U.K., U.S. Plan Sweeping New Asylum Restrictions

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

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A.M. Edition for March 7. The U.K. government is planning to ban asylum seekers who arrive illegally on boats across the English Channel from applying for British citizenship. WSJ U.K. bureau chief David Luhnow says the law has similarities with proposed new restrictions on migrant flows in the U.S., even as both countries contend with labor shortages. Plus, China’s Xi Jinping takes rare direct aim at Washington. Luke Vargas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.6	China's Xi takes direct aim at the United States, plus Tesla cuts prices, and the UK and US
0:37.3	ready sweeping new restrictions on asylum seekers. Part of the overall problem is that while there is
0:43.2	too much illegal immigration, there's potentially not enough legal ways for people to move and get
0:49.0	there. It's Tuesday, March 7th. I'm Luke Vargas with the Wall Street Journal, and here's the AM
0:54.4	edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:06.7	Chinese President Xi Jinping has issued an unusually blunt rebuke of US policy,
1:12.6	singling out what he called a Washington-led campaign of, quote, containment encirclement and suppression.
1:20.0	The remarks were part of a speech to members of China's top political advisory body
1:24.7	and have been widely reported by Chinese state media. Our China bureau chief Jonathan Cheng has more.
1:31.3	It's interesting because typically, I think Xi Jinping wants to be the guy who is going to be
1:38.1	able to cooperate and able to talk to the US, able to be sort of above the fray,
1:43.6	by directly blaming the US and by linking it with challenges that China is acknowledging.
1:50.7	It is a bit more open in its antagonism. It goes beyond just competition into sort of this dirty
1:57.7	competition analogy and claim that's being made here. In France, more than a million people are
2:04.5	expected to go on strike today. It is the latest round of nationwide protests pinning unions
2:11.2	against the government of French President Emmanuel Macron, who has proposed raising the official
2:16.7	pension age from 62 to 64 years. More than 250 protests are expected in Paris and around the
2:25.0	country with unions threatening to paralyze the economy by targeting rail networks, airports and
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