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question is that so much i'm afraid we're going to make it and a lot of people a fair enough blood to the politics of the sept moscow beijing in washington and the rise of the multilateral world. of. fifty. five. one of russia's most wanted terror suspects has been released after a polish court turned down that the prosecutor's request for his forty day arrest.

was a detained as he arrived in the polish capital warsaw to take part in an international conference on chechnya however is still pending a court hearing on whether he can be and it over to russian authorities. afghanistan's president hamid karzai has urged his citizens to vote in saturday's parliamentary election and ignore threats from the taliban at least twenty four people have been killed and eighteen abducted in election related attacks across the country the violence has escalated despite increased police efforts to provide safety. a suspected russian mafia boss is being treated in a moscow hospital after an attempt on his wife nicknamed grandpa his son he's fallen victim to a gangland turf war reports say the hit men missed the target with several shots before scaping from a nearby building. next debate show crosstalk peter lavelle and his guests

discuss the resetting of international relations and just how will russia china and the us and particularly interact in a changing world. hello and welcome to cross talk about the politics of reset beijing in washington and the rise of the multilateral world. to discuss the reset of relations in many different countries and parts of the world i'm joined by thomas graham he's senior director at kissinger associates also we have john nesbitt he is the co-author of the bestselling book china megatrends eight pillars of a new society and we also have doris nesbitt she's the director of the nesbitt

china institute i want to go to you first. we hear the term reset people obviously go to the united states and russia but i'd like to pose before we get to that reset if it's real or not real the greatest reset in international relations in the last twenty years since the end of the cold war is the new engagement that russia and china have which is quite remarkable ok so i want to talk about this triad a little bit here but first you know let's look at the reset is real and then we'll put china into it is the reset real or is it just a media event just for both sides to say it can't go on like this we really do have to talk to each other and we have to have some kind of. moment and it was a change of administration it's a change of administration and even if it only were a formula that allowed the two countries to talk together after a very difficult period in the relationship it would be important. that's what the

reset has been about the countries are talking together now in a way they happened in the past four or five years there's an end. to be of engagement the senior levels that we haven't seen at least since the early years of the bush administration the question is what are these two countries going to do going forward the first year and a half i think it's been promising in changing the tone in the relationship there's been a start agreement that signed i believe will be ratified in both the united states and russia the question going forward is we're going to these two countries do to get there in the future to straighten this relation what do they do together john if i can go to you here i mean again the reset to do is really focus on the united states and russia i don't see a lot of evidence of reset i think that they are still working they're still working on issues that they were before and just a different stress since the toe ok and we'll see what the results are but let's let's let's all china into the cards here because that relationship here to reset.

but if it be the change in relations between china and russia are is very important and significant for the world the gauge went of the united states and china and china has a lot of cards on the table now and people say it's the group of two now ok i will throw russian who makes a little bit later the chinese don't like that very much but i do want to be one you know they don't they don't want to get involved in that game and they don't like the responsibility or the attention being one of two when they're really trying to join the world and be part of the world they really they don't they don't even like you know the eight and the twenty to begin with. down the road so but i think there's got to be a huge reset on the part mostly of the united states to accommodate. in. its own behavior to accommodate the new.

extraordinary presence of china in the great mix of countries and politics of the world to us. i mean in looking at the. there is the sense that the chinese do remember history they remember their own history very well. emerging it's reemerging if i get the chinese narrative correct ok and that also involves its neighborhood ok the relationship between it's a pretty forty nine china in what was the soviet union of going back to the russian empire was not always very good with the chinese would see certainly historically that the russians were part of the carving up of china of its influence in the humiliation of china and i think that that reemergence is to a race that in russia feels very much the same you think when you look at russia and i'm not asking you to be

a russia expert but you know emerging on the international stage do you see it similarities between russia and china emerging on the international stage no i think that's totally totally different if we use well the west as a reference point is a reference point because we have an international system that was designed and controlled in benefits the west now it's being very much challenging the biggest challenge of course is china yes but china has never. wanted to be part of the west russia has wanted to be part of the rest of the west you mentioned china's history china is very much aware of its own history people are very proud of their history and if we look back to history in the in the twentieth century of course they have been very much linked to russia in their thinking russia was part of their model of course russia pour out a lot of moxie and. we were saying soviet us ok soviet union so

and now the chinese have a little bit the problem is they drifted away. from the communist thinking they still call it communism but it's a completely different way of communism so i think that you cannot really compare the two countries because their thinking is very different as we experience. well what are the what is the chinese russian relationship trying to achieve here is it because together they have more clout in challenging western institutions maybe even western values as the world changes we've seen we heard earlier this forum there are there are democrats problems with democracies in the west as well i mean it's everyone has their problems and some can say they have their achievements what's the relationship between russia and what's what do they want to get from each other and maybe pursue on the international i think for to me from the russian

