the end of 2020 now pseudo farms also testing a 2nd vaccine now this one is developed by the beijing institute of biological products and they're expected to be ready by the end of this year and then we have the private companies biotech now they have launched phase 3 trials in brazil and indonesia now they're expected to be available by march of next year 2021 lastly there is the murdoch children's research institute. based in australia now they're working on the same vaccine that was developed 100 years ago to fight to reclose says and they have not announced yet where and their release date for the vaccine is going to be now these are 2 companies that are released small amount of vaccines for either a limited or early us 1st there is a can see no biologics now that's the same chinese company i discussed earlier which released a vaccine for limited use on the chinese military then there is the russian get a research and institute which earlier this month announced that he had granted the world's 1st regulatory approval for the covert $1000.00 vaccine after just 2 months of human trials now t

secretary of state mike pompeo said in a statement on thursday that the confucius institute is an entity advancing beijing'slobal propaganda and malign influence campaign on u.s. campuses and classrooms. confucius institutes are set up around the world by the chinese government in cooperation with local universitieses to promoto chinese languages and culture. there are reportedly 75 such institutes in the united states. the designation will require the organization to regularly provide information to the u.s. government on its personnel, funding, and operations in the country. amid growing tensions between the u.s. and china, lawmakers known for their hard-line stances on china say beijing is trying to increase its influence through the organization. some of the institutes in the u.s. have been closed. >>> china's military says it has conducted a drill in waters that include the taiwan strait. this comes at a time when tensions between beijing and washington are ramping up following the visit of a high-ranking u.s. official to taiwan. a spokesperson said on thursday the exercise was aimed at strengthening o

the confucius institute is an educational establishmenent setp by beijing in cooperation with universities around the world including japan to promote chinese language and culture. earlier this month, the trump administration decided to tighten control over the institute in the u.s. the administration ordered such measures as requiring reports on its operating funds. secretary of state mike pompeo said in a statement that the confucius institute is an entity advancing beijing's global propaganda and malign influence campaign on u.s. campuses and classrooms. china reacted sharply to the u.s. decision. a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson told reporters that pompeo's statement is based on false reports. he dismissed the movove as an attempt to intentionally undermine a cooperative project between the two countries. he added that china expresses its strong dissatisfaction and a resolute objection. on wednesday, suga told reporters that he would not comment on individuaual u.s. policies. however, he said the japanese government has been working closely with the u.s. on various issues and wi

this new no that would include heads of state for instance you might say things that institute policies that beijing doesn't want to see what kind of reaction are you expecting from the u.s. and potentially other western nations i think i'm not the only person who's out ritually up spoken to a number of congressional offices and i as i said from the very beginning when the law what if they're going to come after me they must love marched down to capitol hill and the rest. senator rubio and everybody in the white house because they too have been that this is all articles go that it is using to charge people like me. secession and colluding with foreign powers and that i think is what they're both not understanding is that they're creating really a perception of how desperate and house they are global of the national influence and carter and some you know i'm curious i mean this is taking place within the context of a global pandemic right now and all the restrictions that go with that what do you make of the timing of china's actions here. i think that there is a lot of areas for china it's the press

and beijing announced its own sanctions on six leaders of ngo'itical of five beijing, included national democratic instituteresident derek mitchell. it's part and parcel of today's china, where it's not just about what happens in china, but around the world, that they want people to b quiet about what's really happening. they don't care about law. boey don't care about truth, and don't care a abiding by the basic law of hong kong. reporter: last year, mitchell spoke inong kong and has cowritten three books about china. he says under xi jinping, the chinese communist party is willing to sence domestic and international critics, no matter the consequence. >> they're going to use thr power and that they will not accept anything that is remotely rights based or democracy based in hong kong and keep going until they feel is squashed entirely. it's very, very sad. ro're seeing in our headlines on a daily basis in daylight, and it doesn't stop in hong kong. we have to recognize t can certainly move to the free people of taiwan. reporter: the fear that taiwan is next, is the backdrop for the highest-ranking u.s. vi

beijing's efforts to unfairly tilt the playing field against american workers and businesses. those actions include support for companies as well is increasingly using multilateral institutions to set standards that privilege chinese companies and technology appeared china also uses economic tools to threaten freedom around the world. beijing is already exploiting the size of its market to coerce american citizen sent business leaders as well as foreign governments. to self-censorship to protect official chinese government messaging. we know china is using exports and foreign assistance including the initiative to in bed around the world not only surveillance technologies but also the values and practices that activate those technologies for a torah terion use for it as we engaged in the competition we must remember that the chinese government is testing their authoritarian tools first and foremost of the people of china. i want to make clear in today's hearing and otherwise we are focused on the threats posed by the chinese. we are focused on the threats posed by the chinese government. while countries around the world lead an international coalition to push back on chinese ag

