titian it's one of the main demands of protest as you've been demonstrating against the government for months but people took to the streets again on friday in the capital santiago police tried to break up crowds with tear gas and water cannon the referendum will take place in april next year the un general assembly has strongly condemned human rights abuses against rangar muslims and other minorities in may at the 134 member states voted in favor and 9 against the resolution and 21 man was government to take action to combat hatred and violence against its minorities general assembly resolutions are not legally binding thousands of people were killed and nearly a 1000000 people fled across the border into neighboring bangladesh. military crackdown and rakhine state well those are the headlines the news continues off to talk to al-jazeera stay with us. the draws to a close really can head to major stories of 2028 from around the world.

through a series of intense special reports. joining us is a real sense the global impact of what is to come next. week will be the. china china china china china trying to china china they want to make a deal. question is do i want to make a deal we've heard u.s. president donald trump talk about china many times. in fact it was he who started the so-called trade war with china you know the 2018 with tariffs piling up on both countries imports but is it a real war and how much of it is impacting china's map of economy and the 1400000000 people. i'm kamal santamaria here in the library of the national museum of carter will this trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies have

repercussions far beyond their own shores we're seeking answers today as the president and founder of the center for china and globalization dr wang talks to al-jazeera. dr wang thank you for joining us thank you for talking to al-jazeera i think for 18 months now we have heard the story of the so-called trade war between the united states and china but we hear it mostly through the prism of the united states possibly because donald trump shuts the loudest about it but we certainly haven't heard much of the chinese reaction other than when they put their own tariffs on i'm interested to start by just if you can tell me how has the story for the 18 months played out in china is it is it a big deal there or it certainly is a big do i mean the china and the u.s. relation this exactly 40 years of diplomatic ties china opened and the 1978 and on january 1st 99 china u.s.

diplomatic type so china is open now but largely opened up to the u.s. and actually for the last 4 decades as there's a bomb so there's up and downs but not as big as surprised as i expect this one and i remember the president trying to come to china 2017 bamber he had to talk 150000000000 deal was signed so you see such a high turn 25 even 30 percent of tariff on such a big amount 250000000000 we have a high 500000000000 or whatever it's president so so they certainly made the chinese a confused. and also a really troubled president trying to say oh we're winning here we're winning the trade war when in fact a lot of people in america saying no we're not winning actually this is affecting us as us business people is it if we mirror that. in china is it having a you know i don't think there's a there's a lot of economic impact there is there could be some psychological impact people just pop or perhaps you know it was holding for the heavy investing or maybe

rolling back a bit of the employment on that but basically i think both china and the u.s. . military and a deal that can be truly beneficial so-so i think but they don't see as described in china's present trouble that oh everything's a collapse everything a stock market crash no i mean i mean except that the park price has come up due to the swine flu i mean you don't see any major changes no we don't i mean there could be early to be slowing down but but still china keeps maintain the 6.6 percent g.d.p. growth every year adding another australia to it with g.d.p. so so it's a one china richard that kind of magnitude and they still keep 6 percent of the original base of year after year that that's incredible i mean so so. naturally you can see china slowing down from 65 to 6.2 is crashing it's still the best one of

the best in the world so i think i have to you know interpret how to interpret that could china have reacted more aggressively itself you know with the there was the $200000000000.00 or tariffs on $200000000000.00 worth of goods at a rate of i think it was 10 percent and china replied with 60000000000 and then again another 200000000000 went on a 25 percent of china again in a reaction but the 60000000000. they playing along in their all because of the proportionally you know china's important proportion corresponding to us a proportion of the import that's where they exercise the tariff of each other but you know china cannot match in absolute numbers with us because you know china was not really that in line with us in. terms of exact the same amount of import of each other you know the thing is that the chinese market already a home market for us you know the reason the us industry air space aircraft

industry and you know high tech industry everybody in china consumer market everything is because china is buying a lot of u.s. good product and particularly you love the u.s. company is invested in china selling in china so that's not counted as u.s. exports right so but then they got all the benefit back you know like oh well one present trump announced the tax reduction and. said they're going to in a few years ago to repatch it backs $350000000000.00 us dollars so that's incredible that's all the money they made overseas so including china so so you can see but that money probably is not counted as a deficit the trade deficit for the u.s. because china may you know i like apple from china made the 50 dollars 100 dollars but it sells 1000 for a $1000.00 a year but then china may have a balance they may take a $600.00 or $800.00 as if china made all the money off of that so it's not accurately reflect the situation another facet of the trade war was august of this

