one, china through the project, china has made itself a great power. china has become more significant to more countries in the world while america has become less significant to more countries. and i would say that to give you kind of an example. the european union operates on the basis of unanimity. tsome of the european union is going to announce a politics position, all of the members of the european union have to vote for it . china has essentially bought part of a place in greece. and is building this rail from hungary of two serbia. and it was preparing to buy the major electric power generator in portugal. when china does these things, and effectively makes it very difficult for e.u. to make a united statement. so politically it's given china in norma's power globally. it and the same time, it creates a lot of jobs in china. in the equipment is the being exported to build all of these facilities. and that then changes the trade lane and distribution of supply chains in china's favor. so think it is been very successful trip for china. i'm sorry

for example it's very close to china and china has very much closer relations to china and in a more direct sense than for example the us and europe graphically and demographically there's also a large chinese community in australia and however i think as china is seemingly more aggressive on the xi jinping in the pacific asia region. and now in the last few years wanting to kind of tighten also its policy against china and also impose tariffs and be more cautious and because they are more direct in contact with china and they feel more threatened and i think that but to their reactions from the region i think the you're up and the u.s. can now kind of look 1st and use australia as kind of a and this example of what would happen if. at the beginning of the show we have this quote from you where you said to us where there's a global no forward be willing to accept known western leadership was very intriguing to us a little bit more if i think that of course there's the debate washington's kind of putting forth that it's not about fighting china it's about fighting an authoritarian sta

the us—china trade deficit is at all time highs between the us and china. number two, the phase one trade deal would set very specific benchmarks for chinese purchases of american agricultural and energy goods over a two—year time period. the chinese, as of today, are still 40% short of their benchmark of purchases for. . .for the first year. so the phase one trade deal didn't work. and as i'm sure you know, stephen, the whole purpose of the trade negotiation when it was launched was to solve long—term structural issues in the us—china trade relationship, ipr protection, forced technology transfer, chinese state subsidies. the phase one trade deal dealt with none of these issues. so to use your rhetoric, stephen, the trump strategy, yes, was very confrontational, push back, prodding china at every opportunity, but it was not very competitive. it didn't improve the american competitive position vis a vis china. it was just very confrontational. so let's move on then. you don't see any real positives out of trump's trade policy. what about his policy on

morgan recently ordered open derbez trading in china you know american business loves china. american government doesn't necessarily put a large portion of american banjo in the comedy don't you know why because the government doesn't because they need it fine so much it gets off the hook by blaming someone else gentlemen that's all the time we have you want to thank my guest in washington basking rich and in beijing and i want to thank our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time remember. because there's a survival guide book stacie just to start to. be sure it's going to get him back. oh heck no. repatriations look at the rest of 70 years. bill of the separate kaiser report. seems wrong but i. just don't. get to see palin just days after. and in detroit because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. joe biden say's diplomacy is back while using his 1st major foreign policy speech to lash out at russia promising a tough line against the kremlin. popular video sharing network kicks off there's little local child

and china. francesco parisi has decided on a partner to help trast expand not china but a european investor at the port of hamburg. he stresses that this is a purely economic calculation but he doesn't deny that political factors also played a role parisi remembers the cold war and is worried about any new confrontation. these calls rotation situationally the warri of another cold war. is there a method of closure for me personally and for my business in general it will not for me in general also as it is as a citizen of the european euro. we could see that international trade for sure a bridge we could see that to be helpful to. keep in mind a piece of the debate about the role europe will play in the trade war between the u.s. and china is nothing new and is not limited to the economy. the asparagus i hope to some european leadership because if not europe risks becoming the battlefields to china and the usa and europe can be the 3rd key player in the global arena i hope that's what europe deci

for example it's very close to china and china has very much closer relations to china in a more direct sense than for example the us and europe graphically and demographically there's also a large chinese community in australia and however i think as china is seemingly more aggressive on the xi jinping in the pacific asia region stradley and now in the last few years wanting to kind of tighten also its policy against china and also impose tariffs and be more cautious and because they are more direct in contact with china and they feel more threatened and i think that but to their reactions from the region i think the euro up and the u.s. can now kind of look for us and use australia as kind of a and this example of what would happen if. at the beginning of the show we have this quote from you where you said to us where there's a doable know if would be willing to accept known western leadership or was very intriguing to us a little bit more is i think that of course there's the debate washington's kind of putting forth that it's not about fighting china it's about fighting an authorita

