without too much problem south south seems like america is doing its best to accommodate their new overlarge the chinese now many common commentators in america of course dismissed china as the low wage low value manufacturer of global predominance these what are your thoughts yeah there's a lot of. chinese sears goes a recent articles last few weeks in forbes by gordon john who's a big. chinese here wrote a book called the coming collapse of china the only problem was he wrote a book in one thousand nine hundred eight so we look at the structure of the chinese economy what is china exports united states what does the united states export to china look at the real numbers the major exports from united states to china last year was corn so we beings scrap steel and scrap plastic. looks more like a eighteenth century economy what we see in united states the other hand what you

see is china exporting their number one export united states is now electronic equipment. manufacturer manufactured look tronics so china story twenty years ago on the low wage low value added in loaded serry norco many american companies are going to get global competitors coming out of china in future yeah you mentioned scrap metal scrap paper yet if you look at the list of exports from the top twenty states that export to china from the united states number two or number three on the list is always garbage america's excellent exporting its garbage to china like scrap paper for example which of course china recycles into cardboard cardboard boxes and resells back to united states and has made many many billions of dollars for people over there who are not afraid of doing a day's work of course in america that's not in the cards anymore it's more about

getting that electronic payment down there at the wal mart to pick up some baby formula now stephen roach and jim rogers are almost alone amongst western commentators in praising the medium to long term for chinese economy and claiming that any short term housing market or economic slowdown will be a soft landing so those guys are in the pro china camp. you're there in shanghai. so it's not it we there whether it's a soft landing or a hard landing you're saying whatever the landing is doesn't make much difference the one clear trend is that they're going to take their cash pile of money and start buying into countries like the u.s. correct yes a little you think when we talk about the chinese economy a lot of the empty china stuff that relates to housing you know the americans have for twenty years lived in a printed money transfer agreement military industrial complex economy. they just went through a housing bubble so they believe everybody should have

a housing bubble what they don't realize here is half of the homes in china have been paid with cash the other half have at least thirty percent downpayment so there is no credit bubble so to speak in housing. china has experienced some what you could slow down if you could call it a slowdown you know eight or nine percent g.d.p. growth but really what the people forget is that this is an engineered slowdown chatto wanted to slow down the economy growing at twelve percent a year it was too fast with the high inflation environment with with all these central banks continually printing money last year a corporate loan now in china's nine percent. there is direct korean laws to stop people from purchasing homes so you can only literally purchased one home right now you can't purchase another one if you already own one so i don't see a troubled economy in county where you people are buying cars and homes for cash

and where you have to try to slow down the growth i see the big trouble in united states where last year we went into a five trillion dollar debt gap adjusted debt which is on balance sheet off balance sheet liabilities to create one percent g.d.p. growth that's more what i'm worried about let's move on to our gold for a second because forbes that mouthpiece of the entranced kleptocracy is recently talking about why china is buying all because it's capital flight and it's nasir teats again anyway but it seems we hear a lot of people talking about strategically china want to buy gold insulate itself against a collapsing dollar your thoughts yeah buying gold you know forbes i basically work in their own agenda here why not gold in china in capital flight are is actually there's actually no correlation there last week beijing daily reported there was over one hundred million dollars in. gold sales in beijing alone they go upstairs

stores headlines out the door and gold is really become a big chinese new year's gift here in china its sales in the first week after new years were up fifty percent from last year this gold is not. been going over seas with people leaving planes it's getting put into families the be handed down generation after generation the capital flight issues entirely separate issue if you look at the very you know a lot of the wealthy people in china there is a lot of the corruption here no doubt there's a lot of ill gotten gains and a lot of capital flight is due to some people in china diversifying their assets if they're ever. caught or where if you know somebody discovers what what how they've made their money they need to get away plan and there are some people that have prepared that that's where most of the capital flight issues are coming from her i have got a couple of minutes left i want to cover some topics here you recently compare the

