ah, i'm ashen retired senior watching a special edition of going underground on the 1st day of 2020 two's gregorian calendar. the team and i will be back for a brand new season on wednesday, the 12th of january. but until then, we'll be showing some of your favorite shows from the season this week. so a meeting that could have designed the future of our species on planet earth. the virtual meeting between economics, superpowers of the 20th and 21st century, the u. s. and china, as the contours of this century become clear between shanghai cooperation, organization, nations, and nato. join now from rome, by the former adviser to the european union's i representative for common foreign and security policy and x m. i 6 official alice to croak gals to thanks so much for

coming back on, you know, biden's, the national security adviser said america is not seeking to contain china. it's not a new cold war, simultaneously briefings to journalists for me. anonymous senior us officials at the aim of the virtual meeting was not to ease tensions school. but what that means was your day on the virtual meeting between she's in, bring and job i had i don't think it went well and i don't think very much was agreed up. 10 a thing on the meeting. and i followed a very ted, she telephone call between brings and the chinese foreign minister on the 13th a few days for to prepare for prepare for the meeting. and then that has been any harsh words coming out of china in the way of the meeting. essentially the, the chinese, certainly the foreign minister was saying very clearly to bring her listen,

you're not going to have a good relationship with us. you're not going to have the sort of relationship competition if you like. well, no competition. while the explosive issue of taiwan continues and in the subsequent pastor, they made it very clear that what they felt was an editorial in the global times. they describe as this was hypocritical, what, what he said was nonsense and underlined the fact that this is a very serious issue, that the confrontation could come with the united states over the straits of taiwan. but if america, who goes on supporting secession isn't in taiwan, if it goes on encouraging attitude,

then we have long prepared for wall. and i do, we don't know how to get through to the whether it isn't type paid. but this is very fair. it's very harris indeed. so i think that was it a climb down immediately afterwards, then because the bite was report to the saying, look, there is no way that the usa is imminently about to recognize a taiwan like 50 another, arguable us broccoli nations do. well that's, i mean, you know, they actually have been speaking with 2 phases on this. the president keeps saying, of course, one china policy exist. we're not changing the one china policy. but then again, you have jake sullivan, the us security advisor in an interview on cnn with korea, was saying very clearly listen, what we mean by managing this competition. is that the, you know,

the status for the possible future fess the parameters of its own and its allies interest. we set the parameters and then when exactly, he said yeah, but what have you actually agree during this time? what, what did you negotiate with china? what's come up and sullivan said just carried blank, pay him wrong question. don't ask me that question. wrong metric that was, that was the tone of the the, the sullivan interview and fame equally, you know, not only always going to fit the people order for the guy for the board of the framework for the global order in our interests. but it's also going to support free liberal mark

everywhere. in other words, if we're going to be, if you like, if you like it was going to be a criteria or a framework for the lease or financial leads to continue to invest and explore capital, where they choose more of the way the china was expected to to manage with this except the global order for this coming period, and then to perhaps to be a to cooperate as bite and said to them. and as jake fellow them said, and within the framework within this new global, no doubt. so our interest then there may be areas where we can cooperate, trump put sanctions, whereas biden is sending war ships along with verse johnson's warship, elizabeth grove, carrie plus these sorts of threats and saying,

cooperating economically. that's exactly. i mean, every, every week there is a new move on taiwan, a sort of incremental chop, chop chop. if it moves closer and closer. of course, on the one hand, america says that it still supports the one china policy, and they agree mm month subsequently. but every so often there is a new element. the type pay off is a cultural office is going to be designated instead of taiwan represented. this. there are more visits by sea. murray, the fishers to taiwan ships go through regularly the taiwan straits to sort of to emphasize the freedom of fading. and people come like the australian prime minister come to taiwan and say. busy well,

of course i can see it would be possible either for australia or america, not just for taiwan. should china attack it or invaded? okay, we'll see what's causing them. the chinese is great about similar tenuously while that's happening in the south china sea or the india pacific, as, as we now call it the all because we'll the pull out of get this done. i mean the obviously the we their easton took is done is that make the movement has been taken off the u. s. terrorist list and you, china is putting $2000000.00 of burn leave investment to have this done one f b i whistle blow, sybil edmund sydney to seize. jin chang is the next day. one is actually happening simultaneously. is that credible that nato is located? i think this is very credible because me and part of sullivan's talk, he said,