year when the united states declared china to be a currency manipulator and i think that's an easy phrase to throw around and certainly in the white house has done that maybe you can just explain to us. in simple terms what a currency manipulator is and also does does china fit into that mold is a really you know you have to there is there was a there's quite a few quite here and that is where they define terrorism in the end and china is not matching any of those you know china actually didn't really. floating around the $6.00 per u.s. dollar. but that's not you know china did not drastically devalued or do anything you know to do that so i think it's it's an accurate assessment of that i think there's the labor china as a currency manipulator is not correct so then how. i want to how does the u.s. get away with that but how are they just interpreting the data differently that's

great i think that's over now us is losing the credibility on that is because even though they sat on their own when you match what china is doing is not just china those are today's china the little inflation on that flatter the larger according to the market situation and then to us that maybe china is going to they saw that as a as an indicator but then you see now they don't see that anymore so so you see it's. the basically that is decided by the market but chinese government has of course going to let not only allow. you to devalue. you know as as well the u.s. is the thinking no no not really so the picture i'm getting from years we explained all of this so well to us is that this is a it's it's an economic versus a political story interests of 2 countries. it should be about the economics but actually is it actually more about the politics certainly coming from the american

side it's about. political self-interest and where they want to position themselves against china. i think there's a bit of that and i think you know us was initially when when they gauge china they were thinking ok that as we go along we are 2 system were converging we will become the same you know the china we as the middle class growing there will be more more . universal suffrage and then they were they will have a similar system as us but that's a that's a bit of the expectation i think that you know in. a culture in east asia you know if you choose a society you have a single poor as one party you have a japan i mean even japan is a one party or the time almost so china you know you have to really look at that differently with 5000 years of history but if one you know if the if the if the government can really why in 5 years plan after now every 5 years plan keep the economic growth i think the economic growth and prosperity for its citizens is the

biggest digital message for the government to probably to exercise the governance and you see for the last 4 decades china has lifted 800000000 people out of property china has now become the 2nd largest economy in the war china is the largest trading nation for 130 countries china in the last 1015 years you know build up the high speed rail way past faster networking toward the total length of that is equal to the next 10 countries combined so you think this is all getting overlooked because it's become about trade and the trade and i actually say so-called trade war because i think you know a war is a strange way to describe really what's going on but do you think that it's actually overshadowed the rest of the chinese story absolutely i think it is true it was you know they didn't look at the chief been the chinese government and the chinese people have working so hard to have you know that china. it is a country built of 30 percent every year of that world g.d.p.

gross i mean if we have not become one of the strong locomotive of the world economy so if china collapse if china really gets bad and not going to keep its 6 percent above g.d.p. growth china could export famine china could export refugees china could become a very chaotic and that would that be a ideal situation for other countries i don't think so so so it's really important to see that china if we can really can do well if they can lift 800000000 people out of property and cut 70 percent of world propre property by by by percentage that's you know let it be and i remember well the job in the late leader of china it doesn't matter is a black cat or white cat as long as catches mice so this system works if this is more than china based on it's a culture. you know. tradition and its heritage so why not let it be you know i think more out of the logical. misunderstanding and there's not

enough communication and there's a lot of fear out of this then it's comes down to the trade war and even for trade was worth a lot of the interpretation because china wasn't really beneficial for example you are saying they got the old that trade deficit but on the other service treat us as a big star plus there's $1000000000.00 chinese students study in the us contributed $20000000000.00 a year the streaming in chinese tourists to around the u.s. in a country another sort of billing a year and all those that are counted in our channels are paying a lot of pain tens and paying a lot of i.p.r. fees and things like that you know everything you've described of china is really capitalism personified and yet it remains a communist nation is that problem for china how does it operate 2 systems effectively. i think there is a there's a quite a bit of misunderstanding of the chinese system chinese actually is a mixed economy will be impacted on these market reforms china is basically the

