honesty about what happened under mao zedong?nd millions of chinese who were starved to death, who lost their lives during the famine, during the quote—unquote "great leap forward" 7 is there room for honesty? well, this is exactly why i have some problem when you use the word propaganda in english, because the celebrations we are doing today for the achievements of the communist party of china, or china as a nation, for example, are really telling the real stories. and these real stories are actually not fully told by many of the western medias. now, if we compare china today with 1949 and with 1978, when i started to go to college and preparing for my work for deng xiaoping, for example, in the 1980s, i would say china has completely transformed itself from today, compared with 1949, and ever since 1948. of course, for a nation with china's size, every day, we make some mistakes. we do not need to be proud of our mistakes, but we need to celebrate our great achievements. i would say no country, ever since 1948, has made as much

all these achievements were made under mao zedong.ring the first two decades or so, china did not make great progress. and i would say, by wiping the whole slate clean, it prepared for china's resurgence ever since 1978. as you reflect on the centenary, will you also find room to remember the thousands of your fellow citizens murdered by the chinese military under the instruction of the chinese communist party injune 1989 at tiananmen square? well, i would say, whatever happened in 1989 has taught the chinese nation as a whole that china today cannot afford to have a revolution. whatever problems there are in the society, we need to deal with them in a very scientific way, in a very peaceful way. rioting or violence, or revolutions aimed at colour change, for example, or regime change is not tolerated in china. i would say, whatever the reason for the events in 1989... whoa, whoa, hang on, mr gao, what those thousands of protesters in the streets of your capital city in 1989 wanted was more freedom, more democracy. are you telling me

mao zedong one said it was japan's invasion of china in the early 1930s that actually saved the nascentillions and millions of chinese lives and it continues to poison the relationship until today. at the end of world war ii, japan was occupied by the united states and thereby became america's most important military ally in this region, which continues to be today. but since the early 1990s, japan has become deeply, deeply entwined in china's economy, so today, as china marks 100 anniversary of the finding dell mac founding of the chinese communist party, japan looks on with a mixture of fear and desire — fear of china's new intentions, ortg desire — fear of china's new intentions, or tg contention in this region, fear particular of the war over taiwan, but also with desire to continue of having a big slice of china's growing economic pie. china has made australia _ growing economic pie. china has made australia rich. _ growing economic pie. china has made australia rich. it's - made australia rich. it's demand for natural resources has underpinned prosperity here. but australia's para

led by mao zedong.ce undergone many enormous, and sometimes drastic, changes. here's our china correspondent stephen mcdonell in beijing. in the coming hours, the heart of beijing will see a series of events marking 100 years since the founding of the communist party of china. the precise nature of these events has been kept under wraps, but tiananmen square is expected to feature heavily as a location. there's already been a mega event at the olympic stadium, and footage of this nationalist spectacle has already been released in dribs and drabs, featuring a cast of thousands depicting key moments in history seen as victories for the party. it's not, though, for ordinary people to attend the event at the bird's nest stadium or the events of today. that's for loyal party members only. the idea is that, for them, at some point, they'll sit back and watch it all on television. if we look at the communist party's 100 years of history here, there have been achievements and utter disasters. so what won't be m

aligning more with china's global interest, but beijing does not really care whether they move on to a mao zedongx type trajectory. tom: we have to leave it there. wonderful to start our coverage there. cannot say enough about his book. rave reviews. his journalism in china. it is sort of a sideshow to all that is going on, but it is 100 years on from something that change the world. lisa: perhaps a sideshow is front and center when it talks about the rebalancing of geopolitical power at a time when the east versus the west is taking on a different town. president biden is trying to gain some of the alliances back in order to come up with a strategy to counter china. this is very much in the front and center. tom: you wonder after the president's trip to europe and the perceived success of that, what will it be like when we see biden on the pacific rim? i believe that is scheduled. lisa: i have to offer up a surveillance correction. canada called and they were put off when i said it was a less vaccinated region the rest of the world. actually they are now leading in the number of first shots, the

