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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us as the united states counts its ballots asia watches across the region people have their preferences rooting for trump or buy in one of the most possibly the most consequential election for the world in decades who wins will determine asia's regional stability in the context of a rising china and in terms of trade and climate change. welcome back to our it's the everything from thailand to a struggling to china and japan the race for the white house is dominating news coverage and asia. so we'll tell you who will be the next leader in this superpower america continue to be coming to. governments and people in the region are

watching the u.s. election closely and like in the u.s. they're divided on whether donald trump all joe biden would be the better winner. i think definitely the election of president crumb is better for taiwan. i support joe biden because like him i'm a centrist in politics. it seems. in new delhi india if india rightwing group photo inspired divine intervention to secure a trumpet tree with prayers and a fire ritual. you're certain that u.s. president don't come along when with a bigger mandate then before there are conspiracy theories doing the rounds in the us that you lections may get rigged however we are performing this fire ritual all these obstacles to the victory of donald trump will go away when we have. this

in southern india prayers were held to support the democratic ticket and specifically the vice presidential candidate kamler harris's grandfather lived in this village i really need to be says i would also and i share ancestral history we are praying here and offering food to the public and i hope that she wins. in india the support for either presidential candidate can be as fervent as in the u.s. so to you and other asian countries. the incumbent u.s. administration has changed the way that washington deals with asian countries and the question of whole occupy the white house for the next 4 years will be a real consequence to governments and people on the continent. joining us is richard mcgregor of the lowy institute in australia he was formerly based in the us china and japan. so well suited to speak to us about the regional

impact of the u.s. elections today richard we still don't know who is going to be u.s. president so let's just talk this through there have been many takes about what abiding in ministration might mean when it comes to china some observers say he will be softer on china do we have a sense of who china prefers. it's a very hard question obviously in such a large country there might be many. people obviously want to know who was formerly only she knows that it even if you understand what it means i think in general that china would prefer it treat in this respect i think they see trump increasingly as a agent and accelerants of american the climb of course he has made life very difficult to china during his 1st term. and at some stage is trump going great leverage with china but i think they feel their heavy heavy is measured now and i think they feel that they can for you know do little deals with iraq but forge

ahead generally because under trump they'll be you know tails corruption. and you know general pandemonium in the political in a very divided political system and that means us will be mystically focused not focused on the rest of the world including asia right my 1st question had to be on china but there are other countries in asia and japan often gets overlooked it's a massive economy a democracy and a major ally of the united states same question does tokyo prefer one candidate over another. it's also an interesting question you know i think many japanese have been surprisingly supportive or were surprisingly supportive of trump i think that they thought the a bomb or ministration particularly a bomb of mach 2 was fired 2 week on china was far too interested in focused on focusing on multilateralist issues like climate change and got played by the

chinese you know took their eye off the ball in the south china sea it's certainly true that a bomb in a 2nd particularly spinal office is much tougher on china but the japanese in a funny sort of way kind of like the sort of noise and toughness that the machismo the trump exuded because they thought it china on the back foot i wonder now whether they think that that's run its course and they want something more stable and predictable but of course with biden they worry about him they worry about him he might appoint as secretary of state if you can particularly like him in the ministration less if he didn't like susan rice very much she could and could possibly still be secretary of state and other countries similar to japan in terms of their concerns about china for example is australia a very close ally of the us a member of the 5 intelligence alliance what are the areas of cooperation australia

would like to see more of with the united states. well the stranger is similarly conflicted in a kind of a same way as japan and you know i think that had enough of trump they worry about him sort of bringing america down but they're not sure about biden a straight who wants a tough america or a strong america or an america that's very engaged in the region and in the very predictable fashion australia's have the right pressure from china at the moment which is taking a whole host of trade sanctions against australia basically a political disagreements and a us that is either domestically focused or sort of gradually retiring retreating from the a specific isn't some was respects australia's worst nightmare so i'm not sure who astray it wants to win in many respects it is a partisan response depending which particular and certainly a strident prime minister as well trumps been in office been pretty good at forging

a good relationship with him and forging off heading off you know the worst that trump could have done to australia but you know we're pretty worried about america as well richard mcgregor thank you. one major thing that might get lost in all the news but is very critical climate change the united states formally exits the paris agreement today wednesday by when would it reverse that the vast majority of countries in asia are overwhelmingly committed to the green meant china along with japan and south korea recently went further pledging to cut carbon emissions to 0 china by 2060 japan and south korea saying they aim to by 2050 quite a few countries in asia are deeply vulnerable to climate change including india or the philippines entry lanka. for more we're joined by isabel hilton the c.e.o. and editor in chief of china dialogue isabelle your organization reports on the

