then mao died, his closest supporters were arrested and deng xiaoping emerged to reverse the whole process slow opening up of china's economy to the west with scarcely a thought for ideology. but a new generation wanted greater personal freedom and students from beijing normal university and other centres took over tiananmen square in may 1989. i was fortunate enough to be there. i spent day after day and night after night in the square for weeks and came to love and admire the students for their innocence and courage. true, the students had partly been manipulated by top chinese politicians who wanted to get rid of deng xiaoping. everyone knew from early evening onwards that this was to be the decisive night. commotion. so far, the crowd's had the best of it with the attack on the armoured personnel carrier and the tank but everybody knows that the army has the power to do something about this, to clear this entire place if it chooses to. the only question is does it choose to? eventually, though, deng managed to find a general who agreed to drive them out of the square by force. when daw

deng xiaoping literally spat in his spittoon. i mean, he was not amused. he said, we're taking this place. we can take it tomorrow. we'd rather negotiate something. so the brits negotiated, you know, i don't know. okay. agreement. and china promised a lot. it promised that the existing ways the existing freedoms in hong kong would survive for 50 years own currency tax, administration, government, common common law, freedom of press freedom of assembly, freedom of religion all the freedoms that we in open take for granted. this was further codified the basic law, a sort of mini constitution that china wrote and imposed on hong kong and it did promise as you to move towards full democracy which i mean think about it it's just not a big deal honestly. was electing the city council, electing the mayor, the chief executive of the legislative council, even little things proved to be too much, for china. and as you said in 2014, they, they, they back those promises. and the people of hong kong enough. you know, it's been almost decades and you're moving us. what

then in 1979 deng xiaoping reformed their economy and you know that the chinese economy had a growth rate of 10% or so. for maybe 30 years, it came down to seven now down to four. and they've got internal challenges, but china became an enormously powerfully rich country, second only to the united states. and like most countries throughout history, when they earned that level of wealth, when they, when they developed that amount of financial throw weight in the system, they also embarked upon a military program to develop their military to be world class. so for the first time in chinese history, they have now 44 years later, 45 years later developed the world class military. now they're not equal yet to the united states military. the united states military is still the most powerful, most effective force in the world. and the chinese know that but the chinese are trying to develop their military to a point where they will be the dominant military in east asia, western pacific, at least by the mid thirties or maybe earlier, president xi has told his generals to develop the capabilit

there industrial revolution began in the 1980's after deng xiaoping's reforms and they have seen a massiverease in emissions since then. >> this language check -- tracks china's emissions speaks for itself, and loudly in comparison with these of the big polluters. powering some of the rises this stuff, and lots of it. >> the cover system is heavily reliant on coal power and it is the largest contributor to domestic emissions. >> china minds and burns half of the world's coal to power its economy. >> and economy of 1.4 billion people and rooted in heavy industry, literally producing the building blocks for factories the rest of the world has grown to depend upon. >> any time a country imports something from china, it is exporting its own pollution to china that it would have admitted at home otherwise -- emitted at home otherwise. lizzy: you can watch the whole film on the terminal or on youtube. staying in china and taking a look at stocks in the first session of 2025, a pretty bruising start to the year. the worst start to be year in nearly a decade because of the economic uncertainties a

three days after deng xiaoping and i announced that normalization, he announced about reform and a new life in china and began the reforms have taken place there. and now china is emerging. and i hope that will remain friendly. china. that's my hope in, the future. and i believe we can it's certainly change the world's calculus to a china that instead of being hidden and of mysterious is got its fingers in pies all around the world everywhere it has to be dealt with now a big power doesn't it? it does. and that's another place where america is profligate and we have to change our ways and, that is a horrendous deficit. we we now owe china. almost $1,000,000,000,000. and every we overspend our budget dollar. china has to pay for $0.40 of it by buying american bonds. and we go deeper, deeper and deeper in debt. and just because the congress, i guess, mirroring what the american people want are reluctant, put a restraint on that. i would say the republicans have taken a i think a an ill advised commitment, not raise any kind of taxes no matter how much we need to raise to pay for the wars

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not a stretch to say that, due to the tactics of people -- or strategies, really, of people like deng xiaoping, who said hide your motives and buy your time, have seen massive u.s. investment in china, which has not only helped them rebuild their economy, which is fine, but more ominously rearm their military and modernize their military so that they become a threat not only to their neighbors in the region, but world peace. we can all imagine a nightmare in which china decides to take taiwan, which president xi said he is committing to doing. i think it just makes sense for us to have more transparency so that as policymakers we can then figure out, what is the right policy? i could care less whether american companies want to build more burger king's or starbucks in china, what i do care if american companies are investing in dual-purpose technology or in ways that would undermine the national security of the united states. do you share that concern? sen. rubio: absolutely, and i shared it beyond what you have discussed. a few years ago the savings plan, the retirement, 401(k) for federal wo

not a stretch to say that, due to the tactics of people -- or strategies, really, of people like deng xiaoping, who said hide your motives and buy your time, have seen massive u.s. investment in china, which has not only helped them rebuild their economy, which is fine, but more ominously rearm their military and modernize their military so that they become a threat not only to their neighbors in the region, but world peace. we can all imagine a nightmare in which china decides to take taiwan, which president xi said he is committing to doing. i think it just makes sense for us to have more transparency so that as policymakers we can then figure out, what is the right policy? i could care less whether american companies want to build more burger king's or starbucks in china, what i do care if american companies are investing in dual-purpose technology or in ways that would undermine the national security of the united states. do you share that concern? sen. rubio: absolutely, and i shared it beyond what you have discussed. a few years ago the savings plan, the retirement, 401(k) for federal wo