exports to s china. quite the opposite happened we are now at $400 billion at deficit to china and you know, whole u.s. industries have moved to china. something like three or 5 billion american jobs have been moved to china between 2001 and today and so they are eating our lunch and i think that president biden and i'm pleased that he recognizes that. >> host: would we be in a better position trade wise if we had entered the transpacific partnership there at the end of the obama administration beginning of the trump administration? >> guest: trade wise it would've made no difference. in fact, trade wise we might have been in a little slightly worse position because that agreement was not going to open a significantly any significant markets for us in asia. remember, we called it a transpacific agreement but aside from japan the other major asian countries will be vietnam, malaysia and singapore and those are not big markets. we did bring japan into it but nothing in the agreement was going to increase o

china's new. beijing's multi-billion dollar bill obama should be of extending right into europe the 1st section from newberg rates to stop us all and 3rd section from . 2 super data or constructed by china railway. china aims to get its goods across europe by train and southeastern and eastern european nations are vital to that strategy will enable the transportation of goods to western europe via a single rail corridor. for southeastern europe in particular the new silk road project beckons with promises of new investments. in these 4 rounds the chinese have come like a gift from family and life. but china brings more than cutting edge technology it's also prepared to invest in older environmentalists harmful processes. cuts in immunity arc their cancer is a really horrible disease has all of us know what we're in for lost of a turk which are what. it's a region torn between it's loyalty to europe and the opportunities that china offers. it would be easy to convince our politicians not to get fun

to deal with china is all in a graphic problem on this has a very positive sign for china's future or i will leave it there let's thank our guests very much for their thoughts on that yuki our inner and dan and thank you to 4 g. you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion head over to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story can also join the conversation on twitter handle is act a.j. inside story from a sam is a that and the whole theme here for now is go buy. more than a year off of the coded 19 pandemic began its origins remain a mystery one o one ace meets the scientists trying to trace the virus from the animal kingdom to humans on al-jazeera. on counting the cost no way got very rachel oil and gas now it has controversial plans to mine the seabed plains bondevik dad to blow they've removed taxes and unnecessary austerity to paid off boshoff social media hate charity exports to time. counting the costs on al-jazeera. for 4 weeks america in goal didn't protest every day all over the u.s. eve

in china and it has a very. strong trading relationship and i think germany's always called for example merkel she's always caught in between. protecting business interests this is the human interest and human rights and democratic values and i think that europe is deciding how much their way. will we prioritize business trade economic development with china or will we take a step back and look at the human rights situation in china. turns and you're nodding. to the bottom line is the path to a united or any kind of coherent european china strategy or policy goes right through berlin berlin is going to be determinant as it was in the case of the comprehensive investment agreement and it has to strike that balance between its economic interests which are growing with china and dependencies and the human rights values questions. we haven't talked yet about taiwan beijing of course views taiwan as an indivisible parts of its territory taiwan for its part wants greater independence it's going to be interesting to se

issues that mine did not support china with and also china has always backed the military junta was seen as a kind of protector of the military junta when it came to example for example to any actions that the international community might have made in the united nations china would block those actions and protect the military and using its veto power in the united nations china is also almost like an economic backer of the military junta there store many projects there are so many. there so much trade that goes on which the military junta would not have been able to assist the supporters continue building up its infrastructure that were crucial for the governance for the newsroom to have china's backing here and at the same time i guess there was a kind of quid pro quo why on the would back china in terms of any political movement in the south asia region land would continue to support china with any controversial issues when it comes to taiwan the hong kong for example which man was seen as a key and reliable ally for china when it comes to beijing in its interests beijing wants t

and china. francesco parisi has decided on a partner to help trust expand not china but a european investor the port of hamburg. he stresses that this is a purely economic calculation but he doesn't deny that political factors also played a role or easy remembers the cold war and is worried about any new confrontation. he's called for a situation where there was another cold war. be a matter of concern for me personally and for my business in general for me in general. as a citizen of the european union. we conceive it international trade for sure a bridge we could see that to be helpful to. keep in mind the peace. the debate about the role europe will play in the trade war between the u.s. and china is nothing new and is not limited to the economy. the asperity i hope to some european leadership because if not europe risks becoming the battlefields to china any less say that horrid can be the 3rd key player in the global arena i hope that's what europe decides today and it should all be fodder.

