the law stand there down on the coast china is developing one of the most important projects in the belton road initiative a giant port complex at the city of khwaja the site itself has been the target of attacks to. what is an absolutely crucial piece of infrastructure for china a direct foothold in the arabian sea connected all the way to cash in china's shinji region why are militant attacks in pakistan even relevant to our story well i think the passage so far we've been talking about belton of roads is an economic political initiative but the more assets china has out in far flung parts of the world the more it's going to want to keep them safe and that's where bell to take some more of a military dimension does holo explains they're looking at different ways to deal with the security risks some have it is for example what happened in pakistan which is subcontracting the pakistani army and the military pakistani military forces specific creek you're protect the china pakistan economy corridor so you have several thousands of pakistani soldiers are devoted to the protection of their wo

out in far flung parts of the world the more it's going to want to keep them safe and that's where belton takes on more of a military dimension does holo explains they're looking at different ways to deal with the security risks some of it is for example what happened in pakistan which is sub contracting and the pakistani army and the military pakistani military forces specific creature protect the china pakistan economy corridor so you have several thousands of pakistani soldiers are devoted to the protection of their workers the chinese workers and the project along that corridor so you already have china's subcontracting a special division of pakistan's army looking to the future former prime minister of australia kevin rudd foresees a more active role for china's own military in protecting belts and roads will be are rife short i think one of the things we have to be very careful in monitoring is what now happens with b r i'm interested in the extent to which china moves to militarize those relationships for example both in south east asia and across the so-called string of who that i

union that should be mentioned on the summit between china and european union china is pursuing its belton road initiative making inroads also into europe do you think that europe is capable of speaking with one voice when it comes to a foreign policy approach to china that would have any effective influence. this is the question of a common strategy looking to those countries of the european union that are economically linked to the bed wrote initiative for china and some of them on this of course because they see that. it's giving money for their project but they have also political topics on the agenda that should be pushed through by doing this economic. ject. by the way i think to have a land line between china and europe it's a good idea part of their lead lined it's an enclosed to my constituency and also i was fadia but linking political questions with this doctrine economic project is not there what we can accept and this what needs to be the message of all the 27 european union member states to china when we have this summit in autumn. mr hart thank you for speaking with us that

where china is beginning to form deploy naval and air assets and piece of the source of assets where belton road could turn into a staging ground for a cold war style confrontation with united states. so under those circumstances if we begin to see the american push back in those 3rd countries says then it's not a large gap between what we now have which is an emerging as it were a diplomatic chasm for that to become a chasm of assuming more military characteristics it seems to have so many echoes of the last cold war between the united states and the soviet union there is one fundamental difference between then and now in the 20th century cold war the american and russian economies have virtually no ties with each other in the 21st century between the u.s. and china that is very different they do a lot of business together and the characterization of given the u.s. 'd china relationship in the future of the post curve in order is cold war 1.5 and the reason i choose that term is because 'd the one differential between. the previous cold war with the soviet union and the current the strengt

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so this particular map was the property of lieutenant belton cooper that went on to write a memoir about what it was like to fight in tanks. his memoir was titled death traps. and so you get an idea of the terrain & the allied forces were making through tanks, with tanks and through the war up until this point. we were slowing up on the german border at this point and things were about to get a lot worse. his strategy was to launch offensive against the american and british forces on the western front. this map depicts that attack. hitler thought that what he could do would be to divide the british forces to the north from the american forces to the south. you can see the goal of this offensive by the dotted red line. hitler could break up to the english channel, he thought that the americans and the british would be forced to come to a political solution. in this battle, the largest that has ever been fought by the united states army in its history, better than 600,000 -- better than 600,000 americans were engaged. it did not break. however, you have the story of the siege of baston tha

some of the belton road loans you know in projects for example china learns by doing and hopefully will improve its behavior going forward but the chinese communist party has a tendency to overreach and overstep. there's no doubt that china's importance to the global economy particularly as we try to head towards a recovery out of the coronavirus but other indications that some countries are more willing now to to stand their ground in face of pressure from beijing as a result of the coronavirus. well i think one of the preliminary lessons from 1000 is that in europe in mainland europe in the u.k. and in the united states we've become very much aware of the reliance on supply chains coming out of china and it cannot be that we're are dependent effectively on imports of critical medicine but also p.p. equipment which is manufactured in china you see tang in just suggested that somehow china cannot do it right either they're hoarding or they're sharing you know p.p. but you know in my understanding is that in general february. these come you know this industries were nationalized and a ma

