china china china china china they want to make a deal. the question is do i want to make a deal we've heard u.s. president donald trump talk about china many times. in fact it was he who started the so-called trade war with china you know the 2018 with tariffs piling up on both countries imports that isn't a real war and how much of it is impacting china's massive economy and it's 1400000000 people. by income all santamaria here in the library of the national museum of qatar will this trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies have repercussions far beyond their own shores we're seeking answers today as the president and founder of the center for china and globalization dr wang talks to al-jazeera. dr wang thank you for joining us thank you for talking to al-jazeera i think for 18 months now we have heard the story of the so-called trade war between the united states and china but we hear it mostly through the prism of the united states possibly because donald trump shuts the loudest about it but we certainly haven't heard much of

and china friendship. working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. where we have a huge number of relationships, partners, allies, and interests that go well beyond simply the question of china. assistant secretary still well and i and many years together at work together at the mount fuji dialog in tokyo tokyo. with thinkers coming together to discuss the state of the alliance. but also the question on the shared or non shared perception of the geopolitical challenges being confronted. and on surprisingly china was at the top of the agenda. david and i were talking in the green room and he was on stage with a number of other actors, people who served in the obama and trump administration. a certain amount of friction and and the tactical issues under each administration. what struck me more than that was the 30,000 foot perspective. there is no real to debate about the challenge that china proposes to u.s. interests in the r

china growing power. so i think we didn't house advisers policy advisers the studied the rise and fall of great powers didn't learn some lessons so they realize the rise of new great powers my generated this instability in the international system maybe even conflicts so they try to figure out how to avoid is that kind of confrontation with the established power. china begins to usurp the place of the united states and japan as a trading nation and becomes the major trading partner of all of the countries in this region is that it was the context how would you know how and his out of vi there is proposed the idea of peaceful rise but later on they realize you've abused her rise was a little be threatening because you rise others must be crying right so they live further change the slogan from peaceful rise to abuse would be relevant because development more beyond. china was rising under which in top china consolidated links with africa latin america and across asia hosting world leaders as well as visiti

sometimes even though india and china have similar concerns about china, china's unfair trade practices, that hasn't automatically lead to the greater convergence between the united states and india. finally i think there's some differences over approaching partners and most notably over russia. india has an older relationship with russia. russia remains the largest provider of defense equipment to india, united states is a distant second. but i think they do in india is there are growing concerns about the russia-china partnership that is emerging and the way to address that is to continue to engage with russia. it's easy because india russia done at these intrinsic differences but it has been comforted by the fact the u.s. congress has a very stringent sanctions on russia and so that for example, india's acquisition of a major and anti-aircraft system from russia, the s-400, threatens the possibility of just sanctions on india. this shows the complications that may arise from these different perspectives on the partnership. let me end on that note, and thank you for your time and atte

do what they buy the house to do with dean what the politicos doing to china i will not deny china's policies and i tell you that's a good point thank you for making it thank you. seems like you're saying there are still some red lines and i want to pick up on that bring us to you to someone watching live says this is pro me too says why are only chinese labor and tack being used for some of these projects in other countries or is attacked transfer as a result of this process so one of the other criticisms that someone would bring up to say this isn't benefiting local economy sara what would you say to that. oh yeah i think that it's true that china doesn't spoil a lot of its own workers and that has been a huge complaint among many i've tried a number of students from africa from different countries east africa west africa and you know they stated that while it's a huge benefit that china is building this infrastructure it's not fair that they're employing their labor just to go back to the to the lending issue. i just want to mention that you know it is great that china does wins w

and china. but actually in the past various public speeches by secretary pompeo, we can see that pompeo just talked about 5g, huawei and the investments from china. and said the us could and said that the u.s. could warn other countries that if they use huawei and money from china, then probably there will be some consequences from the u.s.. if that is not asking countries to take sides, then how could you describe it? >> that is a good question and one that needs clarification the information has to do with one's own security. in a globalized world where the security choice of one person affects the security of others, the security choice of one sovereign country impacts the sovereignty of others. that is something to be concerned about. if we are going to share information with countries, we want to share it on systems that we know are secure. there is ample proof that says, not just mystic laws but other things that show that those systems, huawei in this case, have issues that do not guarant

