i am a chinese heritage. and the recipient, the trustee, the inheritor of this legacy of chinese culture and civilization and i have done a job of trying to hold on to that legacy and pass it on to a third generation, but that is distinct from identity, how one identifies oneself and what one takes and construction putting together that sense of self. and so today when asked what are you, that most basic sense. >> what are you and who are you. >> by people, what are you perhaps more often. you know, what are you, my answer is chinese-american. i hasten to add, i do not-a chinese-american. chinese american. american is the amount. chinese is the adjective. chinese is actually one of many adjectives that -- you know, i love baseball of american, a politically active american, is different as to, but the chinese part of my americanists lean -- laden's other large. so growing up, you know, i would say that as a kid actually have this very wonderful sense that chinese and american this could be aligned of overlapp

my chinese dealers andmy chinese -- and my chinese service people interact with chinese customers.is the difference? >> they would say they know the people. they are chinese. they know what they want. >> i can't be a successful businessman if i don't respect who and what my customer is. the resorts are a commercial enterprise. the measurement of success is the bottom-line profit. why are we seven times more profitable than each one of them? >> some casino watchers warn there is a bubble of hotelsforming in macau that is about to burst. fears of a smoking ban and stricter visa rules have investors worried that the inflow of tourists may slow down. but they are doubling down. they are spending $26 billion on new resorts, doubling hotel capacity. they won't stop there. these casino titans want to score big in the rest of asia. >> japan is the holy grail at this stage. they have pachinkos. pachinkos are slot parlors. but technically you don't win money, you win prizes. very popular. that industry itself is $35 billion. it has a lot of potential. >> with the olympics slated for tokyo in

as the risk deepens, the day marking the city's 17th year of return to chinese rule dawns.t 8:00 a.m. a ceremony organized by the hong kong government begins at a square on the water front. representatives of the chinese government were invited and reaffirmed the strengthening of mutual ties with hong kong. around noon pro-democracy citizens began pouring out onto the streets. this demonstration held every july 1st began the same year of the hand over. the five kilometer walk starts from victoria park, goes through the main shopping area and ends in central. according to organizers more than hal mil people participated this year making it the largest protest in the past ten years. members of scholarism were in the middle of the march and making themselves heard. the route usually takes less than an hour to complete but this year demonstrators marched for more than five hours. at around 9:00 p.m. after workers have already left their offices, scholarism members finally reach central. instead of ending the protest, more than 2,000 people, mostly youngsters, decide to stage a

we went to chinese school, you know?the students at lincoln elementary school were from chinatown. there was a mix, for sure. some of my best friends were japanese and african americans, but it was largely a chinese community, and therefore, you didn't really get that much of a sense of the outer society at that young age. and you know, how do you get through that? you bond as siblings-- which i did-- and you do what parents expect of you, which is to work hard and study harder. you go to the additional chinese school, which again, divides you some more, because now you're hearing one dialect of cantonese at home with your parents and speak mainly that; you go to... >> hinojosa: because your parents came from a small village. >> yes, two different small villages in tianjin in china in guangzhou. and then you're learning a different of the more prominent dialect in chinese school. they're beginning to teach something called mandarin, by the way, on the side. that's three dialects of chinese, plus this newfangled language

development chinese style -- we visit a shoe factory in ethiopia. clearing the air -- mexico city takes its worst smog offenders off the road. and role model copenhagen -- a capital goes green danish style. asked to explain the difference between entrepreneurial thinking in china and the west, a chinese manager put it like this, "when a european business sees a tiger, it studies it and finds ways to get around it. when a chinese business comes across a tiger, it jumps on top of it and starts thinking about what comes next." while many european entrepreneurs are still considering shifting production to asia, more and more chinese factories have long set up in africa, where production costs are even lower than back home. as communist china exports capitalist thinking, we ask workers in ethiopia what's in it for them? >> the working day begins military-style. "all our energy goes into production," the chinese boss calls to the workers. "into production," they chant back. it may resemble an army base, but this is in fact a chinese shoe factory in ethiop

