chinese producers called me to come back and make a chinese feature.then there is not a suc successful romantic comedy. in comie china the genre is stil young. sometimes they mix it up and they don't know how to sell romantic movies. a romantic comedy it must be a good chance to make it. ♪ >> warnewarner bros. china were interested and she read it and fell in love with the character an liked thand liked the script. that is how we started. it was very simple. it was like everyone told me in la, just write a good script, if the movie star likes it, you are in and you have a good movie. i think in the u.s. if you say, i want to make an action movie, they will say no. they only want you to make what you ar already made. but in china now i think there are the investor and the producer are more open minded. they are like, yeah, anything you want to do. [[voiceover]] from lucrative defense contracts to behind-the-scene lobbyists. >>did egyptians ever think that aid would actually be cut? >>never. [[voiceover]] fault lines explores the enduring relationship be

meets with the shafi of the taxi here but it's a marriage between the chinese manufacturer and he on the london taxi company that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledged to invest a hundred and fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines to future really previously when we were an independent company in the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to. do to develop. which we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have called it a win win situation the london cab comes back from the brink of extinction while a major chinese manufacturer gets to invest in an exciting new project but what does it say about the state of british industry business secretary vince cable called the chinese buyout a clear demonstration of the strength of the british car industry but the london cap is just the latest in a raft of u.k. businesses being sold off to foreign companies cadres chocolate is now american. indian and the british airports authority

meets with the shafi of the taxi here but it's a marriage between the chinese manufacturer and she on the london taxi company that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledged to invest a hundred and fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines so the future really previously when we were a company the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to. to develop. i wish we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have called it a win win situation the london cab comes back from the brink of extinction while a major chinese manufacturer gets to invest in an exciting new project but what does it say about the state of british industry business secretary vince cable called the chinese buyout a clear demonstration of the strength of the british car industry but the london cap is just the latest in a raft of businesses being sold off to foreign companies cadres chocolate is now american indian and the british airports authority spanish to some it r

meets with the shafi of the taxi here but it's a marriage between the chinese manufacturer and she on the london taxi company that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledged to invest a hundred and fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines to future really previously when we were a company the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to. to develop. i wish we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have called it a win win situation comes back from the brink of extinction while a major chinese manufacturer gets to invest in an exciting new project but what does that say about the state of british industry business secretary vince cable called the chinese buyout a clear demonstration of the strength of the british car industry but the london cap is just the latest in a raft of u.k. businesses being sold off to foreign companies cadres chocolate is now american. indian and the british airports authority spanish to some it represents a

kingdom weren't such a second rate nation they'd be more successful like the can do an optimistic chinese so said the u.k. chancellor george osborne while on a trade visit to china of course i was born wasn't referring to his class i.e. the banking class for in china banks caught committing fraud are not held by the state as heroes but met by a hail of gunfire from the state. you know when george osborne suggested the brits are such a great he was referring to those in the jumper class the sort the jumps off apple factories after months of hard low paid labor now that's first rate to a new liberal potentate right stacy herbert yes max and you know this george osborne is kind of a fair weather friend to america because while de gong was downgrading the u.s. debt and gold was soaring and heading east he was over there in the east as well he was heading over there with the gold all right well as you say he called britain second rate george osborne says second great britain must rediscover its can do attitude chancellor dismisses suggestions that china has a sweatshop economy and wishes brita

in constructing a four hundred billion pound brace of reactors that hinckley point in somerset the chinese will have a minority share in the project but have made it clear and george osborne expects this that they should have a controlling interest in future schemes and for this max he's guaranteed price fixing so that they will make a profit so there is. foreign countries and their state owned companies their national eyes companies who are buying into britain who is in the process of privatizing these assets they're making them available to foreigners so they've convinced britain's they should sell the edges sell the energy company so the rail system so the education system so everything so little the pay that debt will keep racking up the debt just keeps showing off these assets to who the welfare states other countries who will then used to give their citizens a nice plum juicy annual income based on this recurring revenue stream forked over by these hapless brits. well just to go into the details of what this price fixing is so the fix due to be announced next week is expected to guar

