and the other members of the g 77, are now positioning belton road as the low quality infrastructure option. and they're positioning their own build back better world initiative as an alternative . higher quality option for countries that want to undertake infrastructure projects based on a different set of principles, namely transparent and sustainable financing and measures of transparency your, your organization a day to has received funding from. amongst others, the us agency for international development. usaid. it wouldn't be in their interest to undermine china. what, what tried doing internationally. so what, what do you say about any potential kind of influence on your study? a data receives diverse funding from private sector and public sector institutions . and we have strict policy of not letting any of our funding sources influence our findings or recommendations. thank you very much. indeed. bad parts are donors, appreciate it. thank you. implant china's northeastern provinces are relying on torches and generators as extensive power cuts interest 2nd week. and major coa

so what does all of this mean for the future of those involved with belton road? well, joining us now discusses boom bus, co host, chris, the i, and professor richard wolf, host of economic update and author of the sick. this is the system when capitalism failed to save us from pandemic or itself. thank you both for being here. christy. i want to start with you. the report mentioned the chinese lending had previously been directed mostly to the sovereign bobbitt borrowers like center banks, but now a 70 percent is issued across state own company, the bank, joint ventures, and private institution. what's the take away from all of it? well, there's actually a couple takeaways. the vast majority of china finance portfolio included semi concessional loans and export credits compared to the u. s, which mostly provides its financing through grants. so under the belt and road, china's overseas funding has been a bigger and therefore a riskier venture. as such, most of the state own commercial banks that are taking part in this lending have relied on tools such as collate

the time now for a quick greg, but when we come back, a new report says, china's belton road initiative has created hundreds of billions of dollars and hidden debt for low and middle income nation. we have analyst analysis on the other side as we're going to break here. the numbers at the close, the ah, ah, ah, the a try now where we received so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely, i'm related to reality. so think about how in social media filters and they basically present themselves in very unrealistic way. and so we come out of fomo, there is and be involved more than that. it's about the sort of envious or something that may not exist. and it is also really tied to the fact that as humans, we want to be part of the crowd. ah, the latest one most and you know what the most of the location of the unit 731 was a unique organization in the history of the world. what they were trying to do was to simply do nothing short and build the most powerful and most deadly biological weapons program that the world had ever known. ah, the real to production. but it will show up enough

the time now for a quick greg, but when we come back, a new report, the china belton road initiative has created hundreds of billions of dollars and hidden debt for low and middle income nation. we have analysts analysis on the other side. there's going to break here the numbers that the clothes shoes me. ah, ah. as angela merkel makes her exit from german politics, voters have made it clear. they are looking for new ideas and directions. wrinkles party suffered total defeat with smaller parties in the mix to form a new governing coalition. will this be called the merkel inheritance? ah, nice work is ah ah fellow killing me cuz i don't want the car the way you got me. sure. it's under which well your community, it's in the not normal quote, please. sure. can listeners, can easement lead to the the time now with so many inputs on a daily basis that are completely unrelated to reality. so think about how in social media filters and they basically present themselves in a very unrealistic way. and so we come out of fomo, there is any involved more than that. it's about being sort of envi

and is that related to you, talking to russia, talking to china, interested in belton road. we have inter cruise their school, but we weren't, are there too. well, i will state on our paper. we want to create job opportunities for our or do we want to eradicate their power key? often our people in general, but they've taken your money. so what are you going to do about getting your money back? yeah, yeah, that is why i'm say we want to kind of sort of run on renewed money for expansion facility and i've got a concert. you can always peters and you want this man who we are doing this money. need your money part of the people have one son. so i don't know that action on that they have approved this money. why the people about my son needs that money? yours is oppression. part of your political. what do i think there is that is, i saw, i mention that one right now. you mentioned isis earlier. of course, britain and the united states were connected, arguably to isis in syria when they tried to overthrow outside of syria. will the taliban talk to us about fighting isis? that is b

our port in pakistan built a spot of china's belton road initiative called the china pakistan economic court, or a $60000000000.00 project linking the arabian sea to china's land lock western region, access to the indian ocean c. bruce is critical to beijing. as today, china is the world's top oil importer purchasing 542000000 tons of crude oil in 2020 last year. 53 percent of china's crude oil imports came from the middle east and passed through the indian ocean. well, let's get some analysis with collin co, a research fellow at the s roger raton. school of international studies is joining us on skype from singapore. thank you very much calling for being on counting the cost. china has been very strategic in the way to expanding its reach and in the indian ocean. what is it? and again, ultimately, i know want to ensure that it's on national interest are being met. and i think in this sense, you know, that continue express to the self communications that will guarantee and interrupt the excess energy supplies that he gets from the middle east. and not a rico will be secure and expendin