but this is in fact a chinese shoe factory in ethiopia. company executives in dong guan have joined them via video link. workers clock in digitally. chinese employees line up on one side, ethiopians on the other. 24-year-old nara zhou is new here. her english language skills have landed her a top position. >> i'm grateful to my boss in china for giving me such a good opportunity. it is a really good chance for me. >> huajian shoe city has been producing shoes for the us market for the last two years. the production manager goes through the workflow with nara. much of the work is done with adhesives, but not everyone here wears a protective mask. the factory produces shoes for brands like tommy hilfiger and guess. the workers produce some 7,000 pairs of shoes per day. the boss is satisfied. but communication can still be a challenge. >> we use gestures to make ourselves understood. but i also know a few simple words in the local language, "tollo tollo" means "faster, faster." and "ali baba" means "you thief!" >> that seems to be enough to g

. >> it's chinese, yes.his is a tin. it's a french product. the truffles-- if i put--if i make the tin in china, it's a chinese truffle. >> i'm stunned. he was saying that since the truffles are packaged here, he can legally write "product of france" on the label. it feels like i'm being tricked into thinking i'm buying french truffles, you know? >> yes, i understand. >> and there's another problem. spores from the chinese truffles are infecting the european soil and taking it over the way the kudzu weed has taken over parts of our own southeast. it began to happen in italy, so the italians made importing chinese truffles illegal, and there's a move in france to do the same. >> [speaking french] >> they are putting into danger the crown jewel of french gastronomy. if one day, by accident, our plantation starts producing chinese truffles, we are dead. [leaves rustling] >> the great fear for michel tournayre and the other trufflers in france is that the chinese will do to their precious delicacy what they have

chinese and vietnamese crews converged on the area. some rammed ships against those from the other country and vote's demonstrators staged a number of protests against china. last month the chinese removed the oil rig one month ahead of schedule, helping to ease tensions. leaders in the philippines have their own complaints. they suspect chinese authorities have started building military installations in another part of the disputed south china sea. both countries and others claim the separately islands. last month philippine military officials took aerial photographs of a rocky area called johnson reef. nhk obtained the photos. the photos show the chinese have pushed more earth into the water, expanding the area of reclaimed land. workers have put up a long and thin building surrounded by what appears to be a seawall. philippine officials also took photos in february and they say since then, the chinese have done a lot of work. photos of another area at gavin reef show the chinese have done more reclamation work there and philippine o

. >> [ speaking chinese ] >> [ speaking chinese ] >> when rong rong lee started teaching mandarin to american students back in the 1980s, scenes like this were rare. but as china has become a major economic power, interest in its language has grown dramatically. >> i think their ability to converse fluently in mandarin will serve them incredibly well, in a variety of ways going forward. >> i knew that when i grew up, like, chinese would be, like, a good thing to just have in my tool belt, i guess, for when applying for jobs and stuff like that. >> learning mandarin not only prepares you for the future, it proves you can take on a big challenge. all languages require you to pronounce words correctly. but mandarin goes further. you also need to pronounce them with the correct tone. >> there's first tone, second tone, third tone, and fourth tone, and those are all unique ways to pronounce a word. so, you can put together a sentence that's like ma, ma, ma, mand that means "mom scolded the numb horse." it's the same word. >> if you don't pronounce the tone correctly, the meaning will be w

a chinese defense ministry spokesperson rejected the claim and said the chinese pilot maintained a safe distance. u.s. officials say this isn't the first near miss. they say chinese pilots have come dangerously close to u.s. planes on at least three other occasions. >>> 100 students from japan are preparing to head to china on a trip designed to build cultural ties at the invitation of the chinese government. the china/japan friendship association is organizing the week-long trip. the chinese government established the association more than 50 years ago. the students are scheduled to leave next monday. they'll visit beijing and other cities and meet chinese university students. authorities in china and japan canceled many exchange programs after japan nationalized some of the senkaku islands in 2012. japan controls the islands. china and taiwan claim them. >>> a japanese city assemblyman has pleaded not guilty to smuggling stimulants into china. a two-day court case has begun. he was detained at an airport. the assemblyman was caught carrying three kilograms of drugs in a suitcase. two

