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to. join us now even as the united states was bringing in a new administration on tuesday china was slapping sanctions against the old $120.00 eight's top officials of donald trump's administration including former secretary of state was sanctioned by china for colt lying and cheating the measures have been described as unproductive and cynical by. the new sanctions underlined the fraught relationship between both countries and if we needed any indication of how it can develop over the next 4 years president biden's nominee for secretary of state antony blinken had this to say during his senate confirmation hearing i also believe that president trump was right in taking a tougher approach to china i disagree very much with the way that he want about it in a number of areas but the basic principle was the right one and i think that's actually helpful. and there were other indications as well from blinken about the future

u.s. stance on key issues with china secretary pump aoe designated the chinese communist party as having engaged in genizah regarding the we muslim population do you agree with it does that would you my judgment as well you do agree yes there's been a strong and long bipartisan commitment to taiwan. taiwan relations act also the communiques with china and part of that commitment is making sure that taiwan have the ability. to defend itself against aggression and that is a commitment that will absolutely endure in a in a biting district for more i'm joined by professor steve tying his director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african studies in london professor timewell do you think we're looking at some sort of reset in ties between the u.s. and china. loaded chinese couple into what like it we set in u.s.

china relations sed i think the washington side who see a largely continuation of the relationship but a different style of managing it when you said that the chinese government is also looking for research what do you mean by that. well the chinese government media has been very unhappy with the way how do you trump administrations been dealing with china particularly in the last feel weeks of the trial i mean astray should be over easy tips on and we lexing control but meetings between u.s. officials and. american officials as well as the classification and what happens in shouldn't count as a count off genocide. when it comes to the ties between the united states and china do you think. the direction the future course of ties between these 2 nations will

influence how the u.s. approaches it starts with other countries in the region. i think it will go. where i think we have to is a new administration in washington which recognizes that and decisions prior to the economy decision had been less than anti the we were listed in dealing with china and they didn't want to make the same mistakes that previous administrations have mate they've also had us economists isn't it and approached china very effectively but they saw some of the basic strategic thinking of the china ministration as being. appropriate so they wanted to keep to that and how the chinese will responds to it will affect how the americans feel the state needs to react to china and engage with american and eyes in asia which are the same countries that

china wants to engage with when you talk about this new song sense of rumors or what ship my bedroom is i'm take from the bible and minister from. i think we have seen the. by the ministration oil indeed joe biden himself it is you know who wrote a speech saying that that youth matter those who matter. and the chinese government. has it been a sin shoot with the truth that is more civilized to do weigh how the trial i mean the station had with truth and that would pose a significant problem for the biden administration so able to take a robust stance towards china but who also tries to engage with china to found ways to make things work what it and take a confrontational approach for the sake of it i don't think there's any doubt or

argument that china plays a very very board role in a very big one issue but help us understand professor tying how exactly china views its role in asia well china he sees that is long term rightful place in asia is to be a leader all asia china would like itself to be perceived in asia as the benevolent big brother and the other asian countries simply running around to support china and europe a community under their leadership all china that may not be the way how a lot of the country says of his asia or indeed japan may see it but that's how the chinese government would like it to be seen as reluctant to see more confrontation between the us and china or between a form different to that see not of the trumpet ministries are there any areas of

cooperation between the 2 countries. well there are areas where the 2 countries can easily cooperate for example on the issue of climate change by the administration it is the verse in completely is that coach want this congress or the trauma ministrations and therefore we should be quite a happy to cooperate with the chinese to move things forward that's not a serious sum game which it to countries where would a chinese government cooperate with it by biden initiation and on. climate change that remains to be seen would they be able to quell some kind of back the economy relationship one of them focus on the terrorist war against it remains to be seen buying and he's not going to just get it out to all of the tariff rich in papers he wants. it would depend on how the chinese respond. interesting times ahead for us

professor steve sun from source in london thank you so much for joining us. turning now to southeastern sherm of the u.s. has had a long time military and diplomatic presence besides troops in many countries of the united states has formal defense arrangements with south korea japan and the philippines the military support is in the region with significant security concerns including china's claim over most of the south china sea the union that from flames have often have toward of ones and small scale confrontations on the seas between chinese ships and those from other countries with competing claims in the region but this is in addition to long running tensions on the korean peninsula which jointly impact for nations between the u.s. china japan and south korea. so let's break this down further joining me now is $39.00 pongsudhirak he's director of the institute of security and international studies at the longhorn university in bangkok welcome mr pongsudhirak i realize