in beijing, the lack of reciprocity in areas like journalist, if not hundreds or thousands in our country, pretty much free roaming, we don't have that in their country, they have confucius institutes in our universities and when i was in beijing, the ambassador told me they could get i could not get n the campus of the university without an escort, i pose these to the chinese. if you want confucius institutes a hundreds of universities we should have james mattis of freedom andad liberty. on your university. i just made the term up but the point was there was no reciprocal relationship, their answer was confucius institutes only each culture and language in james mattis with freedomit d liberty would teach propaganda. i think that the fundamental misunderstanding of james mattis. and would you care to comment on these questions before he turned to the other senators. >> i'll simply say reciprocity should be the cornerstone of our relationship, the question is where we want reciprocity and where we may not a lotth too. the cold war, the soviet union have cervical relationship when it came to journalists, we had equivalent numbers of each other's countries and we don't have that app

beijing. the banking regulator in china says that china will provide supports for its financial institutions anddo so in hong kong and offer services to residents and companies. the sanctions that have cropped up from the united states and china over hong kong following the national security law puts a lot of international banks, forcing them to walk a tight rope on a regulatory front to can fly with a -- to comply with the national security law and sanctions. in particular, those international banks that do not want to be iced out of the u.s. clearing system. statement says at present, hong kong's financial market is generally operating smoothly and the exchange rate system, which is known as the dollar bag, has a solid foundation, which reflects the confidence of the international market in hong kong. the statement says hong kong's status as an international financial center will not be weekend, what it will become more prosperous and stable in the future. we will have to see about that. engle with the latest. coming up next, the pandemic passed two global milestones. 800,000 deaths and 23 may

institute of virology has anything to do with the source of this novel coronavirus. whether somebody apologizes to us or not, it won't change that fact. >> nbc's janice freer is live in beijing let's begin with the research. you hear anything from the scientists at the institute that might give us hope for a vaccine coming soon or for new insights as to whether covid-19 actually did come from? >> well, they are focused entirely now on the study of sars-cov-2. the they are working on a vaccine. they're working on therapeutic drugs, working on antibodies. they have injected everything into this research. this was a lab that was designed to ham some of the world's most dangerous pathogens. they insist that before december 30 wth when they first received patient samples in wu than, they say they had never seen this strain of virus before, so it would have been impossible for them to leak from the lab. this is consistent with what has been the official time line here in china in terms of when the virus was first analyzed by labs when the first patients were reported at hospitals when the virus was first decoded and shared, the wu than institute of virology says that they were the

the banking regulator in beijing says china will provide support for its financial institutions in hong kong, offer services to residents and companies. this statement says hong kong's status as a financial center will not be weakened and shaken but it will be more prosperous and stable in the future. they cited again the dollar peg, as ainked exchange rate solid foundation which reflects the confidence in hong kong. we will have to see how this plays out. stephen engle there. still ahead, a group ceo joining us in the next hour to discuss earnings driven to a record despite the pandemic. with the philippine central bank governor for his look on rates and the economy. rishaad: ubs investment bank precious metals strategist joni on whether investors even could still go for gold. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg. ♪ haslinda: gold investors have been tracking the feds jackson symposium,kson hole bullion has pulled back. part of that has to do with complex messaging from the fed on the u.s. recovering and guidance on its next moves. our next guest said underlying views are intact for

beijing 2. thailand's prime minister says protesters have gone too far after some issued a plan to reform the monarchy the institution is considered sacred by thai conservatives this protest on bangkok's outskirts is the latest in days of rallies led by student unions almost $4000.00 thais also demanded the resignation of the prime minister and an end to the military's role in government. argentina is ramping up defense of its naira time territories to prevent illegal fishing by foreign ships countries across latin america are concerned about chinese fishing vessels entering their waters and depleting stocks stories about reports from the argentine capital when as ours. argentina's coastguards is called a chinese fishing ship towards a poorly but. it's an operation by air and sea to control attempts by foreign vessels to fish illegally in argentine waters. international ships are allowed to fish outside the economic exclusive zone but in recent years there's been a sharp increase in attempts to cross what is known as the mile 200 argentine waters begin. prefect. charge of controlling traffic at sea. our sea platform

institutions, withdrawing the u.s. from the world stage, and giving face to beijing to come into that, so to that effect, do you get a better.s. handling of the pandemic after november? do you get a more globally friendly u.s. administration, does that mean there is a better chance for u.s. exceptionalism to return again? jeffrey: i don't know there is that kind of mood music my that atmospheric talk, but it all boils down to the issues of substance. a key issue in cold war one was, how many countries wanted to opt out by being nonaligned? number of nonimportant countries did do that, including india and yugoslavia. to can see, when you talked some europeans, and inclination to be nonaligned in cold war tw o. when it comes down to the crunch, if you ask the question, do you want chinese companies like huawei to have a dominant position in your 5g networks, given what we know about while way's connections to the chinese government, -- on plot away -- connections to the chinese government -- mike pompeo has been a good job at exploiting the fact that china's performance this year, particularly with respect to the early stages