they are chinese.know what they want. >> i can't be a successful businessman if i don't respect who and what my customer is. the resorts are a commercial enterprise. the measurement of success is the bottom-line profit. why are we -- >> some casino watchers warn there is a bubble of hotelsforming in macau that is about to burst. stricter visa rules have investors worried that the inflow of tourists may slow down. but they are doubling down. they are spending $26 billion on new resorts, doubling hotel capacity. they won't stop there. these casino titans want to score big in the rest of asia. >> japan is the holy grail. they have pachinkos. they are slot parlors. very popular. that industry is $35 billion. it has a lot of potential. >> with the olympics slated for that industry is $35 billion. it has a lot of potential. >> with the olympics slated for tokyo in 2020, the casino industry could win with the worldwide publicity. the government still has to approve. win lose or draw, the titans have already m

now ibm is tying up with chinese rival which will use ibm software and chips after the chinese company tried to lure away customers and satisfying allegations between washington and beijing. the deal could help turn around ales in china. and recovers -- rovers and ensure its debt against a default fell. biggest prolvet jump since 2010. sales of its unit in china, helping to offset a slump in india. and those are the headlines in this hour. >> we are up next, looking after the little guy. we find out how the business council islanding a helping hand to small and medium-sized companies. steel, can, blue scopes the big full of that 12% down to estimates. losses did narrow. of 1%. go 1/10 10's have a hang seng 4/ of one%. the large multi-national corporations may have the muscle, yet it's the smaller businesses that are driving opportunity in southeast asian this is the main talking point for the business council. what is on the agenda? >> first of all? it was started back in 1967 from five member countries. half a century later, it has ubled to 10 and worth $2.4 trillion and it is now ent

known as the chinese curse. both groups recognize that even the great -- attached to opium smoking will not prevent -- from satisfying his appetite. doctors and reporters knew about the drug's potential. their fears of national decay due to opium use were reasonable when remembering that many members of china's military, government, and commercial classes were addicted to the narcotic. after many years of describing the problems associated with smoking opium, journalists and physicians succeeded in getting an ordinance passed banning the substance. in 1876, virginia city, nevada, a town that once housed at least a dozen opium dens, became the first community in the united states to pass an ordinance against smoking opium. from there, other nevada towns as well as the state legislature passed anti-opium den legislation. both groups knew that simply banning the drug would not be enough. they knew that the substance could be easily smuggled into the united states. as a result, reporters and doctors added their voic

it came from the chinese archives. >> cspan: into the photograph above is? >> guest: that is the photograph of a woman that had been gang raped and as you can see she's been tied to the chair so she could be raped whenever the soldiers were in the mood for it. and again i have a hard time even looking at these pictures. >> cspan: what is the purpose of putting them in the buck than if you decide -- what was the conversation like between you and the publisher? >> guest: there were people in the publishing house that had problems looking at the pictures. in the end, we decided that it was important for people to see what they were capable of doing. and it was a tough decision. and i may catch a lot of criticism for it, but i don't think that people will realize just how brutal the japanese word until the city's pictures. >> cspan: ie would say things like what is your proof that this actually is something that is caused by a japanese soldier. >> guest: there are thousands of pages of primary source documents on this event in for different languages described w