it's very hard to generalize about southeast asia and east asia but do countries in the region have a somewhat underlying common expectation from the new u.s. administration yes i think broadly speaking the southeast asian countries would like to see more. reliability and dependability from the u.s. administration's top government autonomy straightness the ends bit erratic you know we have a trade war with china technology conflict and so on so i think there's a lot of anticipation of a new administration that maybe it can provide what more peace and stability in the regions and maybe a new chapter because i think it's been great for most of us during that time period however the us china technology conference has been viewed favorably he says i think what is it would like to see is some kind of

a you know it's we need obama time and time in the stations and obama i think the u.s. left a lot of regions raise a lot of expectations but unfulfilled with the pivot and rebalance and china have to go see during that time trying to any other way very belligerence and a bit erratic and unpredictable so i think maybe by then we hope will be something in between speaking of balance you have china that norm's large in southeast asia as you also pointed out do countries in the region have just unique challenge to balance the relationship with the u.s. with ties with china even though many have tended totem disputes and disagreements with china. yes countries in the region i do not want to be dominated by china generally speaking any major power i think the region would like to see some tensions between us and china because that allows the brits you know fully the

asians smaller states at the same time they don't want to see our right one conflict you know even a trade war that we seem to be a great fit in stable and stable and so on so we would like to see is something in between. i think that china is a residential super power i think there's a smaller space would like to see some kind of balance between the 2 of us in china speaking of china again john of plays an important role in the least to issues that are long running in the region one of the south china sea dispute and also it has a role to play when it comes to tensions on the korean from internet on what it can do to potentially calm them but all we'd like to see any changes in the u.s. approach to these areas of concern. it remains to be seen that the the people around president biden's seem to come from the obama period so i think that

by the administration will be tested very early on and by north korea you know it see some challenges there and also i think it's chinese also a test of buying an inspiration the way they did it with the obama administration's and then for southeast asia south china sea is a major hostile acts but also in mainland southeast asia to manage whole regions run a macro river where china has built this upstream that you need laterally it's also a major issue of so i think across the region from north east asia to southeast asia hospice a lot of contentious issues by the administration will be watched very carefully what kind of people to put in charge of the region i think that they will be more attentive to the reach of you already see some some of hope for well optimistic words from the camel and so on so the early signs are call it from the vitamin stations and maybe they can be something like you know not obama 2.0 but maybe this

is a 2nd chance for life in this region to do what the obama administration tried to do with the nazi and interesting spears to watch but thank you so much for joining us today a fisherman pongsudhirak. and that does it for today there's of course more on did other locals always flourish they're going to be back moral of the same time once you learn about. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. n u you may know years years we can hear you in her last years german socks that will bring you that magical and you've never had to have before surprise yourself with

what is possible who is magical really what moves them part of who talk to people who follows her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from echols last august. as the world faces down the coronavirus infectious disease experts are becoming central to our lives advising world leaders and so on how to survive. but these scientists aren't just battling a virus while under heavy media scrutiny they're also finding misinformation politicized messaging and even personal attacks. they research information and advice is becoming even more critical as more variants emerge with

a node mutation. scientists are often happy to be behind the scenes working on experiments of trials hoping to produce a success that may end up in an academic journal one day but the pandemic has catapulted this next one from the lab into the spotlight like many of her scientific pia's. is a microbiologist and virologist at the university of costa rica and joins us now how's it feel to suddenly be at the center of government decision making well it's a difficult task because. tend to be in the lab and do experiments and trying to have like introverted and because of this pandemic we have to jump in and trying to give advice and try to give our show what we know and what we can prove or not prove or have evidence that has been difficult thing to do playing

that advisory role how much time does that leave you then in the lab. well that's a good question actually before coronavirus i used to work with dengue and seek a virus with our viruses and i have a lot of ongoing projects and i else would peach i mean i'm a professor so it's difficult to manage all the time too in order to read and learn everything from this new virus and to see all the this tsunami of information that is coming from all the scientists all around the world and to really have time for other things actually in my life right now it's like 80 percent of my they time is corner virus and like 20 per cent is teaching so i have neglected all of their things it feels like that for a lot of us to tell you the truth. how how much influence do you really have as an

advisor how much if all that information that you get gets through to the politician. well that's a really good question because we science advisers have to learn that we have just percent they have to represent the percent evidence and to suggest things but at the end we're not the ones taking decisions were just there to china in does this politician to make a better or the best decision that he or she can make so it's kind of a difficult thing for example for me has been really i have a lot of implants for example in diagnostics or or how we handled the seas or how we understand the virus or what's happening with all these new environments that's you said before but. the actual mistress like for example up down or economical consequence having economical consequences and it's part of what the

politicians should do so i'm not that powerful but i think that for at least here in costa rica the government has been a really good opening for all of the scientists this slot so that we can go through it and suggest what about the message of mosque spend some scientists reportedly played that down to prevent a mass public russell mosque financial supplies to medical stuff what went wrong. well i think we were naive actually all of us at the used to study coronaviruses before we were. we knew about coronavirus sars one and we knew that we were we were able to control it so when all the cases were starting to come up in china we thought that maybe we'll this is this looks like sars maybe it's something similar maybe we can control it in the same measures that we used in

