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it's good to have you with us the man off to the. ball bows down to. this. damage control in the massive chinese market damage initially called off the general manager of the houston rockets tweeted his support for an independent hong kong. le bron james has not responded to that controversy. stick he says i do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences. of the tweet my team just went through a difficult week i think people need to understand what a treat all states can do to others. now there's a lot of context behind this we'll go through it step by step but 1st here's

a look at why china last called a follower of a basketball mixing with politics. the houston rockets in damage control this play is enlisted to help smooth over a fall out they could risk a money spinning relationship with china last year were opposed. to. the with the title of the no plane or. the no for both of us in the biz we would go there you know was twice a year the grovelling apology came after the team's general manager daryl morey tweeted support for the protests in hong kong he quickly deleted the tweet and said he didn't intend to cause offense humble words that underline the importance of chinese money to the n.b.a. china's state broadcaster announced it would no longer show rockets games and the chinese basketball association says it's ending its relationship with the club the houston rockets and largely responsible for china's interest in the sport which

took a large stride forward when they signed local boy ya meaning in 2002 now the market there is worth billions to the association. last year more than half a 1000000000 chinese fans watched n.b.a. matches h.q.'s is a potential buyer of merchandise and tickets just last weekend the brooklyn nets play the l.a. lakers in china the nets are owned by chinese 1000000000 it joseph sinai the co-founder of web titan ali baba for his part he said the damage from the pro protest tweets would take quote a long time to repair. and lebron james doris added another layer to this ad mccambridge from the sports has been following the story welcome we'll chat in a bit but before we do i just like to bring in what live bron james said what his comments were once more for our viewers he said i do not believe there was any

consideration for the consequences and damn if occasions off the tweet my team and this league just went through a difficult week i think people need to understand what tweet or stay front can do to others. ed why are these comments so significant for 1st it's worth pointing out this is le bron james we're talking about this is as you said at the top of the show the undisputed king of the n.b.a. now these tweets really need to be viewed through the lens of his image as a campaigner for social justice he often in the past used his platform as this n.b.a. superstar this juggernaut to promote his political views now we actually have a few examples of this so if we go back to bits 2012 tweets this is james and his miami heat teammates paying tribute to trayvon martin a 17 year old black boy who was shot dead by a white neighborhood watch leader in florida or why the hoodies because martin was

actually found at the time of his death with a hoodie with nothing more sinister or dangerous in his pocket than a packet of skittles now if we have a look on the wall behind we have another example he wearing an i can't breathe t. shirt this is in support of eric garner a new york native who in 2014 found himself victim of police brutality was placed in a choke hold and a video went viral of him begging them to stop but he later died of his injuries now one more example which we have is him supporting fellow n.b.a. superstar steph curry now off the golden state warriors won the n.b.a. championships last year they were invited to the white house steph curry said he didn't want to go and bron james came out in support of him as well now what this this tweet here shows is he's not afraid to take on the big boys they get no bigger than donald trump and the bron james is more than happy to lay his political views down on the line in front of that sort of person but when it comes to trying to potentially the games again is this a gaze of selectively applying source will just just based on where the money is

well this is certainly what his detractors are saying you know it's all well and good campaigning for social justice on home soil if you're just going to go the complete opposite way when china come knocking now china of course is a country which. down recently on dissent and their actions during the hong kong protests have also been called into question by human rights activists and protesters and so the n.b.a. is huge in china are impossible is the biggest sport in china and of course le bron james is the n.b.a.'s most bankable most recognizable star so he would of course have more to lose than many if relationships between china and the n.b.a. were tainted. mccambridge from did so much for coming in and breaking that down for us thank you. and if you are we good in china your final resting place may not be so final

chinese authorities have been cleared and we go to graveyards in the name of development and standardizing of all the graves it's seen by many as an attempt by china we got identity. this satellite image from 2800 shows a cemetery with gravestones still standing the same spot only a couple months ago. it's a pattern being repeated across changing province home to china's muslim leaders. this is what a week or graveyard in the region typically looks like. and this is what beijing thinks they should look like a new graveyard under construction visual justification saving space environmental protection and being more civilized that is just really indicative of an attitude towards cultural traditions which disregards their importance and value