these young photographers are an empathy for the chinese youth of today. this only way for them to get their work out into the world is by promoting themselves in the internet and publishing books overseas. >> we follow three young chinese photographers who are striving to capture the reality they see in a changing china. ♪ >> lin, alias number 223 has been taking pictures since he was a high school student. 223 was introduced to the subject through a friend. he comes from farming village in hunan province and only realized he was gay after migrating to the city. until then, he didn't even know the world homosexual. his family rejected hi sexual orientation after he decided to come out and it was only after meeting 223 that he was able to come to terms with his true identity. 223 displays his work online and is also looking for people who want to be photographed. recently he's been getting several requests every month. >> hello. hello. >> hi. >> on this day two girls are here for a shoot after contacting 223 through his website. they're gay and started hav

they say the chinese have made a lot of progress. photos of another area show the chinese have done more work there and officials say a large ship that appear toss be a tanker is anchored in deep water. >> reporter: these vietnamese wear t-shirts with their national flag. they are workers in the capital of hanoi. they gather every week to voice their anger at china. vietnam was ruled by china for more than 1,000 years. anti-china sentiment has more students turning to their history books. 164 students at this high school applied to take history this year. five times more than the number of places available. university entrance exams took place in july. the test included a question that appeared to reflect anti-china sentiment. it asks what significance does it have for national security for vietnamese fishermen to operate in waters around the pair sell islands. >> translator: this sort of question closely reflects current circumstance. it was an appropriate question to gauge students' awareness of the issue. >> reporter: the anti-bei

and we need to fly closer to chinese shores until the chinese stop the behavior. we have to impose costs and make sure they understand that they can't do it scott- freechlt when they see they can do it scott- free they push us further. it sounds good to signal cooperation. but they so it as a sign of weakness. and they are ruthlessly pragmatic. >> so much for the pivot to asia. >> gordon chang. good to talk to you, heather? >> we'll talk politics now. as part of our american election headquarters, we are looking for a electoral fight for the senate. south dakota senator is retiring and the republicans so the chance to take the seat in nearly two decades and jon roberts has more. hi, there, john. >> reporter: hey, good afternoon to you, heather. south dakota is one of three senate seats that look for republicans. and montana and west virginia the other two. and wanting to put it in the republicans win column and help reign in the federal bureaucracy including the epa and get rid of obama care but wouldn't do it all at once, but do it slowly at pieces and puts him a

t >> then let the chinese general ask somebody, take me to your leader.m sure the guy would take thed home to their wife and the chinese and the invading -- and listen. invade countries s anymore. this isn't the days of the romap empire when you can invade a country and steal the women, . steal the cattle, steal the gold.gical that's not the nature of wealth anymore. >> you think the whole world hav gone through a technological c enlightenment whereh invasion nw longer makes sense to anybody? p >> if the chinese invaded the west coast and they started ou confiscating property and ave hurting people, in 30 days, half of them would have deserted to u open up mcdonald's franchises ce andns the other half would ou disappear because the citizens . would take them out at night.. >> thank you. >> very good. you can step down, mr. casey.? what did you think of that? who won that exchange?se] dinesh de souza? by show of applause. [ applause ] was it mr. casey? you can speak into there.t >> i didn't -- it's very oke interesting. i got a rised out of you all whn i s

there's no chinese alphabet., each word is represented by a symbol or character with more than 85,000 of them. but the smartphones and computers used every day here have eliminated the need to remember how to write many of those characters. the result, it's possible to recognize characters without remembering how to write them. how serious is china's so-called character amnesia? we conducted a little exam of our own. this man struggled with the character for thumb. others had a tough time writing toad. easy to spell in english but tricky to master for chinese. and no one could write this famously difficult word, sneeze. but there's still hope for the humble paint brush. china's education ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write. at this ageing public school, students practice their calligraphy every day inside a special classroom. >> translator: teachers and kids are remembering how to write together. it's common even for teachers like me to forget certain words. >> reporter: on warm days,