so let's now have a look at some of chinese a recent investments in twenty ten a chinese comic are flush with money decided it would be easier to buy out sweden's troubled volvo than compete with it in january last year one of germany's premier colquitt pump makers also fell to beijing's riches and at the same ounce it your caress it was snapped up by a company controlled by the communist regime and just a few weeks later french fashion brand sonia rykiel was taken over by hong kong based firm in keeping with the east a growing fondness for luxury and roger nightingale founder of an economic strategy consultancy firm says many european countries believe chinese investment poses a threat. a lot of european countries are very nervous about except seeing chinese cash who many of them and i think you find this in southern europe you find it in france you find it to some modest degree in germany also some countries think that they are threatened if china buys into their industrial base my own view is that that is entirely wrong my own view is that the industrial base of these countries will f

chinese relations and make britons see that the chinese economy is no longer low wage or low tech one of my tasks this week is to explain to the british people just how far china has come how sophisticated your businesses are how would grant you are in the fields of high tech and science and one of my principal goals this week is not just to increase british investment in china but to increase chinese investment in britain the u.k.'s current visa regime for the chinese has been criticized as colonial because of excessive red tape and application forms the u.k. is estimated to get just a seventh of the chinese tourists that visit from several here as a result britain is thought to be losing out on over a billion pounds annually chancellor george osborne wants to bring that money into britain and announced that visa rules would be simplified he even announced a twenty four hour super priority visa for chinese businessmen for economists the u.k. government's relatively recent enthusiasm towards making friends with china is easy to explain china's economy is one of the foster growing in t

currency reserves chinese privacy savings have gone from one trillion to seven trillion in the last ten years it's just a portion of that goes into a bit coin you can see the prices you know rocket obviously not you know china's going to control praising everything gold bitcoin real commodities which it already controls so this is just good good absolutely be a game changer women dan let's go through that number again you're saying that chinese savings rate of the people the chinese people have gone from one to seven trillion over what period of time in the last ten years private savings just in savings accounts in current accounts in chinese banks held by chinese citizens ten years as gone from one trillion to seven trillion dollars ok well that seems like they're they are very well positioned for a currency war and that they have what's the debt picture in china have they break that down as a country debt as a percentage e.d.p.s think they're roughly thirty percent debt to g.d.p. very good number we do have local local government debt issues but unlike the united states or u.k. or

. >>> chinese language has evolved over thousands of years, but now many young chinese have trouble writing its more than 8,000 characters. this is where parents and educators come into the story. nhk reports from beijing. >> reporter: junior high school students compete on this television contest hosted by china state run television. its purpose is to test the writing skills of young people across china. many people tune in. but unlike a simple contest, its real purpose is to make viewers aware that writing skills are declining. >> translator: the problem is getting worse year after year. that's why i decided to produce this show about chinese writing. >> reporter: to see for myself, i asked people in the capital to work words they use in their daily life. >> translator: i can't write it. >> translator: i usually type with a computer. i hardly ever write with my hand. that's why i don't remember chinese characters all that clearly. >> reporter: according to a recent survey about mean out of every ten chinese say they have trouble recalling how to write character. the main culprit is modern

to learn chinese more.hat is why i have an interest in becoming fluent in chinese. >> good. do you have any siblings? >> i have a brother and a sister. >> do they have the same problems when they were growing up? >> i imagine so. but both of them, their chinese is better than mine. >> how do you converse with your mom back home? >> she speaks to me in chinese. >> how about the trip? when was the first time you were in taiwan? >> when i was a baby, to see my grandpa. >> when was the first trip in taiwan that you still retain memories of? >> it was when i was in elementary school. i went to taiwan for summer school. i remember back then the teachers were allowed to [indiscernible] if you were late. >> i bet that was an eye-opening experience. >> this is so different from america. they are allowed to -- [indiscernible] [laughter] yes, with chopsticks. but i was glad i was exposed to that. i really feel half american, half chinese. even though i may not look like it, i love it. >> now you are at least bilingual

banks held by chinese citizens ten years as gone from one trillion to seven trillion dollars. ok well that seems like they're they are very well positioned for a currency war and that they have what's the debt picture in china how they break that down as a country debt as a percentage e.d.p.s think they're roughly thirty percent debt to g.d.p. very good number we do have local local government debt issues but unlike the united states or u.k. or western governments china is now tackling with real fundamental reform and restructuring of the economy to head off any local government debt issues in the future whereas in the u.s. we just continued to we're going to print more money we're going to give more money to banks and we're going to raise debt ceilings until somehow jobs magically appear are let me let me ask you this question let's contrast two economies here in the u.k. the economy is flagging george's brawn or brought it helped by their reinflating the real estate bubble and now the prices are up ten percent in a month it's clearly a bubble it's going to pop is going to ca

