there we are here we go let's bring in our guest from beijing we have political analyst i know tangan in london we have nathan lohr he's a pro-democracy activist who fled hong kong before the security law came into effect and in canterbury in the u.k. we have kerry brown kerry is the director of the lao china institute professor of chinese studies at king's college london gentlemen welcome to you all coming to you 1st how will beaching carry on trying to reshape hong kong in the coming year. it is obvious that it may case comforting scheme that turn hong kong into just an ordinary city confiscating is freedom and in freedom people's rights so in the near future shayna next year i believe that heavy and approach will continue and hong kong people will continue to be suffering from these political persecution and put some of this into an immediate historical context if you can was covert a game changer for the chinese government. no actually not i mean the game changer was the security law that was passed earlier this year which basically allowed the authorities crackdown on what they s

now, if beijing doesn't like it and turn anything that beijing doesn't want to see, doesn't want to havee, the whole hong kong population would be in trouble. so, this is the thing. i mean, they try to intimidate us, they try to terrify people, they try to terrorise the pro—democracy movement. i think we are going through a very tough time. however, i think sooner or later they will see that more and more people will get really upset and be ready to express their views again through peaceful and other means available. at the moment, a carrie lam administration is not really as strong and legitimate as they try to pretend to be. according to the latest opinion survey that i've come across, only 18%, only 18% supported her, and 69% against her. so, is it a strong government or is it very, very weak and illegitimate government that the people should not be fearful about? it should be the government fearing the people rather than the other way round. this is the way i see it. right. maybe this government is not one that you can measure by the strength of opinion polls, but simply by the stre

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what has to happen is there needs to be some greater trust between beijing and washington so that beijings not feel threatened by various actions the u.s. might take. democratic alliances -- washington needs to be careful about that because it can be quickly seen again as efforts to contain china. the u.s. will have trouble putting together such a coalition. so on christmas eve -- you saw on christmas eve the europeans signed a bilateral investment agreement with china. that was a clear signal for the e.u. to navigate its own relationship with china. shery: that was really interesting, just before the biden administration took office. it would be the economic interest the europeans have and putting into question what sort of alliance to push back against china. what you think of the effort by the united states especially in the tech battle for supremacy, trying to contain the rise of chinese companies like huawei. we know australia has backed that strategy, but is this feasible? geoff: it is not feasible. i think this is one of the points where the u.s. will see in its own interest decoup

washington's recent moves to allow high level visits have hit a wrong note in beijing. u.s. should abide by the one china principle and stop deeds that interfere in china's internal affairs and undermine china u.s. relations. which has fallen to their lowest points in 30 years. the current situation in china u.s. relations is not what china decides to see and the u.s. is completely responsible for all of this. the chinese citizens only to see the chinese communist party support our free and open society following a 4 year freefall and by the to retire there will be left to biden to decide where to steer this cell which relationship. joining us now from beijing is correspondent berlinger how has china reacted to the new president taking office in the u.s. . been very careful for now and has not been out and with the asked about the new president as many other countries in the world yesterday during the inauguration china has done something very interesting that has sanctions big number of high officials in the trump administration who are most at the to china and is said hous

within beijing circles that this was going to happen as you recall there was no no one in beijing was saying that they favored biden they understood the situation is as it was stated that the goals remain the same crap the tactics will be different switching from unilateral to multilateral ok on a just a just a final thought to you i mean an independent u.n. human rights panel said back in 2018 that it had received these credible reports that least a 1000000. other muslim minorities have been detained in xinjiang i mean china doesn't deny that but how long can beijing continue to deny what's happening inside the camps even under growing international pressure but what's happening inside the camps is a different perspective from the chinese perspective they're providing vocational training and language courses that the they believe these people need there's no question that there could have been there have been abuses in there where individuals overzealous trying to please beijing or are not following through the instructions but the idea that china is deliberately alienating the entir

dr wang who go welcome to conflict zone thank you europe's getting fed up with beijing's threatening behavior and telling politicians here where they can go and who they can talk to telling the nobel prize committee who it can award and who it can't what made your government think it could push europe around like this what 1st time for you to hear that but i don't think that that was the government position or there could be misunderstanding or. you know there was a maybe there's a lot of communication whatever. i heard from you i don't hear anything from that. here in china i don't think so well perhaps you don't hear about it in china but just days ago. the german in foreign minister hiker mass told beijing bluntly to stop threatening europe after a senior czech politician has gone to taiwan and addressed its parliament your government had warned he'd pay a heavy price for his visit there that's bullying isn't it no i don't think that it was really probably understood in a rug i think that you know one china policy has been. hold and has been really maintained for the last. 4050 ye