they had 12 years of the country under their built on - - belton republican form of government with the image of majority rule. that is the creation the basically to fall apart in the era of andrew jackson. after that they start to put in place the idea of winner take all not based on the majority but the plurality idea. so what that means as long as there are two parties because in a two-party world the winner of the most votes is majority winner by definition so if you know more they move from new parties to two parties and independent candidates and that's how the system falls apart so ralph nader in 2000 is a perfect example we don't have to worry about hanging chad's and bush versus gore if florida had an electoral system at the state level to require a majority winner because bush didn't get the majority only a plurality because these other candidates on the ballot so it turns out donald trump wins the electoral college majority at the federal level they can't get 270 electoral votes the magic number with less than 50 percent so florida with 29 electoral votes get all of them winn

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. >>> i want to bring in danielle belton, editor-in-chief for "the root," and msnbc contributor and princetonniversity's african-american studies department chair, and jessica bird is the founder at three-point strategies. jessica, i want to start with you and talk about these biden comments which is that there are folks who will say he made a mistake, he apologized, move on. is it that simple? >> no, it's not that simple. i've been working in candidate campaigns for the last 15 years, and specifically the last several years to elect progressive black women and to serve black movement visions at the ballot box. i find more often than not that conversations around black voters are reductionist and oversimplified. and the last 24 hours has been no different. you know, i have -- i listened to the apology. i appreciated that he used the term "cavalier" and restated his commitment to not taking black voters for granted. i think that that was important. there's a larger conversation at play here that can't be lost. that has been revisited time and time again and remains unravelled. and that is -- u

the belton road, the made in china 2025. all of the military civil fusion initiatives. where they literally want bylaw tiny companies to collect intelligence. these are all spokes of the same initiative that's for china to supplant us as the world's superpower and to be able to set standards around the world and we clearly don't want an authoritarian regime like the chinese communist party putting standard in the world marketplace. so i look forward to sitting down with you if confirmed about how odni and the other 16 elements are dedicated to the risingplaque that is china which i view as our greatest threat actor . >> certainly russia is another great threat, you want totalk about that for a second as i conclude my questions . >> different just because russia, we are concerned with russia in terms of anytime you have a large nuclear stockpile. they are certainly dedicated to sowing seeds of discord. we are most concerned with them with regard to election interference and making sure we have, secure credible elections because that's what they have been focused on and t

the belton road. the made in china 2025. the military civil fusion initiative where they literally chinese companies to collect intelligence. these are all the same initiative. us ass for china to plant the world's superpower and be able to set standards around the world. we don't want an authoritarian regime like the chinese communist party setting standards in the world marketplace. i look forward to sitting down with you, if confirmed, about how odni and the other 16 elements are dedicated to the rising threat that is china, which i view is our greatest threat actor. >> russia is it -- sen. blunt: russia is another great threat. do you want to talk about that? rep. ratcliffe: they are russia,t just because, we are concerned with russia in terms of anytime you have a large nuclear stockpile. dedicated toainly sowing seeds of discord. we are most concerned with them with regards to election interference and making sure we have safe, secure, credible elections. that is what they have been focused on. as i said earlier, they

owned by the state and doing the bid ohing testify state and at that point going around the world on beltond and building up the infrastructure of china's power and we have to cut anything that's related to military fusion and repression inside china whether that's in hong kong, that means a lot of tech companies, certain banks and programs building up their military and stifling off civilian innovation. a long list of companies and many companies are being funded through things like -- mci and we will have to work on the entire list. maria: what about the issue of intellectual property theft to jonathan, the trump administration reportedly plan to go call the visas of thousands of chinese graduate students and researchers in the united states if they have ties to military schools. that's according to new york times. senator tom cotton and mash shea blackburn have unveiled a new bill which would block chinese nationals from receiving visas to study science and engineering fields in the united states. the bill basically prohibits chinese nationals from receiving visas from the u.s. for gradu

belton road initiative. trying to literally win over the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions of people across every continent. trying to show that their system was preferable to america's system. understanding that we would be competing together on the globe for supremacy over the next 50 years, mainly economic supremacy. what does it say about this government, that six months later, they are still acting more like soviet union in the early 1980s than a country that many people expected to take the lead and -- in the economy. take the lead in diplomatic leadership across the globe in the coming decades. we've always talked about how china was looking 50 years ahead. now, we look at them, and they're acting like they're living in an alternate reality from 50 years in the past. >> is this the face of the future or the face of the past? i honestly think this period will be the great test of whether china is now poised to be a global leader, respected,coming into its own. we sometimes speak of the chinese c