the summer window, according to Sportsnet.

de Nobel expects the growth of service providers in China, both international and domestic, to continue the foreseeable future. He told Pharm Exec, “There is an opportunity for large global contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) to help prepare local Chinese pharma companies to expand beyond China in understanding global best practices, quality standards, and other regulatory requirements that they may need to follow outside of the country.” 

Given the supply demand imbalance there have been instances of what we believe to be irrational behavior or market participants were willing to lend at prices inconsistent with underlying deal dynamics, the need for a liquidly premium compared to the broadly syndicated loan market and associated spreads required for today's latent cycle environment.

Germany’s environment ministry wants to set a 2050 domestic emission cut goal of at least 95%, laying out its first draft Climate Action law as part of a law-making process that is likely to face heavy pushback.

US officials are also increasing the size of their delegation to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month with the aim of dissuading other nations from buying from Huawei. The US team plans to stump for other providers, such as Cisco, Ericsson and Nokia, according to one of the officials, according to a separate Bloomberg report.

Not PACking lightly – Veteran US Democratic party operative Corey Pratt has created a new unlimited-money political action committee, known as a super PAC, to support Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s possible presidential campaign. The group, called Act Now on Climate, illustrates how Inslee is planning to focus on the environment to make a mark in his presidential bid. However, it also puts him at odds with other major Democratic party candidates, such as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris, who have sworn off super PAC support. (Politico)

He admitted as much in an interview with Andrea Mitchell at the Aspen Security Forum last summer. This was not long after the American president, standing next to the Russian one in Helsinki, undermined Coats by name, reiterating Putin’s denial of the intelligence assessment that the Russians had meddled in U.S. elections. Trump then drew what many saw as an insulting, even dangerous, equivalence between the two accounts. (“I have confidence in both parties,” Trump said then.) Coats told Mitchell that he’d spent a lifetime as a politician trying to get his name in the paper, and now he just wanted to keep his name out of it. He then promptly made headlines with his astonished reaction when Mitchell informed him that Trump had invited Putin to Washington.     

Ledezma, 18, was a reported target of Barcelona but signed for PSV in December having trained with the club's youth teams since the summer.