part of setting the part of setting this new global order. in the c n n interview. he said, well, he said also it would be based on enshrining the text of the declaration, the universal declaration of human rights into every international institution as well as into the border. and i think it's very clear that it puts us weaponized ation along with climate change is a weapon. isaiah of china. and yet i think that precisely this process, what do i call it? i would call it the cost of isolation of taiwan and you, craig, and also probably j, province, justice, kosovo, was the started or was getting full diplomatic support saying we support if you

like, kosovo internationally, allies and then it moves to the next stages of asking that they should be going in every part of the international community. and it's just introduced to statement which he says exactly that. he said, there's no reason why taiwan shouldn't be in all those committees and institutions of united nations. they should be there on the civil a, a trade in every institution. and we support their inclusion in a substantial way in the united nations at every level. of course, he says, you know, they can't be representative of china, but they must be included in, or this is the cost of or playbook being repeated if like for taiwan and ultimately i suspect it hasn't done it yet, but changing problems will be,

will follow probably from from bad. so yes, i think that is a correct assessment. i mean, i want to get back actually to that causation. that phrase, you're using the quick sidebar for some of you is watching. when you use phrases like weapon, zation of human rights or weapon is ation of or what is the city? what? what does the weapon is? ation of human rights mean to those who are watching circle, mainstream media, of course, genocide, engine jang, let alone anywhere in the world where nato opposes. oh, there are. i mean, a question of human rights. chinese would say very clearly how we manage our human rights. isn't the amount of for us and how we deal with it, just like every country has its own human rights problems. the west is not immune from having human rights problems. we only have to look back at the things such as

rendition that took place in the middle east, where the west would kidnap take hosted people and then render them for torture. in foreign prisons, i think that would be testified as a human rights abuse. so the problem with that is essentially, is that, is it being used to sort of target a particular country and a particular in a particular way? is it looking for human rights abuse in order then to hold china accountable? and then that's the process we're talking about, more sanction being put on china, more isolation on china, trying to push it out to be international order and into isolation of come to who of human rights. and of course, you know, although human rights federation, i'm sure it's a very fine document. but different countries,

different civilizations have different view. china tends to part of social cohesion, the community as its human rights. i mean the rights of communities, the rights of the people as a whole, we in the west tend to privacy individual, human rights, individual identity rights, gender right. well. busy if you, i mean, now we have so many more of these identity issues coming up, all of them can be used to put sanctions or penalize, or indeed other forms of the right punishment on the state. that's what weaponized ation of human rights, which, i mean, i think i support support all of them, but i suppose the point is it's really i have, i have the beholder and it goes, guantanamo is, is open as a group. i'll stop you there more from the former advisor to the european union. hi representative, the common forum and security policy after this break. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offensive, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. time to sit down, talk join me every thursday on the alex simon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm. oh, became a test bed for medical and then later recreational marijuana and it started with something so innocent. i was wanting to socialize. everybody does it? so i cannot and then it just keeps going and going and going. i'm just going to do

it one. yeah. and then it's, oh, i'm just going to try this one said that never do it again because they want my phone was on and i'm right on inside. okay. and you surround yourself with people who are encouraging you to do it and you not to stop or it felt like my life was over, jumped office about balcony and died. mm. he knew he just couldn't stop. welcome back. i'm still here before the british diplomat allister group. why do you think the bible administration does not understand that if you empower certain groups that are necessarily pro washington's values, it can blow back after all the failures in recent decades. i mean column pals ex,

steve has to have larry wilkerson saying, beautiful afghan has gone very aware the cia was very aware of the week as being able to we used to destabilize beijing, direct me. these guys know the dangers of supporting is the mist extremism. for some notional idea of a geopolitical supremacy. i'm not sure, i mean post for, i think they're all great day, very much stuff. and you crave taiwan. and then other places that are all great dangers that this can get out of control. it's very hard to manage the things when they stop, particularly ukraine, because the government there is not in control. the administration is not really who has control of the country. but what i'm really trying to say to you is that i think what we're seeing is an attempt by certainly parts of elements in

