played along rather the united states doesn't play along the united states. lays along with any of trumpeting the democratic values unless. it is meant that i initially rejected that is compelling long. as it is in keeping with its own interests and again the history of latin america provides ample exam. some of which we discussed but let me ask you a policy a broader policy question because power transitions are always very precarious especially in a country is asked polarized as venezuela facing as enormous economic differences difficulties as. do you have confidence that they trump administration has what it takes to guide us through these power transitions that the two previous american administrations the bush administration and the obama administration failed so miserably because the united states tended to bring democracy to iraq to bring democracy to libya that failed does the trumpet ministration half what it takes to you guys when you sell it through the democratic transition without major bloodshed there without major shocks to its economy by itsel

central command and saying that the united states was a state sponsor of terror iran's president hassan rouhani speaking at an annual event celebrating iran's nuclear program said his country was more united than ever against the united states who he characterized as being the world's top terrorist he also said attacking the i.r.g.c. would only make them more popular amongst iranians iran's parliament seem to echo that sentiment on tuesday when lawmakers proposed a bill to carry out measures against the united states and help strengthen the i.r.g.c. even more some lawmakers even showed up in parliament dressed in i are to see fatigues as a show of support iran speaker of parliament other larijani also said the move by the u.s. was a sign of an old grudge and a sign of quote stupidity since the i.r.g.c. has been on the front lines of the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant or i sold in iraq and syria now iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who is the commander in chief of the i.r.g.c. said america's animosity towards the group is because the i.r.g.c. is a bulw

participation of united states in this project was not only helped both states of the korean peninsula but also would become one of the few influences along with russia. now let's look at normalization. first of all, the different positions of the main participants. the position of north korea can be centered as proactive. north korea feels an urgency for change, or storing its diplomatic and foreign relations. the results to date are impressive, including numerous summits. has skillfully played the opposition of interest between the u.s. and china. north korea sought rapprochement with china as leverage to bring truck to the leveraging -- negotiating table. in the same way, north korea uses the dialogue to put pressure on china. along with dialogue with the u.s., north korea is also developing inter-korean relations a red this forced china to intensify its diplomacy. north korea has reminded china of its energy. china seem to take a reactive position. north korea is of particular interest to china as a territory and cheap negotiations with the united states. faced with an american pre

cooperation and security with the united states is very difficult. it will take a lot of time because two countries which opposed each other will have to find ways to cooperate in such sensitive spheres as security. working with both korean states is needed in this case. as for the chinese, they do not believe in denuclearization, maybe because they do not believe in reunification. the opinion of chinese scholars is that a stable north korea is more preferable to a denuclearized north korea. if it needs nuclear weapons to guarantee stability, china can get used to it. prof. squassoni: so, one of the challenges in my long career of nonproliferation, is convincing other countries, you don't need nuclear weapons for security. certainly, some of your comments about further proliferation, the fact that south korea -- more is the case for japan -- has a latent nuclear weapons capability. they have uranium enrichment, processing. not a huge jump for them in terms of technical capabilities. politically, it would be a huge jump. maybe the u.s. is not doing suc

a lot of good points peter because i agree i mean first of all the united states is basically saying to all the countries of the world this is who you can buy oil from this is who you cannot buy oil from when you were in force of years upon years to which may not be your views by using the position that the dominant position we have through the reserve currency status of the dollar you will risk for i mean for your companies if you don't obey what we say and in effect the united states is trying to impose an economic blockade only rom by stopping its oil exports and it isn't forcing it on all other countries and it is doing so outside the provision. ns of the un charter and outside the powers of the un security council which under chapter seven of the united nations charter is the body which is also right to impose sanctions and economic is on its let's say actually a declaration of war is this a sign i. see it comes very close to being that are i don't think we're in a situation of armed conflict but of course we can easily see how it could develop into this because we're since the

it is very easy to see how the united states could start expanding this strategy by doing all sorts of things like perhaps attacking iranian oil installations or doing other dangerous things well you know it's crimes but alexander we care a so. also has tools in its toolkit. the straits of power moves they think you know what i'm getting at here if iran is going to suffer so tremendously and it might around can turn around and others will suffer too i don't think that it wants to do that it's the last resort but it's certainly possible absolutely this is why we originally had the j.c. p.l.m. because there was an assessment not just by the united states and the bomb but by the world powers that there was a balance of force if you like in this in this area and in that situation you needed to compromise and that compromise was the j.c. pretty early way if you throw out that compromise and disregard the balance of force you. all sorts of dangers that flow from the inevitable escalation already we see consequence is that this on the oil market and in this policy is consistent with