let's look at how china is developing let's look at china lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty let's look at how hong kong has benefited a tremendously over the past 22 years after being part of the one country to system after china we exercised is sovereignty over hong kong this is the make it let's talk about says it was the guy in an interview earlier in the year you called . it unfortunate censorship in china you said hopefully eventually there will be less censorship leading towards no censorship at all and i hope they'll be a day when people in china can freely watch foreign broadcasters that's pretty full on hope isn't it when you consider that 400000000 extra c.c.t.v. cameras are going online and the unprecedented degree of intrusion by the state into people's lives that we're seeing things are not moving in the direction you hopeful of the what you call to it was my view earlier this year it is still my view today and i think it will remain in my view for the rest of my life but it's a lesson on hope business things that are not going this way not less a sea

trade with china if you look at u.s. negotiations with europe the deal seemed to be on and then they seem to be off i think the chinese have been more or less 3 prepared for this given what's happening and if you looked at the diplomacy as particularly the trade diplomacy they were conducting during the trade negotiations with the united states there was a sense that the united states was not the only game in town the brics mattered african countries mattered courting japan mattered and china's sense of its foreign relations was that while achieving a deal with the u.s. was important one would also have to prepare for. or a deal that made life much more difficult and this is where the broader context of u.s. china relations comes in the 1st thing to remember is that the last few years have seen a deterioration of relationships not just on the trade front but if you think of the security front if you think of the changes in chinese society under xi jinping there are sources of tension that extend well beyond the trade dea

china and there's a trade pact with the u.s. state and continues its massive infrastructure project to east access to global markets have a closer look at the new silk road and talk to our correspondent about china's trade ambitions. also on the show christmas means well big business for many take a look at how retailers did this holiday season. this is deja vu business asia i'm stephen beers in berlin thanks for joining us. the u.s. says it's planning to submit its new trade deal with china during a signing ceremony in the 1st week of january china has yet to confirm that time line has also been quiet about specific components of the trade agreement which up to now have been released by the us taken together there's uncertainty about exactly what is happening when. next year's election year in the u.s. and donald trump is not likely to risk in barking on tricky trade negotiations with one eye on the polls instead he's keen to declare himself the winner in the trade war with china so no surprise when he announced phase one of a

china china started this campaign it is thought beginning of 2017 china. when we had this news they denied it didn't have anything like that. in un in 2018 come up with this report that 1000000 over 1000000 people are being held in this camps and china immediately changed its narrative saying that yes we have some people for training job training and so far china had been pushed to answer and respond to these policies but china is denying that it's consensual. detention of. muslims over there but if china did admit that it's. a concentration camp or a detention camp china had to answer and release those people that's what china is denying and china knows that it's making a mistake actually so the video that it's watching on screen this video is from 29000 from. education facility the chinese government calling it we did ask the chinese government to take part in this conversation or to send us a statement and they declined but we were able to use some comments from the china global t.v. network group a particular reporter called luzhin who is well known on

both china and the united states are market economies and china has a large market. canong as the united states provide the right services and meet demand, to buy more from the united states is something the chinese people will be happy to see. given the large markets and the increasing demand for quality and right priced products, china companies -- countries to compete on a level playing field. our countries will not jeopardize other trading partners' interests. >> i am from reuters. my question is, can china confirm that as part of the first phase agreement china will purchase 50 billion u.s. dollars worth of u.s. agricultural products. also, can china confirm that within the first phase agreement , u.s. tariffs will be reduced by 50%? as such, will china plan on doing the same and reducing it tariffs by 50%? [speaking foreign language] >> thank you for your question. there has been a lot of talks about this. i will first talk about the removal of tariffs and i will ask chairman ming to talk about agricultural products. coreing tariffs is a concern of china. the t

