Ariel Cohen, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and director of the Center for Energy, Natural Resources and Geopolitics says he suspects that Donald Trump is trying to butter up Vladimir Putin to detach Russia from China. Then, Anand Srinivasan, senior semiconductor and hardware analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses President Obama's upcoming report on protecting the U.S. chip industry from China trade pressure. Also, Bloomberg's David Welch talks to Pimm Fox about Trump tweeting that GM should make its Cruze model in the U.S. or pay U.S. taxes. Finally, David Garrity, CEO of GVA Research, previews the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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