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The China smart cities market is driven by various factors, such the increase in population, need for rapid urbanization, and governments' investments and several policies to speed up the successful implementation and development of smart cities projects. Whereas, indigenous development policies of the country for foreign technology companies are the major restraints for the growth of the China smart cities market.The Government of China is supporting policies under the Made in China 2025 initiative to assist industrial R&D and strive for Fifth Generation (5G) commercialization by 2020. The country is more intended toward implementing the 5G technology for a multitude of life-transforming applications, such as 3D video to immersive media, autonomous vehicles, and the enablement of smart cities with ultra-high data rates, enhanced capacity, and reduced latency.

Coats has also described the experience of briefing the president—how he will frequently interrupt with questions or detours such that the briefers have to keep returning to the central points. Anonymous officials were less charitable in describing the experience to Time magazine recently, saying that Trump displayed “willful ignorance” or reacted with anger to facts he didn’t like. Two of them told Time that they’d been warned not to tell Trump information that contradicted positions he’d taken in public—which would seriously undercut the entire point of intelligence briefings, and offer further evidence of a dangerous disinterest in crafting fact-based policies. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the report for The Atlantic.

We have a disgruntled former employee of a business. It’s not unusual for heads to meet with Australian business agents or representatives. It happens all the time. It would be happening in different countries at present.

As we saw in 2018, connected TV in China is crucial to reaching consumers at scale and with emotional impact. Western companies need to move fast to capitalize on this development. We recently signed partnerships with Tencent Social Ads, Baidu Exchange Services and Alibaba’s video streaming service, Youku to help global marketers reach Chinese consumers through display, mobile, video and native advertising campaigns.

In late 2016, the Communist Party embarked on a campaign to turn the Uighurs and other largely Muslim minority groups into loyal supporters. The government locked up hundreds of thousands of them in what it called job training camps, touted as a way to escape poverty, backwardness and radical Islam. It also began to take DNA samples.

Coats understood this dynamic going in, and he even gave Trump the courtesy of a heads-up. Before one of his early briefings, Coats recounted later, he “took a big gulp of breath” and took Trump aside. “I said, ‘There are many times I'll be walking in here and bringing you information you might not want to hear or information you wish was different. And I'm going to—I just need to tell you my job is to give you the basic intelligence. You don't have to agree with it. You can ask for more information, but we have to have the kind of relationship that we can be open with each other.’”

Wooden also said there would not be any changes to the principal and interest payments for the state’s pension bonds issued to help the fund in 2008.

So the idea of normalized spreads is really a function of the inherent risk for taking credit risk. What we did say was that spreads have snapped back between the end of Q4 and as we sit today. And so given that's a function of a more accommodative spread and that obviously rising rates hurts investments, consumers, increases the required return on capital investment and has an impact of slowing the economy and accommodate the facts that has pushed -- has the perception of pushing out any type of economic recession or a credit cycle. And so spreads have come back in, given the accommodative spread and if you would run those spreads through our portfolio today, you would have $0.10 to $0.12 of the reversal of that $0.23 in Q4, that would run through NI in Q1. But the idea of normalized spreads is really a function of what the idea of defaults and losses are.

IRENA’s new report Innovation landscape for a renewable-powered future: Solutions to integrate variable renewables, will be launched in Brussels on 19 February 2019. IRENA’s Director-General Adnan Z. Amin will present the report in the presence of EU Energy and Climate Action Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete and Energy Director-General Dominique Ristori during an official launch event hosted by the European Commission.

Even for presidents who haven’t been accused of habitually distorting reality, the “truth to power” ethos can be unpleasant. It’s not fun to hear, for example, that the Taliban controls large portions of Afghanistan when you are determined to pull troops out, as Obama discovered before Trump. Presidents are not obligated to make policy based on intelligence assessments alone—and as examples from the Bay of Pigs to Iraq illustrate, intelligence officials can be wrong. As a matter of national security, though, presidents are obligated to at least consider the facts.

As the number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela continues to rise – hitting the 3.4 million mark this month...

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