so today, sat right in and we leave the program with the european union's counter to china's belton road initiative. european commission, president ursula vander land. wide ranging state of the e would dress. wednesday covered a number of issues including the coven, 1900 economic recovery, improving the black status and technology, and developing defense capabilities. but another matter that stuck out was the push for the e. u to launch a global gateway. we're pretty good at financing rose. but it does not make any sense for you up if we build a perfect road between a copper that is chinese couple of mine that is chinese owned and a harbor that is chinese oems. we will build global gateway partnerships with countries around the world. we want investment in quality infrastructure, connecting people, goods and services around the world. we will take the values based approach, offering transparency and good governance to our partners. we want to create links and not dependencies. we want to turn global gateway into a trusted brand around the world for a little background here. china is buil

so today was that right and then we leave the program with the european union's counter to china's belton road initiative. european commission, president ursula vander land, wide ranging state of the wood dress. wednesday covered a number of issues including the cobra, 1900 economic recovery, improving the black status and technology and developing defense capabilities. but another matter that stuck out was the push for the e. u to launch a global gateway. we're pretty good at financing rolls, but it does not make any sense for you. if we build a perfect road between a copper that is chinese couple of mine that is chinese owned and a harbor that is chinese don't. we will build global gateway partnerships with countries around the world. we want investment in quality infrastructure, connecting people, goods and services around the world. we will take a values based approach, offering transparency and good governance to all parties. we want to create links and not dependencies. we want to turn global gateway into a trusted brand around the world for a little background here, china is built

i mean, you said it's just 2 g o strategic as regards china's belton road for the u. s. to leave. well, i quickly became apprised by a number of methods of the fact that pentagon didn't think that way. that depending on wasn't thinking joe strategically at all, it was thinking as i just expressed it in terms of its cas county, i was just talking about in the past couple of weeks, it was only august. you didn't believe biden was gonna withdraw troops. and of course, some people say that may well have been advisors to have a k or to withdrawal, to show presidents. this is what happens when you overrule those kinds of defense company. yeah, you said it. no, i want to know whether you think it's true. well, the military has already started stabbed in the back theory. there. chivalry now is . oh, it was not a military defeat. it was political to say they clearly failed president. but when he did do what i said he wouldn't do it. i thought the strategic necessity staying somewhere near pakistan is nuclear weapons and with our power and somewhere near the base road initiative and in a pl

belton road project is saddling poor nations with a future headache. second time, lucky for the man said to be japan's new prime minister. but he could lose the job within weeks. and in sports, find out what's next for money, but you know, after the boxing great, cause time on this sporting career. ah hello, that is more wet and windy weather to come for much of europe at the end of the week. i'm afraid not just in the north and in the west, but also in the south and we've seen some heavy rain effect northern parts of italy . we had flooding and landslides around lake como. this is the 2nd time in 3 months . this is happened. and that wet weather is set to continue on thursday because for the real wet and windy weather, we have to go to the northwest and go to weather system. moving into britain, an island on thursday. that's going to bring some windy weather, some long spells of rain ahead of it. we've got a weather system affecting scandinavia and we've got some wind warnings out for northern parts of germany. from that that's going to eat its way to

whether buyer's remorse among borrower countries will undermine the long run sustainability of the beltoneds to watch its back because there will soon be greater choice in the financing market which could lead to some high—profile defections from the belt and road initiative, the belt and road initiative, the us, the uk and other members of the g7 are now positioning the belt and road initiative as the low quality initiative as the low quality initiative add their own build back better world initiative as an alternative option for countries that want to undertake infrastructure projects based on transparent and sustainable financing. news in the uk and ships conduct training to deliver petrol surprise after the secretary put 150 military drivers on standby. a decision on the deployment is yet to be taken. yesterday the prime minister said the situation was stabilising following a week of shortages. the government has approved the training of army personnel to use army fuel tankers over the next few days, meaning they could be making deliveries to petrol stations by the end of the week. th

