the american their mind is that in sort of china subsidizing this mid in china i don't even if i program i'm buying technology products from the american market now this demand has not been well office. but this isn't the heart of the nickel see sions the negotiating strategy or the night states they are trying to get china to to stop subsidizing some underwriting this major technology initiative and instead by technology products from the u.s. in order to balance the bilateral trade because if the chinese want to buy major technology products from the u.s. market that would be a much better sure way of cutting down the trade surplus than buying american farm produce which even if they bought all american from produce there would not be able to balance the trade to the satisfaction of the americans well i mr cellini and i

think there could be a legitimate questions about the fairness of all of such pressure because if china wants to develop a high tech industry i think it should be able to do so i mean all the countries india including russia including the united states including do you how you know interest is in the reach they see a potential but that my question to you is somewhat different i want to if you see any way of addressing the current balance in trade between china and the united states or between the united states and other countries in the way that would be fair to all and that would not destroy or significantly undermined the trade system that has already been suffering quite a lot in recent years it's a good question free trade is founded on fed trade but free trade is not always fair trade. free trade becomes fair trade

only if the two parties involved have a our relationship that is matching if there is a mismatch in the pod mix between two parties the trade relationship may be free in terms of free trade but it may not be fair trade so fair trade really depends on your politics it depends on par dynamics and that goes to the heart of this matter that trade is not about trade only create is largely about politics and if the politics is not right for one party then we will not see fair trade so in this china. you must relationship the americans still haven't wanted the us they're the most powerful country and they're seeking to use their greater leverage to get the chinese to accept their

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gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go. alone. and i really had to join the team for the two thousand and thirteen world cup in russia meet the special one it was also appreciated me to say the review beyond the team's latest edition to make up a bigger. book. welcome back to worlds apart with brown much lenny professor hall strategic studies at the new daily basis center for policy research mr chill any road once actually more than once that india is a critical swing state perhaps the most critical swing state in the world when it

comes to global trade at this point of time do you see its interests aligned more with china regardless of how ten years that relationship is or a bit the trumpet ministration neither to be frank with you because when china india has a very lopsided trade relationship the chinese trade surplus with india has doubled in the last three and a half years to sixty billion dollars which means that every month john was enjoying a five billion creates a boost with india and the importantly the content of the trade relationship the chinese are dumping manufactured goods to the united and buying essentially a drama truths from the american. so that tribulation ship makes china anything but the partner of india as far as the united states is concerned because of american pressure on india on the information technology industry to give you one example

the americans have not been very helpful even though the u.s. and india have a close relationship but the americans have been pressing india on several different fronts they want india to cut down its trade surplus with the u.s. right now in danger as a twenty nine billion dollar trade surplus which is which is less than half of what china enjoys was of india by the americans and sustaining that india cut down on that trade surplus they also want to get india to open up its economy to more american products so india is facing multiple pressure and on top of that the americans are trying to pressure india on on russia and on iran through sanctions so india certainly does not look at united states as a partner on trade now it's been presumed up until recently at least that the

global economy is not strictly a quid pro quo you know i buy i sell you you know goods for its one dollar you buy the same for me like they are the general wisdom has been that it is more complicated than that then you compensate the trade deficit by having other sort of relationships but it seems that both mr trump and to some extent to you as well subscribe to these kind of again as i said quid pro quo type of trade do you think that's the way to go for the future as far as global trade is concerned there has to be some degree of. symmetry in a pretty relationship it's like relationships between individuals if if relationship between any two individuals as unbalanced that relationship will not flourish it won't be sustainable over the long term similarly trade relationship that is unbalanced love cited unhinge is not going to last for ever last even ten

years. there needs to be some degree of balance but mr chill and even in personal family relationship determining that balance is extremely hard it's not only about how much money somebody brings into the household or how many chores a person. carries i guess what i'm trying to ask you is whether you have any formula in mind for determining that balance for things that are not easily quantifiable well balanced that's no more involved just numbers the amount of goods traded. not on your just symmetry in that aspect balances also in terms of how the two sides are benefiting from a trade relationship what is the content of the trade relationship is a aiding the economic growth of both countries or is it ending more they cannot make interest or one country all these factors together make the term

balance balance is not just about the the total dollar value of goods created by by by each side with other. now speaking of other countries the united states is set to decide next week on whether it wants to continue with cherif exemptions on still an aluminum for the european producers and it looks like the europeans are not particularly holding their breath they will be exempt for much longer do you expect that to change anything in terms of the global trade balance because you know that both the e.u. and the united states more often than not tended to be on the one side when it comes to trade negotiations you mentioned trade blocks before while the developed countries used to be a powerful trade blog do you expect that trade block to you if not to fall apart down the police to be a little bit more fractured than it is right now if the united states indeed