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for example it's very close to china and china has very much closer relations to china and in a more direct sense than for example the us and europe graphically and demographically there's also a large chinese community in australia and however i think as china is seemingly more aggressive on the xi jinping in the pacific asia region a strategy and now in the last few years one thing to kind of tighten also its policy against china and also impose tariffs and be more cautious and because they are more direct in contact with china and they feel more threatened and i think that but to the reactions from the region i think the you're up and the u.s. can now kind of look for us and use australia as kind of a example of what would happen if. at the beginning of the show we have this quote from you where you served us where the global north would be willing to accept known western leadership rosary intriguing to us a little bit more is i think that of course there's the debate washington's kind of putting forth that it's not about fighting china it's about fighting an authoritarian state b

al the product come out of china, everything is made in china. so, i just want to circle back to the point, what can we do as consumers? it seems overwhelming, everything comes out of china. what ick do as a consumer? it's very, very difficult to find anything that doesn't come out of china. >> yes. i think we need to start going on facebook and going on twitter and asking these companies, how exactly you're sourcing from these factories, how areow doing your audits, how much are you paying for audits and what are you looking for in your audits. do you actually give your factories enough time to make these products? what happenings if you want to make a production change because trends are changing? do you give your factories an extension or do you not? and they have no choice but to make a fast turn-around that is not possible. these are questions weeing ask companieses and if there's enough of us on facebook and bitter to ask, they have to respond and change some of their bowl sis because the last thing any corporation wants are viral social me

china or any other country. lives with his family and book in your district not far from the power plant. right behind his house is an old ashdown. there used to be 500 residents here now there are only 100 his are the only children. he'd like to see bosnia phase out coal power more quickly. proly national museum reason is you our problem is that we're surrounded by waste disposal dumps we live between 2 coal ash dumps and a thermal power plant system you know those in the church richard we're hoping for a change in the government so that the west can have some influence clearly at the moment the government is only acting in its own interests and doesn't care about the people here. who are the. pushtun. who. will be in. the rail corridor that begins at the greek port of pirates and travels by in belgrade is meant to end one day in budapest it will become the delivery route for many chinese goods coming to the you. hungary's close ties with china go back decades we come to meet get a gay charlotte an expert on ch

and china. francesco parisi has decided on a partner to help trust expand not china but a european investor at the port of hamburg. he stresses that this is a purely economic calculation but he doesn't deny that political factors also played a role or easy remembers the cold war and is worried about any new confrontation. these confrontations situationally with the warriors of another cold war. is a matter of culture for me personally and for my business in general it will not for me in general as it is as a citizen of the european you are. we contributing to an issue of trade for sure a bridge we could see that to be helpful to. keep in mind a piece of the debate about the role europe will play in the trade war between the u.s. and china is nothing new and is not limited to the economy. be a spectacle i hope to some european leadership because if not europe risks becoming the battlefields to china and usa and europe can be the 3rd key player in the global arena i hope that's what europe decides

i'm pinning my hopes on china that the cooperation with china will help the tourist industry to grow in sicily. just. last year we had president xi jinping here cicely wants to see more chinese tourists the chinese are very curious about italy . graci no longer holds political office the government he was part of only lasted for 15 months but the letter of intent that he negotiated with china is still valid. when i came in i took on these projects and actually delivered it. so i accelerated the process made final agreements with the chinese counterparts and we implemented them we cited and i do think a bit this is the base to economic opportunity that italy has to cooperate with china doing these things together. this deal with china alarmed europe. italy is after all one of the use founding members as well as part of nato. many saw the signing of this contract as a break with the old alliances. the logic of the italian government back then was purely economic. they said everyone else was doing business with china too even if they had no official agreement. there is absolutely no con