20022003 i think we were kind of hoping and naive that thinking that it was going to be like cyrus one but we were surprised actually we when we knew all at that moment after one went into lockdown and after china went into lockdown that it was going to be quite a difficult time and. and i think that scientists were. kind of biased thinking that the pandemic was going to be another virus like for example employees of virus we were actually some of us were thinking about the corner virus and there were there but we were not that. sure and i think it was a problem and the w.h.o. also was a little bits lol trying to to declare this an emergency and to to prevent we're

also talking about a problem with a vaccine a lot of people are saying it's not 100 percent but we know 95 percent is fantastic it's one of the best sex simply that i had. if it's the best thing that we ever have the problem is that this wrist prick to require is this so the vaccine probe is not that a 100 percent effective prevent an infection but it's good preventive in the seas very tedious filling stations and dying so it's a great vaccine actually it's kind of you have to wonder of this achievement of this scientific achievement it was so good and so fast and so effective actually i think it's a lot of misinformation and social. social networks that start to have this kind of of a conspiracy theorist and all this stuff that is kind of affecting how scientists. show what's going on and be and explain what's going on they will have to leave it there you know here thank you very much for being on the show today thank you for

having me but as well as battling surgeon coronavirus cases on top of a drawn out economic crisis a lot downs forcing thousands of people to pack up and leave which is complicating the situation for colombia. to create what you see the moments when i mean cheering he left the hospital he's colombian and spent 36 days in intensive care. there he saw the havoc that covert has caused in the hospitals of kolkata. in general the attention of the doctors and nurses was very good. but i also saw that there are lots of left on their own abandoned if you get there and you are practically left in a disposable. connected to a machine. in an effort to curb the

spread of the virus authorities closed the colombian venezuelan border but that has not stopped the flow of people non-governmental organizations estimate that some 100000 people continue to move between the 2 countries every day. they do it along illegal trails like this one where the authorities. to carry out any health checks. it puts more pressure on city hospitals some of them have reported a 100 percent bed occupancy. someone who comes infected and crosses it using these illegal trails ends up being a spreader of the virus to everyone around here. and the number of people he can infect is really impossible to calculate. safety measures are barely respected in kolkata many do not maintain social

distancing or even wear a mask even without the illegal border crossings if you demonologists fear that a 2nd wave could soon hit the region that could bring the already alarming jeff toll in the border areas to new highs. as i thought of the show where our science correspondent eric williams tackles your questions on the corona virus. which vaccine is currently the safest and most effective one. around 10 different vaccines are currently being given on a pretty wide scale to people in various countries around the world but some still haven't completed trials or published all their data it would be irresponsible at this point to recommend one over others but i'm happy to take a closer look at the 2 so far that have checked all of the boxes for emergency authorization in the e.u. those are what are called messenger r.n.a. vaccines and they're the 1st ever based on this technology platform to be approved

one was code developed by german biotech company bio on tech and pharma giant pfizer the 2nd comes from a u.s. based biotech company called madonna let's look at safety 1st them both vaccines were tested in trials involving over 30000 subjects half received the vaccine the other half were given a placebo some of the people who got the candidate back scenes reported mild issues especially after the 2nd goes like like headache or fatigue or pain at the injection site but those usually passed quickly with with no major adverse events reported since they've been rolled out a few dozen recipients have had more serious allergic reactions to them what's called anaphylaxis but don't forget the 2 vaccines have now been administered to

tens of millions of people some deaths in fragile seniors in norway who received the pfizer buy on tech vaccine are also currently being in. investigated and recommendations in the future might also change for that small group but as of now all those candidates have lived up to expectations that they would be very safe to take possible long term the facts will only be revealed in time of course but there's no sign of it he so far when it comes to effectiveness trials show the 2 pretty much neck and neck both the madonna and the pfizer biotech vaccines prevented the development of covert $900.00 and around 95 percent of the people who received both doses which is an absolutely top notch result.

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