u.s. dollars in trade and high tech industries. as prime minister the chinese leadership in beijing. even in the twenty first century china remains a mystery to much of the outside world. sophie shevardnadze now says down with doris nesbitt of the center and she's also written a book on china and now it tells us what lies behind the enigmatic nation do stay with us. doris nesbitt thank you very much for being with us today thank you very much for having me so in your opinion why has china and still remains to greatest mystery for thinkers and scholars because there's too little interest to get to get behind

the mystery in all something stays a mystery if you don't have enough interest to to open the curtain. there's also you know somebody said that a philosopher sherman philosopher said that most people do not want to learn something new but what took at confirmation of something they already believe in and i think that's very much the case in china we have a certain picture of china and i wouldn't think exclude myself ten years ago levin years ago before i went to china for the first time i had a certain picture of china which was not really matching reality but then it depends on are you willing to change the picture or do you stick with what you think how is it changed ten years on for you well. i was thinking the chinese are mr mysterious people you know you can't really trust them and you never know what they think i thought that the country was much more backwards than it

turned out to be. the fact is that the chinese have have still have and still today have kind of an innocence and openness once they trust you they embrace you and they really become friends with you and you can criticize a lot you know you can also was chinese politicians we talk a lot of. things in china that are not as they should be. you can be very open but it has to come out of a positive spirit. and not of just looking for the negative spots well you talk about innocence where does that come from in your freedom does it have anything to do with the fact that china's been communist for so long. no no i think it has to do with with a structure of having the community first and then the individual that meant you were always part of something you were part of a family part of

a community part of a city part of a province and the country and helping each other being together was part of survival and that's that's when they when you get to know the chinese and when they embrace or they are not ashamed for failing to always love you and we admire you and and it's so sweet that openness i'm not saying that every chinese is sweet there is a lot of competition that can be very very. fierce fighting but in general they are willing to embrace you and talk about their feelings so is china socialist or capitalist they are fighting for. making their dreams come true and the fight is something sometimes a little fierce because for a long time they couldn't make their dreams come true they couldn't lift the life

they wanted and now specially for the generation that's one of the nineteen nineties who has not lived through all the hard shift and the changes. they really the man that they can do whatever they want to do and that's going to be a new situation in china with a china ration that has grown up with communication systems with western with information about everything that you can achieve in life and they're going to fight for achieving they have goals they want to they want to be the best your husband john argues that china is a country without ideology do you agree with that it doesn't have any it's in. search for an eye be all that she and i would replace the word there's a lot of search for meaning because. when you are starving making an income that's enough you know you don't need any other goals but once you have your

basic income once you make a economic dreams come true to a certain degree. then you realize that's not everything in life and i have a column in china you stated the second largest newspaper and i get a lot of emails in reaction to the column and many of the questions are. you know what is really the sense what's really the meaning of life what can i do notice my life and how can i serve my country that's something that you wouldn't hear from the rest so much you know how could i serve my country it's much more how can i so how can the country serve me and that search for meaning for spirit fulfillment that that we can increasingly feel could be that they're searching for self identification in the twenty first century. there are quite communists but now

there are so strong economically they are searching for acknowledged land for a position in the world they do not have enough self-confidence including the china as a as a country they have achieved so much but but they don't really. to look at themselves and say well what we did why is the right i don't know maybe because they are attacked much more than then acknowledged and it's not that everything is great in china lots of things that we don't agree with that we need to be in but the west is very much focusing on the radios and on the flaws. and i think we. should have a fallon's that. there is a lot of good things and of course they have to work on them also sings do you think china is striving to be number one country in the world to be this huge

superpower or is it just happening. i i hesitate because deep inside i think china wants to be the middle kingdom and wants to have the full session as it once head that's in the in the in the you know the history of china as really an empire is not the chinese head but they are not fighting to dominate the world but they they they want to play the role in the world that they slowly growing into simply. kaname the growing size of the economy and by the number of people so i asked your husband whether china was trying to read become an empire and be emerge into an imperialist state because if they're not fighting for it but they're fighting for it economically because they're building ties with weaker countries. could it be that they will be

become an empire that dominates the world by growing economic ties would have an interest i don't know whether we're live in the world where you really well really one nation can become a. dominant empire like the roman empire and all the other and pious and fall of. i don't think it's in this way and also i think that there's quite a ways to go and you know america is a fourteen trillion economy and china is still only one set of one fourth of it so there has a ways to go and also you know think of the role that the u.s. plays culturally i mean the influence that this has in the culture of the globe is a much higher one. i think that's one of the things that china is really really has to establish what is its cultural identity in the twenty first century and when we have

a chinese armani when they do not call peak. you know the chalk when they have only people who stand for and then what they own. which let's say and i'm not very good on the pop bands but you know what i mean they they have to create the chinese brand the cultural leadership that still is in the hand of the u.s. in many ways but right now in china is about one third of the u.s. for in depth and the dollar is at a very vulnerable situation i mean people are even talking that it could devalue in the future. what is the smartest way out of this impasse for china i think you know economists are correlating or having different opinions so i really would not claim that i have the answer to that so when the u.s.