so the rise of china you know adapted to the price of china by doing a vast amount of business in china and because you need to expand there and vote with their feet as an asshole for example opening a big plant in in her not in and now the latest test slope into a manufacturing plant in shanghai. citibank is expanding its business including derivatives you know i think it's j.p. morgan recently ordered open derbez trading in china you know american business loves china american government doesn't necessarily but a large portion of america that job when he comedy don't you know why because the government doesn't because then it finds someone it gets off the hook by blaming someone else gentlemen that's all the time we have you want to think like us in washington basking rich and in beijing and i want to thank our viewers for watching us iraqis the next time remember crossed. i might. show somebody an accident where a car goes through a i kneel sign at the intersection. suggest to the witness said they saw us down side instead of the eels sign. in these experiments many will adopt this s

to china. quite the opposite happened. we are at $400 billion that is with each -- 400 billion dollars deficit with china and whole u.s. industries have moved to china. something like three to 5 million american jobs have been moved to china between 2001 and today. they are eating our lunch and i think president biden is, i am pleased that he recognizes that. host: would we be in a better position trade wise if we had entered the trans-pacific partnership at the end of the obama administration, and beginning of the trump administration? clyde: trade wise it would have made no difference in trade wise we might have been in a worse position. that agreement was not going to open significantly and a significant markets for us in asia. remember, we call it the train agreement, but aside from japan, the other major asian countries were going to be vietnam, malaysia, brunei, and singapore. those are not big markets. we did bring japan into it. nothing in the agreement was going to increase our exports

china is "eternal, immutable." and these people, with their notable differences, are a problem, so we have seen since 2012 effectively a cultural genocide going on in xinjiang. and, as lyse well knows, when you have policies like that, women become a major victim. let mejust bring you in, because the bbc has obviously had some criticism from china in reporting this story. a lot of criticism from china . reporting the story and in how they have responded l to the covid—19 crisis, but that is journalism, - asking questions and trying to get answers. it is interesting that the - latest is that antony blinken, the us secretary of state, has called his chinese - counterpart to say that, - you know, we have got to do something about this, and it was very muchl in president biden's speech as well. - where the voices i are silent have been from the muslim world. the 01c in 2019 came up with a statement, | the organisation of islamic states, commending - china for taking care - of its muslim population. the only, really,

region and myin ma definitely relies on china china is the biggest trading partner of burma for man march china is the 2nd largest source of foreign direct investment based share quite an extensive order 2100 kilometers and since she had been in power she had recognized this and she had been cultivating this economic relationship with china she was quite a enthusiastic participant in china's the road initiative and also there was of course the china economic corridor or china has been investing billions of dollars into infrastructure projects. that a much needed in that country and in return. says china of much needed natural resources timber oil hydro powered jade so for china it's been a very important relationship and it's not just the economics not just trade it's also very much political china is one of the rare supporters of my imo when it comes to its approach with the really hinges china has always had this noninterference approach and said that it doesn't meddle in internal affairs and therefore doesn't support sanctions or any punitive measures by the international communi

there is a lot of criticism over china's behaviour, i south china, hong kong, i part of china, beijing feels it has the legitimate i right to do something about its own territory. there is a lot of criticism over china's behaviour, i but a more difficult question i for western commentators is, for a country of china's size, 1.4 billion people, _ its economic power and weight. we have seen a lot of| criticism, but not a lot of constructive suggestions — what type of relations - we want with china . in the years to come. i think that's going . to be a more difficult question for the decades to come, perhaps. - a lot of scratching of heads well beyond this celebratory year for the chinese communist party. the vaccination programme was boris johnson's justification for visiting scotland this week. why did the prime minister need one? because the pandemic restrictions imposed by scotland's government — to which powers have been devolved for more than 20 years — ban all but essential journeys. this, declared the first minister, nicola sturgeon, a champion of scotland separating from th

writing about china. i think that needs to happen. in terms of a possible reset, i do think that we are going to see some nice words on both sides. i think it's likely that the biden administration will take a much less sort of i would almost call aggressive approach that we've seen under the trump administration. i guess biden said yesterday in a "new york times" interview that he's not going to immediately lift the tariffs that trump has imposed but it wouldn't surprise me if those are downplayed or eventually lifted. some of the technology restrictions that haven't actually necessary been instituted anyway but the trump administration has announced a ban on tiktok, for example, which they keep giving them one more week. hasn't actually happen. it's even less likely that those bands will be carried out so that's all good i think. i do think, this is an important point in my mind, what we've seen an election in just one of these two capitals, right, it washington, and i think in beijing we have seen it m