environment and climate change how bad is the u.s. withdrawal in terms of the impact it would have on countries in asia well it's not good for the climate process and it's not good for the united states actually but it's been a while coming had had there been a decisive victory in the us election for the us would not have left in fact it's left today still rejoin what's lost is the us is diplomatic energy deployed if you like on the right side of the balance and it sends a negative signal to countries that are being less responsible in their climate action so it's going to slow the process and it makes it more difficult but fundamentally it's not going to stop the energy transition it's going to put in the end the united states at a disadvantage compared to countries that are going forward with their energy tradition more proactively i want to talk more about china's somewhat of

a surprise pledge that the country would reduce emissions and be carbon neutral by 2060 environmentalist welcomed it a foreign affairs experts who follow china and sees what it promises versus what it actually ends up doing not so much what are your thoughts. i think it's best to look at china's climate page in the context of china's own industrial economy and then it becomes more convincing frankly because since the 12th 5 year plan that 2 plans ago were about to do the fourteen's china has made a major commitment to a low carbon transition in vestments all the technologies that are required for that transition so china has positioned itself as a major supplier of low carbon goods and services to a world that is contemplating a transition it therefore has a direct interest in that transition what you can complain about is is the speed of

china's domestic action and china honestly shares that with pretty much every other country china made it harder for itself because it committed so heavily to coal and there's a lot of unraveling that has to happen there on the other hand i think that if you look at how climate action is now increasingly integrated with the basic planning that drives china's development in the end china will get there and the fact that it sent this very powerful signal of that transition is extremely important we can't fix climate change without china china's commitment is fundamental and china's commitment to serious not just in terms of getting out of high carbon development but also its activity pestilent in enabling low carbon development in the rest of the world and my understanding is that the paris agreement has an end now on its own to combat the global climate emergency so what more needs to be done

. but what the paris of agreement does is it invites countries to pledge reductions and their inductions that were pledged in the 1st round take us to 3 degrees that 6 true really dangerous we are it about one degree now and we're already seeing very very serious threats and consequences of that warming but what paris did build in was that countries would come back to the table with increased pledges every 5 years that was supposed to happen this year that's what we need is about helton thank you. that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on dot com for slash asia or on facebook and twitter we'll have more election coverage as it relates to asia tomorrow thanks for watching and goodbye.

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make up your own. joke you made for mines. the united states of america and nation a culture deeply divided amid a presidential election that's been like no other we'll talk to a bestselling american novelist and a former white house videographer about this year's fight for power and later on arts and culture how these past 4 years of trump turned hollywood political. welcome to arts and culture my 1st guest is literary heavyweight and bestselling

american author geoffrey eugenic he's his books include the pulitzer prize winning novel middlesex jeffrey jetties thanks for joining me how are you. coping i'm holding up all right this morning ok i wanted to start syrian part because i really believe that novelists are some of the best experts that we have on the human heart and mind and i'm wondering how you understand these 2 clashing realities in america do trump and biden voters really have different core values. yeah i used to feel that as a novelist i understood my country but i'm sort of waiting to see what happens in the selection to to see if i if i do or not i'm from michigan and michigan is one of the states in play right now and the 1st time that trump prevailed there unlike a lot of my friends in new york i understood what was going on with the people who had voted twice for obama and then switched over to trump because of a feeling of being left behind and if you grew up in michigan and you saw what

happened to the factories and what happened with the loss of jobs you could understand why a certain amount of the populace might decide universe in 4 way just to strike out and vote for trump now if if it happens again i'm a little bit at a loss to say that i understand my my my countrymen are a large part of them. do i think there's different i think it's just become this is a common place but i think it's become tribal it's an identity issue where you think you will or a conservative you can't be a liberal you can't be a democrat those are those are terrible people and you just cling to to your side of the fence in that way and it's almost not about issues anymore it's just a sense of identity you know just briefly before trump was elected the 1st time you told us to go where you are that you thought he was a little bit like this literary figure the wizard of oz this figure who seems to have all the power but hardly has not been are you sort of i can 2016 do you still

feel that way. i guess i don't think it's a terrible comparison i mean right now he's saying that he's going to stop the voting in co go to the supreme court he is acting like he controls things controls the levers of power let's let's see if he does that i don't think ultimately he does i do think obviously he's a charlatan and you know that's not what he says he is and at some point it's going to be revealed the question is when now i know that a lot of americans who are talking about this all are talking about this election with their therapist that's what a lot of my friends are telling me you've talked about seeing a therapist before is this something that you think you would talk about unfair. no not not at all i fairly optimistic about the country as a whole there he is a personal thing i don't i don't cost too much money to talk about politics and there jeffrey toobin thanks so much for coming on arts and culture my pleasure

raw nerves all over about this election american rapper carty be as they say an internet speak all of us she posted this video of her election night experience relieving stress the old fashioned way. right or t.c. boyle's dark poetic response to the evening he tweeted yes the night wears on and i feel we can cord out to some wong dead creature washed ashore from an ancient see. here actress kirstie alley sends out a prayer before she goes to sleep and john q 2nd response to trump screwy election when call is frustrating saying he thinks he's. in just 4 years we've seen hollywood and the music industry go from being more or less buddies with the obama white house to becoming a bastion of the opposition since trump's went in 2016 american artists have become