washington to create the fence that america back, americans on paul. so, and to do that, they want to be quite aggressive and forceful. and so they, to these issues such as ukraine bell arose with russia and they're doing that, the key, russia on the back foot off balance to keep china off balance. but also particularly to try and give the vitamin ministration a success foreign policy. even if for foreign policy success into a strategic blog. i mean, it depends of losing the war to gain the political advantage to come back and say this was a great success. and this is really some of what's been happening in a way the night is paid is strategically way. but sometimes they can go back

domestically and say, well, you know, we really gave the iranians what for in the last talk we ready, did. we tell china waco, china, or, or buy was attacked me and we goes and it's genocide and it's not acceptable. and that's very important in the domestic context of united states. does it help you? does it how the united states strategically probably the office is actually seen over this period because that sort of process started during the clinton administration. but actually americans got weak if you're in spirit has got stronger us. look at the middle east, look at the whole of the coming together. i think it was even 20 years ago. people want that the sort of short term success. it's all it would do would be to turn china and russia against the united states and even possibly could have been working together against us. that's what's happened. and when it comes to the

conservation that you were mentioning earlier, this time around, obviously, i mean, china will remember, it's embassy being destroyed, as nato broke up. your love, you and i had that time in the ninety's and poochie. and i think roy's remembers that russia should never have abstained on that. you end security council resolution on libya. so it's a bit different this time then majoring in moscow up, up to the tricks that washington my play and root will react differently. i mean, this is what china said to, to, to bring them to, to support sullivan. you know, we're not doing this ala carte foreign policy where you just pick, we don't like to cooperate with this. but on the other issues, it's a open warfare. we'll just go for you on human rights on trade, on whatever us stealing our secrets, we will, we will proceed. and they said, sorry, thank you. we don't do that. i don't, we put all the issues and we have

a discussion. and we do not accept neither russian, china, except the right of the united states to determine the global or rules based order that the united states does not have the right to determine the rules for a global order is not going to be acceptable to either of those state and they rejected very clearly. this is a big change because they say this very, very, very clearly when they send invoice, when, when the sharon goes to china or victoria newland, they say look, here's our interest. when are prepared to, to talk to about this, if you want to talk about taiwan, you want to be talk about these other issues. there are private or internal masses, hong kong, in turn, by, by victoria and be very tough, be begin. look at her, a leaked phone call about the european union on line. i suppose i don't know about

the refugee crisis there, but i mean, here the english channel enormous numbers of people fleeing well from the was started by tony blair and, and george w bush all that time ago. but actually, the news here is not mean about the refugees across the english channel. i'll give you far more coming for france. it's about, of course, as you mentioned earlier, the better roost. poland border is putin responsible for hybrid warfare, as we're being told every day. here is a vanguard of this kind of opposition to washington's research and imperial policies. no, i mean, obviously dissolved from me, something of a standalone diplomatic stand or taking place between feller roost and the european union. but when it started, all we were told to have 4000 refugees on the other side of the fence to poland. now it turns out that there are only 2 cars that let's put this into context is

just going to be this hybrid. was this going to bring down the or can union you would know better than me, but it have been experiencing one refugees arriving in a day. not over this period. i think the rhetoric you think is funny being deescalate, you know, wiley. busy refugees going that if not someone is recruiters of the refugees have in mind. there are certain countries that up, you know, you get to open germany. obviously what britain united states from the thought. so iraqi and try and find whatever was big and get and they will start off the refugee sitting on the roof side of the border of made a very clear that destination is not. poland is the last for yeah,

that's mission and me quite yours. germany and maybe pull him in the way we get the we got the idea on our tv screen. this is putins monster plan. it's not a, it's not, i mean, you know, to have some refugees. i mean, germany's let in a 1000000. i mean, it's not. and anyway, it won't happen because they're slowly re penetrating them. putting shanker to the high representative of your sources are less manager. we need some help and we'll do it. and we'll, we'll manage this, i think actually trying to sanction the airlines is actually going to the europe shooting itself in the foot. because if they do that, then not only belarus but russia will probably cut off the space to european airlines. if that is what is done to them, and then are, all those british airlines trying to fly to asia will have 5 hours extra flying

