phrase that just tell us this holly and government says that china is the only way to to belton road. is it right when it says that uh well, let's put it this way. as there are 2 renters are not equal 100. let's put it that way. it was the point, sorry. the chinese export stipulates certainly increased airplane does not feel it's got the economic benefits. and of course, one of the things that amazing times when it's promotes it's belton road or what's really bad are called globalization with chinese characteristics. is that it's an equal partnership and it's when, when i agree i'll do is by it's just not hired play back. so how is it actually playing out for the countries involved and the aging is a guy in the way that it was planned. because i think the idea was that phasing would be investing in countries that perhaps other countries wouldn't invest in how those countries managing with bath arrangements. are they still rising to service that that's for example, as sure. okay, so of course the balance in order is many things to manage people and china has been investing and managed,

exports while chinese exports to italy had sold. burden is the only major weston power to join belton road. critics say it's a tool for china to spread. it's cheer, political, and economic influence of more on this last spring in china, analyst frayza. how are you? great. have you on the program? frayza just tell is this holly in government says that china is the only winter out of bolton road. is it right when it says that uh well, let's put it this way. as there are 2 renters are not equal 100. let's put it that way as they find, sorry, the chinese export state. we have certainly increased airplane does not feel it's got the economic benefits. and of course, one of the things that amazing times when it's promotes it's belton road or what's really bad are called globalization with chinese characteristics. is that it's an equal partnership. and it's when, when i agree i'll do is by it's just not hired play back. so how is it actually playing out for the countries involved and the aging? is it guy in the way that it was planned? because i think the idea was that phasing would be investing i

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, -- not only through rcep, but through the belton road initiative, which has been helping withrastructure and things like that. so it's become a kind of a area of interest. the u.s. has been involved 10 years after asean was created, but it was always seen as a strategic issue. now it's increasingly becoming economic. it has a very large trade surplus of the u.s. and a lot of the goods that were previously coming directly from china are actually now coming from asean states. there are intermediate goods that are made in china then shipped there. but finished products are going out. so economically, politically, obviously, very relevant. emily: shirley, do you agree, is asean relevant today on a global stage? >> absolutely. asean's the world's possibly most assuming economic superpower. today about 3.4% of the global gdpr nominal terms, so that is about three quarters of the japanese economy. but the economic scale is expected to quadruple by 2040, and that'll make it much larger than japan, indonesia, and germany, europe. the initiation of china's reform and opening up. the ide

of this kind of larger china, asian of economic blog not only through our c p, but through the belton road initiative, which has been helping with the infrastructure and things like that. so it's become kind of a area of interest of the united states. the u. s. has been involved of 10 years after i see on was created, but it was always seen as a strategic issue. now it's increasingly becoming economic. it has a very large trade, a surplus, or the us, and a lot of the goods that were previously coming directly from china are actually now coming from ozzy on, states other intermediate goods that are made in china, then ship the ship there. but finished products are going out, so i cannot medically, politically, obviously, very relevant. surely do you agree is, as in relevant today on a global stage? absolutely. ideally as the world, uh, possibly most trying to show me the comic super power. it is today about 3.4 percent of the global g, d p, all domino terms. so that is about 3 quarters of the japanese economy by the economics. they always expected to quote, to hold by 2040 and that will mak

his uncle jim biden in exchange for fbi connections and use of the biden name to promote china's belton roadneled through walker. now luft, mr. chairman is facing these charges are you saying he is one of the witnesses being tampered with why the doj. >> he hasn't been directly contacted by the biden personal attorneys, but, with respect to the doj, i find it odd that they were very quick to move on making their indictment unsealed. but, at the end of the day, you look at what they indicted him for, bret. they indicted him for being unregistered foreign agent. well, that's what hunter biden was doing for the same company, only hunter biden received hundreds of thousands of dollars more than gal luft received. i'm not saying gal luft is completely innocent of anything. is he going to obviously have his opportunity to tell his side of the stosh. at the end of the day you, i know this, the thing that the department of justice indicted him on is one of the things i think hunter biden should have been indicted on five years ago. so the fact that the department of justice has moved so quickly on g

the belton road initiative is driven by a lot of different motives. one of them is just commercial.'ve got these big, chinese construction companies that do not have a lot of business in china. they want to keep people employed and make profits. they have been told to go abroad. they want to expand their influence. i think the use of this initiative for strategic, military purposes, it does exist. there are certain facilities they are trying to create. i think fundamental thing is more a political one, where they want to cultivate goodwill in the developing world. it is not working for them very well. a lot of their problems, a lot of their projects have developed real problems. they are not making money. they are casting a lot of countries -- pakistan, sri lanka, argentina, montenegro into a huge debt crisis. in a way, they are behaving a lot like american creditors or european creditors 30, 40 years ago. they are generating the opposite of goodwill. they are generating a lot of resentment on the part of countries that cannot repay these chinese debts. i would say that is the big p