more political than ever there's a look back. lights camera the stage and drama in his element he likes to play the starring role after all for years he was a t.v. star in the reality for much the apprentice but he has attitude to past being problematic even before he was sworn in celebrities are lined up against him. being inclusive being diverse country built on immigrants. fairness these are the things that americans want to be what we resonate to. trump's presidency began with a culture shock the president announces the abolition of cultural funding america's artists sound. at the golden globes awards so many actress meryl streep spoke out foreigners. disrespect invites disrespect violence

incites violence. when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose the list of prominent opponents for music culture in show business is long but donald trump also has some support clint eastwood's. chuck norris and kids who wrote back to join the voice also voiced support for. biden's evil. trump must win he's real he will bring back the people's trust. and celebrity by doing support says include swift. bruce springsteen. and single lady gaga. the rift between the and to tell human won't

and don't trump is. he does have supporters but most artists who spoke out back to changing direction for the us. my next guest is political filmmaker a run chowdhury his book 1st camera man tells about the years he spent as the official white house videographer under president barack obama and then vice president joe biden around chatter he thanks for joining me i just want to share a video that you shot and recently posted it's one of the most talked about videos this election cycle footage of democratic candidate joe biden can you just tell me a little bit about what we're going to see and what made you tweet it just before the election sure this was footage i had the honor of working a lot with gabby giffords who was a congresswoman from arizona who had been shot but by

a gunman and sort of the recurring poverty was a very public thing in the u.s. and when the march for our lives happened after the florida school shooting in washington d.c. she was having a greet with the students and she invited president along by me who was a friend of mark kelly's who actually just won the senate race in arizona extremely recently and. i was just there covering this event and the vice president greeted a bunch of people and then this moment happened that you'll see but it was sort of a very private and special moment that i knew was a very potent and actually about a year ago when it when things started to become clearer i guess less than a year ago in the democratic primary i actually set the alarm calendar alarm it was like 2 weeks before the election like deploy the biden footage so you know level

when a plan comes together when you have something that is meaningful as in greeting this young man's young mentally handicapped man at the event. you don't want to push it out right away right and it's so and i think it was so powerful too because it just is so the opposite of the tone of what we're seeing now just briefly you're obviously not a bite in fan but you have visited you're not a trump fan but you have visited trump rallies you've talked about what makes them powerful can you just clue a sense of that. yeah i mean trump i think a lot of times people are like oh he's letting down his supporters he's doing this he's doing that they don't understand the message is simple and it's very compelling and he's very good at selling it which is prove them wrong all of the you know the experts the elite the scientists your boss whoever it is just proves them wrong and his sort of ability to keep doing that over and over again in elections is what his people like more then filling

a policy here and there he is sort of the evidence of their wrongness and it fills people full of something i mean he has these very long rallies where he's you know speaking extemporaneously for sometimes an hour and a half and yes sometimes a little bits don't necessarily make sense when you pull them out but the whole thing pates a picture ok and he even really is an entertainer around choudary thanks so much for coming on the show. thanks. donald trump presidency during his time in office we've seen ongoing violence against black americans notably at the hands of police officers one major phenomenon during term time in the white house has been the rise of the black lives matter movement both on the streets and on movie screens our film correspondent caught up with leading african american filmmakers black lives matter protests existed before trump but

the trump presidency has energized the movement before the election films by in about black people films that look at themes of racism and police violence have taken center stage. after the killing of george floyd director spike lee post the film editing real life footage with the similar chokehold death of eric garner in 2014 and scenes from his own 1909 film do the right thing do the right thing was based upon their will of chokehold murder. and then again. you know not just by strangulation while i was being shot dead with guns. ringback ringback. in the documentary time a woman struggles to get her husband released from a 60 year prison sentence for robbery. monday. night waiting on a ruling regarding my husband's always when any of you might have any information

like. m.l.k. f.b.i. looks back the government attempts to suppress the civil rights struggle of the 1960 s. the director sees a parallel to trump today when shoppers out. for claiming that the suburbs will be. those people who call are going to come destroy you. so williams has also spent a career looking at what it means to be black in america in a kill is a scape which premiered at the toronto film festival williams plays a drug dealer looking to break out of a life of crime. a slam poet a rapper and a filmmaker williams was and is always an activist 1st whether you can look at you know the history of lynching in this country through the history of police violence or the history of policing and ordering laws and all of these things and. this is

not civilized. this is barbaric. artists and filmmakers continue to draw strength and inspiration from black lives matter. for more on the state of us culture and the culture seen here in europe you can find us do you know where you dot com slash culture by for now.

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