the prosecution in the united states for having published truthful information about the united states. faces extradition to the united states where the justice department's revealed that he is wanted for allegedly conspiring to hack a government computer. in moscow. there's just one story dominating our policy in this thursday evening and a dramatic turn of events after nearly seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london wiki leaks founder julian assange was arrested on thursday morning the whistleblowers now in police custody and potentially facing extradition to the united states where he's wanted on charges of conspiring to hack a government computer video agency captured the moment the distressed look at the songs was dragged out of the diplomatic compound. koch of. the rocky was the only video agency to film a two minute song being removed from the end to save the number of media outlets that initially claimed the whistleblower left of his own a cold and was arrested outside forced to change their reporting after the images were released now following his arrest and j

unions in the united states.e all have to get together. [applause and cheers] we all have to get better if we are going to solve these big problems. we all have two, and is going to take all of us, white, black, brown, gay, straight, north, south. we are all americans in this great experiment in democracy. this great experiment in democracy, each generation has the duty to grab the mantle and do something great with it. there is an old saying that politicians and presidents, they don't have power. they hold power. they hold the power that the people of the united states give them. and i want to hold that power for four years, and i want to bring the experiences that i have had in this community from the schools that i went to to the coaches that i had to the teachers i had to the family i had. and just maybe, just maybe, the person that can help heal these wounds is a working-class kid from a working-class family, from a working-class community that will go work his rear end off for the american people. [applause

first lieutenant john fernandez, united states army. petty officer first class, united states navy. staff sergeant jeremiah, united states army. [applause] commander thomas olivera, united states navy. [applause] lieutenant junior grade jordan lowe, united states navy. [applause] william --, united states army. [applause] sergeant samantha monodun, united states army. senior airman justin day, united states air force. [applause] staff sergeant john bennett, united states army. [applause] sergeant rory cooper, united states army. [applause]

for for for the united states china is the main challenger for the united states and for it for china you know for from the chinese perspective it's it's the americans who are the main the worry about o.b.'s lee you know do they do do do united states do the americans want to change chinese political system i think starting from the late one nine hundred seventy s. there was something of an allusion in this regard the idea was well the chinese are adopting capitalism they're adopting reform and opening on the day when there was you become just like us you have the hope was that this would happen i think those hopes were brought to an end in one thousand eight hundred line this year we're marking the anniversary of the tenement. crackdown in june one thousand and nine i think at that point it was be became very very clear the chinese were not going to do their thing if they trump administration and people around the administration like michael pillsbury of the hudson institute and. dodd circle of people who really made it into the american foreign policy they changed the american posit

so you know we live in a mafia state the united states has turned into a mafia state we're going to go around the world committing war crimes and because we're the biggest bully with the biggest gun when you try to hold us accountable for our war crimes we're going to just say no we're not playing because we have a bigger gun than you and you know it's and right now the corporate media in the united states going along with another criminal killing venezuela then its oil which has twice the oil reserves as saudi arabia and when i found that out i knew we had to bring your people some democracy ok but you can't just complain about the united states the european union backs the united states to the hilt on venezuela and says that right this other man mr goto should be leading that country not the elected leader yeah i don't know it's definitely the western powers the the oil companies you know that you know the u.k. turned on venezuela when they wouldn't give in their or their rights to their oil fields and so they were even given their gold yeah i mean i look at it from a perspective of

any prosecution by the united states of. wiki leaks publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional and would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations moreover prosecuting a foreign publisher for violating u.s. secrecy laws was searched am especially dangerous precedent for u.s. journalists who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to deliver information vital to the public's interest now this is also being reiterated by human rights watch they've called the songes arrest a dangerous precedence for any news organization saying jim less might now have to think twice before publishing news of public importance or government scrutiny as well now the general counsel of the organization said that the trumps administration's open hostility to mainstream media has also contributed to an increasingly dangerous environment really for investigative journalism all over the world now there are all those who would say that it's a bit rich calling us saw a journalist why is this an issue. wel