we're talking about hong kong here and beijing's actually. and we've seen the fundamental freedoms turned into crimes by this new security law which you've introduced and the rest of the world did you think they wouldn't notice we had a joint statement last month from the governments of australia canada new zealand u.k. us saying the law was eroding hong kong's people hong kong's fundamental rights and liberties and you your answer to that is well nothing's perfect but the markets are doing well what i'm saying is that hong kong as. a part of china as one country to assist you know they need to also it's one country one system now isn't it and. well let me let me finish something you keep interrupting me what i'm saying is that on the stability and of course. law as well because hong kong cannot be for the last 6789 months i mean there in the last year hong kong is basically dysfunctional and it's paralyzed and been airport a block. people were put on the all you to burn you know on bystanders and a lot of trouble stop no country in the world

margaret cho and was a statement of intent by beijing the w.h.o. was a prime objective in its international strategy the new director general had a new and extremely powerful instrument at her disposal to reinforce her independence the newly composed international health regulations revised and consolidated in 2005 by the member states of the w h o w which always assume under most they authorized the w.h.o. to issue alerts about health emergencies that might occur. the members also committed to reporting certain events to the w.h.o. . not doing so or responding too late could result in the w.h.o. holding them publicly accountable. for them but the w.h.o. is also part of the system of the united nations whose fundamental rule is non interference in other country's affairs on the one hand w.h.o. is told to monitor developments and if need be intervened in the politics of sovereign nations while on the other hand it is to in general refrain from such actions to teach you to. look what happened at the world trade organization at the w t o one a country

the threat of anything from beijing china attack the legitimacy of our political system. chinese operatives engage in disinformation campaign designed to mislead the public, she us discourse in china's favor and shift responsibility for the covid-19 and others. these operatives exploit cultural and economic ties to lobby our state and local government to.pro china policies. beijing uses letters to major american companies to towing the party the expense of truth free expression as we have recently seen in the united states will levels are . china is to the old cyber espionage is the us government and businesses and their ability to essentially disrupt critical us infrastructure. china's cyber bullies channel on all. china's could be catastrophic . china has strength of our economy. china is a threat to us supply chain security persistence was whereas businesses are world leaders in 's role you encounter. i said medicine, contaminated cosmetics auto parts and a few massive volumes as family of prc exploited the crisis by sending us a dvd directly hurting american citizens.

growing list of human rights concerns including hong kong's new security law my guest this week from beijing is one who year out of government advisor who heads the think tank the center for china and globalization why is his country taking so many fights these days and where are they on leading. up to wang who you know welcome to conflict zone thank you europe's getting fed up with beijing's threatening behavior and telling politicians here where they can go and who they can talk to telling the nobel prize committee who it can award and who it can't what made your government think it could push europe around like this what 1st time for me to hear that but i don't think that that was the government position or there could be a misunderstanding or. you know there was a maybe there's a lack communication of what i. i. heard from you i don't hear anything from that. here in china i don't think so well perhaps you don't hear about it in china but just days ago the german in foreign minister hike a mass told beijing bluntly to stop threatening europe after a senior czech politician has gone to ta

anyway and the journalists from beijing. authorities 1st announced and in fact that case at the end of december 2000 and. most people had no idea about the virus and by west the common flow. information about the outbreak is hidden in secrecy and very difficult to get. young in chen's identities are concealed for their safety their reports are read by activists 'd in the last 2 or 3 days the health committee has been reporting continuous rising numbers of infected cases. this shows that the virus has spread. in china are cases of infection not detected outside of who han 3 patients are confirmed in quandong and beijing. to tell the fastener. why don't we do carlos in the 1st. see poor father who wishes it. on health authorities said that the few cases of infected patients all word and lived inside one seafood market. yang's plan is to investigate the origins of the virus in the seafood market. when i arrive people seem to have no fear or concern about the virus at all. on the way to my hotel the taxi driver says he saw the n