chinese money is flooding the e.u. and snapping up iconic european firms as beijing's business savvy elite moves in to pick up companies it considers to be severely undervalued as to look some of the bigger deals most recently in twenty ten a chinese car maker flush with money decided to be a lot easier to buy at its rival volvo was in trouble at the time rather than compete with it in january last year one of germany's premier concrete pump make is also fell to beijing's rich list that same month two very nice too if you can afford it a tally in your builder threats was snapped up by a company controlled by the communist regime then just a few weeks later french fashion brand sunday reichl was taken over by a hong kong based firm in keeping with the growing fondness for luxury china is also investing heavily in the u.k. buying shares in undersea through airport for instance and pumping billions of pounds into the country's nuclear industry and as polly boy to reports next chinese money's also propping up a london i ca

i mean this is from the chinese government perspective and increasingly in the chinese financial community evidence that the major bargain that china made which was to invest heavily in the u.s., financial system, china after all is the largest holder of u.s. debt, $1.3 trillion and treasury bonds that that may, in fact, not be reliable and this is the latest demonstration of that beginning two years ago and if you go back and look at the comments that the chinese leadership was making that was a previous generation of leadership, back then they were saying, we know that the american system will right itself, that leadership will prevail and that the right decisions will be reached. in this case, these days what i am reading is they are saying some of the same things but it is very clear they are concerned and they are no longer quite as reassured as they might have been a couple of years ago. >> rose: well i remember that in either the recession of 2008 people said, people quoted chinese leaders as saying we wanted to be like you, we no longer want to be like you. >> yeah. that's -- in a

waters its economic fortunes dissipates chinese boss came is all over. but it's not going under but it shows government policy for a long time now as encourage foreign companies to take over our british companies. after the break or of course on the monumental buying spree that saying prices want to european i can is for one of our insatiable chinese invest. i'm talking obviously about edward snowden and you know that some americans believe he is the hero of all they really feel the criminal why do you stand i believe he's a hero and i believe he's coming directly from his heart that he feels some goodness that he wants to be truthful to the american people that he believes in and loves his country america so strongly and i wish that somebody five in the same situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing. of the gaza strip should not be a launching side for rocket attacks on israeli women children and civilians to a palestinian leadership is responsible for this but this is why israel is not willing to repeat this experiment but in judea

our take now beijing based investors are using the global economic uncertainty to their advantage chinese money is pouring into the new sometimes rescuing iconic european business is seen as severely undervalued due to the tough financial climate here's a look at some of china's most lucrative investments at the moment the european car market is increasingly attractive to to beijing's enterprises and in twenty ten they snapped up sweden's troubled manufacturer valvo last january china also helped out one of germany's top makers of concrete pumps in that same month italian your builder ferretti moved into the chinese hands and even a top french fashion brand has moved under the control of a hong kong based firm while the u.k. is one of china's preferred shopping sports where it's bought shares in london's heathrow airport and invested billions of pounds in nuclear industries in the year of iconic brands is also strong as artie's party boy reports. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cap would be consigned to history but after its maker the financially troubled london taxi

chinese firms political perks visas and access to the u.k.'s most lucrative projects in exchange for beijing's billions coming to britain. from one crisis to another this time a sweeping new round of university staff cuts forces teachers out on strike and students into the street protesting with them. actually nothing very good has happened in afghanistan the last twelve years and that's something western media and political leaders don't like to talk about anymore well there's really no actual practicing democracy to speak of in afghanistan what you have is kleptocratic corrupt. state but we should reframe the question so i was only just stays there there will be violence there will be chaos because there's an occupying power it again you know the u.s. wants to keep a footprint there but the longer its footprint is there the more well i just say the violence will continue because of occupation you know just the fact that the afghan government has not yet been able to convince the afghan people that it provides a better alternative. continues

our chinese investment in the europe as been growing steadily the spied a financial storm dad's been ravaging the eurozone let's now take a look at some of the bigger deals in twenty tanna chinese carmaker decided it was easier to take over its swiss rival valvo than to compete in that in january last year and german concrete pump maker the second largest firm in the field was sold to china that same month quired an italian yacht maker for ready a month later as a reminder of the chinese fondness for luxury goods the famous french fashion brand sonia rykiel was sold to a firm in hong kong china is also investing heavily in the u.k. buying shares in london's heathrow airport and pumping billions of pounds in the country's nuclear industry as polly boy going to reports chinese money is already changing the face of london. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cap would be consigned to the history books after its maker the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufacturer g.t. which already owns volvo stepped in and bought the company

