if most ofsurprised you in the audience have not been lobbied by the chinese communist party directly. the chinese communist party friendship organization are in richmond, minneapolis, portland, jupiter, florida, and many other cities around the country. activities are's not quite that public. i want to talk about some of that today. let me read you and excerpt from a letter from a chinese diplomat. he sent a letter last month to the speaker of one of your state legislators. know, taiwan is part of china. avoid engaging in any official contact with taiwan, including ascending congratulatory messages to the elected, announcing proclamations for the toction, sending officials the inauguration ceremony, and inviting officials in taiwan to the united states." you have a diplomat from china assigned here to the united states, a representative of the chinese communist party in new york city urging an american elected official should not exercise his freedom of speech. let that sink in for just a minute. this is not a one-off event. it is happening all across the country. illinois,nsults in

chinese communist party officials are cultivating county schoolwith board members and politicians through sister city programs. the chinese competition is something you know and sits in but you of your mind have many duties and you are busy people. but there is well under way and may seem like local matters to some the cumulative national of enormous importance and international significance. ur public educational institutions are another arena of competition with china. governors you don't run them but you often have impact on the do.le that f.b.i. director and i think the attorney general talked something called recruit d plans to scientists and proffers to transfer the know how to china enormous pay r days. the program is probably campuses in your state. the department of justice ndicted universities at university of kansas and .irginia tech and harvard a texas a&m investigation reported it has more than 100 participating ts in chinese talent recruitment plans. five declared they were participating in the program. what else we have not discovered. there are indeed very credible of chin

the videos emerging from behind the chinese communist parties internet wall show chinese typeople pleading, pleading with the international community to expose the scope and scale of this epidemic. the response so far by the trump administration is exactly what happens when science skeptics with alternate facts try to run emergency response that requires expertise, planning, knowledge, money, cooperation and science -based action. being anti- science is not just rhetoric. it hurts us. it hurts every american in many ways. rthat is what president trump ad uehis administration do and our republican colleagues lightly go along after months of tiptoeing around the chinese communist party and after three years of cutting funding for our epidemic response program, president trump simply has led the united confrontfair to possible epidemic like coronavirus. i'll have more to say this week about what the administration must do to right the ship. on another front, again, the frustration how this administration has conducted itself unprecedented. i know some of my colleagues like to say just like ob

but the chinese communist party continues to refuse that offer of assistance from the united states. otion of biological warfare, quote, absolutely crazy. finish accusing you of trying to spread misinformation and panic. what's your response there? i mean, we don't want to create panic, but at the same time people need to be educated in terms of what exists in this region in china. >> well, the burden of proof right now is on the chinese communist party and the ambassador of china and his fellow communists. they have lied consistently about this from the beginning, so we should not take their word at face value. and, no, we don't want to have a public panic, but we do want to err on the side of caution when so much is unknown. and that's consistently what china has not done, by consistently lying to its own people and to the world, they have created a situation where we have not been able to take the preventative measures that we might have, and we have not been able to err on the side of caution. maria: tell we what the downplague of this has done. in other words -- downplaying of th

marks they gave saturday past were recitation of facts, things that are taking place the chinese communist party are places we can trade with them, constructive components to the relationship but everyone needs to be aware there are these risks. these are often chinese diplomats stationed here in the united states engaged in this activity. we want everyone to be aware of the risks associated with activities they may be undertaking. >> in every state in the union this influence operation if you will by the chinese is underway and without exception every state, every citizen should be aware of it. the scale of what you are putting in front of us as a threat from the people's republic of china is massive, sophisticated, complex and you are talking about a us foreign-policy that has to in response be equal sophisticated while our citizenry is, we are all trying to catch up to you. >> the president talked about this. i'm proud of what we have done, here are the things we have to do to protect the american people from this challenge the chinese communist party threatens. on trade it is reciprocity and

their membership in the commine knees communist party may not be -- chinese communist party by itself may not be enough to. -- but what -- the things we worry about and membership in the chinese communist party can be an indicator obviously of intent but the fact is any chinese student whose here regardless of whether they're a member of the party is also susceptible to pressure from the chinese government when they're here. some of it can be unspoken or whispered economic pressures like you're in the u.s. i'm sure you would love to have a good job when you come back. others can be stronger you're in the u.s. but you know who is still in china? your mom, your dad, not too many siblings. your aunts, uncles. so the point is i think we worry about that kind of behavioral pressure a great deal and we see it in some cases. so as i said, membership in a party may be an indicator but there are other ways the chinese have been more forceful in getting folks who are here some who came here not planning on doing anything but ended up doing things. >> a question on this side. >> go back to the c