withdraws doss. tariff exemptions from the european producers well you're a strict policy at the moment as is a mess because from press created confusion on several fronts it's created confusion in terms of its of america's allies for by refusing to permanently exempt the european union japan canada from steel and aluminum tariffs he has threatened to impose tariffs on on. and on and on top of all this there is no going threat of of escalation of us tension so right now this there's a lot of confusion in terms of us create policy but what this confusion is doing is making america's allies we think their relationship with the united states for example the transatlantic relationship which has been the bedrock of of western security that frost atlantic relationship nom is being openly debated and question

in europe both mr chinese as you may imagine to me in moscow not big fans of that. transatlantic secure. it's a relationship we tend to think that it sometimes undermines security rather than strengthens it but putting that aside this state of disarray do you think it presents any opportunities for countries to form you know cross. you know cross camp ties because you mentioned before and up until recently the trade negotiations were stalled primarily because of the trade blocs now there seems to be an opportunity to put that bloc differences aside form something new do you think there is any chance of former u.s. allies or current curious allies and perhaps for more current adversity going

together and trying to influence trade policies in the way they find feed for themselves want to model is going to do is going to it's going to make countries. alliances that. they're likely to. form new relationships. they're likely to reduce their dependence on certain countries for example and build a great relationships with some other countries so we're going to see some flux as a result of what we are witnessing today and this turmoil is going to lead to a very different kind of a trade matter in the years to come we have seen a point of ration of free trade agreements by the us really and regionally and i think we're going to see more of these f.t.'s emerging as countries seek to shift

their trade priorities and their friends relationships in a manner to create some stability in their frame policies and then their trade relationships now you mentioned before this threat of second there is sanctions stemming from the trade with iran i know that india has a trading good trading relationship with that country so do the europeans but so far what i am hearing both from the indian experts and the european x.-press is is an idea that they need to go to washington and negotiate some individual exemptions for themselves i wonder if that is every really in a fact of strategy are they being slow in forming those relationships new relationships that the mansion because it's from my point of view or perhaps with bayh it makes better sense to form a united states front and negotiate with the united states as united staes on secondary sanctions rather than asking humbly for some individual exemptions

begging for individual waivers. is probably the worst option that any country can pursue because that will lead to even greater american pressure on that country to be subsumed into the night states because anywhere that is granted to a country where the bill comes with conditions that further constrict that country's options the fact is that whether it's iran or the new act the new american law directed at russia which is called country america is administering sanctions act these laws and these sanctions are seeking to apply american sanctions extraterritorial only extra to rule sanctions are unlawful international law they violate international law they violate the human charter they also flout the rules of the global trade agreement and to give respectability

to these extra two hundred through sanctions will amount to giving a blank check to washington to set international rules for trade as well as to set international rules for interested relations countries have to speak up because in the past between twenty twelve and twenty sixteen when the u.s. was applying sanctions against iran on the oil front most countries went along because because the issue then was about restraining iran's nuclear weapons ambitions but now that the americans have been drawn from that nuclear deal even as iran was in full compliance with that deal today the americans do not have this kind of. latitude to be able to enforce extra to rules sanctions

across the world elaborate harder time well mr china i totally agree with the i just hope that they could all not only speak out but also act together but anyway we have to leave it there i really appreciate your time and your perspective and i hope our viewers can keep this conversation going on our social media pages as for me hope to see her again the same place same time here on worlds apart.

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just minutes ago the word and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust in the stories that shape the way carty is one of the few news outlets invited to north korea to witness the demolition of its nuclear test site a step towards your isolation of the korean peninsula to come. everybody. knows that you know that that is that everybody. another day another diplomatic u. turn from donald trump as he leaves the world guessing if the historic summit of north korea is actually back home despite pulling out shortly after pyongyang raised its nuclear site this week this impedes burge international economic forum

still global business leaders on the political elite gather in russia's northern capital i will take a closer look at what was one of the most anticipated meetings between the french and russian leaders. and in today's news for russian revises it killed in a terrorist attack in the syrian problems it is all three other servicemen sustained injuries. follow their welcome the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching weekly here in r.t. international now a highly symbolic step was taken by north korea is it destroyed its nuclear test site in front of the world's cameras on thursday r.t. correspondent he goes you've done of was among the journalists invited to witness the facility been decommissioned.