central command and saying that the united states was a state sponsor of terror iran's president hassan rouhani speaking at an annual event celebrating iran's nuclear program said his country was more united than ever against the united states who he characterized as being the world's top terrorist he also said attacking the i.r.g.c. would only make them more popular amongst iranians iran's parliament seemed to echo that sentiment on tuesday when lawmakers proposed a bill to carry out measures against the united states and help strengthen the i.r.g.c. even more some lawmakers even showed up in parliament dressed in i are to see fatigues as a show of support their own speaker of parliament ali larijani also said the move by the u.s. was a sign of an old grudge and a sign of quote stupidity since the i.r.g.c. has been on the front lines of the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant or eisel in iraq and syria now iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who is the commander in chief of the i.r.g.c. said america's animosity towards the group is because the i.r.g.c. is a

is not supporting democracy the united states is opposed to democracy that's why the united states has helped saudi arabia starve the people of yemen let me let us bring in the regional perspective now on our regional reasonal perspective let's bring in dan wearing from beijing what's china's reactions will this. well so far the public media has been quite calm there's not a widespread widespread opposition to the u.s. decision because overall when we think about oil trader with iran iran has been quite important to china it's one of the top five oil suppliers to china in terms of countries but it's not essential so it's all export to china account for about seven percent of china's total oil import it's a very difficult to replace but not impossible but in terms of the overall of the broader economic ties i think iran actually take a very important position in china's global strategy because to start with iran is one of the major destinations for chinese products such as consumer goods tronics machinery and especially cars so iran has been a top car importer from china if you go to a

united states the cia overthrew the most at that government in one thousand nine hundred fifty three in iran you talk about russian interference in the american election or the cia consciously deliberately proposed simply overthrew a very popular government in iran because the iranian government was nationalizing british oil interests so how would we feel if iran had come in and overthrown the kennedy government in one thousand nine hundred sixty two and this is the who they were context we have to understand this and so yes and this these sanctions are hurting the iranian people definitely an iranian economy is suffering as a result what is going to be the outcome of this as china going to go along with with us demand is india going to go along with u.s. demand turkey turkey perhaps south korea and japan will but the other countries are not and the europeans were already looking for mechanisms to deal with oil and trade with iran outside of the u.s. economic sphere so i think the united states is isolating itself with this kind of policy the sanctions were imposing all over th

the united states, principally?built in louisville for the united states and will be built in china for the chinese market. will be selling it around the world. david: we have covered a lot that sedans are going away, diminishing and replaced by trucks and suvs. how does the compact or smaller suv fit into that growth of the suv in the united states? joy: you are right. suvs are hot and luxury suvs are doing well. we are pleased with our first quarter, we have sales up 11% on the back of the suv lineup. however, sedans are still important in china, especially in the luxury market. 50% of the vehicles in china are still sedans. we love our continental as well. when you grow the sales for the corsair or your suvs more generally, where does it come? where are looking to take market share? ,oy: as customer trends change and we are seeing that with the popularity of suvs, some come from sedans, but is also in the entry market. we have moving out of mass-market brands into luxury and that is the entry vehicle for them. we

they had a view of the united states that is very similar to the view that new yorkers have of the united states. when they look at the united states from london and paris, they can see everything to the appalachians, and then it is beyond indistinct the o there, like everybody in new york can see all the way to the hudson, and then beyond there, it is indistinct. a factor that brought greater attention to the e. lee.is r. it was a measure of the predominance of the eastern theater in the minds of people in the united states and in the confederacy that appomattox believed to render the ulysses s marks the end of the war despite thousands of confederate soldiers after april 9, 1865. and appomattox, as everyone in this room knows, after more than 150 years, remains a wildly understood moment as which the war came to a close. the second theater is the western the inner her, which sprawled across many states and ofered a portable feet military action is u.s. army penetrated ever deeper into the confederacy. early in the conflict, it stretched from the ohio river on the north to the gulf of me

is a great concern and he's concerned obviously about the prospect of being asked right to the united states and about the president at that sets for the media everywhere we will of course fight any extradition requests made ited states is a provisional warrant for his arrest they have the next month or so to provide a full request and we will of course fight it this is a massive free speech issue. this is a priest and effect will affect all of the media anywhere in the world ineffectively means that any journalist or media organization anywhere in the world can be extradited and prosecuted for having published truthful information about the united states and that is as a matter of principle wrong and ought to be resisted and we will be fighting it. it seems the songes biggest fear may now come true as the united states has confirmed that it's requested his extradition he's been charged with conspiring to hack a classified u.s. government computer with whistleblower chelsea manning the justice department says he could face up to five years in prison are to scale up and reports. interestingly

