us? one might see china turn to — to trade with the us? ee china turn to what's been _ to trade with the us? one might see china turn to what's been the - to trade with the us? one might see china turn to what's been the most l china turn to what's been the most state dominated economy but many of the people being appointed to the top positions especially in times of economic and financial and regulatory agencies, certainly do seem to have loyalty to the president has important carrying card but in addition these are people who have shown competence and many of the appointments and a lot of the key agencies do suggest that the president wants to carry on in terms of continuity of at least very modest financial and market orientated reform so i think china does want to continue to engage with the us and the rest of the world but on its own terms. the the us and the rest of the world but on its own terms.— on its own terms. the talk seem to be increasingly _ on its own terms. the talk seem to be increasingly fiery _ on its own terms. the talk

we think that business from us companies in china continues to be a stabilising factor in this us chinap. thank you very much. thank you. china's economy is going through more reforms as president xi tries to shape it in his image so are those tensions with the us a threat to the ambition to get economic growth back up to 5% a year? i've been speaking to the chief economist at a bank. thank you for having me. despite the tension between us and china over so many things from covid to ukraine and those suspected spy balloons, trade between the two countries hit a record high last year, even also with problems caused by china's covid lockdowns. why do you think that trade relationship is proving to be so resilient? ever since covid has started, the global dependence on china over creased rather decreased including the trade relations between china and the us. there was a strong dollar, overheated us economy and record high wage growth so the demand for china's export actually increased furthermore and i don't see that trend reversing anytime soon. beijing has used the ambitions of corporat

it's found itself at the heart of the us china trade war — the focus of which has switched from tariffso technology. and about half an hour ago tiktok�*s boss shou zi chew started answering questions from us lawmakers amid concerns that the app is a threat to us national security. it's a problem the chinese owned app is also fighting against in other countries around the world. we have heard you say multiple times that tiktok is not a chinese company and bite dance is not a chinese company but chinese, said an investorja of tiktok company but chinese, said an investor ja of tiktok will involve exporting technology that has to be approved by the chinese government. the reported efforts by the biden administration would severely undermine investor confidence in the us and it was quoted, if that is to china it will firmly oppose it, she said referring to the forced sale. so despite your assertions to the contrary, china certainly thinks it is in control of tiktok and its software, is that not correct? congressman, tiktok is not available in mainland — congressman, tiktok is not available i

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china. where does tick tock fit overall in the general trade dispute picture between us and china that we've seen in recent years? well, i think what we saw yesterday was kind of an unfair tick tock is position is of the center of what is increasingly a battle ground between the u. s. and china. we're seeing it now. we've seen in geopolitical terms, over issues like taiwan and, and, and now we're seeing it in the corporate world. it's really stepping up. it began with wow, way for the tech of telecom gear provider while way, which is has strong links to chinese government and approve problematic around the world and tick tock in some ways. is a much more public version of this. it's the public face, a much more public face for this corporate competition that we're seeing now between the us and china and it's ideological competition. it's, it's basically you're seeing 2 very, very different styles of corporate governance coming head to head. you know, critics have pointed out that western tech firms also have issues with transparency when it comes to data security or their data policies to th

the us and china share many things. they - domestically. the us and china share many things. s and china| share many things. they are the biggest trade partners in the world. so when it comes to technology understand what you're saying in terms of its sensitivity. but one of the challenges in this for the us? there are things the us does get from china in terms of technology that they can't do without. ~ , , without. will this is absolutely - without. will this is absolutely one - without. will this is absolutely one of. without. will this is i absolutely one of the without. will this is - absolutely one of the largest challenges when it comes to managing, not only us china relations by china relations with the rest of the world. it's highly unusual that you have these two geopolitical competitors but also share the same trading partners. china is not only a large trading part of the united states but the largest trading partner to many us allies and partners. this is really never been the case before when the united states has placed geopolitical competitors, and so there's a

now he was until december, china's ambassador to washington, he knows the us very what has he always been such a hard liner? i think mr. chin is more of a complex figure. so under, you know, sitting thought in chinese war policy, china is expected to be assertive to maximizes interest on the international stage . and that mr. 10 is expected to be assertive and ready to push back against us claims of china doing certain things. and so mr. chins remarks in this press conference is certainly very harsh. but also if we see at the end of this term as the ambassador to the u. s, he actually posted some pretty friendly twitter post in terms of asserting his belief that the u. s. people are good and that he has faith in a friendly us trying to relationship, but because of the balloon incident and also reason us allegations of china provisioning, considering provisioning weapons to russia. there are certain obstacles for us. china relations to meaningfully, re stabilize this year. and the outlook of this year for us, china relations is fairly dire. yeah. you make them sound like a sheep in wol