pundits the view of china has changed in this country to my mind wrongly but there is a sense that china was as you say launched in a systematic assault on the international order as the united states understood it that has not changed with the trade deal and it's unlikely to change in the near future with that said. it seems to me that abroad especially if you look at japan or if you look at russia if you look at europe there is a sense that china like other major players is a problem but it's not the kind of existential problem that the united states under talk receives currently portraying in other words china seems to be in many ways fitting into the system whether it was by abiding by judgments against it in the w t o whether it was by signing on to the paris agreements the sense was that yes trying to have its own interest but it was something that could be worked with and that will have to be worked with going forward you mentioned that china has its own inches but you also obviously it has its own insecurities as you point out in a very interesting book that you'll publish last y

china once ruled the waves. the chinese empire stretched across east asia and its influence reaches far as the edges of europe. for almost 2000 years from the 1st century b.c. china was a leading world power full of invention and adventure a center of global trade. underpinning the power and wealth was the principle of order which bound together a vast and i keep ing it from collapse. 252300 years ago the chinese world was united on the one leadership of that's when this very idea. of china order was put in practice so for the 1st time a singer. go or 30 unify the whole known world they call the chinese world or china as we call it today the time called the chain and that's where the word china comes from. the chin dynasty had emerged victorious for a prolonged period of wars between rival states and in the year 221 b.c. it's not about creating the 1st chinese empire. it introduced a common currency and a standardized language across china. the chin imperial project was built on a strategy designed for war but r

china are working to maintain world peace what has china done. response from france and. the strength that china had kept good person for a century and a half was about to see the timing up i'm going to story clues and 5 hours from now the union flag will be lowered and the flag of china will fly over hong kong. in the villages closest to the chinese border is a hong kong a world away from the bunny baking frenzy of the city. here the flags of the mainland fly in celebration of the imminent return to china. hong kong has always been part of china so it's always nice to go back to the motherland but it different views being expressed in the very heart of hong kong's to risk in business center. where basically very skeptical and there was. any. on that 1st day in charge this is the 1st test of the new regime's promises of tolerance. the preacher did not give one calm people a right to them for themselves we're limited in the wars. only participate in the governance of the economy in a limited fashion right so it's not democracy but. let's be absolutely clear about the bush

china need to be strong challenge need to be a big china need to maintain its. hold in order this is not an aggressive culture to. she jumping he's completely change the whole check 3 he's decided that china this moment is night that china come out and we quest and we quietus the rest of the world to pay it do you respect the chinese basically we bring to the world for the humankind stark choice you want to keep the current system or you want to go back to china order. up. when the students got that in cameron square in beijing and give mom did more resolute steps taken by the government against corruption and some of the justices eventually not only emotions run high and run the extreme but also became better come from taishan. what happened in beijing. in the early days of june 1989 it was a tragedy that level of brutal violence. i don't think people were prepared for it but after it it's like seeing the real face. of a party state regime that's a tolls of an authoritarian. and long number of people killed in town long on things. united states on the west and

it's hard to social apps in china have taken a life on their own in china.the west. the big question is whether more chinese apps can follow tiktok, going global despite the concerns around privacy and censorship. or, if not, it could be the turn of tech companies in the west to play copycat themselves. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week amazon sued the us department of defence claiming the president donald trump applied improper pressure to stop it winning a billion—dollar military contract. youtube banned clips that include malicious insults and veiled threats to to prevent abuse based on race, gender identity or sexuality. and caitlinjenner, prince andrew and borisjohnson were among the most searched for celebrities of year, google has revealed. other popular searches concern game of thrones, the dance flossing and how to eat a pineapple. in the us, a tesla crashed into a police car while operating on autopilot. the company says the car should not be considered autonomous. the driver said the accident occurred while he was checking his

and like many, i remember leading a trade delegation to china as governor, and i hoped china's greater global integration would lead to a more open, prosperous and potentially more democratic china. and that a rising china would be good for the world. today i believe it is clear that and the of president xi chinese communist party do not align with that vision. the party is making a play for dominance in all the advanced, 21st century technology arenas, 5g, ai, quantum, robotics, areas where they are already the world's leader, but they are doing this not on a traditional market-based, fair playing field. the party instead is exploiting all elements of state power to strengthen china's position globally, using cyber attacks to steal economic and military secrets, modernizing and expanding its own military presence, and waging influence campaigns, some open but many covert, to shape perceptions of china while undermining human rights, dignity and free speech. it acts in an interventional list and unilateral way, continuing more so in the last two years to reject core principles around t