and united states -- portugal, the u.k., and the united states. guest: there was a recent invitation that was a long time coming, north macedonia, one of the provinces of former eunice: loss -- former yugoslavia. they agreed after long political negotiations, some of which were facilitated by the united states. macedonia, assuming that the negotiations are finalized and all the member states ratify an amendment to the treaty, then north macedonia would become the 30th member of the alliance. host: what is the job of the nato secretary-general? guest: he is an international civil servant. he works for all the member countries. he is the convene are of a number of meetings. -- he is the senior international civil servant. he is akin to the secretary-general of the united nations. the member nations are of the deciders but he has an important role in leading the alliance and beginning to play the role that always been envisioned that he is the public face of nato, someone who is empowered to reflect the collective will of the alliance. many countries

central command and saying that the united states was a state sponsor of terror iran's president hassan rouhani speaking at an annual event celebrating iran's nuclear program said his country was more united than ever against the united states who he characterized as being the world's top terrorist he also said attacking the i.r.g.c. would only make them more popular amongst iranians iran's parliament seemed to echo that sentiment on tuesday when lawmakers proposed a bill to carry out measures against the united states and help strengthen the i.r.g.c. even more some lawmakers even showed up in parliament dressed in i are to see fatigues as a show of support their own speaker of parliament ali larijani also said the move by the u.s. was a sign of an old grudge and a sign of quote stupidity since the i.r.g.c. has been on the front lines of the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant or eisel in iraq and syria now iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who is the commander in chief of the i.r.g.c. said america's animosity towards the group is because the i.r.g.c. is a

more people dislike the united states and they like the united states government aside so what trump is doing is that he's destroyed u.s. public diplomacy capabilities and the image of the united states and i think it goes far beyond iran's borders and again he i think he is isolating the united states not only when it comes to iran but also when it comes to many other countries and it draws them all together that the multiple trade wars even his statements with regards to mexico just last week he said he shut the border then he reversed his decision these sort of statements i think actually benefit iran a lot in the long term although it has caused a lot of difficulty economically for your audience but i think in the long term the united states has wrecked its position globally and in the eyes of the public and in the eyes of many governments with its behavior both towards iran and other countries all right thank you all very much indeed really interesting conversation mohammad marandi in tehran trita parsi in washington d.c. and l.a. jeta mayor in london thank you very much indeed

deconstructing and serious debate coast -- deconstructing syria and there is a better time when the united statesomestic political situation is intense in a partisan way that maybe we could pick up and build on that. i used to work for the state department and i think there is a great role that's how we met actually as part of an exchange program at the state department but those kind of interactions are really important especially in this environment now. >> professor university in maryland thank you for a fascinating presentation. i have a point to your question i've been teaching politics for 25 years and i've never been more popular, so i think that the news for me is my students, my undergraduate students are much were interested in learning lessons, so i think if there is a silver lining is there. if i studied the media, to ask anything of media used particularly by the russians? >> not in this project, but we monitor together for a couple of years and another round will be in a month or so. tv is going down the internet is going up. >> i did my dissertation research 25 years ago but the ot

for for for the united states china is the main challenger for the united states and for china you know for from the chinese perspective it's it's their merican to be mainly worry about o.b.'s lee you know do they do do do united states do the americans want to change chinese political system i think starting from the late one nine hundred seventy s. there was something of an illusion in this regard the idea was well the chinese are adopting capitalism they're adopting reform and opening on the do you believe you will become just like us you have the hope was that this would happen i think those hopes were brought to an end in one thousand eight in line this year we're marking the anniversary of the tenement. crackdown in june one thousand and nine i think at that point it was be became very very clear the chinese were not going to do their thing if they trump administration and people around the administration like michael pillsbury of the hudson institute and dodd circle of people who really made it into the american foreign policy they changed the american position on china why do yo

