fred: then foror two years, dr. luand her students used gps to map the sacred mountains in the ganzi district of western sichuan province. they found an average of three sacred mountains near each monastery in the district. in the united states, the protected area would be about the size of vermont and new hampshire combined. nearly one third of the land is in sacred areas. translator: who will protect the environment in thehe west and in china? it is s governmentnt reresponsibilities. but the tibetans don't think of it that way. if you think of it that way, you are not buddhist. you are the protector. no matter if you are a newborn or 80 years old, you are all protector. you u have r responsibilities. all lives should be protected. fred: in some distriricts, local governments are rerecognizing te sacred mountains, and d some are even hiring tibetatans to take care of the national nature reserves. translator: the e cultural valus ofof buddhism are very comfortig to the scholars of conservation. i felt at last we found

dr. lu zhi is a conservation biologist at peking university.she's been working with tibetans in this area for many years. translator: during the 1990s, when i went to the tibetan area for the first time, i saw something that r really surprised me. ththere was a lot of loggiging going g on, but in some areaeas, the wild aninimals were not afraid of people. and there were very old trees, 600 or 700 y years old. the ancient forest wasas preserved. i asked the locacal people how is this popossible? people said this i is our sacred mountain. this was a big shock to me. just the concept of sacred mountain was good enough to preserve the resources. it's more powerful than the law or the preaching of scientists. totoday the systemem is still functioning. in the core area, nothing should be touched. then in a broader area, killing is notot allowed. no living bebeings should be haharmed. we did a survey on birds, and we discovered that wherever the belief in sacred mountains is strong, there is greater bibiodiversity. so this shows scscientifically ththe

fred: then for two years, dr. luand her students used gps to map the sacred mountains in the ganzi district of western sichuan province. they found an average of three sacred mountains near each monastery in the district. in the united states, the protected area would be about the size of vermont and new hampshire combined. nearly one third of the land is in sacred areas. translator: who will protect the environment in the west and in china? it is government responsibilities. but the tibetans do't think of it that way. if you think of it that way, you are not buddhist. you are the protector. no matter if you are a newborn or 80 years old, you are all protector. you have responsibilities. all lives should be protected. fred: in some districts, local governments are recognizing the sacred mountains, and some are even hiring tibetans to take care of the national nature reserves. translator: the cultural values of buddhism are very comforting to the scholars of conservation. i felt at last we found a way, and i began to

right to that we would talk hold on to the more important issues like health of everyone involved dr lu used to be a delegate to the w.h.o. when taiwan was still allowed to attend the assembly as an observer but that ended on beijing's behest when taiwan's president from the pro independence party took office 4 years ago china claims that island has its own territory and therefore deems taiwan has no right to w.h.o. membership. politics should be set aside when it comes to health issues it's good for taiwan to share its experience with the world but you know again our today one was made a contribution to public health. it's unclear to be excluded however from. taiwan has maintained its infection rate lower than almost anywhere else with 0 domestic infections for over a month even so the taiwanese haven't let their guard down. perhaps this is one of the things the world and the w.h.o. could learn from this island. we're joined now by dr daniel knew the former time when his delegate to the world health assembly who was featured in that report he joined us from taipei dr no welcome and des

finally, dr. lu will provide her testimony, and please correct me, doctor liu is the maurice r greenberg, fellow for china studies at the council on foreign relations and she will address the role of state owned capital, particularly china's sovereign wealth funds in financing the country's domestic and overseas ambitions. thank you all so much for your testimony. and appearing before the commission today. we all look forward to hearing your remarks. i ask all the witnesses to please keep the remarks to seven minutes. dr. wright, we'll begin with you. >> thank you, commissioner cleveland, commissioner glass, all the commissioners and staff for your kind invitation to testify at this important hearing today. my testimony focuses on three principal arguments related to developments in china's economy and financial system and their implications for the united states. first, the severity of china's ongoing economic weakness is still widely under appreciated and the united states no longer faces a growth

and let's get more we're joined by dr daniel lu the former taiwanese delegate to the w.h.o. who was also featured in the after party he joins us from taipei welcome to the program and thank you so much for being with us why is it so important for taiwan to once again have a seat at the deputy chose top table yes i've got to move on taipei thank you for this opportunity for will to speak up a little bit for compatriots and all hills is a signpost so for us to go to a couple shows not just for this epidemic along the pent is devastating for a lot of we were scared and we were very. anxious but we've managed so far but operational provide not only for the sexual diseases the profile all but all the issues the plateful for all the public health issues it's just not fair for us to to go into the bar so we get to work all by also with out with all cooperation and help well instructed or to the national stage and given the ongoing geopolitical tensions you know we mentioned that yes you are excluded as a member so that that is part of that how confident are you therefore that the w

. >> dr. lu, this is not a sort of gut issue leash taiwan or tibet, is it? it's a sortf practical issue. i'm wondering if that message we just heard there is understood in china, and perhaps it is not in china's interest to keep the currency so undervalued because it means the chinese people cannot consume as much as perhaps they'd like to. >> yes. this is not a new issue. this is a long-standing issue. for years there has been arguments from the u.s. side that china need to revalue its currency. and also on the chinese side, there are people who are saying actually it may be in china's interests to do that. and the u.s. side at the moment is putting forward the argument that it's also in china's own interests to do that. but this is very complicated issue. you have different economists who do different calculations, you know, what would be the more realistic value and whether it will indeed benefit china as well or is going to cause huge economic damage to china. i think there is a lot of uncertainty there. and different people come out with different calcu

once we got back home we asked dr lu to get proc a professor of east asian economy and society at the university of vienna about it if anyone can explain how north korea works it's him this is north korea as it was mentioned you might also note that when i am in north korea people who deal with foreigners are rarely able to do so alone but always at least in our heads and the whole point of this is mutual surveillance they both also have to write reports about their encounters with a reporter then compared and checked to see if there are any inconsistency so that you can never be sure whether you as a north korean who has had contact with a foreigner have gone unobserved that is also a very effective system of self-censorship since. north and south korea are separated by the so-called d.m.z. the demilitarized zone on the way there we hardly met any cars coming toward us which wasn't surprising because nobody can cross the border in either direction anyway. do you do to go with the demilitarized zone is a 2 kilometer wide strip on either side of an imaginary demarcation line in other w