chinese and u.s. economies but you didn't is the manipulated g.d.p. numbers but on raw data simply wanted to find and collins yeah find g.d.p. is a you know really have some problems with it it's almost an obsession with a with the american academics. but in reality does anybody really look out the window as they fly over the cities in the united states look at detroit cleveland buffalo and now the empty suburbs near vegas where is the economic growth you know i just don't see it i take a look at the numbers you know the u.s. of the fifteen trillion dollar g.d.p. and china has a seven trillion dollar g.d.p. which means united states roughly you know more than twice as large as china but china makes ten times the amount of steel three times as many vehicles they purchase they consume twice as much beer they export three times as much as many

high tech exports as the united states does. three times as much cotton five times as much coal other lists go on and on the so the cell phone markets three times as large so i'm just wondering how you know if we get duct print. money in government transfer payments what would the g.d.p. of the united states really be you know i think that's really a bubble that nobody sees is there the american g.d.p. is a complete fabrication and i'd also highlight the manufacturing numbers you know many people including academics high level policy makers in united states will tell you well we don't need to worry united states is still the largest manufacturing economy you know the federal reserve has admitted they don't break up the value add in those numbers so you know you know this is nine million people working in manufacturing i can drive within an hour of where i'm sitting right now if i nine million people working in manufacturing there is no way the united states has a larger manufacturing economy than china yet we still live by these allusions on

our numbers but no nobody pretends that america as a manufacturing economy or g.d.p. tied to manufacturing is tied not to making stuff but the blowing stuff up the military industrial complex is a huge part of the g.d.p. and debt which fills the military industrial complex is huge part of the g.d.p. everything shock and awe was a huge g.d.p. booster in america right now we only got a minute left intellectual property you know china makes all the stuff but you know apple computer gets all the. glory when it's time to going to do their own ip yeah this is the thing china struggles with they know that there. will have to see if they really can turn around i think you know japan got a rare ten fifteen years ago for not having any innovation i think that was largely overblown japanese companies learn to create their own ip korean companies learn to create their own ip i think china is on its way i mean at first when you're

developing in the qana me you're focused on import substitution and being able to make your own products just based off what's already out there i think now you see a lot of vehicle market you see the major car makers the general motors of. or are doing a lot of their r. and d. electrical vehicle manufacturing or d.s.p. going to be done in china or other tailor making the cars for china that will then go all over the world so i think chinese companies are behind the ip they know there and we'll have to see that develop over you know that's really a soft skill and i think we'll continue to see it develop over the next decade yeah they're going to be forever behind the curve unless they relax censorship because you've got to be able to say some crazy stuff to come up with some crazy ideas that get patented the dr ip that's all the time we have daniel collins thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thanks very much max and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i'm with my guest daniel collins over there in shanghai is going to send an email please this

our kaiser report r t t v dot ru until next time x. guys are saying bye off. running.

with the un expected to take action on the syrian crisis activists in the country cry massacre as hundreds are allegedly killed by government troops in the flashpoint city of homs. lot of protests against the police and the military government escalating. egypt with several people killed and hundreds injured. the election. just a month ago before the presidential vote tens of thousands if you could demonstrate on the streets of the russian capital today.

this is r.t. well these are much more welcome to the program the u.n. security council will meet later on saturday with a vote if you want to draft resolution on syria the text has been softened that russia's request dropping demands for regime change and fresh sanctions it comes amid unconfirmed reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homs with hundreds and actually killed report not has more now from new york. by friday morning the russian foreign ministry issued a statement saying that it could not support the revisions of the draft resolution as it was because it's not a dress address all of moscow's concerns a lot of sentences leave room for interpretation and i think that is the issue that russia has with the text of this resolution it does not want to leave any doors open for regime change in syria because basically russia china and many other

countries have vocalized the fact that the security council should not be used as a tool to impose regime change in any country around the world in this case in particular to syria it should be the security council should be new moving towards coming to a peaceful solution where both parties see in part in the conflict should come together at the table russia has its main concerns in the aftermath of what took place in libya it is not going to see repeated circumstances in syria in the meantime there have been reports from opposition groups in syria that roughly two hundred people have been killed in renewed violence in the city of homs according to the syrian observatory for human rights the army is shelling the city now fresh asha's in other cities throughout syria how also been reported clearly this violent conflict is garnering attention from all parts of the world as the on international