beijing a green light to trample human rights. check. and maybe worst of all, attacking its institutions, its people and values virtually every day and we see its apell with regard to the competition with china and that is checkmate. so the problem is this. i think we have to think about it this way. in many ways, the challenge posed is less about their strength than it is about our self-inflicted weaknesses. this challenge is about us, the competitiveness of our workers and democracy and our alineses and partnership and our values, all of which i believe president trump has undermined and all of which are under our control. what would a joe biden though? make sure we are investing in ourselves and technology and workers rment. and show the attracttiveness and working with our partners and putting values back in the center of our foreign policy. that's how you engage china. and that is the best basis to advance cooperation with china where we have true concerns whether climate change, global health or nonproliferation. it is nt too late. >> one of the items that was supposed to fill the

let's bring in our panel in beijing we have victor gao his vice president of the center for china and globalization in oxford we have. a researcher of the oxford internet institute in bangkok we have a man who is the co-host of the pod cast china tech investor welcome to your victor when you have trump saying basically that he cannot trust to talk and you have been payers saying there is a trojan horse for the chinese intelligence i think the government in beijing should be pretty much concerned about this stuff well this kind of arbitrary and one term act by the u.s. government are to be condemned and deplore but i think this reveals the true nature of the so-called national security concerns you basically make a year's national concern national security concern to incriminate anything you want and this is really a turning point of the u.s. government turning from a champion of free trade to a destroyer of free trade and i seen this day will be marked usually inthe middle of the could use users location and method data and the trump administration is very much concerned that that data could be turned over to the chinese government how do you know when are those

beijing sees as unpredictable, does not win re-election. and about iran, they seek to undermine u.s. democratic institutions, president trump, and to divide the country in advance of our 2020 elections. here is how the president reacted to this report. >> the last person russia wants to see in office is donald trump because nobody's been tougher on russia than i have ever. >> that's not what your intelligence -- >> well, i don't care what anybody says. china would love us to have an election where donald trump lost to sleepy joe biden. they would dream -- they would own our country. if joe biden was president, china would own our country. iran would love to see -- iran would love to see me not be president. if i didn't win the election in 2016, our country would now be -- maybe it would be over by now, but in war with north korea. >> again, that's along the lines of how that went. here for our leadoff discussion on a busy friday night, susan page, "usa today" washington bureau chief. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and pentagon, former chief counsel to house intel. and dr. anne rimoin, professor o

beijing's campaign of bullying. how exactly do we fight back against china? i want to bring in hudson instituter fellow rebecca heinrichs. you and i exchanged emails. there was an interesting article in the japan times about a more collaborative effort. it is clear china is lashing out. they're using their waste and really pressing europeans, another warning today to nokia and ericsson, if you don't, if you do anything against huawei we'll stop you from doing other business as well. what is the solution here? >> yeah that, article you referenced by eric sayers, an analyst talking about what the united states needs to continue to do to push back on china. this is not going to be a short-term thing we can do. we are in this for the long haul. he was talking about having collectively resiliency. economic resiliency between the united states and like-minded allies and partners so we can bolster our economies to make sure we are not going to be exploited and vulnerable to economic coercion which is something that the chinese communist party is increasingly inclined to do. now the trump administratio

let's talk about beijing because china is pledging strength in hong kong's role as an international finance center. banking regulars say it will provide support for financial institutions business in hong kong while supplying regulation. we've got more with valentin. what is your latest read on these tensions? if i look at the last 48 hours, the signals have been very mixed, very conflicting. valentin: well, indeed. so the tensions between u.s. and china likely to be with us for the for siebel future. as foreseeable future. -- foreseeable future. we figure them to be featured quite prominently for the presidential campaign. both candidates, both joe biden and donald trump, president trump, will try to portray themselves as the top guy, the person likely to defend the u.s. interests against china. an equally, on the chinese site, with think that -- side, we think they are trying to protect their own interests with respect to trade and geopolitical influence. those tensions will be abating anytime soon. what is important for markets and white, at the moment at least -- why, at the moment at least, the markets, those tensions have not escalated to apoint where the trade -