time. whereas emirates of the other haitian airlines will be flying direct, the europeans will have a big loss on tourism. and on passengers flying to asia. busy i mean, i know i mentioned my 6 earlier, i know you got to talk about my 6. what do you think the fact that journalists to report about all these things about beijing, about moscow in these ways are because they are influenced by hollywood ideas of james bond? is it this idea of the evil bond villain that goes through journalist heads? it is. let alone politicians ads, it is a problem. i do think there's an extraordinary sense where you have been sort of me taken up these narrative and they go even when there's no real basis of it. we've just seen one just now, for example, you've all seen. you know, russian troops on ukraine border masses of troops on the border. i mean,

the reality is said, the troops that have there are 200 kilometers away from the board. no. putin is not intending to take over the ukraine. what he's wired about and what he's concerned about is whether in a desperate attempt to get nato and european support from imploding authority and is going to try and use this don. but as the tool in which to extract further support, nate has already said it also remember that defense defense preset that to about 3 weeks ago in europe has been selling them or women's merican for promising them or weapons to try and reunite reintegrate. dumbass you crave and put in has no desire to go and take on, you know, the mass ukraine, unless there was a real fear that forces back by the west,

we're going to overrun the dog. and then if you know it's the old story that you sore and breton with the falkland islands, it's about kick them k, k. most of these people. many, if you go to moscow, most russians have got a cousin or relative said listen, don't boss. i mean, it's a russia speaking area totally, russian speaking, these russian currency and they're all closely related. so it's very difficult for, for put in would be to ignore the invasion of the don't boss very difficult. and that, and that low intensity now battling is continued. now 4 years of is a britain arming ukraine. optimism perhaps here the world is finance is on just from the military. industrial complex obviously, could change come from multinational corporations lobbying nato governments,

one k street in washington over here in london saying look, we're starting to lose money on the considerations of ever more sanctions against aging. and moscow and iran even could it be multi nationals rather than it seems, democratic populations, pressuring politicians, it to some kind of determined. i think the most important thing actually happened in the, in the outcome of the american departure a couple. because what we saw enough to was something quite striking the shanghai cooperation organized, they merged with the east asian european economic community, which merge with so that is the security organization comprises much of what was he stood southern south asian soviet union into

a single unit that embraces something like 53 percent of the global population and 25 more percent of g d p, a fast growing area. iran has, but i believe it pakistan is a member of it. and then saudi arabia has to be a dialogue part. egypt to us to be a dial up. i think what we're seeing is a potential potential perhaps for new security architecture to emerge embracing parts perhaps of the middle east too. and that's quite striking that that could be like the mechanism that could reduce some of the tensions to be used in this way. and it's clearly going to change the prospect for a country like iraq. they'll be a pipeline, i'm sure, going across from iran through afghanistan, long border kennestone and china. north of i klein,

colorado east west corridor. all of these things are ongoing. i mean, that is an area where, you know, development is, is going to move very, very rapidly. rusher is just degree to invest in an oil side in the rain. in fact, the caspian sea, huge amount money. so i think we're going to see a big change from this, the scattering. is it going to be? i think that this is why it is so much more confidence in russia and china just say to america, know, and united states increasingly are just doing the same. i'm sorry, but we don't accept that you set the the roadmap. you on setting the global rules for, for, for the world. because there are other states who equally powerful and also because

the strategic balance of power as shifted. america has a few right, is behind in the military sense, as well as in the technology. and in the assay, correct. thank you. that's it for one of your favorite shows of the last few who will be back on wednesday, the 12th of january, but until then stay safe. and you can watch all our interviews by subscribing by youtube channel and falling us on all our social media. oh i i badges, financial survival guide. when customers go buy, you reduce the price. now, well, reduce the lower that's under got it, but what's good for food market at that get to the global economy

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