standpoint this is a way of increasing one's weight in the world aligning with china and issues that are important to challenge the way the west the united states has tried to control the international system to insert a new set of if ideas ways of doing things making a point that countries that are increasing economic weight should have a voice in the governance of the global economic system that's equivalent to their increasing weight so i think the russians saw a tactical advantage out of it out of this where this leads over the long run is a big question mark russia and trying to do come from two different perspectives on international affairs two different histories two different credit traditions russia much more obviously a european country thinks of itself as a european country so why i think there's a certain tactical advantage at this point as each country china and russia tries to assert itself on the international stage it's worth watching where this will

take take both countries over the next ten years then go to jail what is china want as it is certain asserts itself on the international space because we're getting kind of a division here you know they like the economic clout they want to be able to pursue their economic and agenda a part of the communist party is the party of expectations ok you have to meet those expectations but does that match the same on the international stage of responsibility as being a global citizen. is it the can they have the same thing because the west thinks very much in those terms it is always a package deal it's a package deal ok ok they were. you know it's like it's like to be you know say gee you got to crease the value of that because that will help our exports in the us well china is not a charity you know china you've got you can count on china to do what is best for china and. in all these regards and china is not

it's so preoccupied with its own growth. that it's not it's not spending very much time thinking about you know does it connects you with joining the world and also in connection with natural resources that africa has been doing really when when policy their personal but not it was ready when an african would say that well a lot versus what the rest is done with if they are now fair government to government and all that we know what's what's happening there but china doesn't also spend too much of its time worrying about russia. there is the you know we have the new one because it doesn't have to worry about rondo and doesn't have to worry about russia it doesn't worry that much about the u.s. china is preoccupied with too with developing china and they've got a long way to go and it's so interesting to us that the people who are articulate

the problems of china most fervently are the chinese i mean they talk and the biggest problem in china by far is the growing and the leadership always says the growing gap between the between the income between the rural and the urban and fifty percent are still rural the energy that's going into that is far greater than the energy that is growing into international can. tend to those fake ideally. we always tend to think you want to countries is rising you know with his economic might should we expect him to take on moral responsibilities on the international stage as well as say there's a humanitarian crisis. like like haiti should and should like a rich country we can talk about what rich means ok quantitatively atlas at least should the chinese be also there as a footstep there in helping our people here because it is

a major player it wants to be respected as a major player should they be equal you know with their economic weight what of course and they are beginning to to to feel that responsibility and to react to that responsibility and of course they are in a position where they need to to increase to make their reputation much better than it is because they are still they both are so concerned with internal development. to the only other side i mean john said you know they're there is really focused in on that ok i mean do they really care what the outside world think. yes i don't think that team and they don't care about the outside world just invited out i lama and you will have. you know there are certain points where the chinese have a strong sense ability about they say they want the acknowledgement of the world and on one way they are very careful in stepping on the stage of the world because

they don't want to be pushed back on the other hand of course they want to have a share a share in their responsibility and their share in the in the voice they want their voice to be heard as well and they are in this in this gap between internal needs for example when we said to a chinese politician well why do you care if the dalai lama so big it take. i don't say anything then. the people who expect them to. think so. and that's what what i want to buy that you have. after we take a short break when we come back we'll continue our discussion on resetting international relations stay with our take.

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are not. going to. play. we'll have a rally it will sell lots of beer will. they will wear uniforms that will damage is in the black for them anyway. but very little damming the white. and they are the key to our problem are all right. welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle mind you we're talking about the

resetting of relations on the international arena including beijing washington and moscow ok john before we went to the break you were one of the jump in go at it well it's not so much the chinese want to be thought. the chinese want to be humiliated you know they speak of the hundred years of humiliation the japanese invasion the opium wars you know from the outside world and they just are so sensitive about this this kind of humiliation that they want to move through and get on the other side of that's what drives them in here rather than want to be well thought of which they do two or another level but deep down it's no more humiliation. not least on the international stage and i can go into meet that sort of target and if again you know we have seen democracy promotion expression during the bush admin the bush administration was a bush junior which was thought of very badly here and that's an understatement

here i mean that the democracy card is always being played with noise but also pointed out you know the dalai lama that's what they would be people know the red buttons to press when it comes to the chinese but how much should we expect of that i mean we have an international system financially it's very much in crisis and a lot of people will say look in your country florida two thousand you know you had an election problem. no i mean why should you be telling everybody else what to do i mean how sensitive should the chinese be about that i mean to say it's irrelevant it's not part of our tradition but there are elements within china itself that say that needs more democratization look i mean democracy is part of the international game at this point it's not only the united states that thinks in these terms we had a discussion at the forum today about democracy every country wants to think of itself as democracy at its ability because it's an inherent good it's because it's it's

seen as a way of lead you to my government at this point it's in their daily lives you're going to see them going to loot anything with them on this no absolutely but but the fact that it's become part of an accurate that everybody talks in the street in those terms means that it does have some some significance in international affairs in the way we talk about these issues. democracy will always be a part of american foreign policy the question is how you go about promoting that whether you take a very aggressive approach the way the bush administration did we take another approach that is more in line with our tradition in line with our traditions to proscribe think the bombing ministration is take is when you make your own country a success demonstration effect absolutely other countries want to emulate as opposed to trying to impose your values on others but that always be part of the discussion and people writing about china people writing about russia at some point will raise the question of how democratic it is just part of the game it's it's