china relationship. it's a great question to start with i think there are a few things to say 1st of all if the agreement holds that's a terrific thing and it can lead to building on the agreement to improve the relationship in other areas which will get to. i think one of the things that's been interesting for people watching us trying our relations in the trump is that it deals tend to be. difficult to sustain if you look at the negotiations over trade with china if you look at u.s. negotiations with europe the deal seemed to be on and then they seem to be off. i think the chinese have been more or less 3 prepared for this given what's happening and if you looked at the diplomacy east particularly the trade diplomacy they were conducting during the trade negotiations with the united states there was a sense that the united states was not the only game in town the brics mattered african countries mattered courting japan mattered and china's sense of its foreign relations was that while achieving a deal

have an effect on china a u.s. cooperation in important areas it is just a week since trump signed another contentious bill into law that is also raising tensions between washington and beijing on another front hong kong. where antigovernment protests are almost into this 6 month the hong kong human rights and democracy act has been welcomed by protesters there because it means the city special trading status with the u.s. will now be dependent on a yearly review the law could also be used to punish officials deemed to be suppressing freedoms in retaliation china has halted american warship visits to hong kong and sanctioned several non-governmental organizations it is unclear what all this means for the other big point of friction between china and the united states right now their trade war analysts warn that the odds on there being an agreement before christmas have now been lowered after president from warned there was now no deadline for a deal and on wednesday china also said it doesn't have a deadline for a

any way to punish china the best way to punish china is to is to slap tariffs on china so that's what he's done i've been a little concerned with the president you know slapping. tariffs on our our friends and neighbors notably mexico and canada argentina and brazil i'm not sure what his his long list of grievances is you know or with those countries but it's you know look when in doubt i don't think that tariffs are a good idea but you know with as far as china is concerned i think it was kind of the last resort and i think i think it was right for the president to call him out and i agree greg it appears that sometimes when president trump when he's not getting exactly his way or he's trying to move things on china it seems like he goes elsewhere to exert his trade you know him and it's kind of his his m.o. there sometimes they're moving back to that china u.s. relations how will these sanctions affect the u.s. and what will happen to these n.g.o.s as these new sanctions get put in place by china. yeah look i think it's important as far as the n.g.o.s go i mean look there i don't th

of "china rx: exposing the risks of america's dependence on china for medicine ." and senior advisor at the hastings center. good morning. guest: good morning. great to be here. host: tell us about drug shortages in the united states. what drugs are we talking about. what drugs are we short on? guest: in the united states of america, we have a shortage of really important medicines. this has been going on 20 years. andave had hundreds hundreds. one of the medicines and shortage right now is a really important blood thinner that hospitals use every single day. there was an article in a local newspaper about a boston physician saying i do not know if we can do cardiac surgery two weeks from now if we do not have this product. we are walking on a very thin line. we have had shortages of chemotherapy to treat cancer in children and adults. we have had shortages -- and right now, there is a shortage of a really important antibiotic to treat a life-threatening infection. these are life and death medicine. sometimes, we cannot get them, and we are rationing. in therationi

we have china considering -- china agreeing to buy more but how much more?a confession at all. it is hardly even a deal at all. it is more covert for president trump to not increase retaliatory tariffs as he was planning to do and to step back the smallest bit on pre-existing tariffs. china is agreeing to buy pork and soybeans. that is not a concession. there is some talk about china buying from corn, rice and wheat but they said it will lead to a limited degree. there is discussion about the agreement having dispute resolution. but it is only a series of meetings to talk about why china is violating the agreement if .hey do rather than enforcement there is discussion in the agreement about new chinese rules for financial services and foreign investment in china but those are all things we can tell that were in the works previously and are being repackaged. we don't see a lot new in the deal and that is why wall street was lackluster. when the deal was announced it became clear there is not much there. kathleen: i would like to ask you about a couple of thin