so that wealth creates that the inventor and property owner not to the chinese communist party.mp has been strong on this. and state department all of agents in united states government are focused on protecting american people. lou: and as if the relationship between the united states and china were not complicated enough. the coronavirus outbreak. the united states, working hard to get medical teams in. from our cdc. in to china. trying to help, i know that you have this administration as shift all sorts of medical -- ship all sorts of medical supplies to the chinese, how would you assess it. can you update that just a bit for us? in terms of what is going on. >> lou, it is a global epidemic we need to work our way through. with science and facts, president trump taken action to try to protect american people, we have changed the ability of folks to come here, we go the americans out of wuhan. we put them in quarantine for 14 days. to make sure we protect american people. americans expert in to country to make sure that we help the world, address this challenge, and we at stat

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rather than being influenced by the chinese are you confident that the chinese government or chinese communist party has an attempted to influence you. very confident that i haven't been influenced i think it is concerning especially given what we know about the way the chinese government sees education in the chinese government's eyes education is a means of propaganda of brainwashing and controlling the thoughts of people so from history in university vice chancellor to be advising the chinese government on education. from an optics perspective looks terrible. last july at the university of queensland made china's consul general in britain an adjunct professor the 5th such appointment of a chinese diplomat. who is nominated by the director of u. cuse confucius institute. the appointment of such people goes through a book well defined process. anybody can nominate. somebody for an affiliate position and it's not unusual we have $2500.00 such positions. after the uku protest the consul general put out a statement praising the probe aging protesters for what he described as spontaneous patriotic beha

and they just wonder whether you ever pause to consider the achievements of the chinese communist partyds of millions of chinese people today in your country who are living better lives, materially much better lives, because of this strategy and policy pursued by this communist party that you portray as an enemy of the people. my father is the may be the most important communist poet. he is the number one patriotic poet. he is friends of mr she's father, a close friend. and i think this party maintains, tries to maintain its power and sacrifice the early ideology and they completely betrayed their own ideology against the start of the struggle decades ago. and what i'm saying is the truth. i'm not anti— china or anti— chinese people, but to tell the truth is the best way to help them out. let me turn now to your life out. let me turn now to your life out of china. when you first went into exile you went to berlin and had a studio in berlin. i think you found life difficult in germany and, of course, in the end you chose to leave and to come to the united kingdom. but you left with some

on the chinese communist party has made the world sick. t a natural disaster, this is a disaster caused by chinese communist party mau administration of its rule, and people are dying in china and beyond the borders because the communist party isn't competent to run a government. >> shannon: we will continue to watch the spread of the virus. senator, thank you for stopping in. >> thanks, shannon, good to be with you. >> shannon: knew tonight, federal reserve chairman jerome powell warning lawmakers about the federal budget deficit, which is expected to top $1 trillion this year for the first time since 2012. the president weeding criticism of the fed chairman during that hearing today, while democrats use their time to question powell's choice of party. he recently attended. >> can you imagine how attending a lavish party at jeff bezos' $23 million home, along with jared and ivanka and jamie dimon might give off a sense of public that you are not to come in fact, immune from external pressures? >> i would certainly hope not. >> shannon: pow

until we get all the evidence from the chinese communist party, it is only responsible to keep an openabout the hypotheses. >> martha: it's interesting that today the state department announced that five chinese media outlets will now not be considered media outlets but foreign missions, we will put the names on the screen for you. what does that tell you? it does go to the point that you are making that the information we are getting is very difficult to verify. >> it tells you the chinese communist party just like any communist party has a wide spread propaganda effort and regrettably "the washington post" and "new york times" have taken millions and millions of dollars from something called china daily to run so-called inserts that purport to be news but in reality are chinese propaganda, they ought not be doing that. >> martha: that is one of the main entities, china daily. >> china daily has spent tens of millions of dollars putting what appears to be news inserts into "the washington post" and "the new york times" yet they are paid propaganda. >> martha: would you assume those co