and something that china stands ready to china is a century maybe he's. smart. and they're going to function into the united states picking one of their their system doesn't work our system but there is one area where the u.s. can step up in a new way narea where hope for the future is in short supply climate scientists agree that the world is on course for devastation if it fails to cut back further on carbon pollution for most extreme state john kerry is biden for climate policy in appointment showing this was a top priority experts say that the u.s. has a big opportunity to combine reviving its economy with cutting its emissions and helping other countries do the same right now green recovery still a huge luxury for a majority of. the u.s. has a huge role to play in that not only in its own development aid on its own overseas international. but you know how they. let me banks and i think we were in the eye on that. other country. on earth. sort of leadership navigating international institutions doesn't grab the limelight something where the u.s. still has un

and china. francesco parisi has decided on a partner to help trust expand not china but a european investor the port of hamburg. he stresses that this is a purely economic calculation but he doesn't deny that political factors also played a role or easy remembers the cold war and is worried about any new confrontation. these cultural situation with the war another cold war. to me as a matter of concern for me personally and for my business in general your love for me in general also as a as a as a citizen of the utopian you're. we can see that international trade for sure a bridge we could see that to be helpful to. keep in mind a piece of the debate about the role europe will play in the trade war between the u.s. and china is nothing new and is not limited to the economy. i just battle to i hope to some european leadership because if not europe risks becoming the battlefields to china and the usa and europe can be the 3rd key player in the global arena i hope that's what europe decides to do t

china should in the dog house for what it did. it seems like china is in the white house instead. joining to us react, former secretary of state, mike pompeo. when you were in government, did you see any intelligence that indicated tedros and the w.h.o. had a financial incentive to some of the pedal whatever china did? >> there is no doubt that dr. tedros was china's hands picked leader for the world health organization. it was the politicization that got trump and the team to determine we need to leave the world health organization. killing tens of thousands of people here in the united states. destroying billions of dollars in wealth. he didn't do a thing to either prevent this from propagating, to hold china accountable when they clearly covered up what they knew in january 2020. jesse: when tedros flies to speak at peking university, i am sure you have some intelligence assets on the ground to give you a hint what transpired there. common sense tells you this guy is in the [inaudible] somehow. at this point do you believe people think now the w.h.o. said china is clean, no lab

, is not for china. due to china's different cultural historical experiences from and to any kind of discussion about democracy. his propaganda. so i think they believed the concept the most people have accepted itself any are not willing to take of the fight for china. yan: and in the call them who were reporting on covid-19. and they have been jailed. received sentences for speaking up. in researching for this book investigative journalism in china, did you encounter the citizen journalists . amelia: i was too afraid to contact them directly while i was in china. i communicated with them when i was in the u.s. electronically. in the did not want to go to china bring in trouble. i guess they are still around. and putting great risk to their own lives to raise awareness . including sipping is important is new information about covid-19 infections. in wuhan . star infarction a lot of the journalists have essentially been sent to prison for reporting on covid-19 . and throughout held in isolation . and the

to cooperate with china doing to get. this deal with china alarmed europe. italy is after all one of the e.u.'s founding members as well as part of nato. many saw the signing of this contract as a break with the old alliances. the logic of the a time government back then was purely economic. they said everyone else was doing business with china too even if they had no official agreements. there is absolutely no contradiction and no conflict with you would be a strategy if someone worries about. china in. the u.s. to give them back to. china. germany holland belgium france spain malta. and. all ports in europe have the chinese on a ship. right in the city is a psychologist and author lived in china for 6 years and observed the abend surround the new silk road development with the critical. she thinks the italian government was trying to create an economic advantage for itself but underestimated the plant's political dimensions. but a lot of thought there you recall he acknowledgment of this political project by a member of the g 7 had a great propaganda value