the chinese account for half of the spending.y that the chinese are not spending also because of that clamp down on construction corruption. not good news for retailers. they demand competition for the shopping dollar as well. we are talking malaysia all competing for that. they will all consider shopping back as well. there is nothing you can get in singapore that you can't get elsewhere. even locals are choosing not to spend at home. you knee as well as i do, people travel across the globe to get the best deals. e are pretty zahavi -- saavy shoppers. >> no, i have seen you in action, and it is pretty good stuff. u and a lot of sinaporians singaporians o -- going abroad to get those deals. and of course there are a lot of brands leaving singapore that you can find here in hong kong and elsewhere. >> that's because it is getting expensive not just for shoppers but for retail businesses, it is costing more than before to do business in singapore, too to be sure. some are closing. if you look at front end retail ememployers, you wi

"zhi japan" is a chinese magazine about japan. it first came out in 2011. each issue focuses on a single theme like japanese lifestyles, food, or culture. its circulation has grown ten times since the first few issues. chinese even bought 100,000 copies of one issue. >> translator: i love food. this issue featuring food is so mouth watering that i couldn't resist buying a copy. >> translator: good articles and a great design. you can feel japanese culture. >> reporter: su jing started up the magazine when he was in college. he read a novel and became fascinated by japan. after graduation, he was hired by a major publisher in beijing. two years ago, he founded his own publishing house. su often hears anti-japanese remarks. recent news reports in china emphasize japan is beefing up its armed forces. he feels information like this leads to misunderstanding. >> translator: some people may think i'm going against the flow, but i think china and japan should understand each other. they shouldn't fight. jase.porter: this issue features swsow to hand out and accept

he will be ready to meet his chinese public for a year. -- he will not be ready to meet his chinese public for a year. but these are the actors that bring it to life. training them present new challenges for a british puppeteer. >> think sometimes there's the fear of getting it wrong. there is a strong desire to get it right from the very beginning, which is not possible with puppetry. to play, make mistakes, discover things through trial and error. offor the national theater china, this is a reversal unlike any they've done before. >> every morning i get up early feeling like a newborn. i know i will learn new things. i'm excited. the british traders make us learn from our own experiences and feelings, not like chinese teachers who say "do it like this or like that." >> china has thousands of new theaters and the old culture of obedience is over. they need lots of shows compelling enough to sell the seat, but not so challenging as to upset government censors. here is the story of a farm boy and his horse fighting impossible odds in the verse world war. for everyone involved, there is a lo

. >> we begin with chinese food. not type you order from a local restaurant but chinese food you may not know you are eating. tonight, a lobbying group calling on the federal government to block chinese process chicken from reaching your dinner table of move comes after a major scandal involving fast-food restaurants, is supplyed by chinese plants, patty la berra with food and water watch, they are asking for this change. patty, tell us, it has been a year since the government said it would be okay for the chinese plants to process chicken for the u.s. marcet, why are you -- market, why are you writing letters now asking for change? >> usda has not let chicken come in yet from china, but they are poiseed. to we don't want it to start, a lot of folks heard the news reports, about a scandal happening in china, with processed chicken products that were going to fast-food restaurants in china, when the usda went to china, they went to check out the food safety system, they went to the planning, said it was run properly t

tech companies playing by the chinese government rules to get their foot 2349 door? -- foot in the door? >> you know what, it's brutally clear whether you can look back over the last three, four sort of food fights people had with the chinese government in the end you're sort of forced to do something because it's becoming such a disproportionate share of so many tech companies business, whether you're selling wireless chips or handsets or anything else. you're kind of increasingly forced to pli ball, which is further emboldening the chinese government to do more, which is a nasty cycle to be in. >> i wonder speaking about samsung specifically, we have been talking about the market shares slipping worldwide. obviously apple struggled in china. samsung's been also sort of challenged by the lower-end players. just came out with a new stealth galaxy alpha phone. again, their strategy is try to reach everyone from low to high. is that the wrong strategy in china? >> it's hard to say. i think they're certainly undersiege on all front and that's something that's played out