will hit rock bottom it will also have found a solid ground and then rise because it's not that the capacity of the u.s. is gone the capacity is still there and the chinese are very smart to get to the situation and invest with let's say we can in dollars or not so i think they they're going to work it out in the smart enough to do so also one more question china is more and more assertive in the south china sea do you think china is a country that actually could envisage a conflict now. but it wouldn't i mean it's too smart to you can't win wars anymore so why would trying to really start a war which would be destructive. for china itself so while there's a lot of posturing on the political side economically you know it's it's much too much into play to really start a war on either side so no the us posturing there is

a lot of. posturing because of internal reasons to show strength to its people but but you know we don't we don't think this quite a thing china strategies for russia they've been very good friends and they've been not so good friends i think they are seeking an alliance they are seeking trade but now they are very close neighbor us so i think china in general wants to optimize relationships whether it's russia or america or europe doris nice pick thank you very much for this interview. i am nature and discover its beauty. lead a communicate with the want to.

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thank you for joining me for the latest sports news and here's what's coming up. six of the best albums ago i have met some braces russia cruising to next summer's european football championships after a six mil drubbing pandora came in moscow. while bearing the blame the man your bitch called this retirement often missing a crunch penalty being one zero defeat to slovenia and there are key european qualifiers. and spanish domination in farah and one call us but our o. line up a meeting with each other as joey will think tsonga crushes on the shanghai lost has. to start with football and russia have finished their european qualifying campaign in style after going through to next year's finals as well as by beating on dora six now here in moscow and watching was pretty powerful from. russia only

new to the points coming into very clash. with the whole country was expecting much much more from dick up the can't sign this page will call in what is officially the world's joint worst showing age. under fifty thousand fans who turned out to watch them and didn't have to wait long for the first goal callum's avoid lifting his second goal in as many games for the national side after only five minutes the hosts were close above their opponents some would double their li midway through the home of a signal of each cup the slightest of touches to undo a shot in st cake with the russians one finished bow that only one ones by more than a single goal in this qualification campaign but they were determined to win that run against van doren is the man public change limited free on thirty minutes. giorgo if continued his rich vein of form the twenty one year old scoring a fine goal on the stroke of half time to take his tally to four for the national scene. unsurprisingly the hosts eased off in the second half however diesel should

call find time to score his first ever goal for his country to make the score five nil from substitute junior billiard deneuve was making a rare appearance she competes of a ranking perhaps for goal of the night here it's on the field or picking the ball up for round twenty metres sounds a bit of well time left foot sharks which gave the visitors keeper no chance jubilation for the russians and for denise to should call crime this win with his first ever goal and he was happy to give the fans a performance to savor. and everyone is over the moon at the moment we played really well today and it's nice to give the fans something to cheer about a lot of supporters came out to cheer us on today and the coach said it was time we started scoring more goals for them russia had dominated every man played in this qualification campaign and igor some show was delighted that his side managed to win for only the second time by more than one goal in their qualifying group. but

it was nice to start finding the back of the net we've played well try out the group like when we drew here with garlands no no the one we lost against slovakia but we weren't able to score look was on our side tonight just because of the cats first campaign is ended in liner notes as russian managed to win a qualification read for the first time in a decade but now the hard work starts with the dutchman has around eight months to prepare his side for the euro two thousand and twelve finals in poland and ukraine is achievable plea to r.t. moscow. well after his dick africa said he was relieved russia didn't have to enter the playoffs and revealed the team would not prepare for a friendly but he criticised some clubs for being reluctant in letting their players turn out for the national side. furphy. that. so hopefully the club's owners are happy as well sometimes they have some doubts about it because we can play two for the next game in the world some protests from some

owners so i don't understand the way they think because i think they have to think about. because it's very important so we are willing to think about the clubs as well so we only play one one game and hopefully don't they are happy for only be against because he wanted to play much tougher opposition friendship and playing recently against the likes of iran caetano disrespect of em but the opposition be facing your is going to much tougher so you know what we know. already but we still get must get the go from asian to more so i can. so after a lot of this is how the group be finished russia top followed by ireland's who go into the playoffs at the expense of armenia after beating them to want to play the armenians have sent off in the first half ireland strike at kevin doyle also received his marching orders late on a second yellow card despite this adding extra running top of tony hale to change.