china prefers that president trump, whom beijing sees as unpredictable, does not win the re-election and that iran seeks to undermine u.s. democratic institutions, president trump, and to divide the country in advance of the 2020 elections. now, this announcement comes after lawmakers like house speaker nancy pelosi and intelligence committee chair adam schiff, who is going to join me in just a moment, sounded alarms about the threat of foreign interference in the 2020 election and pressured the intel community to release more information to the public. today in a joint statement, they made sure to note that russia is the only foreign actor taking active measures to harm our democracy, saying, quote, unfortunately today's statement still treats three actors of differing intent and capability as equal threats to our democratic elections. we've been clear with the intelligence community that the american people must be provided with specific information that would allow voters to appraise for themselves the respective threats posed by these foreign actors and distinguish these actors' different and unequal aims, current actions, and capabilities,

beijing was grappling with a new outbreak to the wholesale market. rolling out testing measures, testing millions in a matter of days, as well as instituting a partial lockdown. now, new government regulations say that people no longer have to wear masks outdoors, as long as they aren't coming into close contact with many people. many people continue to wear their masks. some say it makes them feel safer. others say they don't think it's socially acceptable to go mask-free. listen to what this resident had to say. >> i think i can take off my mask but i need to see if others accept it. i think that people would be scared. usually when i'm out running, i'm not wearing a mask. >> after months of enforcement, it can take time for people to adjust to the new behavior. even in precovid times, wearing a mask was common, especially on days with a lot of pollution. >> i stand with the young woman there. even if they lift masks in the united states, which is likely a long way off, i'm going to wear one for a while. selena wang for us in hong kong, thank you very much. see you again soon. >>> california, scorching temperatures and dire predictions, the worse

institutes in the united states. they claim to teach chinese language and culture but the state department says actually they are, quote, a advancing beijinglobal propaganda and campaign on u.s. campuses and k-12 classrooms. some american universities, in fact, failed to report the millions of dollars that they have received through the confucius program. and at least 32 chinese national associated with institutes have committed the fraud. perhaps, more remarkable, the state department told congress that it has no idea how many chinese nationals are associated with the confucius institute program, how many of them are in this country because it no point didma u.s. government ask. our first guest today, suggested that president trump should be considered front runner for noble peace prize in his role in normalizing between israel and united arab emirates joining us is national security advisor robert o'brien. robert great to see you and congratulations to you. the administration, the president in achieving this historic agreement. gives your sense of its importance. >> thank you lou nice to be with you tonight. this is really a remarkable a

beijing a green light to travel human rights and democracy in hong kong, check . and then maybe worst of all debasing our own democracy by attacking its institutions, its people, values virtually every day and slowly reducing its appeal with regard to the competition with china and that's almost checkmate. so the problem is this, i think we have to think about it this way area in many ways the challenge posed by china is less about their strength than it is about some of our self-inflicted weaknesses. another challenge is about us . the competitiveness of our own economy and workers, of our democracy and political system. >> .. the idea behind it is a good one. a high standard race to the top agreement in which the rights of workers of the environment transparency are all front and center and by the way even in its original projection it involves china and that requires china to take steps to undo some of the management through state and the price of as positive and i think the other idea behind it that we have to again realize in a different way is china needs to face a choice. if 40 or 50% of world gdp is together in a high standards raised to the top agreement eff

like moscow, beijing, tehran, author returns are using information space or jew political purposes is actually to undermine and weaken democracy itself. it's to make people trust the institutionsless. it's to make people and less faith in the preparation. it's really to undermine the sense of truth itself. a lot of times what we see in the information manipulation space is not necessarily about driving any particular narrative. it's not always that information that is quantifiably true or false. it's about really undermining that faith and democratic institutions and that sense of democratic governance delivering for people. to apply that to the election context the thing that worries me most is so much of that perfect storm that you laid out so many of those dynamics are aimed at making people have less faith in their government, making people of less faith in democracy, something that is delivery, have less data news media, inc. information to getting about the health. i worry deeply that coupled with questions about how an election would be pulled off in the pandemic, all the changes were seeing to how the election is going to be run, all the questions being raised by some

institutes in the united states. they claim to teach chinese language and culture, but the state department says, actually, they are, quote: an entity advancing beijing'sbal propaganda and malign influence campaign on u.s. campuses and k-12 classrooms. some american universities, in fact, have failed to report the millions of dollars that they have received through the confucius program, and at least 32 chinese nationals associated with the institutes have committed visa fraud. perhaps more remarkable, the state department told congress that out has no idea -- that it has no idea how many chinese nationals are associated with the confucius institute program, how many of them are in this country because at no point did the u.s. government ask. our first guest today suggested that president trump should be considered ament front-runner know -- considered a front-runner for the nobel peace prize for his role in normalizing relations between israel expect united arab emirates. joining us is robert o'brien. congratulations to you, the administration, the president in achieving this historic agreement. give us your sense of its importance. >> thank you, lou.