and instead, they bacally deferred to china, they said, "oh, you know, china says that there's this number of cases." >> narrator: the next day, a w.h.o. representative went on chinese state television. >> it appears that the cases have stopped, um, new cases have stopped after the market was temporarily closed. and we can see that there is no clear evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission. the sheer speed of the response in china, the quality of the closure of the hospital-- the market, the extremely rapid investigation, shows the increase in capacity that china has, has acquired. >> narrator: the w.h.o. never publicly accused china of hiding information or breaking any of the international health regulations. we asked them why they didn't take a tougher public line. >> we have public discussion about the information that we have, we also have very direct conversations with countries privately, which are very strong in the sense of the information that we need. but we are the united nations organization on health, and we are, we have a diplomacyhat we use, because this is really

china's. beijing's multi-billion dollar belt really should be extending right into europe police and 1st a section from newburgh raids to stop us all and 3rd section from side to support these are all constructed by china railway. china aims to get its goods across europe by train and southeastern and eastern european nations are vital to that strategy will enable the transportation of goods to western europe by us. a single rail corridor. for southeastern europe in particular the new silk road project back ends with promises of new investments. in these forums the chinese have come like a good firm hand of us. but china brings more than cutting edge technology it's also prepared to invest in all other environmental a harmful processes. cartoon and they are cancer is a really horrible disease has all of us know what we're in for lost their tech we're with and it's a region torn between its loyalty to europe and the opportunities that china offers . it would be easy to convince our politicians

they are live from him bones from china. but it's so piers that the countries that profit from china's goods are worried about competition when the southern route is finished usually iraq and when goods can also be imported through the greek quarter or sort of via serbia italy. that you want sometimes even a competition choice made by chinese investment is dangerous to us. that's the view shared by the serbian government who says it has a friendship of steel with china since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 cooperation has expanded even more. but despite that the european union remains serbia's biggest financial backer serbia is on the fence trying to maximize its gains from both sides. when chinese aid arrived in serbia during the pandemic raging but on as much political spin as possible between the lines the message was clear china's success in combating the virus reflected the strengths of the chinese system. what it failed to mention was that the e.u. had paid to transport the aid from china to serbia.

commerce between china and the e.u. is projected to increase at the close of last year the 2 reached a new trade deal but many economists say caution is still needed even as economic ties become stronger china is still discriminating against foreign companies in the awarding of contracts stealing intellectual property and copying products. now china is now that used biggest trading partner this may not come as a surprise but it raises questions as to europe's trading policy and joining me for war is the w.'s clifford kuhn and. of course you know china very well you've lived and worked there for many years what's this shift in trade mean for beijing well this is a big win for the communist party which runs china they've been actively courting europe for many years now and in the last couple of years they've had to deal with the u.s. trade war and they've also had a lot of pressure because of the coronavirus and of a lot of its overseas markets have suffered so in those terms it's a big win for the for for china and it's

the china point of view further now with time again who is a china political analysts is via skype from beijing. you heard their correspondent say the chinese military has callous relationship with the military in beijing the chinese government i should say has a good relationship with the military in myanmar. i imagine that they will not of be officially welcoming this coup but that they would nonetheless be happy about it well i think that speculation has no official statement made but i can tell you that it's not is quite as simple way as who's my colleague the fact is there are border issues that have simmered for quite some time. in my mar house excuse china are ringing true you know anti-government forces that are in essence in control of a number of those areas so this is not that simple and quite frankly beijing's relationship with suki was actually very good i doubt that this welcoming this because this is just another problem which they don't need when they're trying to do their economic and health issues but nonetheless until 2011 supported on mars military what is the extent

sea and the east china sea. notoriously china has been building military outposts on disputed islands throughout the region despite objections from its neighbors this is partly about staking out military might but it also has huge implications for the world economy a really significant proportion of global trade passes through these waters the greatest fear of all is that china could one day follow through on its threat to invade taiwan something that's not just a daily concern for the people of taiwan but for u.s. allies in the whole region their power. if taiwan were to be occupied by the chinese military then it becomes almost impossible to defend our entire network. at that point. because at any time they could be invaded from taiwan if they're attacking these risks is going to take more new mental efforts from the u.s. in asia in the years to come from investing in the navy to rallying allies in the region to stick together that process was already under way during the trumpet ministration with meetings of