i think i saw many games he's won the best in the group who are in the other team. they can be called very well. first in the foot i.c.c. very great result. will be always really. we be. doing only fifty fifty percent because no you're the player of. the series you do a job for twenty five well i'll sweat france top great day off a one one draw against bosnia who need a victory in paris to qualify i want to magically at the object that have given the visit is the lead in the first off with a great strike but nice on some and now three was brought down in the box. the sport the resulting penalty two and france the necessary points to send them to the european championships last man never qualify for

a major tournament and into the playoffs. that much to united kept in the money of it it has hinted he could soon be calling it a day on his international career the twenty nine year old serbia defend that is taking full responsibility for missing what could have been a lifesaving second off penalty for his function on the serbians needed to witness the beaming it to me from a stunning a into second spot in group c. but on the strike a cough time conceded that cracking goal by god it. made it so his people strike from the spot site service qualifying match. so let's round up all the teams that have qualified joining host ukraine and poland russia and france england already that denmark austria that i'm debating portugal to want in a winner takes all encounter is the top group eight ball sweden is three to win over the netherlands food already qualified and they go through as the best runners

up greece book their place off the coming back to beat georgia two one already there were defending champion spain who beat scotland's three want to end their playoff hopes in favor of the czechs germany finished with a one hundred percent record at the top of group a by beating belgium three one and see what is he to be rounded up to count page with a screen zero when i was in northern ireland. well eight teams will go into the playoffs as well as island portugal and bosnia herzegovina missed hitting also then off the region as advantage on one you know a study out made it see one nil win for slovenia over serbia the czechs booked their place with a four one gram in the few ania while croatia to be a two nil to go through along with montenegro despite their two year old defeat to switzerland the draw for the playoffs will take place on thursday eight sides are divided into two parts containing four cds and four one seeded teams and going on to how they all compared at the end of the group stage the first leg of the playoffs all shadows on the bench at the eleventh or twelfth in the second legs on

november the fifty. one in the meantime russia's under twenty one team maintains their one hundred percent record by beating portugal two one here in moscow to extend their lead at the top of group six and then battle for a place at the twenty thirteen european championships israel doesn't think the top of reports. russia had started their qualifying campaign confidently with two wins on the road and a goal difference of plus eight and in their third encounter the russian space their main group six trials were to go on home. just outside must kill and be syria's man to control from the start in a first have a few scoring opportunities though were punished for a moment of slickness after half an hour with some of the on the phone himself their truly on mark on the edge of the box and hammered the ball through the wall and the flailing hands of the goalkeeper to put portugal at halftime however whatever they had coach said the house at half time seemed to work as russia came

out even more determined and everything swung the hosts way within just four second half minutes first but only a kind of cross to the four course where alex on the court in headed home the twenty year old forwards enthusing for staling qualifying to an impressive five goals in three matches and then substitute in fellow dinner must go forward the other smaller group will bust three defenders to beat the keeper at the knee of course to make it to one off to fifty four minutes and that's how it finished the home side took full in control and giving the board b.s. no chance to equalise normal i was a little bit surprised that there was no one in front of the goal when i take the move so i decided to shoot and i made the right decision going by the head coach said we should play our game in which solid defending would score and win the match and that's how it happened we conceded an awkward goal as the months to come from behind and deserved when to go didn't have any scoring opportunities in the second

half of russia no took the group with nine points from three matches while portugal sleeve poland into third the same by that of our team. and after all that football tennis now and wimbledon semifinalist joe will fight song a has become the biggest name so far to fall of the shanghai last as the fourth seeded frenchman. bowing out to japan's katie and she corrie well it was a tight spot the song that did say that couple of match points with aces only to hit back on long crashing out in three sets that was the dent songs chances of qualifying for the a.t.p. tour finals in london next month however i could see that much better at his safety through the spaniard backing tom kind of this notion play on each month next up but that is compadres one call us for a dozen times yet another spine is going on there that's code for what while the want to battle back after conceding the opening set donated from then on breaking his opponent six times to win three in just over two hours four six six three six

to the from the score in this one. and that's all the sport for the splits in those more in just under two hours please join me again. well. bringing you the latest in science technology from the realm of. the future covered.

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