growing list of human rights concerns including hong kong's new security law my guest this week from beijing is one who yeah out of government advisor who heads the think tank the center for china and globalization why is his country thinking so many fights these days and where are they all meeting. dr wang julio welcome to conflict zone thank you europe's getting fed up with beijing's threatening behavior and telling politicians here where they can go and who they can talk to telling the nobel prize committee who it can award and who it can't what made your government think it could push europe around like this what 1st time for you to hear that but i don't think that that was the government position or there could be a misunderstanding or. you know there was a maybe there's a lack communicate. whatever i. heard from you i don't hear anything from that. here in china i don't think so well perhaps you don't hear about it in china but just days ago the german in foreign minister hiker mass told beijing bluntly to stop threatening europe after a senior czech politician has gone to taiwan and a

to rid of bush to push back the case of power and beijing is trying to do soldiers said the message to hong kong residents who would take the offer from the u.k. that they may face consequences or even more serious consequences by doing so. hong kong. to sports now and in the bundesliga bar in munich hosted fair jinx opponents hoffenheim the visitors beat the reigning champions 41 earlier in the season this time it was the other way around. by and munich with a case of the pre-game goes little did they know that have plenty more to smile about at the end of the match even though they needed a corner to finally break down often times defense not to mention the jumping skills of jerome boy taking his header from the back of the net to head by in the lead in the 38th minute a taste of what was to come thomas by n.z. 10 minutes later for his 10th goal of the season but not without the help of robert live and off ski sniffed the footwork. by and had barely finished celebrating when hoffenheim put one back just before half time thanks to andre crameri choice 13th goal of the season but th

china has begun vaccinating people who have a higher risk of infection will have a live update from beijing on that one also brazil gives the green light to import $2000000.00 doses of the coronavirus vaccine however there is frustration over how long it's taking to approve one another newsy u.k. court set to rule on whether to extradite the wiki leaks founder julian assange to the u.s. to face charges of a leaking military and diplomatic documents. so a recording has been leaked to the public in which we hear u.s. president donald trump telling the top election official in the state of georgia to quote find enough votes to overturn his election defeat there george are of course one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect. joe biden has an unprecedented move by a sitting president with just a few weeks to go before biden takes office trump still refuses to concede he's lost repeating unsubstantiated claims of fraud and fisher reports from atlanta georgia. from a president who insists evidence the election was stolen from him pressure on a tough election official

this is also controversial as both beijing and the u.k. using each other are validating the historic agreement signed before. but relations between britain and china you just mentioned it have been rather poor because of london's spoke in this. human rights in hong kong is this what was the no retaliation by beijing. yes definitely beijing has already has been claiming that they will not just sit and that's all these happen and they will respond possibly to britain's reaction to the us citizenship scheme in terms of this and that absurdist see this more as a diplomatic gesture what and then. you have on the poles as a whole hong has its own immigration policy as a semi autonomous semi autonomous region in china so the key question is whether these new chinese policy of the new band will be applied in our homes try to any so how so i find out how also since i'm now in many of them they don't travel to and they wish to buy you so this new policy in the near future show will not like you had on most of the houses but always like many who worr

and beijing at the time said that this move was what they called. china. the trumpet mr ation peddling anti china sentiment and kwacha in the spokesperson on friday said that the trump administration was engaging in what she called a final madness during its last days in office to sabotage the relationship between beijing and washington another example isn't it of how important this new administration will be thank you katrina. spain has deployed helicopters to deliver covert 19 vaccines after its heaviest snow for decades least 4 people died after storm i mean a blanket of the country with snow the government says it will push ahead with plans to deliver 350000 vaccine doses of 19 vaccines on monday. speaking of vaccine the british government's opening vaccination centers across the u.k. to boost its capacity health secretary matt hancocks is the most vulnerable will get their 1st dose by mid february around a 3rd of those aged 80 over 80 have been vaccinated so far joe know how with this report now from one of the vaccination centers in north lond

four beijing, -- as four beijing, the actions taken putatively against australia, for example trade relatedions are, in all probability, and will judged to be in breach of international trade law. because using a political region to go forward with an economic measure, and the framework of trade law, is a genuine breach of international standards. so you have these two elements at work. what can biden do? but i have argued for publicly, is that with the incoming bonded administration, there is an opportunity for the u.s. administration, as part of what i think will be its desire to strategically re-stabilize relationship with beijing. and xi jinping's interest to restabilize relationship with washington. there is a difference between re-stabilization and normalization, restabilize. part and parcel of that process of restabilization, will be an individual -- a cessation of individual punitive measures undertaken by china against countries like australia and canada, and also like japan, south korea, depends who ends up in the chinese bin at any time, another australian footballing term, sorry

