and of course the belton road initiative offers huge opportunities for chinese companies seeking to expand their operations our china correspondent blowing up took a look at what impact the project is having on businesses in the country. these are cooling and heating units for industrial buildings soon they'll be shipped to the u.s. pakistan bangladesh and mexico the manufacturer broad group a company headquartered in hunan china specializes in energy efficient care conditioning in the next few years the firm with more than 3000 employees hopes to further expand needed by china's belgian road investment scheme. and road opens a new space for growth in the world economy. it creates a new platform for international trade and investment and provides new ways to the global economic governance and contributes to the wellbeing of people in many countries. sometimes called the new silk road the built in road initiative is a massive infrastructure investment scheme new railways are intended to provide better connectivity across the region continent investment in ports will open new maritime tradin

puppet paga son in particular we got a video comment from june ahmed conches a research fellow at the belton road strategy initiative in beijing here's what she told a stream. to be at the gate and the scope of it has been enhanced from place explain to our mandate we are at a $65000000000.00 mandate we're talking about social economic dimension and $100000.00 jobs have been created and there are more in the pipeline of course we are also talking about the sustainability of this development and the other thing to understand is that not only have 100000 jobs been created directly in legacy back projects but it is pakistan's government pakistan's domestic institutions that are determining the part and the scope of the china pakistan economic corridor and that sense it is not china as a developed country which is trying to impose its development plan on partner countries but it is the result of mutual cooperation and domestically determined gawds so hassan you want to take that out and she says this is a new shore agreement this is indeed a mature look one because when you look at b. i. it's qu

i do not see belts in belton road by itself as a particular game changer. because i worry more about china than i worry about other countries i am bothered by the fact that we keep getting distracted by problems elsewhere that are less significant. don't get me started on how badly president trump has handled our entire portfolio of relations. >> i don't follow this all that closely but it seems to me that if indeed they had developed an effective way to gain influence in countries that need to have their infrastructure developed and modernized maybe we should do that. maybe we should reapportion some of the money that goes to the pentagon that ends up getting poured into afghanistan and the like. and using the chinese model. there is a question up there in the back. i did not understand the support that israel doesn't need the support to the u.s. we are finding them to the tune of $3 billion a year. could you clarify that. i think it ranks 27th in the world in per capita income. and therefore no longer needs of the kinds the kinds of subsidies that we had

financial hub its initial funding is a one of the half $1000000000.00 investment on the china's so-called belton road initiative which suffered decades of religious and ethnic violence the newly elected president scored a by rajapaksa has promised to unite the country but as out a serious charge stratford reports now from the capital colombo there remains deep distrust among the country's minority groups that voted overwhelmingly against him only muhammad just these pasta from tree owned by his muslim family was burned down by a mob of around 100 people in may last year. it happened during days of violence targeting sri lanka's muslim community after the easter sunday attacks suicide bombers who were members of a local group linked to eisele killed more than $250.00 people in the tanks and churches and hotels the newly elected president go to by rush upon his promise to protect minorities and to serve every sri lankan and his words irrespective of race or religion. i think. well i'm not party to this but i think everybody. i think not just. as well that if you will do not with the minorities if

billion-dollar purchase is a largest single investment by a chinese company, it is all part of the beltond initiative to build power plants, roadways, infrastructure and more than 60 countries. a new report says china is ramping up its spy operation on 1 billion people who live there almost a billion and a half, the chinese government using face and finger database and phone scanners, facial recognition cameras to spy on citizens in the chinese reporter scoring the data they collect on unprotected servers leaving the informal borough to outside sources. joining us tonight gordon chang at the gatesville institute, great to have you with us and your thoughts on the phase i deal. >> there is not a deal yet, it has not been signed but president trump has given the most important thing that the chinese want which is scrapping the 50% tariffs that were supposed to go into effect on sunday because he's been getting advice from people who believe the united states should cooperate with china and believe china should be in the wto and i think essentially we have a lot of people in washington who h

