heard my story, did nothing challenger validate with this ours headline stories china sounds by it's 0 copay policy, despite western criticism for those beijing things that certain social media users helping distorting facts to stir a protest. mainstream media, like let's call on washington to stop persecuting julian assange. now they backtrack on their years. long smear campaign against the with hope right now. peace in the democratic republic of congo. it looks like kenya posts, and you run to talk, seeking to end this devastating conflict to last things decades.

ah, i run the clock across the globe. this is our a t great to have your company today for the news our. my name's, you know, china has admitted it's a firm that it's staying with it's 0 coven policy. despite western criticism, beijing went on to say that particular social media users have been deliberately distorting facts to stir our protests in the country. do von china has always been following its general 0 coven policy and has been making relevant adjustments in the light of the actual situation? we are now actively implementing the 9th version of the prevention and control plan . sent you the same quote protestors helping demanding freedom from anti coven locked on cells. they poured on to the streets, but the government insist that the policy is effective in preventing the spread of

the disease from western countries that previously clumped on. you'll recall on their own domestic county locked on rallies and condemning china's approach as they speak out. in support of the protests. are message to peaceful protesters around the world is the same. and consistent people should be allowed for the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates that that they take issue with the western mainstream press has been gushing with sympathy for victims of government coven crackdowns, and they're cheering on protesters spilling into the streets and referring to the quote remarkable bravery of the protesters fight against draconian state loc downs . well, you know, just as long as the people protesting against these, coca crackdowns are in china. but if the citizens demanding to preserve their basic freedoms, to assemble, to work, to move around and to decide you know what to inject into their body or not

happened to be in the west. well then the western media treats them like a bunch of nut job conspiracy theorists who are a threat to society and deserve to be suppressed and marginalized for having the absolute gall to resist government policy. with o is the last time that any one witnessed a massive, nearly unanimous outpouring of support in the western mainstream media for anti cove mandate. protestors in europe for example,

who took to the streets every weekend and places like here in paris for weeks on end. where is there support for the freedom convoy in canada who supporters wanted nothing more than to restore equal rights. as the federal government engineered a 2 tiered society with travel and work prohibitions for those who failed to comply with government job mandates. all while prime minister just intruders government declared martial law to stop these protesters from taking to the streets and ordered the freezing of their bank accounts. using protests to demand changes to public policy. is something that, that i think is, is, is worries. when their own fellow citizens are standing up to government oppression, the western press is quick to denounce them as lawbreakers. but when the same phenomenon is unfolding in china, well, you know, you can't stop the spread of freedom, right? just ask german, stay, broadcaster,

deutsche valley is an extraordinary moment in china. on its spreading further, i'm wider protests which for the most part are illegal have become more militant in recent weeks. what a brilliant example of objectivity and reporting that same sort of protests in 2 separate places may be opponents of western authoritarianism. she go waves and science denouncing their own governments, coven crackdowns over there in china. if they want the western media to help them denounce locked downs while pretending to objectively report the news. let's hear from victor, gal, vice president of an eastern focus thinktank who sees the west spends more time focusing on china, been on its own domestic problems. protests, i'm not common in china. a protest are common in many european countries right now in many european capital, cities, et cetera. and there are huge protests stripes of all kinds,

for example. and in the united states, you have massive kimmy gum. milas is really a curse. now they do not talk to laugh much about these disturbances, for example, and they focus on the protests in china. now i do care about the protest in the chinese cities, and i do hope our countrymen will suffer less inconvenience as a result of the imposition of the dynamics. 0 called the policy. but i also hope the protesters each other will realize that there is a high, you're good to be achieved for greater stability, greater health and less deaths among the chimes be will because other and damage after years of smearing julianna's son, several major western media outlets have made an abrupt you turn there not calling for the u. s. government to end its case against the wiki licks co founder. this

group of editors and publishers, all of whom had worked with the sancha, felt the need to publicly criticize his conduct in 2011. but we come together now to express our grave concerns about the continued prosecution of julian, a sorry for obtaining and publishing classified materials. this indictment sets a dangerous precedent and threatened to undermine america's 1st amendment and the freedom of the press. well, it certainly makes sense that major news outlets would speak up about the fact that a journalist who published information has been stripped of his human rights as being threatened with extradition and prosecution under the espionage act in the united states. but what many have note it is that this statement seems to very much contradict the town of these publications earlier. and we will note that when julian assigned was being held up in the ecuadorian embassy and when he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy, these publications weren't speaking up on his behalf. rather,