this is serious allegations against democrats with ties to beijing.u're about to see is just the beginning. >> once this is successful clinical activist, this mother is accused of being a spy, working both sides of the intelligence fence under the codename parlor made. >> the charging documents layout the spy case in detail. she is accused of trying to sell secret and top secret information. >> and information worker will serve life in prison for spying on cuba. >> it's no secret america is the envy of the world with the powerful and successful country and many want to take that title away. our adversaries will use any means necessary. intel officials were charged with sharing national defense secrets with chinese officials. >> a former cia officer sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring with china. >> d.o.j. says they've paid at least $800,000 to pass american military secrets to the chinese government. >> he's accused of conspiring and providing classified information to chinese officials. >> eric swallow has been tied to a chinese spy. >> ch

to push back the case offer and beijing is trying to do so to send a message to hong kong residents who would take the offer from the u.k. that they may face consequences or even more serious consequences by doing so. hong kong. germany and austria are offering to help portugal deal with one of the world's worst 1000 and breaks portugal has the highest number of deaths per inhabitant of any country austria is preparing to take in some of its critically ill patients portuguese doctors say the situation is becoming desperate . checks portugal's border is this entry point into spain only those with a valid reason are allowed through. portugal had seen a period of relatively relaxed restrictions now people are confined to their homes except for essential outings nursery schools shops and cafes a shot the government has entered crisis mode. i think it could be even stricter there are still too many people on the streets who are going to give us that many portuguese still haven't understood that we've gone from being a good corona country to one of the worst grandees in proposals that are

dr wang who out welcome to conflict zone thank you europe's getting fed up with beijing's threatening behavior and telling politicians here where they can go and who they can talk to telling the nobel prize committee who it can award and who it can't what made your government think it could push europe around like this what sort of 1st time for you to hear that but i don't think that that was the government position or there could be besides standing or. you know there is a maybe there's a lack communication whatever. i heard from you i don't hear anything from that. here in china i don't think so well perhaps you don't hear about it in china but just days ago the german foreign minister heiko mass told beijing bluntly to stop threatening europe after a senior czech politician have gone to taiwan and addressed its parliament your government had warned he'd pay a heavy price for his visit there that's bullying isn't it or i don't think that there was really probably one studio arriving i think that. you know one china policy has been. hold and has been really maintained for the last. 4

up to wang julio welcome to conflict zone thank you europe's getting fed up with beijing's threatening behavior and telling politicians here where they can go and who they can talk to telling the nobel prize committee who it can award and who it can't what made your government think it could push europe around like this what the 1st time for you to hear that but i don't think that that was the government position or there could be a misunderstanding or. you know there's a maybe there's a lack communication whatever. i heard from you i don't hear anything from that. here in china i don't think so well perhaps you don't hear about it in china but just days ago the german foreign minister heiko mass told beijing bluntly to stop threatening europe after a senior czech politician has gone to taiwan and addressed its parliament your government had warned he'd pay a heavy price for his visit there that's bullying isn't it no i don't think that there was really probably under. during arriving i think that you know one china policy has been. hold and has been really maintained for the last. 405

the ball is in beijing's court to improve their relationship? i expect some improvements. i don't expect any reset at all. i think the tensions between the two countries are very much there and don't see any evidence they are going to go away. >> host: globally, the rest of the world seeing china rising and the us put together a covid-19 course in a leadership position. do you think the elections might have potentially changed that? biden coming in or going to be around for the foreseeable future, the us exercise in democracy not as strong as we think it is, very volatile, could be back in 2024. let's make our beds accordingly with beijing as big brother and investments in following through and all these other things. what do you think of that thinking? >> guest: china hasn't just created ill will with the united states, look what is happening in australia, china threatened the trading relationship, and and into the investigation of covid-19, china in a very have sensitive way has threatened australia and its exports of wine and beef and barley and so on. right now reports

we're talking about hong kong here and beijing's as part of and we've seen that on the mental freedomsurned into crimes by this new security law which you've introduced and the rest of the world did you think they wouldn't notice we had a joint statement last month from the governments of australia canada new zealand u.k. us saying the law was eroding hong kong's people hong kong's fundamental rights and liberties and you your answer to that is well nothing's perfect but the markets are doing well well what i'm saying is that hong kong as. a part of china as one country to assist you know they did that also it's one country one system now isn't it and. well let me let me finish you think keep interrupting me what i'm saying is that hong kong needs stability and of course. law as well because hong kong cannot be for the last 6789 months i mean there in the last year hong kong is basically dysfunctional and it's paralyzed and been airport a bar. people were put on the oil to burn you know on the by standards and the letters goebbels thought no country in the world would allow that and th