it's a chinese company, to start. and you're dealing with the chinese government in part.ow do you think investors will be thinking about some of these issues on the roadshow? will there be a lot of questions? >> i think the biggest challenge that ali baba faces right now regarding their ipo is the governance issue. is definitely an amazing, charismatic executive and leader. but he is also relatively hisurial, and he controls company. there are certain relationships i go on behind the scenes that western business executives are not right is used to, that rely sometimes on selective enforcement of different regulations, etc., and china that we are not used to hear. that said, there is not exactly a fair and level playing field as it relates to ali baba versus competitors entering -- entering china, like amazon. alibaba is set to grow in the e-commerce space next five to 10 years. that is what these investors will be banking on. >> leslie, have you spoken to any of your sources about how ali baba and the people marketing this ipo land to prepare -- plan to prepare for some o

he chose to be true to his own ideal at the cost of losing access to chinese theaters. sato, the critic, thinks that one has a chance of getting his film before the chinese public one way or another. >> translator: freedom of speech is improving in china. people do not yet enjoy full freedom of expression. this is a film that all chinese citizens should be able to watch so they can see the situation for themselves. technological advances are making censorship harder and harder to maintain. many films are banned in china. but determined people can find a way to watch them. . >>> finally,the production for japanese sources as they left those in hong kong and france. no money for mainland china, though. sato expects chinese directors will continue to look outside a home country for financing. >> translator: international acclaim is important for chinese directors who want to express their opinions. the authorities have a hard time suppressing film makers who are critical of the status quo. if their films get a lot of positive attention, that attention provides the director

the chinese investment and trade in zimbabwe reflects the commitment of the chinese government and the people to working with african countries, including zimbabwe, on an equal footing. >> thank you for speaking with us. >>> mozambique's government signed a ceasefire with rebels ending two years of fighting, a week after a peace agreement was met, including plans to integrate fighters into state security forces. parliament is set to work out the companies of the agreement this week. >>> the democratic republic of congo has confirmed two cases of ebola in its northern province, the first reported cases outside of west africa since ebola was identified. the congolese health minister says the outbreaks are not related to those in west africa. it's the seventh epidemic. >> we are reinforcing all the measures announced up to now, particularly making available protective equipment for medical personnel. the active research for cases and following other people that these cases have come into contact with, making sure all burials are done, for confirmed cases and unexplained death. >> ukraine'

he said the islands had already been named by the chinese government. he called japan's action illegal and invalid. in 2012, government officially named four of the senkaku islands that serve as the basis for setting the boundaries for japan's exclusive economic zone. china sharply criticized the move. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry has met india's prime minister with hopes that the u.s. can forge better ties with the new government. modi scored a landslide victory in the may election with a promise to push ahead with reforms. >> reporter: kerry met modi for the first time since he became prime minister. his trip is viewed as an important step in laying the groundwork for modi's expected visit to the u.s. in september. on thursday, kerry met his indian counterpart sushma swaraj. they agreed to enhance bilateral dialogue in the economic field. >> we underlined our interest in seeing a much more robust american presence in the indian economy, as investors, as trade partners, in skill development, in defense and in science and technology. >> and i

some of these are chinese stocks.na mobile and china unicom and china telecom, big names that have been listed here and not there. at the same time there are also gambling stocks, luxury goods and stocks that clearly they have an affinity toward. on the other side of the equation, you have got 120 stocks that are in the industrial heartland, sort of small, mid-and large-cap industrials that global investors will be able to get their hands on in china, very interesting. .> lots of opportunities as you point out, what have we seen anticipation of this and how can investors start exploring. have they already? >> a number of elements. if you think i'm going back to that dual listed aspect, there are 70 stocks that are listed both in shanghai and hong kong. certainly, there is a comparability if not an arbitrage opportunity straight up. premiums group, the basis is dropped to an all-time low. this is being driven right now by hong kong financials and energy stocks having been taken up. you can see the premium on this chart