15/05/2017 Asia Business Report


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Now on BBC News all the latest business news live from Singapore.

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China's one belt one road for it kicked off in Beijing. Just how

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lofty are its Silk Road ambitions and can they be filled? More victims

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are expected of the cyber attack as they return to work after the

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weekend. Hello and welcome to Asia Business

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Report. Leaders from 28 nations are gathered in Beijing to bring China's

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grand plan to invest billions of dollars to improve its global trade

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links one step closer to reality. Called the one belt one road

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initiative, it was proposed in 2013 by President Xi Xin Ping. Its

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ambitions span over 60 countries and the President has pledged billions

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of dollars for the scheme. There are sceptics that say it is an expensive

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exercise to extend China's political and economic influence. We are

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joined by our Asian business correspondence in the studio. $124

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billion, no small number. Of course, this was an announcement that was

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made to all of the world leaders that were gathered to listen to

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President Xi. Why are the Chinese making such a big deal about this?

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In simple terms, this is China's beat coming out party and especially

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so for President Xi Jinping. He has basically pegged his credibility to

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this initiative. He is basically saying that this is a project of the

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century. But have looked at how fast this initiative is. If you can see

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on the Mac right now, the One Belt One Road plan, it goes through most

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of Asia, Africa and all the way up to Europe. -- on the map. This is

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Railways worth $1 trillion. Even more money being pumped in by the

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Chinese. The plan is that with this initiative, trade will flow from

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east to west and in theory from West back to East and that will help the

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economies around the world to grow. You mentioned it will go into the

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trillions of dollars, this huge project. All of the ports and

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railroads. The Chinese are paying a significant amount of that and what

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country to come on board. They are also wanting the private sector on

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board. Booval the money come from? Initially, it will be financed by

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China but they can't do it alone. -- where will the money come from. It

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is cognisant about the fact it can't afford it all alone. Local

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governments in particular are wondering whether they have the

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firepower to invest because otherwise they won't need China's

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help. The investment bank has said trillions of dollars is needed in

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Asia over the next few years and China's One Belt One Road goes some

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way to solving that problem but how our local governments going to get

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the money? And a quick one on corruption. There is a bit worried

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that China is investing in countries with very bad records of governance.

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How can they mitigate some of their losses? Pakistan, Central Asia,

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countries where foreign investors do not go in without some degree of

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caution. China is much the same and privately, some officials are saying

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they don't expect to get a massive return on investments. One to watch

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for the future. Thank you very much. We will be

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watching the second day of the forum today. Europe's's police agency

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since last Friday's global attack has hit more than 200,000 feet and

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is in over 150 countries. Cyber Security agencies are now warning of

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a new wave of cyber attacks are round the world as people return to

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work after the weekend. They have seen this as a major

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problem over the years but never on this soul. Infected computers pass

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it onto others its network -- Europol has seen this. They were

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designed to affect as many people and as many companies as possible on

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a global basis. The healthcare sector is vulnerable. Healthcare

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trusts approach a lot of sensitive information on old legacy IT

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systems. The criminals know that if they can exploit the vulnerability

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is, there will be a lot of issues. 150 countries were affected before a

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22-year-old Briton, hailed as a hero, bound a simple kill switch in

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its code. Something he warned was just a temporary fix. There is a lot

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of money in this. There is no reason for them to stop. There is no effort

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for them to change the code. We have seen seen the cyber criminals react

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to that and put out a new version, and new variant of that which

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overcomes the temporary fix and am also concerned about what happens on

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Monday morning because I think the bug will be sitting in systems over

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the weekend that have so far not being used. When people arrive to

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work on Monday morning and turn on their computer, I think we will see

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the numbers going up again. While the high profile organisations have

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largely recovered, Britain's NHS one of them, thanks to backup systems,

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some systems, and individuals, were not so prepared. Students at this

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campus from China, no option but to pay up if they want their files I'm

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locked by the hackers. TRANSLATION: The encryption of planet --

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ransomware was advanced. Individual users would not be able to recover

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their files. For users, they should also make always back up their

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files, upgrade best suit -- security software and use antivirus tools.

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That is the main advice from security experts. Download the

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latest security patches from Microsoft and regulate backup data

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to devices not connected to the Internet.

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Let's look at some of the other news. We will be keeping an eye on

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this week. Later today, Thailand and sales growth numbers on the January

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PO -- January to May period. Since the death of their King last year,

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Thailand is expected to have grown at their fastest pace in force --4

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years. Google's developer's conference gathered from around the

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world. Letter this week, Singapore airlines reveal their earnings. --

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later. We will see them going into debt is only as 2018. Also, Japan

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releases its preliminary GDP and just like Thailand, growth is

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projected. Earlier, I spoke with and investment expert.

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Exports are picking up. Consumers are spending and tourists are

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returning. These are three meant -- main drivers for Thailand. If they

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can start exporting, things will look after. There is a cloud on the

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horizon and that is that much of Thailand's exports are destined for

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China and Thailand makes the product that China then assembles which are

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then exported to the West. If trade relationships between the US and

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China are not good then of course that could affect China which in

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turn will affect Thailand. Moving on, quickly. Google and technology

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from Internet search engine to self drive -- self driving cars. What's

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next? Killam the thing about this conference is something surprising

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always comes out -- the thing about this conference. I think technology

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affects all of us and will touch all of us. I think in the case of

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Google, they appear to be working on things like virtual reality. How

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that is actually impacting my life, I'm not entirely sure. For some

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people, it will be a big thing. They are working very hard on Google home

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which means your home will be connected with the things you do on

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a daily basis. I can for instance set my washing machine last sitting

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here talking to you. Fascinating. Let's look at Singapore airlines.

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Brand-new planes. They have been buying a lot of them Asperitas sense

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they might go into debt as soon as next year. What's expected that

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their results? What they said last time they came out were the

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conditions were challenging. I think we know things are challenging at

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the moment that what you touched on about that debt is quite

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interesting. Previously, they had about $3 billion worth of cash, half

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of which was debt which means they were in a Metcash position. What

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could happen as they start at -- spending on these planes, they could

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start using up a lot of this cash and instead of having net cash, they

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will have net debt. They properly think that having some net debt is

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not such a bad thing. Japan expecting growth? I think so. One

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thing --1 person smiling will be that of Japan's of another. I think

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he will be smiling because it is finally working. -- bank of Japan.

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The Nikkei in Japan and the all ordinaries in Australia are both

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trading law at -- Lower, taking their cues from Wall Street. It was

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due to a weaker than expected retail sales and a report on consumer

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prices in the US. Of course there are geopolitical issues as well

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after the missile launch in North Korea over the weekend which is

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unnerving some investors over in Japan. That is it for this edition

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of Asia Business Report. Thank you for watching.

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