inevitable and it's i think it's very good how democratic it is in whose terms the west specifically the united states thinks that democracy can only be one way and if you're not doing it our way you're not doing democracy means the reign of the people that's so the greeks said that's how it started the greeks who had slavery themselves the reign of the people and how you do that can be done in many different ways but the west and particularly the united states says its system unless you're doing it are where you're not really doing it. we in our research we did we talk about the beginnings. of a new kind of method station with of the markers the rate of the people as a vertical democracy dynamic in a place interplay bottom up and top top it's really starting to reshape chimed. in the democratic way in a way that results rated the people but no one's going to buy it in the west unless

it's just like the west which is a conceit that really doesn't hold water when you look at the history and it's very interesting in this part of the world where in russia and we look at the post soviet space you know. two decades on a lot of people will say and i'd like to ask this of doris in reference to china is it people say what is it produced ok we look at ukraine ok for a period over years and tom this is very well. it's democracy didn't bring you anything except for chaos or if you could prove that you could possibly pull off an election but that's all it did ok you got political deadlock you didn't get any progress on the economy tanked and the ukrainian economy tanked before the economic crisis so you can imagine how bad it is i mean is that way the chinese will look at it to say you know we will take this element because it's fish and it works for us ok at a certain level where decision making can we can change and i agree with johnny table that's not democracy but it's as we maybe

a wet western discourse i mean is that how the chinese will look at it i mean it has to be there has to be participation but it can be done in enter in terms that fit their model of traditions for its well. yes as you said they want to know what well some what doesn't and they have a very clear goal they want modest wealth for everybody in china and to reach that that goal. that is sort of the basic idea how do we create wealth for modest well for our people now they have the opinion that communism didn't work in the way they picked it up so they got rid of it and now they are searching for their own model which they will base of course on their own history and on their own culture and that's the way they very pragmatically go for what they can be called a huge trial and error. you know it's such an enormous country so instead of

putting one system above everything they create their special economic zones for example and now we're moving to a special political zones to try out different development different models and if it works in a region then they spread it across the country so they have a different model they used to get the results of course if you compare that to the western democracy which party could afford to say look work on declare california to be the model for this and that you know you would be stoned by the other party you could never have the time to really go through the years that are necessary to bring you the results so this is one of the advantages of. constancy of one party it's not called one party but they finitely it is sort of

a one party system that they can put up start teaching goals and then. let frame the forest sell to say to reach the goal and let the people do whatever is necessary to get nothing succeeds like success. we've been talking about individual countries and democracy and i agree with you that it's become part of binocular but it's it's current it's value is the so debased right now it's i don't even like using the term anymore but you know a lot of people in. this part of the world in the mill and western world in russia we have a separate program on that about its identity and you're very well aware of that but you know they will but there will be people in china and india brazil much of south america russia will say fine you talk you talk the talk of democracy but the international system isn't democratic at all ok there's a small number of people they can say no we're not going to do that one one or two countries can derail so many things and initiatives in the world because that one

country can say no but that's not democratic and that's a very huge double standard type i'm not going to take it aside climate change but the united states really dragged its feet for a very long time and courting do we want to listen to continues to because one country has made that decision and then the chinese can say well since you know you're not getting involved why should we get involved with whatever side you fall on it it's rather tragic ok we have how we're both americans look at we're all three of the three or four of us or americans i've met ok you know how do we how do we do that you say you talk the talk and walk the walk of democracy but the international system is far from democratic and no one claims that the international system is democrat how can you keep us that if we can use this binocular of democracy all the time because democracy we would argue applies to individual societies since the individual relationship with with the rulers it's not a theory that you apply to international relations per se in part should we in part

because there are sufficient differences in values and way people think about the worst that you would ever come up with these universal. even making that claim the devil's that no i understand it may be universal in certain very broad terms but the way it is implemented in any society different dramatically based on the history and tradition of societies democracy works in a in a country where there. already a political community we respect one another we know how what the framework is for the dispute and we will conduct this dispute within that framework and we're willing as americans to let a majority determine who the present in the united states is going to be or how the congress is going to run and. we're not in a position where we feel we share enough in terms of fundamental values or traditions that we would allow a billion chinese outvote three hundred million americans that i think is

a very crude way because the americans would lose well obviously we would lose but the point is you can have democracy in china because there is a shared cultural context with it we can have democracy in russia there's a shared cultural context as well in the united states and work by country for country but when you move try to move across societies and move across value systems i think we're in a different ball game and that's what international affairs and what do you think john i mean. i appreciate everything it's said but i mean a lot of people in the world would say that you know is that the international system is stacked in favor of very well i mean it's i know you know i'm not in so i didn't think anything new. but the stack it's been reshuffled recently. but you know what's interesting about this talk about democracy and about china and whether or not it's become a democrat because we believe it is you know a very different different way is that the western democracies are so dysfunctional .