the chinese have already said that the belton road initiative runs directly through afghanistan so they will provide some infrastructure support. there are governments that are competitors of the u.s. that will fill that. host: bob is next for maryland, democrats line. caller: i would like to thank you for c-span and thank our guest for talking today. i remember an article in the 2001 july/august issue of atlantic magazine and i remember -- the gist of the article is as long as the u.s. is relying on "spies" in places like afghanistan and pakistan to get their information, we are not going to have the types of intel you would need to prevent a terrorist attack. if we do not have people who are willing to deal with lumps of diarrhea to get the real scoop, we are basing it on whatever our man in havana heard. all of these americans who are stuck in kabul, how clueless were they? they were in green zone, all the millions of dollars that went into afghanistan, it created a big money sink. guest: thank you for your comments. on the intelligence, the u.s. and its allies do have several types

so cold, belton road initiative was opened in 2018, but human rights watch says it has washed away the livelihoods of local communities . foreign st. louis, report, forest, farm, land, and home. flooded to make way for cambodia, the largest dams, the lowest set on to human rights watch estimates. nearly 5000 people were displaced, says tommy is one of them. i feel very nostalgic and sorry saying this. submerge village is a loss of identity and now the city, and no matter how angry i am at the government, i can only keep it in my heart because i cannot do anything about it. the government did not pay any attention to us. he and many other villages, mostly from the pin or minority group, say they were not properly consulted and were offered inadequate compensation floyd long printed on the burial ground of her parents and ancestors is submerged. we've lost her whom our rice fields are crops. why did this development have to make the villagers shed tears? throng lands family is one of 50 who refused to move to a new settlement, built for them by the government and the chinese company that

already planning to launch this so called global gateway initiative to really compete with china's belton road initiative. nicholas in your mind, is there a new cold war brewing here and what does that then means the security and the china is not a hard security threat to the you or to you interest. so i think we should be careful, separate these things out with for america, it's a big difference because american house strong defense commitments. and in that part, the world's teacher pounding more importantly to well. but for your, there is still a threat from china and that's seen very clearly, i thought on the lines best line in her speech yesterday was that the you should not be trapped into the building wonderful roads that are still from a chinese mine to a chinese own portion in africa or wherever. so i think it's, it's seen as real some in the you would say defensively. there's actually have loads of initiatives already which added up together would make would be equivalent to. ready ready chinese belts and rosena ship, that's not the public reception. i attendance the china easter

but they have a policy called the belton road initiative which is basically financing infrastructure throughout eurasia and now in south america currently in africa and i just worry that many of these countries are not going to care so much about the alter your motive of control but the ease to which they can actually obtain currency and the fact it that they are not going to be subject to the whole range of u.s. foreign-policy goals from elections to human rights and labor standards. so china's international world could creep up on them. they are not -- the country is not going to be widely used in the u.s. and europe and that's obviously a really big thing until they totally liberalize their financial market so that's way off. i think in terms of foreign-policy leverage that comes with currency would be a real mistake to leave them out especially because of the digital capability. so that's why i think the digital world is going to create a new era. most of the people who are in charge are of a different generation than does the basically live in a digital society. i think if you l

no documentary filmmakers david belton and bjorn johnson brought this story forward. they re-created that booth. they tracked down a bunch of people who participated in the project 20 years ago so those same folks could tell their story now. and the resulting film is called "memory box." it is incredible and it is here tonight as soon as this show is done. we will show it tonight with no commercial breaks. it starts in 15 minutes from now. you should watch it. to try to convince you, i will show you one more clip of don marshall, the man who lost his wife at the pentagon. this is him 20 years later in 2021 telling his story since then. >> losing a spouse was a horrible place to be. i mean, when i opened that booth door, it was almost literally looking out into darkness and wondering what was coming next. i didn't know. i didn't know how things were going to shake out. we moved to shepherdstown, west virginia. i wanted to get the kids out of d.c. because i was afraid there could be another attack. i lived in pretty constant fear of that. so we had been there about a mo

minorities who are being brutally oppressed in china, but also china wants to connect afghanistan to the beltonm, and what is not talked about is that china would like afghanistan to be part of its land bridge to the arabian sea so it can avoid the choke point of the strait. so there are a lot of different things that china wants out of afghanistan. >> mike: the chinese playing it cool and not officially recognizing the taliban as the official government of afghanistan, is that wise? >> well, beijing shouldn't do that of course, but they probably will. they've kept their embassy open as has russia, which is a real indication of these ties. we've got to remember that senior leaders of the taliban went to the chinese city on july 28th. they held a meeting with the foreign minister, and we should know what was discussed because the concern here is that china has been providing financial support to the taliban in its campaign to take down the afghan government. the taliban paid a lot of money to the afghan military in the last four, five weeks, and the question is, where did they get that cash? and