. >> i have read mao zedong. i read column marks. i've read london.t does not make me a communist. >> i'm putting china and russia out there. that is not in conflict with the knowledge meant that climate change or infrastructure or education systems national security has a broad angle to it. >> ben: this is a group of leaders who are masters at political climate, media engagement, and spending trillions in your taxpayer dollars. even get the praise of one useful media idiot after another whose natural inclination is to "yes queen "to anyone who agrees not matter how obvious is they fail in any measure of success at their actual job. keep in mind these flaunted leaders have not won wars since february 28th 1991. the stories as much about the failure of united states military as an institution as it is about mainly the man. we get with the system gives us. if we don't fight against it, it's what we deserve. in this case, a series of aging politicians who can't win wars. we used to recall the generals from retirement to serve during a time to work, now t

i've read mao zedong, i've read karl marx, i've read lenin. that doesn't make me a communist.nd it offensive that we are accusing the united states military, our general officers, our noncommissioned officers are being, quote, woke or something else because we're studying something that is out there. >> conservative media is pouncing on it, exactly what you expect from a network whose leader called the war dead losers and suckers. per politico the group heritage action is trying to shoe horn this language into must-pass legislation such as the annual defense spending bill. joining me now is representative houlihan and tim miller. representative houlihan, i want to speak with you as a veteran and someone serving in the united states congress. the new reporting is that steve bannon is back and his plan is to turn this fake, made-up version of critical race theory, which is really just anti-racism, they hate anti-racism, he wants to turn that into their new tea party. he said this isn't q or mainstream suburban moms. he thinks it's good politics. but also this news that heritage

military academy teaching critical race theory, and said, quote, "i've read mao zedong, i've read karl i've read lenin, that doesn't make me a communist. that's true. but it does make him really annoying at college parties. republican senator john kennedy, yesterday, criticized president biden's plan to address rising crime rates and said, quote, "why is it safer to walk down the streets of mogadishu than new york city? well, that's easy, mogadishu doesn't have revel microsoft, this week, became the second u.s. company to reach a market value of $2 trillion. but, remember, the first was gamestop president biden traveled to north carolina today and visited a mobile vaccination site. it wasn't supposed to be mobile, but they saw him coming. "oh, man, he's gonna tell one of his stories, pick everything up, pick everything up." netflix has released a trailer for its new dating show called "sexy beasts," which features people wearing animal masks and prosthetics to go on dates but, the show will face stiff competition from just going to bed already. and finally, today, soccer star messi tur

timing yet but president xi jinping will be standing in tiananmen square in the same spot that mao zedong stood when he proclaimed the founding of the people's republic of china in 1949. president xi jinping is expected to really reinforce the case that it is the chinese communist party that has restored this country back to a position of wealth and international prestige. that is the view of the communist party, a country that is back in its rightful place. he will also underscore the proximity and that they now are to a moderately prosperous society, taking china closer to develop nations and certainly, they can tout some real economic achievements of course, around 800 million people lifted out of poverty and you have an economy that will be, by many people's accounting, the largest in the world by the end of this decade. the life expectancy has gone from 35 years to 77 years. per capita income is 10,000 u.s. dollars. this will also be an opportunity for president xi jinping to try and solidify his vision as the beating heart of this party and country as he looks ahead to the party con

i've read mao zedong, i've read karl marx, i've read lenin. that doesn't make me a communist. so what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend. and i personally finding it offensive that we are accusing the united states military, our general officers, our noncommissioned officers are being quote, woke, or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there. >> so, charlie, if i'm nancy pelosi i put kinzinger and cheney on and say i'm doing it for the military and for law enforcement, because the top military leader in this country, he wants to understand white rage. he wants to understand why thousands of people stormed that building and law enforcement officers who paid with their bodies, who paid with their lives, they want to understand too. if i were nancy pelosi i'd call their bluff on the politics of the midterm. >> oh, i completely agree with you. in fact i would play those cards very, very hard. flip the script on the republicans. this is for the military. we are the ones th

i've read mao zedong. i've read karl marx. i've read many. that doesn't make me a timeliness. so what is wrong with understanding having some situation understanding about the country for which we here to defend? i personally find it offensive that we are accusing the united states military, our general offices, a commission from noncommissioned officers of the book is something else because we are studying some threes that are out there. that was stored at harvard law school years ago and propose there were laws in the united states anti-bound laws prior to the civil war that led to a power differential with african-americans over three course of human thing when the sketch was from -- anti-bellum. the civil war proclamation change and we brought up with the civil rights act come took another 100 years to change that. i do want to know and i respect your service and you and i are both green berets but i want to know and it matters to our military and the discipline and collision of the military and i thank you for the opportunity to make a comment on that. >> thank you jennif