they were helping to build the case by this marching. his character are running him through the mud. he has proved a highly problematic even embarrassing champion for the principles of press freedom in the public's right to information. even mister a sanchez friends have described him as difficult, a narcissist with an outside view of his importance. it's probably too late for a sunday to recover his former glory. but if you could give up his futile struggle against extradition and show a little respect to the swedish justice system, that would at least be a 1st necessary step. now it's also important to note that these words from these publications that now say they support mr. sam's as they echoed a full blown media campaign to essentially demonize your innocence to justify any state repression levied against him. it was a full blown mainstream media assault to justify what was happening. let's review what was being set on television at design for a decade. and some of the worlds have tried to shut. we can leaks down. and today,

julian sanchez, the head of wiki leaks, and draco malfoy, his biological father has finally been arrested. you can tell that living inside the embassy for 7 years has taken its toll. here he is back in 2012. yeah. not compare that to today. i mean, amazing. the guy went in looking like draco malfoy came out look like dumbledore, a weekly spanner. julian, a sans was also arrested in london where he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy, looking like santa claus with a manifesto. ah, you're not a, i have it on my right. look, look at him, look in just a few years. he went from bond villain to crowd surfing habits. now, while focusing on obscure criticisms of his on his personality or his appearance, mainstream media seemed to have forgotten what he reveal review the revelation is about real crimes and real scandals that came to light duty to work

a wiki leaks ah, [000:00:00;00] a now the biden administration has given no indication that they have any intention

of dropping the charges or the expedition case against julian, a sorry, the u. s. department of justice says they continue to pursue extradition and that they will continue to pursue extradition for the time being now the u. k. home secretary did approve the extradition of julian assange, because u. s. officials have promised to treat him humanely, whatever that means. so at the moment, julianna's on his legal team is appealing that decision that he would be extradited to the united states. and just to pick up an appoint, kill of maids, american, legal and media. unless lionel say's its own clear why the western media suddenly changing its true to barta sons, but it shouldn't be forgotten how they portrayed him previously. if you listen to this, absolutely implicit in feckless commentary by today's canoe shanty, just making fun of the way he looks,

you know why he looks like that. let me tell you, it's called torture. that's why you look like there. and i like to see any of those brave journalist see if they can withstand a week of this. this is something which absolutely galls me. julian assigned whether you like him or not, whether you care for his personality is a hero. something must be happening. why all of a sudden, what changed? what information are they privy to? what sensibility were they exposed to that made them say, wait a minute. oh, by the way, all collectively, simultaneously is some kind of a choreograph fashion. they all decided, i think that maybe there is something to be said were he was actually a journalist. i haven't the foggiest, but i will tell you there should be a follow up better tauriel as to how, how just how imprisoned these people were. i can't believe how these journalists and they do the new york times high and mighty,

and dare i say if you go back in your read what they said, their actual statement, it doesn't even provide a bill of particulars as to why it's almost like a oh come on, enough's enough. i guess he's a journalist, it was rather will look warm and tepid at best. kenya miss hosting another round of peace talks aimed at resolving a long standing conflict in the democratic republic of congo near its border with rolanda, delegates from rolanda and several other countries within the east african community, along with a u. n representative or participating in the talk scheduled to last all this week . but notably the major insurgent group fighting in the conflict, m 23 wasn't invited to this round. after a previous, a court clenched in the ann golan off thought luanda failed to tickle local reporter a monday or tiana, sent us this report from the gathering in nairobi it onto the de kimberly's dano

imagery store, increase on security that east them b or c us just kicked off a little bit this down to the wake of the fitting, and hopefully we just spotted fees and now closing of a threat to the sustainability of the into east african community. the is he has a phase of committed to walking to get at each other piece and do us in the region . meanwhile, the country that i've sign did run a piece i thought of, helmeted to walking together to ensure that conflict doesn't escalate in the east bend yet. see the m t m b 3 liberal groups have also expressed interest in written def, while president who can answer in maybe napoleon and we have never attacked the state armed forces at all times. it has been the coalition of various military groups that has attacked our position and we are respectful of the ceasefire. we want a peaceful outcome for this crisis. and we take note of the summit in luanda. we must tell the government to respect the ceasefire because we have taken note of this road map. we asked the facilitators to come and communicate with us because we want to communicate with them. we demand that they also listen to us. the people in