hub its mission of funding is a one and a half $1000000000.00 investment on the china's so-called belton road initiative. argentina's outgoing president has given an emotional speech at a farewell rally what he told supporters his 3 years were harder than he imagined but he pledged to be a constructive opposition to president elect a better fernandes. bolivia is home to one of the largest reserves of lithium the mineral is used in smartphones and electric car batteries but extracting it can be challenging and now the future of the industry seems uncertain as the country descends into a political crisis john homan reports. the unique so it's the biggest in the world and ground 0 for a believe in dream elite deal this was a nature's political bolivian territory in the salt flats of uni we have the biggest reserves in latin america. and the countries aiming to crush it if you didn't know lithium is the minerals of the moment by smartphones laptops and crucially electric car batteries a growing market it's become especially important as the countries face not just a political crisis but an e

capital colombo initial funding is a one and a half $1000000000.00 investment under china's so called belton road initiative. we are sri lanka's newly elected president has promised to unite the country following decades of religious and ethnic violence but despite gotta buy rajapakse as pledge a deep mistrust remains among the country's minority groups that voted against him charles traffic reports now from columbus only muhammad just this past a factory owned by his muslim family was burned down by a mob of around 100 people it happened during days of violence targeting sri lanka's muslim community of the easter sunday attacks suicide bombers who were members of a local group linked to eisele killed more than 250 people in attacks on churches and hotels. the newly elected president got to by a rush upon his promise to protect minorities into every shade on can in his words irrespective of race or religion. i think. you know i'm not political scientists but i think everybody. i think not just. as well that if you will do not with the minorities if you do not. they are not working together y

financial hub its initial funding is a one and a half $1000000000.00 investment under china's so-called belton road initiative sri lanka has suffered decades of religious and ethnic violence the newly elected president. has promised to unite the country but as charles strafford reports from the capital colombo there are maine's deep distrust among the country's minority groups that voted overwhelmingly against him only muhammad just as pasta from tree owned by his muslim family was burned down by a mob of around a 100 people in may last year of. it happened during days of violence targeting sri lanka's muslim community after the easter sunday attacks suicide bombers who were members of a local group linked to eisele killed more than $250.00 people in the tanks and churches and hotels the newly elected president go to buy a rush upon his promise to protect minorities into every street on can in his words irrespective of race or religion. i think. well i'm not party to this but i think everybody. i think not just. as well that if you will do not with the minorities if you do not. they are not wo

the most obvious manifestation of it is jinping's policy of the belton road which they present as an economic initiative but is more importantly a heavily geopolitical initiative to make many governments around the world economically dependent on china and to turn that leverage into political leverage. that has been, china has leveraged that in this specific case, the question has frequently been asked why are the governments of muslim majority countries not speaking out about this? it's not because they hate their own people. it's because those countries in particular are particularly dependent on china for trade, loans, etc. so this is i would say perhaps the most important difference between this particular campaign of cultural genocide and say, me on mars in which they actually did kill 24,000 people and hundreds of thousands were forced to leave their homes. it was easy for many governments to condemn that because no one looks to me on mark as a political model and no one is economically dependent on it so at their at that level. another thing has not very much to do with china

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first there need to become entry options complementary options that will ensure belton road contractare transparent. part of the reason there is so much concern over belt and rode initiative projects, is that china's actions in other areas and on other issues have generated a bad taste in the mouth. belt and road. so something that conceivably be a wonderful thing in helping the region has the shadow over it because of china's bad behavior in other respects. i would start off with that observation. ensure belt and road contracts are transparent. >> i think the solution to this growing sense of competition between the united states and china, it is true china is going all over the world and investing. but it is also true that the united states invests all over the world. i think the idea is a cooperative effort by the united states and china to, united states saying how can we help? let's get in and help. i cannot understand why the united states pulled out of >> is there a question in their? in there? >> yes, what are the chances of cooperation between the united states and china in

shin jang, it's something strategists call the core area of the belton road, it's a centerpiece of theirre the we uyghurs are- maria: being held. yo.go ahead, dagen. >> dagen: president trump is giving support to american businesses, saying i know what china is doing to us competitively, and as a nation. he has given support to move supply chains to push back. again, he is the messenger to all the customers of these american businesses, to say what's going on and how that might impact financials in the short run and financial results. you answered this question. mayor bloomberg said xi-jinping isn't a dictator. and he clearly is very pro-china. where does that leave us as a nation if we had someone like that elected to the white house. maria: that was an incredible interview that bloomberg did, saying the chinese head is not a dictator. >> he sort of doubled down on it and said again, again, he's not, he has a constituency to answer to. dagen: he was talking about the voice of the people and the will of the people? maria: tell that to the hong kongers. >> the issue with michael bloomberg