what is china's relationship with the military? >> china has interest in irma being stable. i would say she is right. they would be better off if there was a return to the nld government, so they would have an investment in that. on the other hand, china has a cautious approach, less aggressive and pushy than the united states. it already appears to be the case they were involved in negotiations between the nld and the military for a couple days before the event happened. china is interested, concerned, it will not push too hard, but it should be on the side of restoring the status quo. kim: what is your take on the role of china? >> i agree with both of our guests. china has a big role to play, a very complex and historical, economic relationship, they have a lot invested in myanmar. it is a big risk for china to side with the military. there is already a lot of anti-china sentiment in myanmar amongst civil society, and if they are seen as taking the side of the military, i think it is going to make the initiative much more challenging if there is a return to democracy. kim

serbia's friendship with china is a much celebrated one. xi jinping and other high ranking chinese officials are popular guests in serbia as evident during this state visit to belgrade and 2016 so serbia holds an important strategic positions with a visible regional advantage and it will surely play an important role in this this is a big day for all of serbia for all its citizens. over the past decade chinese money has flowed into highways bridges and security technology a serbian copper mines and a steel works have also received chinese funding now the next project is on the table belgrade's metro system and the chinese want to build it. serbian opposition politician martinique attempt it is critical of the plans she says there were no public tenders and believes corruption is involved. yes that drastic we were alerted to this was the drastic difference in estimated cost for building the belgrade subway they put on dog a lot of stuff francisco in the initial contract with the french firm almost 10 years ago the quoted cost was 2200000000

it was what the western society caught the free china versus the communist china i can today and later on of course there is the narrative has become you know the democratic time and worry versus dictatorial c.e.c. let's face it i don't think there can be a wise and reasonable us policy biden policy towards i want a war zone controversy on human rights if there is not a new honest sufficient public understanding about this he issue and i'm afraid my friend that that's an. adverse to what is really going on in the public but you know michael you 9 know very i mean in the 1st days of the of they abided ministration american troops were moved out of iraq into syria i mean one of the 1st foreign policy moves they made ok it didn't even really make the headlines you had to really go to antiwar dot com or something like that to find that out so i mean what i'm kind of beating around the bush here is are we going to see a reset of the obama administration with some nuance taken over from the drumbeat ministration of the by the administration michael yes i think you're right on biden of course

and china. i think that is part and parcel of a tougher relationship that exists between europe and the united states -- between china and the united states. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: we are wrapping up the thursday session in europe so let's look at where we are. we are up by around 4/10 of 1%. a much more positive session today despite a fairly weak legacy coming out of the asian session. performance coming through from the dax -- the ftse, the dax and the cac all are having a relatively good day but the dax is outperforming and one of the reasons for that is added assets had a good day and it's the percentage best performer. think about what is happening in china. it will be interesting to see if some brands do well during the chinese lunar new year to be a really big sales story, particular you people are not traveling in china the way they did. looking at the german yield, it's interesting today and were bearing in mind. the yield is going back down again today and despite a relativel

it's china's make a project the new silk road a trade network between china and the rest of the world which could turn the old world order on its head. with j.c. . hugo goes our cave on the. south oceans it seems a good job you have a single. bite of a god to fight it. wasn't. china is investing in bridges poor. it's railway tracks and roads around the globe. over 70 nations are already part of the new silk road. europe sees the chinese as welcome investors the boards of paris has been under chinese ownership for several years and the chinese are now also showing interest interest in italy. you've got an up until it is of great importance for china again it's at the center of the mediterranean just of the kind of african on it and a strategic point for the new silk ramzan that viral and. he fish it the more the chinese and i get here a is the emerald of the mediterranean or my god it was revealed critics warn that china is using the new silk road to cement its power around the world and divide europe. when they say you make an economic agreement with a country that doesn't respect hum

all roads lead to china? >> you: they are the biggest player right now. >> wertheim: the authoritarian government of china and its leader xi jinping have been boldly open about their ambitions to beat the west and reap the benefits of advances in d.n.a. science and technology. published manifesto with ahas a catchy name. >> you: they have something called "made in china 2025." and in these national strategies, they absolutely call out wanting to be the dominant leader in this biological age. so, wanting to be the leader an, precision medicine. >> wertheim: for all the classified briefings about china that bill evanina received, the threat really hit home when he called home. >> evanina: this is the argument inen years from now-- my dad gets a phone call and is told, "hey, by the way, we understand you're going to develop hypertension. and you're on the verge of parkinson's. here are three medicines you should take moving forward to help alleviate some of the symptoms." my dad's going to be like, "well, how do