the ground are hoping that these sort of unity by their leaders will translate into police in the east and he has he is done deb sequence bringing to thought self. caroline one deary carline is a conflict management and international politics experts at kenyata university in nairobi. she expressed high hopes for the talks. we will that are going to be quite substantial law in the development of the bid process and we owe that of course, they will need to be changed. now it is a member that they suffer corporation corporation or the ed who is to see the member from day for me

so she will not be left up next to that will be on so that the drama brought yes. the lake as a member, because they think that the way that they suffered under region can you put to rule the head of the catholic church? pope frances has label to ethnic groups of russia, the cruelest soldiers fighting in the ukrainian conflict. when i speak about ukraine, i speak about the cruelty because i have much information about the cruelty of the troops that come in. generally, the cruelest are perhaps those who are of russia, but are not of russian tradition such as the chechens, the breathy and so on. props, on surprisingly, the remark spy, the pope, lead to a huge push back in the 2 russian republics. here's what they had to say. how can a spiritual leader, who's doing this,

includes the majority of the peoples of the world, allow himself to reason, so primitively on the ethnic issue. to hear an assessment from the head of the catholic church about the cruelty of specific nationalities, namely bullets and chechens protected civilians is at least very strange. we don't have to go too far into history to recall that the capital of a european state, the city of belgrade, or an entire state like libya, were bombed without the participation of the barrios chairs and other people of russia were less cross live now to political unless the alexander poverty for his tick alexander could to see you. just to recap, pope francis singled out chechen and berea soldiers as put the cruelest within the russian force as it it signs more like a kiev press statement than something the head of the catholic church should be making. no, well, it does. so then i would say that's probably because his sources of information are from kia, ag, rama care allies. you know, he,

he certainly couldn't have known this 1st hand. so i think the bolt has on will unwillingly become a channel of the key x propaganda. but it's, it's so totally out. you know, the pope should have realized what he's doing. now. that same interview went ready and we'll actually that same interview, the quotes his, the pulps on speech before the u. s. congress. 7 years ago where he warned against our, our quote, directly simplistic reductionism and also imposing artificial polarization, looking at things black and white labeling things. but that's precisely what he did and got, you know, he should have no good. that's what he's doing. and you just start wondering about the motives ah, you know, you want,

it was the goal to actually try to will foment some sort of ethnic unrest or ethnic division within russia. or was it just simply misunderstanding of what russia is in russia? multiethnic stay in either catholic church or just the entire west. are they just kind of stakes they've made in the past? i am iris, you know, they, they weren't really multiethnic what they did was they pretty much either exterminated or reduced a local population and imposed their own culture. and it's, i guess it's hard for them to imagine a state like russia doing exactly the opposite. every one in the state being equal, odd to the majority, are population in this case, russian population. so it's a very unfortunate statement just to pick up what he said at the top. alexander the pope. while he previously appeared, firm minded calling for peace talks to end the conflict. it's hard not to think he was met with some act closed door criticism following that,

leading to this new normative will. absolutely. yeah. we have your absolutely right . we have to look at the context, you know, the pope is 6 in the attic. i mean, he said it's probably on western territory and all the western leaders. i've been condemning russia. the, you know, the, the narrative is russia, grass or the russia is crow during the invaders, etc. and, you know, his own flock all over the world has been exposed to propaganda. so, you know, i can understand that the pope has to, maybe, you know, kind of be diplomatic, not stay with you, really things he has made f o, it's not you condemn russia as a people to try to use your theory even handed and you've done a better job and all other working leaders that must be said as well. but, you know, i saw the question to the vote. and the question was,

how would you explain your rather mild remarks regarding russia, q, ukrainians. others who support ukraine? you know, so actually he was actually, he was addressing those that had been exposed to either on the cranium side or have that pro ukrainian anti russian propaganda. so in that sense, you know, you can understand why he made a concession to their own sentiment. what they haven't heard, you know, to the propaganda they've been exposed to, will try to soften things, you know, but again, it just came out. unfortunately, the environment in the west is such, you can't really say you think anymore. and as i think the talk was also engaging in some self censorship himself. alexander, always great to hear your take. thanks for taking it through all the alex under poverty. political analysts live on our

t. thank you. the canadian government has outlined its enhanced military interest in the indo pacific region just and trudeau is cabinets on veiled astrology, in response to what they call the adverse global influence of china. china is an increasingly disruptive global power. china's rise enabled by the same international rules and norms that it now increasingly disregards has had an enormous impact on the indo pacific. and it has ambitions to become the leading power in the region. china is looking to shape the international order into are you more permissive environment for interests and values that increasingly depart from ours will also essays, it's new goals include military and intelligence cooperation with its allies and the end of pacific. not exactly, by the way, very close to canada. it plans to spend over a 1000000000 us dollars on related projects over the next 5 years. it saves while