china. what does it mean us and china relationship? l115 what does it mean us and china relationship?hip? us and china relations are _ relationship? us and china relations are already - relationship? us and china relations are already in - relationship? us and china relations are already in a i relations are already in a pretty bad place. this clearly will make things even worse. on monday we had president and general secretary xi jinping of china for one of the first time single out the us directly as he said, containing and suppressing china's advancement. i think this is a signal that china is even more certain that the relationship is spiralling downwards and the relationship frankly is going to get much worse going forward. to get much worse going forward-— to get much worse going forward. , , ., ~ forward. dexter roberts, thank ou for forward. dexter roberts, thank you fervour— forward. dexter roberts, thank you for your insight. _ stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the lionesses, england's women's football team, use international women's day to announce new funding for gi

and so china wall is that continue to support russia in economic terms, delivering not lethal but dual use items such as drones or chips to support russia . because china can and does not want to see russia collapsed by, by the war and from its strategic calculus. it does not see that it is in saying it's off from russia will bring any sort of good well from, from the u. s. and they're not planning it going to be grand. are opting either. china is not planning on delivering weapons or providing military support to russia, then why are they saying so? mr. mr tunes remarks did not indicate that china will send mila military weapons to russia. it merely indicated that china will continue its close diplomatic relationship with russia and those, those 2 things are different. and then also kept drawing parallels between ukraine and taiwan, saying that the u. s. keep talking about ukraine sovereignty, but ignores what he called sinus territorial integrity. by supporting taiwan. now, these are obviously 2 very different situations. are we watching beijing said the rhetorical groundwork for an inva

>> the us and china right now face very different worlds in terms of inflation. nflation is pretty high right now the way the fed is acting they don't think it will go down anytime soon so that increases interest rates talking about greater inflation and we have a very tight labor market which is also pushing up prices in some ways and that would be a challenge to get inflation underet control and regardless of the best efforts of the sediment washington does that you can see at some point we can tackle that and energy has a bigig effect on prices in the case of china they did have a significant inflation in 2021 but actually inflation is pretty low around 2 percent so they are in a better place inflation wise then we are but i guess the reason i use the word cyclical is because you see ups and downs with inflation as we see changes in the business cycle right now and has a very tight labor market and so we don't want the downside of the cycle because that will be a significant employment and you don't want stagflation sopl it's not something that we want it makes

since last year alone, us high—altitude balloons have illegally flown over china's airspace more thanauthorities. the first thing for the us to do is introspect itself and change its course instead of slandering and inciting confrontation. amid growing speculation about what's going on and after one military official refused to rule anything out, on february 13th, the us decided it needed to clarify one thing — these objects were not aliens. i know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. maybe this is the point to address the ufo issue. they exist. they're actually called unidentified aerial phenomena now, and there are hundreds of reports from us pilots about them which get catalogued. they get investigated, not so much because they might be extraterrestrials or aliens, but because the us fears they might be some new technology from another country. and many of those reports may, in fact, have been balloons or similar objects. it's now emerged that the other three unid

well, kershner, ithink the us and china _ that? well, kershner, ithink the us and china are - that? s and china are locked l that? well, kershner, ithink. the us and china are locked in what the experts call a security dilemma, in which each side is absolutely convinced they are merely responding to they are merely responding to the provocation of the other side. of course it is more competitive than that. the fact that they find so much difficulty in talking to each other, the traditional amount of mistrust between them, those are major risk factors. i know president biden. i have spent a lot of time in meetings where president xijinping, i am absolutely confident that neither one of them wants conflict, once risk, once more, but was don't happen only because leaders want them, they often have happened historically because leaders have stumbled into them, and i think this mindset that oh, its all yourfault, is think this mindset that oh, its all your fault, is driving it's all your fault, is driving real risk in the region. that was danny _ real risk in the region. that was danny ru

i think the us and china _ are your thoughts on that? ghts on that? i think the us and china are locked in - are your thoughts on that? i think i the us and china are locked in what the experts call a security dilemma which each side is absolutely convinced that they're merely responding to the provocation of the other side. and of course, it's more complicated than that. and the fact that they find so much difficulty talking to each other and the tremendous amount of mistrust between them. those are major risk factors. i know president biden. i spend a lot of time in meetings with president xijinping. i'm spend a lot of time in meetings with president xi jinping. i'm absolutely confident that neither one of them wants conflict or war and war still happen because they often have happened historically because leaders have stumbled into them in this mindset that, it's all your fault is striving real risk in the region. fault is striving real risk in the reuion. �* , , fault is striving real risk in the reuion. . , , ., ., fault is striving