the answer is not ok, but we have so much to work with and the chinese communist party has run a total mobilization and ideological campaign to say that a foundational threat to the chinese, and his party and their -- if youe world is are vladimir putin in russia, you are not afraid of united states armed forces, maybe other security forces, you are maybe your ownally afraid of citizens. and think democrats need to work harder, make democracy work, need to grapple with new technologies that i think have turned on their head about how technology could power human freedom. there is so much to work with and so many people all of the world who want our support and our help. >> we have a panel of optimists here. i would like to get into why democracy has been ending -- ebb ing. delivering.d it we heard about pushback from authoritarians. your mind, what is driving the difficulty for democracy? >> there are about 200 different books on this or less. what i will say is not particularly original, but i would just focus on one issue that we had for your mouse look at and i think sometimes does

chinese communist health system breaking down. rebecca, finish your point. >> the world health organization has been saying the problem is not as bad as it is because they're taking all the data from the chinese communist party reports from doctors much earlier on late in december this was a serious problem yet the chinese communist party allowed, massive, national, 40,000 families come together with this pot-luck dinner. they were allowing the disease to transfer among their citizens. who knows how many numbers. it was lack of accountability to the government is a hallmark of a socialist and communist-run government. liz: i want, the other headlines coming in. how xi xinping control occay lost control. how they lost their grip after brief respite. bloomberg reporting that doctors from china are not protected from it. they don't have supplies there. their own doctors are getting infected. the doctors and nurses say they are overwhelmed. china's grip on the virus is not working. >> no. they need to allow for western doctors to come in to offer help and assistance and they need to be transparent there needs to be concern how this disease is spreading. not even just, we need to know more how it is spreading, th

chinese government took the rare step of revealing that president. but a meeting about the virus with the highest members of the communist party on january 7th it shows that she was aware of the virus sweeping will happen nearly 2 weeks before he publicly acknowledged it. earlier this month thousands of people took to chinese social media to mourn dr levy lindley egg who died from the virus li was reprimanded by police in january for spreading so-called rumors about the merging outbreak in who bay province yet those social media post many with the hash tag we want freedom of speech were wiped by government censors for more on how china is mediating this unprecedented health crisis we're joined from new york by william young he's a journalist who covers the greater china region also in new york we have to go to china researcher at human rights watch and from edinburgh we are joined by maria nikolaevna she's a scholar of chinese political communications and is an assistant professor at georgia state university hello everyone i want to begin by talking to you william catch us up over the weekend it seems to me that pressure is starting to mao in the int

o'brien says this alarming because chinese companies by law must comply with directors of the chinese communist party see a company that can use its position in the market to advance the aims of the chinese communist party. it's hard to see how any telecomuns firm could view the company as a trusted company. huawei claimed quote u.s. allegations of huawei using unlawful intersection are nothing but a smoke screen. they don't adhere to any accepted form of logic in the cyber security ask domain. let's turn to our good friends gordon chang, columnist, author and senior fellow at the gates stone institute. let's start with the charges robert o'brien brought. but he is saying point blank, this is a national security threat that no government, no country can ignore. >> he's absolutely right. the 2017 national intelligence law requires any chinese company to spy if the government demands. in china it's a top-down system. nobody can resist. lou: why is the u.k., germany, france, and other companies resisting the united states -- it's a demand if they want to share intelligence with the united states, to get

imprisonment for speaking out because they want to say the communist party can solve our problems, denies basic human dignity and the chinesest party has made the world sick. this isn't just a natural disaster, this is a disaster caused by the chinese communist party maladministration, people are dying in china and beyond their borders because the communist parties and competent to run the government. shannon: we watch the spread of the virus and check those numbers, thank you for stopping in. new tonight federal reserve chairman jerome powell warning lawmakers about the federal budget deficit which is expected to top $1 trillion this year for the first time since 2012, the president tweeting criticism of the fed chairman is democrats use their time to question powell's choice of a party he recently attended. >> can you imagine how attending a lavish party at jeff bezos's home along with jared and ivanka and jpmorgan chase after jamie dimon might give the sense to the public that you are not immune from external pressures? >> i would hope not. >> he didn't talk to any of the people named. new york governor andrew cuomo and