to communities so they sense that traditional burial sites is messy is really regarding the whole of traditional culture something which is of no value. one with a graveyard where a prominent poet was buried has been cleared to make way for the needs of the living. it's called the happiness part complete with a manmade lake and plenty of panda statues. representatives of the weaker community say relocating graveyards is part of a forced assimilation dr grifo thumb in this is something about part of a thorough history i have to our out of china credibly trying to indoctrinate our people to become chinese so they want to leave and destroy any of they don't want to leave any evidence and they want to be. different we wore a turkey and now we're not chinese in the rush to clear cites in one case relatives

were given just 2 days to claim their dead. and another cemetery was raised in such a hurry that human bones were left behind. we girls are exempt from creation in china since it goes against islamic tradition but they say the standardised new cemeteries don't give families enough space to mourn and leave gifts for the dead. it's not a religious call to actually. so if they're destroyed or importer cyrus. where do we go. the destruction of traditional graveyards is one of many grievances the minority high. toward the central government in beijing but with an estimated 1000000 ethnic muslims detained in reeducation camps it's an issue most weekers in china don't dare speak out on. is president of the world we go congress and he has been speaking out on the detention the we girls and other muslim minorities

engine jackie joins me now from prague mr he's up what are china's true morticians behind we go to graveyards. well it is the heart of will broader come again as a cultural genocide. people it is intentional can't be assimilation by the chinese government target and we were idea. and we have a kid if it misses of many years strategy of the chinese goldman shish 2 cultures all told us malaysia and. region are people everything make us unique people and land each really use tradition cultural culture has been targeted by the chinese authorities so it is very intentional and can't be to eradicate it. completely is there absolutely no opposition to what you have called

a cultural genocide. well no and no because and if you can see it really clearly because china's goal meant and it's just police eases indecently long term policy and you know it's not new but kind of time china's government changes strategy trying to use all of it to and that. was ample to send this 18 to the 19 china's government start this talk all now new or new horse reform and destroy all the cult. culture are pretty much that that is more than tools holes and years city and cultural heritage and center of this secret all but 2018 chinese government star is the new who calls reform and destroy saving the 5 percent each all cultural heritage even

more than 2000 yes so and is this time china's government how different was a symmetry. in the east. it is a very important than just symmetry is it grew out the others it is a very important for the life and legal traditions we are familiar with therefore the time being but thank you so much as. president of the congress i think you. the fans in free to have proverbs i did every dot com forward slash asia for more updates on the settlers and in sin jack that's social the day we leave you now with up for reader version of this guy a king cobra and the way one was captured in thailand you want to see those winds to next i'm about. to.

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story we are trying always to understand this new culture. are not a visitor nothing yet you want to become a citizen. in for migrants your platform for a while information. beijing wants tariffs comps to enable imports from the united states china says it would buy u.s. goods to the tune of $50000000000.00 if it could afford to do so also coming up president on a drum threatens to destroy the turkish economy over and caress offensive in northern syria. and georgia is back in the headlines the german lender apparently bend to the rules as it hired its way to the top in china.

but have to deal with business asia want to get jones and lynn thanks for joining us and the international monetary fund has just cut its outlook for the world economy citing trade disputes for the slowdown the i.m.f. is now forecasting 3 percent growth for this year the weakest since the 2008 financial crisis now this trade talks between china and the us are faltering and the latest development the chinese government has said concrete conditions according to her bloomberg china wants the u.s. to roll back the terrorists imposed on chinese products at the start of the trade war then and only then will china need its side of the deal and by 50000000000 dollars worth of american agricultural products donald trump said the 2 sides were getting closer but it looks like the deal struck at the leak and is heightening by a thread of your getting your group. go through some ports.