oh, is tick tock a time bomb for us. china trade relations, the c e o of the popular apps parent firm failed to impress congress in testimony yesterday. a gene is now warning washington not to move against the company. also on our show behind chant g, p t, and other applications is the diligent work of small companies around the world who feed the algorithm. we'll take a look at one of them. i'm seeing dizzy in berlin. welcome to our show. tensions are growing between beijing and washington over the fate of tick tock in the us. china warning thursday against u. s. efforts to ban the popular app or force parent company bite dance to divest its u. s. operations on the came just before show g chew. c e o of by dance, which is the company behind tick tock testify. the congress that the ap had no significant ties to badging calls for washington to act on the social media app gathered steam after that testimony. the issue was the latest source of tension between the 2 nations and cliff recount my colleague joins me for more on that. clifford, let's start with his testimony. there was, this

well , there are many such technologies that china could actually share with us, besides, we need to china closer to us and not that he was closer to russia than our enemy , so if you don't have an ambassador , you don't have a trade representative, you don't have your own checkpoints, then you can't conduct information policy, conduct economic policy at all, you can't convey your thoughts and positions to the first persons before sitting down to the ministry of foreign affairs, if you do not do this, he definitely lives in the narratives of the russians, lives in the politics of russia and looks at his interests , how to best use them to satisfy his interests. that is why we should go to china, develop and deepen these relations what position does he take? we do not have common borders, this is a plus, we have complementary economies, we produce food. and in china, food security is not completely ensured, and it is ready to take what we we produce, we cannot sell, for example, on the african market, it is difficult for us to sell because we enter into competition with the europeans

glad you could join us. china's threats to use force if needed to assert its sovereignty over taiwan, kilometers off the chinese coast. close enough to have did a trade links close enough for china to target with artillery something it did in 1950. it varies from ken mann to mainland china. have been i don't for 2 and a half. yes. so is the tourism industry on the island? one child may i read about security and relations with china felon, why do you only get it? why do i want to peacefully unify with china equal? we must not squinted, warrenson china, no use the people of kin are not hostile. are lou savvy wound attackers? we are like brothers now she in the year while shows us a bomb shouter, like the one he had in as a child, when the communist attacked his from their generation that experienced war with china. now he says he would accept alert she, with taiwan and china, go to war. can 1000000 that would be done for you? would you the high one can't protect us is too far away to give his military support. arrival will challenge e d r. portia kenman was an antique holeman as front l

since last year alone, us high—altitude balloons have illegally flown over china's airspace more thanities. the first thing for the us to do is introspect itself and change its course instead of slandering and inciting confrontation. amid growing speculation about what's going on and after one military official refused to rule anything out, on february 13th, the us decided it needed to clarify one thing. these objects were not aliens. i know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. maybe this is the point to address the ufo issue. they exist — they're actually called unidentified aerial phenomena now, and there are hundreds of reports from us pilots about them which get catalogued. they get investigated, not so much because they might be extraterrestrials or aliens, but because the us fears they might be some new technology from another country. and many of those reports may, in fact, have been balloons or similar objects. it's now emerged that the other three unidentifi

and for more on this less pregnancy of sang director of the so us china institute in london. welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us. china has tried to frame this trip as a piece mission. is anyone buying not or the chinese so to young? i age. huge certainly is buying it, but nobody else seriously will take it as a genuine piece. missions for a chinese piece proposal that is whole. somebody endorsed by hooting he did is a proposal that would not get anywhere with you craned the other party involved in the country. it appears as if ties was in china, and russia are growing stronger amid the invasion of ukraine. is that a fair assessment and what does it mean geopolitically? i don't think the relationship between china and russia is at the moment at is high wrist point. i think that was when putin visited china a year ago, just prior to his innovation to all ukraine. but it is still on a high point, china is still supporting protein, even though it is not without some element of limitations. so that relationship remains very strong and what bus. one of the