the document addresses beijing as being disruptive in the region. unofficial at the chinese embassy in canada, denounced the nuclear foreign minister, jodi speech contained a lot of negative content related to china. that distorted the truth, exaggerated the so called china threats and discredited chart is image which constituted a gross interference in china as internal affairs. as something else to tell you about while western states are trying to gain a foothold in the pacific pro western political powers and ty, one have lost influence. as the pro independence party suffered a defeat in the islands mid term elections. the taiwanese democratic party was just as worse result in the last 20 years, and that's led to its current leader announcing her resignation as the parties. chairwoman, the main opposition party will not lead the government, which supports closer ties with mainland china.

well it's a pleasure to welcome on to the program now on the mock ellie's a senior research fellow office center for china and globalization. a lot going on on the isn't there in terms of canada's indo pacific strategy. first off canada. it's not exactly close to the indo pacific region that it's so focused on now. what's the interests they have there? well, i think you're right that they are. well, let me put it this way to say that canada is a pacific nation. certainly, i think makes some sense on because canada is very reliant on exports and china is one of the most important markets for many countries around the world. with that being said, i think a canada is undergoing a very, very problematic a phase with china. and i think it, it,

unfortunately is getting dragged into this destructive gore taps by the united states. let's look back a few years ago when canada really had no choice was arm twisted into kidnapping the cfo of huawei mon joe. a. despite this being against its own interest and even its own values, and yet they had to do it. so i think this is part of what is driving this. we can call it this pivot by canada to the indo pacific. what's the positives for ottawa, for such in the is it in any way in canada's interest to, to confronts china and raised tensions with beijing. it may as you allude to gain favor with with other parties, particularly washington. but does this, does this work out for canada?

where does his head why i think this certainly is not in the interest of the canadian people, the only positive i think that can come from this is the absence of a negative. meaning that a canada is what about 40000000 people and even though it's the, i believe it's the 8th largest economy in the world. but at a bit more than 2 trillion, it's actually a huge ways off from us in china. so what this means is that besides sharing an enormously long land border with united states, canada is very, very vulnerable to all kinds of corrosion by the way. so i think the avoidance of any kind of punishment as probably the positive. but here's the thing, again, it is either unwitting or very were locked into this.

i for 321 frame for it's weighted by the life wise, which is united states and z, austria a father and ok. so these are what, when you okay, we're just not hearing or i guess there we, we tried to labor on there because really wanted to hear with, on the how to say on that's an on the, i'll try one more time because sometimes the, the gremlins do work out and just as we have a few minutes left. and how's that? yeah, now yeah, a little bit better a little bit better just in the detail itself on the, in this newly adopted canadian strategy, auto have pledges to defend the status quo in the taiwan straits, as well as the east. unsightly china sees ball. so planning to increase, antique china, military engagement in the region, a lot happening. how much of that is at odds with its past rapid geez,

from what we can work out? well, i think it saw, you know, historically, again, i had little choice but to be dragged along by the united states. but here i think it really is in a diminishing minority of countries around the world. really, i have no interest in a conflict in taiwan. a country is an asian particular, don't want to be dragged into this, but it's only this, a small handful of anglo phone countries that are bends on fermenting a conflict. and again, i think it's unfortunate the counting frank long yet in terms of how this is going to go down on a wider area. that host of the asi on someone in cambodia recently said that the group doesn't want to. it was explicit. doesn't want to choose sides between the u

. s. and china now will come. it is intention so rescind after those remarks to oppose shine in the region will not be negatively perceived in the asi on group. do you think on i think it absolutely will. you know, again, we see the trend is one really working on a multilateral basis to solve world problems. china has been playing a very constructive role on many of these efforts from the belton road initiative to more recently the indian ocean forum with 19 countries represented, including unofficial representation by australia and a student on the thank you so much for coming on the program sharing your views with us despite a little bit of a connection issue, a hope of yours did stay with us because it's always good to speak to on the mock

senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization. thank you very much. and that is how choose these new stories are shaping up for now about our programs. they're just beginning see what showing wherever you are around the slope of hers in movements goodbye. ah to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very particular time time to sit down and talk