. - and the fact that she's not chinese ? what's that got to do with it ?your mother and i always assumed you would marry a chinese girl. who said anything about marriage ? we're just going together. - have you met her parents ? - yes, and they seem like very nice people. i'm sure they are. and this dinner is to announce the fact that you're going together ? yes. - then i would be prepared if i were you. - for what ? - for disappointment. - i don't understand. - maybe this is not the time-- - this is exactly the time ! here's what i think will happen. they will both be very nice. they will talk to you about chinese food. then they will talk to you about china. then they will ask you not to go with their daughter. - no, they won't. - they will probably say that you're both too young. but that's silly. we're both 17. that's what they will say, but what they will mean... is they don't want you involved with sara because you are chinese. i think you're wrong. the grayson's aren't like that. perhaps. i hope you're right. - so, did you find out ? - well, i starte

chinese money is flooding the e.u. and snapping up iconic european firms as beijing's business savvy elite moves in to try to pick up companies it considers to be severely undervalued just a look at some of the bigger deals that have happened recently the last couple of years back in two thousand and ten you may recall a chinese car maker flush of money decided rather than try to compete with volvo it was having trouble at the time it would buy it in january last year one of germany's premier concrete makers also fell to beijing's richest same month for telling your builder ferretti very nice it was snapped up by a company controlled by the communist regime just a few weeks later two french fashion brand sunday reichl was taken over by a hong kong firm in keeping with the east growing fondness of luxury china is also investing heavily in the united kingdom buying shares in london's heathrow airport and pumping billions of pounds into the country's nuclear industry and as police reports next chinese money is also proppi

launches its economic fortunes dissipates chinese basking in its own. happy that it's not going under but it shows government policy for a long time now has encouraged foreign companies to take over our british companies . offer the rake more important a monumental buying spree in that same crisis want to retain icons for one option not the insatiable chinese investors that's not to the right. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that's. the genetically modified products are free to have there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in the most trying i don't believe. that free. enterprise is profit. for this golden rice barkeep. you're launching the weekly on r.t. welcome back actually it's a hell dozens of ra is as part of a global day i actually gave genetically modified foods with biotech giant santa bearing the brunt of their anger organi

chinese money is also propping up a london eye come. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cab would be consigned to the history books after it's made because the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufacturer g.t. which already owns volvo stepped in and bought the company for eleven million pounds the factory is now back in business this part of the assembly process is called the marriage of the carriage where the shape of the tag. meets with the shafi of the taxi here but it's been marriage between the chinese manufacturer and he on the london taxi company that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledged to invest in getting fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines so the future really previously when we were an independent company the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to. gives us the ability to develop. which we could have on

it appears chinese investigators are examining the possibility of uighur involvement. someone posted a document said to be from public security authorities in beijing. it mentions the crash. it shows the names and addresses of two men from the uighur autonomous region. it also lists the license plate number of a car. the document called for people to come forward if they have information about the men. some in the chinese media say authorities released the document to gauge public reaction. right now, government officials are only talking about the crash in vague terms. >> translator: the relevant ministry is now investigating the incident. we are also taking strong measures to secure the safety and stability of the capital. >> reporter: analysts say chinese leaders may be growing worried about the possibility that the crash may trigger unrest. kurando tago, nhk world, beijing. >>> the concern about unrest has evolved into media control. chinese officials have abruptly halted nhk's satellite tv transmission in china during reports related to the crash in tiananmen squa

to be severely undervalued let's take a look at some of the bigger deals now in twenty ten eight chinese comic of flush with money decided it would be easier to buy out sweden's troubled volvo than compete with it generally last year one of germany's premier concrete pump makers also felt to be riches that same month italian the arch built of ready was there snapped up by a company controlled by the communist regime and just a few weeks later the french of fashion brand us only recall was taken over by a hong kong based forum in keeping well there is a growing fondness for luxury china is also investing heavily in the u.k. buying shares in london's heathrow airport and pumping billions of pounds into the country's nuclear industry and as polly boyko reports chinese money is also propping up a london icon. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cab would be consigned to the history books after its maker the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufacturer gili which already owns volvo stepped in and bought the company for eleven million