nato security is the trustee did -- strategic nuclear forces of allies, particularly those of the united states. summit6 2018 nato u.s.rations reaffirmed the contributions to nato. last year the brussels summit declaration explicitly stated " nato's deterrence posture relies capabilities and infrastructure provided by allies concerned." increasingly aggressive posture has not gone unnoticed by our european allies, highlighting the need for credible deterrent. in asia, chaya -- china's efforts to enhance its military reach is a cause of concern for our partners in the indo-pacific region. strong public antipathy to nuclear weapons remains a challenge for u.s. extended deterrence, however the united states and japan have engaged in a regular extended deterrence dialogue that has informed and elevated each nation's understanding and insights as to the u.s. commitment. in south korea, uncertainty surrounding progress on nuclear eyes asian may foster concern -- over nuclear eyes asian -- nuclearization may foster concern. meeting, secretary of defense mattis and the minister of national defense noti

doesn't hold terrain outside the united states the way previous did but the united states undeniably has deep economic relations with latin america we have the largest number of free trade agreements in latin america we have supported democracy in latin america over the last seventy years and if you take a look if you take a look at the last coup that the united states did actively support in correctly it was a bad decision i'm not here to defend it was one nine hundred seventy three while it was in latin america but later on president obama was somebody who was much better received by the world. he was talking about changing the way that america the united states of america and gauges for the world i think that was a major part of. the last office re grabbing a post. a decision on libya which turned out the country into a complete chaos i guess my question to you is is that really about values because there is a i think your question. is an american value that speaks to pushing us towards war and be absolutely. answer is absolutely not if you look on balance which is the only way yo

officials the united states do something to stop mr so. we're looking into that right now and he should be treated as an enemy combatant which he really should be closed down permanently and decisively this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this cumber yun anything i'm aware on ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons at this point juliana songes not anymore in the ecuadorian embassy and london at this point he has been turned over to you kay officials he is in their custody now the question remains will he be extradited to the united states many observers speculate that if he comes to the united states he could be facing a lot more than simply this conspiracy of computer intrusion charge that charge only holds the potential for five years in prison so it remains to be seen whether or not julian assa

more than on two servers depending on the united states financially so the united states carry the most important financial burden of keeping nato alive and functioning so i think that there are some discords between the european capitals and washington i think they are mostly personal i mean european leaders tended to be irritated by mr trump extremely. appalling style i would say they disliked mr pence speech at the last munich conference where mr benz said what the europeans should do on different directions of their foreign policy i think that this style is long into the past and europeans they let it know that they don't like the style of the trumpet ministration but it doesn't mean they don't like nato i think they consider. nato a necessary instrument of their security and american presence in nato a necessary element of their security so i think that although there are some differences today mostly on the style of politics between european capitals in washington i don't think it will spoil the seventy's and ever syria of nato i think that mostly it's an alliance which understand

this is not the united states interfering in china. this is what happens to countries when they are successful in modernizing their economies and their social structures, and the problem in china -- the number one contradiction is you have successful modernization policies for the economy and for the society, but you have no mid-everyonizati mi modernization in the political system. and all modern systems of government are based on the concepts of the just powers of governance being derived from the consent of the governed, meaning there has to be some sort of legitimatization process that involves the people, and the concept that power corrupts, meaning you can't concentrate it in the hands of a single party or a single ruler or a single king or a single shah. you have to have checks and balances on use of power, exercise of power. so these forces are at work in china, and who knows what's going to happen. but it's far too early to say that this is the end of the game, and yet that's what people here who say that engagement with china

even in eat publicly and as determinately as the united states is. doing how do you back off example losing face the risk is that if one strategy doesn't escalate you're going to escalate to succeed you're going to escalate on another and that is the slippery slope that the united states is now on it's made a massive commitment to regime change in iran it's as you correctly say destabilizing the oil markets if that policy doesn't succeed even starts creating heavy economic costs for the united states it is very easy to see how the united states could start expanding this strategy by doing all sorts of things like perhaps attacking iranian oil installations or doing other dangerous things well you know it is crimes but alexander. also has a tools in its tool kit. the straits of power movies i think you know what i'm getting at here if it if iran is going to suffer so tremendously and it might around can turn around and others will suffer too i don't think that's it once a do that it's the last resort but it's certainly possible absolutely this is why