china's president, all powerful of home. the face is big challenge is elsewhere up against the us. and i'm a polarized world, so what would be the impact of she's the term in china and abroad. this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm adrian finnegan. she's in ping has been appointed for an unprecedented 3rd. tom was china's president. that may be a ceremonial position, but the man who holds it is by far the most powerful person in the country after he was reaffirmed as head of the communist party and the military last year. following the lifting of strict cove at 19 measures, he appears to face little opposition of home overseas vo relations with the u. s. continued to decline attentions persist with the e. u of a russia and ukraine. so what impact will she's unchallenged? leadership have for china and the rest of the world will be discussing all of that with our guests in just a few moments. but 1st katrina, you reports from aging on what she should ping faces at home and abroad. she just thing has just been re elected as president and will begin to restore 3rd t

on the real issue here, which is the impact all of this has had on an already fragile and fraught us—chinatheir own territory since the end of the us civil war. and to discover that they are not as inviolate as they thought they were is a big deal culturally and, if you like, semiotically for the us population, and i think this is what is at stake here. it's quite clear that china has messed up. you know, somebody somewhere should have realised that this programme was ongoing at a time when both china and the united states were keen, bordering on desperate, to put a floor beneath a rapidly deteriorating relationship. nobody seemed to think that the discovery of one of these balloons, airships, dirigibles, call it what you will, might derail this. when the news first came out, the chinese response was to say that, you know, the united states is making a fuss about nothing. the commentators, newspapers plundered the cliche book to talk about this. and this, i think, is indicative of a fundamental misunderstanding by china of what this means. nigel inkster is the former director of operations

that china used-— think, was one of the phrases that china used. t? if you _ china used. what do they mean by that? if you listen _ china used. what do they mean by that? if you listen to _ china used. what do they mean by that? if you listen to chinese - that? if you listen to chinese officials, you will hear that phrase used more and more often, accusing the united states, primarily, but others, of having a cold war mentality, and when beijing says this, what they mean is that they don't like the idea that it's either an us or them dichotomy, that either you are against beijing orfor it, they don't like this sort of division of the war, the world, that harkens back to cold war times. so they are trying to push the idea that they can still rise, can still do well in the world, but not necessarily threaten everybody else. in terms of nuclear submarines themselves, how much do we know about what china has, whether it has them? what do we know about their technology? china has its own nuclear arsenal, technology? china has its own nucleararsenal, it t

saying that by selling arms to taiwan, which is a major bug barren us china relations. that by doing this, they're putting china into the position where it may have to act militarily. that's the background to the threats. and these are very serious and it's, it is an escalation in the war words president, she's paying also speaking that chinese us relations in a speech he condemned, he called and i'm reading it here. the u. s. lead suppression of china. what was meant by that suppression? containment, he also said these are words that we know from the cold war era. he means that there was a common, it's a common communist party language used to describe how the west is trying to hold china back. stop china advance. but she jumping as always stopped short of mentioning the us by name, and indeed in the speech that he gave it in chinese, it's mentioned, but it's not mentioned in the english translation. they talk more about international issues, but it does again, mark, mark an escalation. and what's the rhetorical war at this stage? and this is, this is very worrying deve

china. just walk us through what he said. well, i think it definitely does. it certainly dispels any anyone who told that relations that the, china's backing for russia was anything more than it was just a tacit support is hearing those doubts are gone. i think one of the quotes you said was, with china and russia working together, the world will have a driving force that this sounds to me like they're talking about forming a block. and in some ways, trying to isolate the united states because i think it marks a significant escalation. and this war of words that we've been having now, since, especially since rushes invasion, incredible medically, are also militarily, well, this is always the fear is how quickly this can spill over. and, you know, they've, they've also because of the situation between china and the us regarding taiwan, you've got a whole new military dimension there. his book, in fact, at length, we have to say about us relations. and he was openly critical about american policy toward beijing. what specifically did he criticize and he also spe

kind of raises it, raises questions about kind of a company that is, you have us headquartered, and you have the value versus china is, is how that might be used to influence. and i mentioned the information about the fundamental aspect of democracy like elections. but i thought it really interesting when the fios said that his kids are not on thick talk because it is not permitted under the age of 13 and singapore. and i wasn't sure whether he fell into a trap but, but by acknowledging that there are other countries around the world that think that this isn't suitable for kids under 13. and then they talked about the user experience for an 8 year old here in the us and it's very protected. but what the, all of them seem to get is how easy it is to find stuff those age restrictions. so i think there were just a number of these kinds of issues that went on answer it yesterday. well, i see the conversation around this issue got particularly heated. i want to play you another except in the hearing yesterday. your technology is literally leading to death. mr. to yes or no. do you have full responsibility for your algo