market economy the government is in those central planning is really getting you know i mean totally out of money opens all the sectors and then you look at china composition it has a you know private sector which employs 90 percent of the workforce contribute about the 60 to 70 percent of china's g.d.p. gross and then there is another maybe $1015.00 or 20 percent of so he you know contributor chinese the g.d.p. and then there's not a 10 percent the multinational so it's really good the combination of private sector some is so easy multinationals so it's a it's a hybrid economy you can say that it's a black economy but with the chinese characteristics so i think in that kind of system it's stabilized the employer provides all employment to the citizens but also if there's a disaster you know social is about stability so you can also take take that you know not a profitable level so i think and also the chinese there was

a buy it on road initiative that that all comes together i just wonder how long that can be maintained and i know that sounds odd given as you say there's a 5000 year history of mystery here but i wonder as we move more and more and as this. catalyst nature takes over more and more want to get to a stage one day when the people actually want but a democratic country that you know that they don't want to be that mixed culture mixed economy they actually want to be a fully democratic society i think you know. i mean the professor at. the end of the history even he himself think there was a conclusion short too early but you see actually even for the western style democracy it's not the same and it's not really achieved what has been going on you can see a we. we've seen the populism we see the bre-x. it for several years still hasn't been done we've seen. the yellow vast we've seen

you know those recently arrested in the span chile and in the middle east of course as well so you see this kind of a you know if you read a totally rely on the so-called democratic movement it's not really you know it's creating a lot of problems so it's not a panacea for the problem so so i think that we have to bear in mind the technology the internet the mobile phones and everything it's creating a virtual. material democracy for example in china 111000000000 smart for users every day there they're taking their votes what to buy work to shop where to go over to where to watch what which rest on the day they're using their cell or phone to cast their votes every day that's a market economy and also on the other hand china is watched by 200 some countries the united nations sowed in the media n.g.o.s they've been they've been they've

been criticizing china they've been pinpoint china every day so china leadership and also you know general people lead in china they know what's going on they've been they've been feedback by all those criticism and servers of course so that they can reflect they can really respond and also china is really on the think tanks and acts per system visibility studies the chinese bridge the world bank in a competitive bidding system so everything china is is is more internationalized i don't see how you know under this kind of system is any different as long as people are really happy and then as long as they are really getting a beacon on benefit maybe there's a little bit of. this so shoe individual right maybe not perfectly practiced but china is a collective. anyway but his hunger i mean i mentioned hong kong just in passing is that show a little bit of a wake up call for china as well just

a reminder of what people do sometimes want and i know it's a different system in hong kong you know this is what i hope issues on a similar item of the hong kong is actually is a because the 102 system china let a free hand of hong kong and let hong kong people decide their own governance in the future but that's probably connected to hong kong young people you know desire and that's so that people felt as though the prices are so high they cannot afford housing they can has no job and also you know what hong kong is also not really catching up on the new sectors and the new new new development impetus actually used to when they take over in 1997 hong kong comes about 30 or 40 percent of china's g.d.p. now has taken over hong kong. so you see so there is a bit of a gap and those young people in hong kong make same as mainland but they but the

the same that when they may they cannot afford to live in stout in hong kong so i think that's where the problem i think the future for that is really to integrate hong kong with a great way of hong kong and then so that young people going across the border. married and start to go to university and so they can social security and hospital you know everything that they can really solve that problem let's look at china then in the context of the rest of the world what did you say before the growth rate was at the moment what the knowledge they maintained their latest days 6.2 so . incredibly strong i mean it's gone down from the great 10 days 16 percent but it's still by world standards very strong the international monetary fund's global outlook for 29 t. they think it's global growth is going to slow to about 3 percent. and yes and that actually this trade war between china and the us could be a large factor in that you have

a little bit though you totally agree and i totally agree i was i was always christine lagarde last year at the munich a secure conference and and also the new chief former c.e.o. of war bang the same panel and you know they made a prediction is absolute right because you see the thing about the china u.s. trade ways that it dampens confidence it's actually make people reluctant to invest and those people you know the value chains are hated on that because china is at the center of the global value chain you know a lot of things goes through china and then china is the number one per producer of 200 some products in the world so if china is really hit by these trade war the old other suppliers from from other regions from other countries were only fact affected and also so you return that you have a factor u.s. as well so i don't see how you know how the world economy will maintain such a strong growth. and then become effective how dangerous is 3 percent