united states trying to implement extra third retaliatory. drug. legislation in order to punish those who are publishing the truth about war crimes corruption my surveillance anything that united states doesn't basically approve. for before it to be published. former consul of the ecuadorian embassy and london thank you so much for coming on the program and sharing your unique perspective. thank you. a recap of our breaking news story this hour russian citizen maria bush and accused of conspiring against the us and being a russian agent has been sentenced to eighteen months jail by federal court she will serve half that time having already been in detention for more than nine months her lawyers want to appeal the sentence but have strongly condemned the verdict warning it sets a worrying precedent for both foreigners in the u.s. and americans abroad we'll keep you updated with all the waves on that story after this short break. most people think just stand out in this is this you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the l

light say the united states should do more to hold boeing accountable no one needs a united states. is there to say it's no. small degree this is you know it's a war of those who work very equal justice for all victims the wires for the united states. and it's a major setback for the company boeing really has to work very fast to recover its trust because its brand name is so strong and its products for a long time have been so good the boeing seven three seven max has been grounded worldwide pending a review into the software of with flight control system investigators in ethiopia say a full report into what happened could take up to a year to complete for he mohammed al jazeera. and boeing continues to defend the safety of the seven thirty seven max and acknowledge that and erroneous activation of the automation system may have forced the ethiopian in india indonesian jets to crash u.s. aviation regulator regulator the f.a.a. is reviewing the safety of the now grounded boeing seven thirty seven max eight and is facing a number of lawsuits john hendren has more from chicago. here i

human rights organizations quite a palestinian activist who did nine entry to the united states we spoke to omar barghouti about his experience. with the u.s. administration has been mobilized to do israel's bidding and trying to silence the studio it's really me that the international human rights defenders. and the belgian government's center for cyber security fails to find any evidence of a threat from wall way despite the chinese tech giant being accused of spying by the u.s. and allies. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our two h.q. in moscow thanks for joining this hour. co-founder joined us on that is now in prison ahead of a hearing next month on extradition to the united states lawmakers have spoken to the media outside the jail they've been scheduled to meet a song in london's. until last week's arrest and of the details. i'm outside the prison where julian assange is being held in custody it's a category a prison in south east london now alias today members of the german bundestag and the european parliament's were in front of the prison posing at pres

step by the united states if the united states could not achieve their goal through. put the iranian export through zero day reign and would not close the door close to gateway but if they are really serious and putting restrictions on iranian explored it would be the next step the second is the four innings so dear is not want to close the gate and get some in my bonnet to bring you into the conversation now first of all your thoughts on whether this actually could happen this time as we've discussed already it's happened before it's been threatened in more recent history this time around. well i think that if we look over over history recent history and less recent history we know that iran does this when it feels like it's being backed into a corner when it feels like it has brain little other alternatives as a means of articulating its position and as a show of strength so given that and looking at history it seems unlikely that iran would do that this time but of course we can never say never we've got an increasingly biliteral into an increasingly anti a rainy a

the first of these was the benign germany of the united states. america was the big kid on the block and even those countries that were particularly happy about this didn't dare challenge us in a serious way. the second major piece for many feature was economic interdependence. this was after all one of the great ages of globalization. we know that countries that trade with and invest in one another on a large scale are very reluctant to go to war for no other reason than war cost them a lot of money. the third peace promoting features of international politics between 1989 in 2014 was democracy. this was a great age of democracy and the first time in human history when democracy was the most prominent form of government around the world. by democracy i mean two things, democracy is i believe a hybrid form of government. it involves sovereignty, free, fair and regular elections. but it also necessarily involves liberty. and liberty comes in three varieties. economic liberty, private property, religious liberty, freedom of worship, and political li

is not supporting democracy the united states is opposed to democracy that's why the united states has helped saudi arabia starve the people of yemen let me let us bring in the regional perspective now on our soil a regional regional perspective let's bring in dan wearing from beijing what's china's reactions will this. well so far the public media has been quite calm there's not a widespread widespread opposition to the u.s. decision because overall when we think about oil trade with iran iran has been quite important to china it's one of the top five oil suppliers to china in terms of countries but it's not essential so it's all export to china account for about seven percent of china's total oil import it's a very difficult to replace but not impossible but in terms of the overall a broader economic ties i think iran actually take a very important position in china's global strategy because to start with iran is one of the major destinations for chinese products such as consumer goods tronics machinery and especially cars so iran has been a top car importer from china if you go to a