we're in the beijing international airport and as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities who have bills to go to north korea thing is we aren't even exactly sure as to where exactly we're headed. so you walk out of any airports what's the first thing you expect to see it's a bustling crowd of people pushing and shoving it's the taxi drivers offering their often overpriced services well check this out nothing of the sort here it's just an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city. this is where i will be spending the next eleven hours or so my very own oriental express i guess so check out the room the first thing to notice about it is the windows the blinds are shot there is some sort of

a seal and we're not allowed to even peek from them never mind filming the thing as an air conditioner some beverages but really not much left to do but to go to bed. everybody so we're just woke up it's six in the morning but check this out i just want to show you something really quickly they've opened the window the blinds are out still would probably mean we're really really close. so we've finally arrived this is the dog station we're being told a cylinder now we're up for a bus ride these are the buses that will take us through the next leg of our journey. behind the east northern tunnel number two that's where five nuclear tests five

most recent nuclear tests have been conducted people here are reassuring are saying that there have been no radiation leaks that the environment is good but many journalists may think that well it's better safe than sorry as you can see some are wearing respirator mosques and some crews have taken to see me to with them to this trip which were confiscated at the customs we were also handed out these yellow safety helmets. and now everything. we. got. those bags were used for living for the soldiers to help to locate soldiers and work is that well now north korea is showing that it is destroying the infrastructure to.

surround this trip we have been made very clear that what we've been treated to on this trip was a privilege not to many people here in north korea get to experience it done of reporting from north korea see but on the same day as peeling and destroyed its nuclear facility there don't want trump said he wouldn't be meeting with kim jong un at a show job summit in june however as he sometimes prone to happen with the u.s. president that did change within hours and then on saturday he said the preparations for the summit a full speed. we're doing very well in terms of the summit with north korea aviv along very nicely so we're looking ahead june twelfth in sugar pour that hasn't changed. so i did to terminate the planned summit in singapore in june twelfth.

you know that better than anybody. who knows what he's up to i'd suspect least of all donald trump knows what you thought i mean this is somebody who jumped into that meeting first of all quicker than a ferret supper drainpipe there is no policy behind this is somebody who is into making headlines and appeasing the base and yesterday the needs to not go down well with his base supporters that he had pulled out of this meeting he'd always seen it as a chance to make peace on the korean peninsula which would be world breaking history and i think you saw yesterday you saw all of that dissolving. despite the uncertainty though hopes of the meeting between the u.s. and north korean leaders are high with the u.s. even issuing a call in showing the two face to face but that did not prevent top u.s. officials from mourning that pyongyang could still face the same fate as war torn

libya remind you the north african country gave up its weapons of mass destruction but still faced a nato intervention fueling hopes that the summit will take place on saturday the leaders of north and south korea met at the border n.j. in told his northern counterpart that donald trump is committed to putting an end to hostile relations but later revealed they came find it hard to trust trumps words will don't call to takes a closer look at that. this is a good deal for the united states north korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program south korea and our other allies will be better protected the entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons the deal did sound good but it collapsed a few years later the u.s. promised north korea two nuclear reactors five hundred thousand tons of fuel a year and a lifting of sanctions but it didn't deliver fast forward to two thousand and eighteen you know there's a chance that it will work out there's a chance it's

a very substantial chance that it will work out i think it will be virtually festival but as i always say who knows you know i often say who knows who knows how it all works maybe you want to perhaps the u.s. sees the status quo of seeing north korea as the ultimate threat as being something beneficial south korea is spending billions of dollars making bases and paying u.s. troops essentially to be there to ostensibly protect against. the north now that being the case if there were to be peace in korea. there's going to be questioning as well do we need our troops there and so i think in that sense there are forces that don't. one other resolution that. the instability and allow us to maintain these troops and dozens and dozens of bases and posts in this small country in a region that we think strategically is or anime's of

a government our friends of its military industrial complex and having a nemesis like north korea is a great excuse to pump up that military budget the request includes an additional four billion dollars to support missile defeating defense announcements to counter the threat from north korea no point seven billion to repair damage to u.s. navy ships and one point two billion in support of my administration south asia strategy japan is one ally that stands to benefit from u.s. military expansion especially after the recent reelection of its prime minister who vowed to defend japan from north korean aggression weeks after p.r. yang's missile launches these election is about whether we can defend japan from north korea and ensure it will leave happily and the unpredictability on the korean peninsula has fringe benefits for some american rivals the south china sea has been a serious bone of contention as of late with the u.s. attempting to assert its naval presence there much to beijing's annoyance so the

larger threat of north korea's nuclear program has shifted u.s. military attention that would otherwise be focused towards china and although russia doesn't directly benefit from its unpredictable neighbor it certainly doesn't mind a challenge to u.s. dominance in the region what these countries are just beginning to recognize is they getting into an arms race as it's increasing in and as china is expanding its military operations it takes money out of the economic damages of the kind of the which we get is there a common enemy is a very complicated issue except for those. who are essentially getting the short end of the stick this is a. then that must change in their countries as they begin to take the spreadsheet and figure it out they will be going to benefit the countries in the region from peace in northeast asia. now for russian military personnel have been killed during

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