and beijing of the 19 was 1st detected in one hand and late 2019. of course not to train a year has gone and i believe outside the hospital where both scientists are quarantining just tell us more about this trip what does that entail what is the scope of their investigation. that's actually outside the hotel where they've been for 2 weeks and we've been speaking to a dutch for all of just name marion koopman who was a member of the team and she says since they've arrived in china for the past 2 weeks they've already began their investigation on the from the combined men of the hotel room during this quarantine period they've been having daily online meetings with chinese scientists and others who've been on the ground working to contain the outbreak here in rouhani and she described their discussion so far as frank going forward though when they get out of their hotel today they don't have finalize plans yet but they do know that they'll be here in new han for at least a few weeks and as you mentioned they're studying 3 different theories firstly i

and so from today to hong kong and also beijing thought it will no longer allow any home residents to leave the border without being no passports are though they are still allowed to do so with their own hong kong travel documents so many see this as a political and diplomatic chance sure to retaliate britain's offer to hong kong residence but there are so room as on the cloud that many of. the now they're not suggesting that beijing or parties to voted to broke the civil rights of residents who would take that offer specially maybe to cannes so there is actual rice to up bands and voting or run in office or even their rights. to a more extreme extent so many here that this will only be the 1st act for beijing to raise the push to push back of your case and beijing is trying to do so to send a message to hong kong residents who would take the offer from the u.k. that they may face consequences or even more serious consequences by doing so c.b. kong in hong kong. a film festival in sweden has come up with a unique competition prize featuring social distancing got some birds festival is

promised to end all formal relations with taiwan now of course beijing considers taiwan a rogue state and says reunification with the main one is inevitable but at the same time apart from using very strong language making some threats more full stop short of making any concrete statements as to what they will do it does seem like beijing is taking a wait and see approach knowing very well that trump the trump administration only has a few more days left in office they're hoping that the incoming biden administration will take a different tact and somehow reset relations with beijing but this all comes at a very messy time because just last week the trump administration announced that they would be sending the u.s. ambassador to the un kelly craft to taiwan this week starting on wednesday for a visit now that also angered beijing and beijing at the time said that this move was what they called the trump administration peddling anti china sentiment and kwacha in the spokesperson on friday said that the trump administration was engaging in what she called a final madness during its last

and so from today the hong kong and also beijing authority will no longer allow any home residents to leave the border with passports although they are still allowed to do so with their own hong kong travel documents so many see this as a political and diplomatic chance church to retaliate of britain's offer to hong kong precedence but they also room as on the hour that many politicians and now they're now suggesting that beijing all parties to vote or come to work the civil rights of residents who take that offer expression leave maybe to cancel their actual rice to are banned for voting or run in office or even their rights. to a more extreme extent so many here that this will only be the 1st hour for beijing to raid the push to push back of your case and beijing is trying to do so to send a message to hong kong residents who would take the offer from the u.k. that they may face consequences or even more serious consequences by doing so. hong kong. germany has tightened border controls for travellers from hotspots of new coronavirus variants including the u.k. portugal brazil and so

now brightcove covert $1000.00 has prompted chinese officials to tell people in 2 cities south of beijing to stay at home for 7 days the cities in have a province have tightened lockdown measures including a ban on public transportation nearly 350 people have tested positive so far around 3000 medical staff have been mobilized to support my ass testing of more than an 11000000 people china says it will provide coronavirus vaccines free of charge. now we're joined by 5 b.n. credit for a journalist in china and currently in hand fabiana china has sealed off 2 cities following covered 19 air cover 19 outbreaks leaving 20000000 people under strict lockdown how great is the fear that the virus will spread. i mean also here and what you see that more and more people are very much again and that temperate such checks and cold registrations needed when you enter shops for example however it's still quite remarkable that life goes on if normal i'm just coming from a very crowded shopping mall yesterday i was very crowded place and i mean it's basically like that's not much but there's an underlyin

