What’s at stake in China’s new semiconductor investment fund?
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① Member states of the World Health Organization have decided not to invite Taiwan to the organization's annual assembly in Geneva. Who is politicizing a health issue to advance their own agenda? (00:54) ② A decade after China launched the first phase of its semiconductor investment fund, the investment vehicle is now officially into its third phase. We discuss China’s goals on semiconductor. (13:02) ③ What was behind the rise in China's industrial profit in April? (24:57) ④ Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is in China to mark a decade of strategic partnership. (33:49) ⑤ The UN Security Council is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Rafah after a deadly Israeli airstrike killed 45 Palestinians sheltering in a refugee camp. Are there still means to rein in Israel? (45:16)
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