secure copper mining rights in afghanistan, and expand its belton road strategy giving access to a navy will provide afghanistan over $30 million in food and aid. president biden was asked whether he is worri about china's new friendship with the taliban. >> china has a real problem with the taliban. they are all trying to figure out what do they do now. >> i think you will see china make a move for bagram air force base. >> asked about china taking over bagram air force base the spokesman replied, quote: i can tell you this is purely fake news. by working with china, the taliban and pakistan both representing mostly muslim populations have allied themselves with a country that is carrying out a genocide enturnerment and reeducation campaign against its muslim population the uyghurs who live near the border with afghanistan. >> concern now is that china and pakistan will cut deals with the taliban to stop terrorist attacks against them while turning a blind eye to attacks on the west. bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. there are also new worries tonigh

david belton and bjorn johnson. thank you so much for being with us on such a monumental day.20 years later and what do you hear in their voices? >> i think initially we felt privileged that these people felt courageous enough to come back into the box 20 years after doing something so heartfelt. 20 years ago they were so fresh and raw with experiences that have often left them deeply wounded, and they would have carried those feelings for 20 years, and the invitation we made to them to come back into the box was one which had attached to it quite a lot of risk. how would they feel sitting back in the box, closing the door, talking to the camera. and i felt that was something we felt truly honored by. the second thing i felt to me was how natural they were. it was almost as though they were picking up where they left off, and that was just a wonderful experience to witness really. that they kind of knew they were in a safe space, that they were in a place where they could feel happy to tell us and themselves their feelings. >> so, bjorn, pick up on what david just said. how di

and we'll start those conversations right now with the filmmakers behind memory box, david belton andwhat drew you to these stories? >> thank you, jonathan. i guess the question that drew me to these stories was, is there a way of telling the story of 9/11 differently? is there a way of coming at it from a different angle? and i had always been fascinated, intrigued by this idea of life changing in an instant. and undeniably, that's what happened on the day of 9/11. people's life, the world was upended. that always stuck with me. as a filmmaker, i thought, can i capture that? so i searched and i searched. and after many years of looking, i found this extraordinary project. voices of 9/11. by the artists, and i was immediately drawn in. there was this whole spectrum of human emotion on display. there was fear, loss, anger, despair. it was the immersive quality of the voices that they had created for them that drew me to the project. and as a filmmaker, i thought, we can do something with this. and david is a long time collaborator and friend. i took it to him and we began to develop th

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the chinese have already said that the belton road initiative runs directly through afghanistan so theysome infrastructure support. there are governments that are competitors of the u.s. that will fill that. host: bob is next for maryland, democrats line. caller: i would like to thank you for c-span and thank our guest for talking today. i remember an article in the 2001 july/august issue of atlantic magazine and i remember -- the gist of the article is as long as the u.s. is relying on "spies" in places like afghanistan and pakistan to get their information, we are not going to have the types of intel you would need to prevent a terrorist attack. if we do not have people who are willing to deal with lumps of diarrhea to get the real scoop, we are basing it on whatever our man in havana heard. all of these americans who are stuck in kabul, how clueless were they? they were in green zone, all the millions of dollars that went into afghanistan, it created a big money sink. guest: thank you for your comments. on the intelligence, the u.s. and its allies do have several types of intelligenc

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these facilities have been a big part of his belton road initiative, rather awkwardly named foreign investments now, the demand for them has all but disappeared. and also the detail really, really matters as always. i mean, when will this actually start? is it today? one year's time, five years' time? will this apply to plants in some countries that have been approved but not yet built? and then, what about financing? will china also endeavour to end its financing of new coal—fired power stations abroad and indeed will it put pressure on its banks, foreign banks as well to end financing of new coal fired power stations abroad ? that detail at the moment, we don't know. and what did he have to say about what china is doing domestically as well as abroad? it is so hugely reliant on coal. well, he didn't have anything to say as far as i've seen in his speech. that is perhaps not surprising, this was the gathering of the united nations, so it was kind of global but it is the issue of domestic addiction, frankly to coal in china that is the most important issue. china is still adding new coal—fired