community continues to find a way to reach some type of consensus on how to garner and lead to a peaceful solution in syria. art is very important ally there reporting from new york and you can keep up with the latest from the u.n. vote on syria i thought twitter feed r.t. underscore. over in egypt's place seems to gas and fired shots of protesters who have tried to storm the interior ministry building for two days seven people have been confirmed dead as violence a group cairo and several other cities their arrest was sparked when more than seventy football fans died during clash three days ago just as accuse the police of thing to prevent the tragedy thousands of demonstrators in cairo are also calling on the ruling military council to give up her middle east and most wanted fires says the abduction people off furious that many of us to the president that's generals are still in place in maine recipient of criticism now in egypt is the

military council because it is really have all the powers and they are demanding the door will be transferred quickly either to a government or to an elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i link this to something that happened a couple weeks ago when the military council of order and security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the military council is very has been in transferring power to democracy forces they want to cut that deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down here in a leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if the other again regime is going to rock what is happening right now is that large segments of civil society specifically the youth of egypt who began the rule of all and their heart was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood and the son of his

old youth are angry at the government because they don't want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear their egypt is moving towards another of their with their own regime. i would like to know what you think about latest events in egypt today we're asking why the country still in turmoil following last year's revolution log on to our website or to god to take part in our latest poll says most believe it's mostly on lies about the leader of the mubarak are still in power almost a quarter say it's in the interest of radicals to maintain on the west seventy percent say the main reason behind instability is continuing unemployment and the minorities suggest a solution creates its own downfall into art you don't come to cost you over. there without he was still ahead this hour the debate over copyright there is up again in the anti r.c. treaty trying to protect the property of europeans in

a boat and why they say violates their basic rights. plus an unusual attraction by robots with human qualities on luck in the hearts of men looking for love. in exactly a month from now russians will head to the polls to vote for their next president but this saturday in moscow tens of thousands are expected to demonstrate for their elections as well as rally in support of and against the current leadership of the his latest. but what we're going to see on saturday is a march through the center of moscow two through on the road exactly behind me to block a square where a rally will take place that is a rally of people who are protesting against what they see is irregularities taking place during the the parliamentary elections here in russia which took place on the fourth of december tens of thousands are expected however i can tell you it is

bitterly cold here in moscow that is expected to have some kind of effect on the the amount of people coming out of the authorities are on board with it however they have said the protesters must remain within the letter of the law and one thousand police officers will be deployed in order to keep the peace here now in terms of who will be attending we've heard from. the independent candidate for president to they said that he will be at the meeting however he said that he doesn't plan to give any speeches as far as the other candidates go those the other names on the presidential ballot nobody else is expected to do attend the protest this isn't the only demonstration it will be taking place on saturday elsewhere in the city there will be pro-government protests going on these people who expect to go to other squares in the in moscow to say that they don't want to revolution that they don't want to see turmoil in russia again they don't want to see going back to

the days of the early ninety's since the elections in december we have seen that to be approved nine united russia the ruling party followed through on some of the promises they made to to make changes to the electoral system we've seen well the very expensive program of putting webcams into polling booths every at polling stations every polling station in russia is now being fitted with a a webcam allowing them to allowing people to to log on at home and to watch him become if you will your an armchair observer at the at the election so that's been put in place. independent league. of service set up to monitor the elections that will take place on the fourth of march and we've also seen a lot to me putin say that one of the criticisms that the protesters had of him were saying that he was on television and on radio and in other media far more than any other candidate now going to be approved and said that he's going to slash the amount of time he's on the air in order to as he says give the other candidates

a fair crack of the whip. it's all over their world were closely following that pre-election developments in russia on life go to r.t. dot com to get all the latest information along with the background on presidential candidates and analysis of the protests here's what else you can find on our web site right now the notorious activist group anonymous respond out of the f.b.i. thinks about them leaked all the recording online listening to what was said at our site. also online america's first lady gives everyone a impromptu lesson in keep fit to an appearance on the top and watch the video r.t. dot com. as humanitarian groups accuse libya's new government of abuse in the country's