and china.they will be forced by us to make a choice. when we say that the american vision is pluralistic and inclusive, we mean it and the record shows it. we have no objection if other countries strive to deal with beijing and cooperative and cordial ways. and our foreign relations, though, all countries constantly make choices about policy issues, economics, trade, sovereignty, security, etc. these choices affect interests and well-being. we encourage our allies and partners to choose prudently in ways that protect the national interests. it means the ability to live free of domination and to make one's own decisions. we not looking to dictate to others and we want our allies and friends not to be subject to others dictates. sovereignty is important, without it the freedom to choose at all can be lost. choices that preserve sovereignty preserve the future and freedom of choice that we all cherish. a region in which countries maintain their freedom of choice is a pluralistic region and will be

different ever since 9097 this part of china and china has practiced a one country 2 systems so in hong kong the primary responsibility of maintaining law and order is resting on the shoulders of the hong kong government and the chief executive carried government that's approved by beijing absolutely hong kong is part of china and one of the one percent range ings business not doing it is not doing it. well there's it it's failed it's failed to keep the hated extradition morden was forced to withdraw that it tried threats calling the demonstrators rampant in the range then warning that a blow from the sort of law was waiting for them in the future these threats and the effect well i think china will not understand what it is dealing with because i think there are many different ways to look at what's happening in hong kong i would say the primary situation right now is law enforcement you are talking about a restoration of law and order in hong kong and democracy of course when the british left hong kong in 9097 it did not leave behind a lot of democracy to talk about but the british di

except in china.by mesut ozil about the plight of fellow muslims in the country sparked what could prove a damaging dispute. in a social media post to his millions of followers, arsenal's german midfielder criticised the treatment of china's uigher population, referring to persecutors and details

ruined his image in china among fans in china and it also said that there will be implications for arsenal and those into cations could be very costly because arsenal it has commercial interests in china sponsorship deals partnership deals it even has its own chain of restaurants so very lucrative interests stop. could fall away and we already saw this back in october with the n.b.a. the u.s. boss the bullied one of the general managers there he tweeted support for the protesters in hong kong but did not go to and while in china the n.b.a. is still trying to repair the financial damage there. are all were at and it's the rich thanks so much for that. that's a full hour we need an hour worth of pictures of protests across india it is the new citizenship amendment act thank you for watching we'll see you next time but. i'm scared that the they were not hard and in the end there is a me you are not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers were lions and. what's your story ready ready. i mean when i was a women especially in victims of

he then began cultivating business in china.says it's currently the perfect timing to trade japanese goods. >> expectations for online trade continue to rise. yet he rented a book in tth in fifth district in 2004 and opened a store. his store offers all types of merchandise from japanese manufacturers. it looks like a trade fair, offering goods from major companies to mid-sized companies that even japanese people may be unfamiliar with. on this day, he was visited by a company aiming to start sales in china with a partnership with the prefecture. the officials hope to export lolocal delicacies s and bath s. >> he believes japanese products have a chance in china now because the nation is focused on quality goods. >> foreign merchants have their own passion for selling goods from their homeland. and many are determined to break into the chinese market. this man has been struggling t expand his business of exporting from the ivory coast. >> a year ago, he sent his family back to senegal. he wanted his five children, who were all b

so generous china's generous because china's trying to build influence it's looking for for china sitting on quite a lot of cash that it needs to invest. and so the silk road is very much part of the us i think so it's trying to build up infrastructure as part of the silk road but it is also trying to build political influence i was interesting in the report we had that china basically came to the rescue with the e.u. just didn't manage to invest the money and a lot of experts say the 2020 will be a critical year for china relations how come well i think we've got this investment treaty that's going to that's coming up to see whether that gets signed at the moment is a lot of pushback against china against china as an investment. because of china trying to export influence as it's perceived in many places so it is going to be a crucial year the balkans is going to be particularly central to this i mean i remember when i lived in beijing it was always because of the links between the former yugoslavia that people from the balkans were very active in the investment community and in in devel