given that we are only 10 years now since the start of the global financial crisis if we're getting down to 3 percent again how risky is that for. quote unquote global recession no that's why i mean this is this part you do of the present trump and china strike in the last month is absolutely crucial because if we do not do that i mean the 2 biggest economic power in the word and then if they if they really fight i mean all the others were suffer absolutely and then we drag the world into recession and that's quite possible too and we may not have another financial crisis because this is really alarming situation i think that we should realize that we we need to do that but it was an even worse is that there are some people even in the us thinking about the decoupling also we have a 2 track world and things like that so we have an economic. we have economic nato now we can't afford the military war now you may want to get into economic war and

that's going to be very dangerous how would china whether any economic global economic downturn because there was a move 5 probably more than 5 years ago for china to turn away from. exports and actually try and make its domestic economy increase domestic consumption so that it could be insulated as that actually works because that's a big ship to turn around isn't it when you've got a completely or a very strongly x. will based economy and then you say right we want to start changing it we want to make it more domestically driven that's a huge task well that's probably happening because you know in the past china was export led it was really export driven economy now china is really cutting down on that and for example service in china and by the 35 years plan by 2020 it will take almost 60 percent of the chinese g.d.p. so the chinese don't mess to consumption is greatly stimulated and also there's still more room for china to invest in its infrastructure for example and

a brand new airport would just open in beijing just to see that china can use the stimulus package. really stimulate the mass to consumption which is $1400000000.00 people itself it's their self-sustaining you've got an audience. is going to a captive audience that's not what i mean but you've got that ready made. population there yes china could effectively operate on its own that's right john has 1400000000 people we're unified market one currency one system and 1000000000 smartphone users china is the is getting leaps and bond into the into the into the new economy you know and then actually the china already have a 400 minute middle class buyers now and the we have seen the new report saying that china has more 1000000000 there now than the united states more 1000000000 as well absolutely so you see that actually happen now and then by the next 1015 years

china could have 800000000 middle class so itself china can you know survive it's pretty well i mean china has you know if they're talking about category of production category or kind of product china is the china has the most products. by the united nations so china can be a self-sustaining well well balanced economy weather all the storms of the financial crisis china actually did very well in the last financial crisis to it so so i think that the of china was it was really forced to do that china can but what china wants to do is china wants the contribution china wants to say let's do international in a multilateral says let's reform wu let's that's. a road you know let's work with the world bank. and everybody you know for example is a good example of that so so i think it's really important that china and us work together the 2 largest economy if they fight i mean definite the world's going to suffer yes we are a year away give or take from a u.s.

election from perhaps the most definitive u.s. election we have seen in years i mean. does this have the potential to play out for the next 12 months under president trump and then it could all it could all change again couldn't it i think that what president tom has been doing in the last. 2 and a half 3 years is that initially this of this intelligent military report the position of china as a strategic rivalry now has spread across the board oh everybody think china is a struggle rivalry you know we could be a corporative rival could be a healthy competition but not strategic revery so if you really put place china as an enemy of the us and that's really dangerous but i think what's more important is that the present trump still have a year left in the white house and that what he has to deliver right i mean the messick oh canada us agreement still hasn't been ratified and then what else you know we need he needs the. voters and what he has done for the last several years

so china is a big deal of a big part of that i think he doesn't have the time is running out i mean let's get everything we have achieved we can't do a perfect you but let's get you know. no it wasn't as great let's do that so also i think it's really important that we need to stop this spiral you know we need to really stabilize that we need some progress and we need to live the confidence and we need to get the reinforce the got a better deal and a face to face 3 and let's let's really work for the for the best of the benefits of the mankind and that's what china wants i mean that's us and china will go absolutely charming china is of course china's never rock the boat image trying to do the studies trade war china was really. a defensive position but as a chinese gone as a child and they were afraid of the trade but want to initiate a trade war they really want to peace and prosperity talk to one president and founder of the center for china globalization thank you for talking to al-jazeera

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