detention centers it's been revealed that a former senior official may have been the latest victim of torture libya's access to france died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by militia group reports claim that photos of sixty two year old and more progress show evidence of bruising and other woman's rights groups say that torture and executions have become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by former rebels and middle east expert in journalist so you can't stand on. death is in the spotlight for political reasons because the same militia that allegedly killed him is also keeping colonel gadhafi son in custody. i don't think the militia responsible for the the likely torturing to death of mr bridge will be held account but there's a lot of interesting political games going on in libya it seems to me very clearly is that why this focus now on this in funny militia is because there's a tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west

especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what there's an tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif al islam hasn't had access to a solicitor as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. the protests have been raging across europe against last week signing of a new copyright treaty which in force is intellectual property law on the internet opponents say the international act document forces censorship and is a violation of human rights is not used on barton reports now with demonstrations are expected over the weekend. the streets may be snowy but here in sweden the heat is being turned up in that most modern of political debates surrounding internet

freedom protests have been called here in the capital as part of a wider reaction in europe and the u.s. against laws perceived to infringe on the public's access to the internet but target this time factor the anti counterfeiting trade agreement signed by countries around the world the people behind the law point out that it's important to try and protect the copyright of the people who make music to make video and distribute it around the world if you say well everything should be free world perhaps no one will write any books produce music or fields etc. because it's not often those against it say it's a wolf in sheep's clothing a way for governments to control their access to the internet and that it was held in secret but it was designed to be very punitive to those found breaching

copyright rules the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet today ideas battle it out for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission to present new ideas. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in anger at the formation of pirate parties not just here in sweden but elsewhere in europe is evidence of how high the status of those internet freedom campaign is has risen and there's politics not just in the european parliament but also on the streets internet freedom campaigners are urging people to put their views across before the european parliament votes on this in june to try and stop the legislation before it's made

whether it's done in parliaments and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate. coming your way this hour accepting old faith the new way branches of religion and to change the face of the nation some saying the transition could have dangerous consequences. now finding true love is never easy but for those who've given up on ever meeting their perfect partner they can always settle for something else fans of synthetic sweethearts say romances with robots become commonplace sooner than we might think and chicken reports. when toys for boys become more than toys originally when i first got her i call her my synthetic girlfriend but it's actually progress to the point where it's like you know she's my wife thirty seven year old dave cat from detroit says he's

been in a relationship with his sex doll for more than ten years and it's in it or in her that he found his better half slackers has not even worth getting out of bed at this point these days dave cats bond with a dog seems like a joke to many but according to british artificial intelligence researcher dr david levy in a few decades romance between humans and robots will be a common thing i'm completely convinced that within about forty years people will be falling in love with robots and even marrying them and this could be the great grandmother of the future perfect robot mate meet roxie america's first sex robot it talks and senses touch what are you wearing. you know. if you. want to. go ahead you

can keep touching her. artificial intelligence engineer doug hines believes that he created the perfect alternative for those who for different reasons can't or are too busy or too lazy to connect with human beings we created like a bridge that gap between you know going in maybe going out with someone else you know just meeting someone in a bar or what have you and just randomly maybe picking up a social disease instead of doing when you could have the sex robot that would be your companion and not only listen to you talk to you. interact with you public opinion about sex robots now is well mostly giggles. that's what it's for robotic sex when i wait a minute isn't that marriage i mean i would not be the saddest christmas if everyone. thought you could use this i.

seems to be very serious about his creation the japanese are even more serious about robots and. every new model there looks more lifelike. the surge of interest in robots lawyers are starting to look into legal implications of the possibility that these sex robots can break up marriages psychologists in the meantime warn robots could transform human notions of love and sexuality forever and we're going to ask people on the street what they think about the prospect of having a relationship with a robot no never doubt stats wrong and stupid. human woman you know can you imagine a relationship without kitchen fied. oh it out no one talking back to you. yeah but there's never.