for a 2nd and get your thoughts are they china is now that 80 years old largest trading partner china has passed the u.s. for the 1st time last year in foreign direct investment there are many china naysayers but the data just caves looking better and better for china we are thoughts on china they certainly have handled co-head crisis better than any other country and what i what i mean by that is that their g.d.p. is now bouncing back in a way that no other country is experiencing and i liken it to a post world war 2 era where the us kind of won that war there and their economy was intact and they became dominant the same psych china has won the covert war and that gives them a huge advantage going forward but what are your thoughts on china metz well what i mean china i discussed knew about 2 years ago listen china's massive problems in the world i mean news news newsies you know good starting in china obviously you know i don't know if you can trust their g.d.p. numbers man or they've got a very tight relationship with hunter biden with the money that was transferred onto biden's o

, the western concept of democracy is not for china due to china's different cultural and historical experiences and any kind of discussion about democracy activism is u.s. propaganda. that seemed to be a widely believed concept most people have accepted so there's a small percentage of people even willing to take up this fight for a free china. >> i know they call them citizen journalists. we were reporting on covid-19. they've been jailed and received sentences for speaking up and telling the truth about covid. in the course of researching for this book and doing investigative journalism did you encounter these citizen journalists? >> i was too afraid to contact them directly. i communicated them when i was in the u.s. electronically because i didn't want to go to china and bring them trouble, but yes they are still around and they are putting great risk to their own lives to raise awareness to these issues including something as important as new information about covid infections. it's a very unfortunate a lot of the journalists have been sent to prison for reporting on covid. and

china policy with africa. again a 1500-dollar honorarium from the university for spending several days engaging with the student and talking to their students about careers in the foreign service. and talking about issues related to africa. i expressed to this committee early on in my strong and frankly, unacceptable what i saw in terms of what the confucius institute was doing in georgia. i saw them engaging in poor black communities with the poorest of people. it is the same thing that i have seen in africa. and i was appalled by it. and i expressed my strong regret for having given that particular speech at savannah university. if i had to do it over again, i would not accept it. i have spoken about china for 35 years of my career working across the continent. in 2005, raised the concern about the chinese sitting back north korean defectors to certain death. i have raised concerns about how the chinese engage in africa. and how they align influences and in their efforts have undermined the prosperity of the

toward china well it's yeah i mean it's hard to say i mean there's nothing that china doesn't know basically i mean there are so many people in so many sensitive positions if you go you know most of the ph d.'s or graduate are from china or india so we stop producing a lot of p.g. candidates and things like mathematics and physics you know we basically import students for those programs so they're everywhere in high sensitive areas and i think only the last year or so that. us f.b.i. in place like this year 7 a look at this chain has a confucius institutes that were set up at most campuses in the united states united states is putting in action against those interest she quietly issued a u.s. law at the deal it's going for. may not all see many russians stand and stare but the cats another story ok so the u.s. dollar turns 50 in august doesn't live all the way to that safety if anniversary what are what are china's plans post dollar. post dollar i think you know it's a free check right now the united states is a free rider on the global trade system right we print stuff and we get stuff for

and china who are evermore lou. i think in terms of globalism technology and growing together yes it is always contention those issues there's arguments about intellectual property particularly as regards pharmaceuticals and technology but what the trump administration aspired to do was what they called decouple i mean this was a level of for ross a tea and a trade war that nobody welcomed or even anticipated i don't think the trumpet ministration tis better that they. china was one of their 1st targets and that was the when trump said oh trade wars are an easy win it's not going to be a problem or they don't expect retaliation that it expected to go on as long as it didn't get as as horrific horrible as it as it became so there's a lot of bad news coming out of the by administration but i have to say that this is one piece of good news it's it's reasons for optimism all we really need is a restoration of some kind of trade diplomacy and a little bit of peace the the trade war was devastating and it in intensified t