china's approach may prove unsustainable in the long-term but can impact a competitor us and hurt us interests. i leave the committee with the following thought. first, china's policies and plans former way for the development of talent and emerging technologies that can form the foundation for future growth and military modernization that beijing controls. it is not really our today and certain fields but the rate of change we should focus on and that building of capacity. talent and robust education system is essential. innovation comes from doing the research. if we don't train our students, technicians, researchers and invest in the tools of discovery we will not be able to keep pace. finally china's policies are challenging for the us and its allies, most policy measures are tactical, not designed to counter an entire system that is structurally different. i want to thank the committee for continuing, these are hard conversations that we as a nation must have if we are going to protect and promote us competitiveness and future development that reflect our values. we have to think

use. the kremlin also wants to expand trade with china.sh under heavy international sanctions, economic ties with beijing approving a lifeline. if you burn bridges with the west, as vladimir putin has, what do you do then? you look east, and that's exactly what the kremlin leader has done. recent events have given a sense of urgency on china. putin and xi might speak about usually better for cooperation but ageing looks increasingly like the senior partner. but moscow hasn'tjust partnered with beijing. last week, russia held joint naval exercises with china and iran. there are signs the kremlin is looking to forge an anti—western alliance. translation: putin is building his own block. he doesn't trust the west anymore. he is looking for allies and trying to make russia part of a common fortress with china as well as with india, latin america and africa. putin is building his own anti—western world. africa. putin is building his own anti-western world. now, with xi jinping _ own anti-western world. now, with xi jinping here, _ own anti-west

has been treated like a superhero while the boss of tiktok, which is owned by china's bytedance, was recently grilled by usington, asking which is an open market and which is a hostile market? of course, what they failed to mention is that china has practically banned or censored many western tech giants like google, facebook, twitter and so on. but for apple and for tim cook, china remains a very important market and tim cook was definitely there to send that message. as politicians in the us and china, make trade harder, one country stands to profit, that's mexico! increasingly, us multinationals are moving their operations closer to home. as politicians in the us and china, make trade harder, one country as a result, cities in northern mexico are seeing a manufacturing boom. 0ur north america business correspondent, samira hussain, reports from monterrey, mexico. dawn break�*s over monterrey and the city rumbles into life. geopolitical tensions thousands of miles away are birthing a manufacturing revival here. welcome to mexico's industrial heartland. early morning shift at one of the many factories as

china feels besieged right now by the us and the west. the only other country that it can count on, if it were to come to serious conflict. so, china does not want to see, and of course russia is an enormous country, just on the chinese border. so for its own reasons doesn't want to see russia destabilised. china is in a lthlthlthlth position and trying to portray itself as neutral and at the same time making sure that russia isn't with its back to the wall. it's a difficult position but thus far they've tried to maintain that kind of ambiguous position on both sides of the fence. you mentioned _ on both sides of the fence. you mentioned ambiguity and washington has been calling on china to pressure russia to withdraw those troops from ukraine. do you think china will react to any type of international pressure? generally speaker, international pressure on china is lthlthlthlth productive and itjust —— and it just —— counterproductive and itjust —— counterproductive and raises nationalist outrage. a much more promising strategy on the par

now in china for us like nobody's hints, melissa, don't. but more important, china is economically so powerful it nowadays that which is different from the time of cause, which makes him really the most powerful man. also because, i mean, the president of the united states was considered to be the most popular person in the past. the us are so divided politically, we don't know what happens after the 1st term of to bite and yet i'm absolutely sure. shooting ping is the most powerful man in the mud. surely, confirmation as this term was widely expected. to what extent though, the next few days more important, with the appointment of a new penny and, and various other ministers at sole eod. this is so i use eisley a continuum of father chinese, the policy directions that we have seen since 2022. but some were brought lee, i syncer the onset of the trait or in 2018. so we have seen a series of government reforms. we see re centralization of power from the bureaucracy, the government site to the party site, and the restructuring of power from th

and to take the maximum with it, but there are problems in the internal situation, for example , china usingarket economy , accumulating economic potential , actually created its own middle class which demands greater rights and freedoms and actually competes with, well, let's say it challenges the party of the communist party of china. that is, it must either give up a little power to give people more power and reduce the role of the state or, on the contrary, strengthen its role in this vertical and create one separate state, the same as what was created in russia, that is, communism , capitalism, they are incompatible with each other, they are incompatible, we saw how they acted in relation to the head of alibaba who went to japan, whose a partial share was selected and the company was not allowed to enter the ipo. that is, it was a signal from big business that a vertical is still being formed where the communist party will rule, which means that there is an internal conflict externally, there is also a conflict because the claim to taiwan is a challenge to the united states of corruptio