s office but still this would have been hugely embarrassing for beijing still ahead on al-jazeera why the free trading up that allowed small time investors to get rich shows come under fire plus. the color red is considered the good fortune for the chinese during the new here but i'm kind of report about these charities is turning out to bring a very bad luck here in chile. my. hello we've got some right in the full cost of central parts of china over the next couple of days ahead of that we still got disturbed weather pushing away from japan's a nasty little area of low pressure swirling away here just spinning away totally packed ice abbas a question wrong way and cold air diving down across the sea of japan sea effect snow coming in here then musicals relatively warm waters picks up that moisture and dumps it is some significant snowfall yet again it's a western parts of one shoe and into hokkaido similar pictures we go on into sunday the winds do ease off a little bit by this stage to hopefully the wintry flavia's fear and further between 12 celsius the temperature in tokyo as the

as was only to be expected beijing responded furiously to the united states plan to lift restrictions on official contacts with taiwan. we are drawn as u.s. secretary of state pompeo to have a clear understanding of the trend of history stop manipulating taiwan related issues and stop acting against the trend and not to go further down the wrong and dangerous path otherwise he will be severely punished by history. the new era was said to be marked by the visit of an american diplomat to taiwan for 3 days this week the fact that all travel by the u.s. state department including that trip has since been canceled to assist the biden transition is unlikely to call beijing taiwan is an essential global supplier of high technology to china as well taiwan is trying to fill the gap caused price ancient's on china especially in the microchip industry and it's been pressing hard for a trade agreement with the us. of a more. fun sue in taiwan good to see you. well i mean obviously beijing is not happy about washington's latest move in taiwan including the plan to send an when un envoy there do y

it's party time in beijing — communist party time.ghout 2021 be marking the centenary of the organisation which took power in 19119 and has been there ever since. but the mood this weekend isn't celebratory. china's foreign ministry has attacked a british scheme, applying from first thing monday morning, which would allow thousands of hong kongers to escape the new security law and settle in the uk. and it issued a blunt warning to taiwan, which it says is part of china — "independence means war". what explains the belligerent tone? the issues are slightly separate - _ hong kong will be - a difficult talking point between china and the uk in years to come. it might poison the. relationship as well. the issue of taiwan, - this is standard for china because china has always regarded taiwan as its i breakaway province, _ and president xi has been shown to take taiwan back before too long, although we don't know yet... - in terms of taiwan, | it is more of a signal to the biden administration. the ball is really in biden's court, with wha

up next, beijing warns the u.s.price to pay for what it calls washington's interference in china internal affairs. that refers to taiwan and hong kong. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: we are watching hyundai motors as it jumps by the most since 1988. this is a 33-year high coming after reports that it might be tightening up with apple in order to manufacture self driving cars. hyundai motor and a related parts manufacturer the two best now.s right hyundai jumping the most since 1988 after that apple tie up report. here's a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. jack ma's aunt group may restructure in the face of new regulations from regime -- jack ant group-- jack ma's may restructure in the face of new regulations from beijing. domestic ands international pressure on alibaba means the stock is increasingly attractive, and investors should consider buying in. alibaba is under investigation in beijing for alleged monopolistic practices and faces a potential ban on investment from the u.s. chinese search engi

it what does it is afraid of any surprises beijing has for example limited what its own. chinese research is can publish on the origins of the corona virus and any requests for an independent investigation by the d w w h o have been rejected for a long time by ph acknowledge this mission had took a long time to be established it was a very. complicated and. difficult. negotiations behind the scenes so we expect there to be a lot of. pulling the strings and discussions on the ground to wants to meet people who have people at the market who are you working at the market with the 1st snow coronavirus cluster housing and it wants. to meet doctors who have been in hospitals to investigate due to the early cases of the coronavirus the chinese new year is approaching that's a massive celebration in china with lots of festivities and people traveling to see their families that's going to be a big challenge when it comes to controlling infections. this year there's going to be a lot less travelling around the country there's no nation white truffle of ban in place but many when yo

why this reaction from beijing? >> they effectively waited for the door to close on officials before imposing sanctions. 28 people on the list, former administration officials including mike pompeo, and peter navarro, the former national security advisor robert o'brien. also, the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, kelly cragg, all sanctioned by beijing for what they said was there -- their role in "crafting crazy moves" that undermined the china-u.s. relationship. they will not be able to travel to china or do business with china in the future. none of the members of the trump family were sanctioned themselves. ivanka may breathe a sigh of relief. they said, good riddance, donald trump. haidi: how has china responded to biden's inauguration? are they more hopeful? tom: i do not think officials are naive. they are looking to start cooperation on a couple of friends with the biden administration. they have urged mutual respect, but also say they have their own redlines and underscore that with issues of sov