it's well documented the chinese communist party cracked down on doctors who tried to sound alarm on al media in late december. at the very time of this virus spreading, the chinese communist party when they shared the news with the world health organization, they were crack down on difficult strength in the their own one -- crack down on dissent in their own country. '. the chinese people are the victims of this. we need to develop a vaccine. >> do you think we'll be able to do it in time? >> i have high hopes. some of the world's best scientists and medical researchers work in some of the most amazing laboratories and companies here in the united states. we are work on tracing and monitoring people who have been to china in the last month, they need to start manhattan-level effort because there are so many unthose. when there are so many unthose, it's best to err on the side of caution. judge jeanine: my concern people coming through the west coast and hawaii. i want to ask you quickly. do you think the democrats are going to stop or do you think they will continue to try to impeach

rather than being influenced by the chinese are you confident that the chinese government or chinese communist party has an attempted to influence you. i'm very confident that i haven't been influenced i think it is concerning especially given what we know about the way the chinese government sees education in the chinese government's eyes education is a means of propaganda of brainwashing and controlling the thoughts of people so from history in university vice chancellor to be advising the chinese government on education. from an optics perspective looks terrible. last july at the university of queensland made china's consul general in britain an adjunct professor the 5th such appointment of a chinese diplomat. was nominated by the director of u. cuse confucius institute. the appointment of such people goes through a book well defined process. anybody can nominate. somebody for an affiliate position and it is not unusual we have $2500.00 such positions. after the uku protest the consul general put out a statement praising the probe aging protesters for what he described as spontaneous patriotic be

trade way and in a corruption sense for example america has been incredibly abused by the chinese communist party regarding our intellectual property that's corruption absolutely come off as a right thing i'm asking about specific case of corruption involving ukrainian all the dogs or the israeli prime minister who's indicted on charges of corruption but is a good friend of the president he doesn't show interest in any specific case of corruption the democrats surely know that. i cannot no i don't know that but i can address the here's the difference between netanyahu and biden and there's a crucial difference netanyahu is not american he's not american politician he's a friend and ally to be sure of our country and of the president on a personal level but joe biden was a constitutional officer of the united states the 2nd highest constitutional officer of the united states if he was engaged in corrupt practices or if his family was while he was the city vice president that is an extremely relevant and appropriate angle for this country to pursue i want to talk about the issue of immigration and

while way a demand that has been rebuffed by european allies under president she's ruled the chinese communist party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction more internal repression more predatory economic practices more heavy handedness and most concerning for me a more aggressive military posture. it is essential that we as an international community wake up to the challenges presented by china's manipulation of the longstanding international rules based order that has benefited all of us for many decades covering the conference for us from munich is john help. well the world's 2 most powerful nations squared off against one another here in munich 1st the united states secretary of state mike crapo and defense secretary marc esper giving notice firing the starting gun essentially on what could be a new era of u.s. defense and foreign policy. china as enemy number one the pentagon's top priority said mark s. but because of its more aggressive military posturing in the region its trade economic and territorial ambitions further afield he said we do not want to conflict with china w

which one is rep winning right now it's not the former in fact under present she's rule the chinese communist party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction more internal repression more predatory economic practices more heavy handedness and most concerning for me a more aggressive military posture it is essential that we as an international community wake up to the challenges presented by china's manipulation of the longstanding international rules based order that has benefited all of us for many decades the communist party and its associated organs including the people's liberation army are increasingly operating in theatres outside its borders including europe and seeking advantage by any means and at any cost let me state up front though the united states does not seek conflict with china in fact we look for areas of cooperation when our interests converge in the hope that they will choose the other path that they didn't select 2 decades ago. just look at the nearly 1000 tons of medical supplies the united states recently provided to the p.r.c. to help fight the coronavirus an

however, they n have sitting next to them at every level of government, reminder from the communist chinese party have any confidence in the party apparatchiks allowing china scientists or the doctors to speak freely to anybody outside of china especially officials in the united states government. that's why we've seen the numbers of the coronavirus continued to spike and kind of strange unpredictable patterns and those are nearly the new cases, their newly disclosed cases because china is carefully managing the flow of information about the virus. >> laura: when you call someone who floats conspiracy theories because you questioned the comments and the justification that they give on s it.t all started you mention the fact that there's a level four lab in the wuhan province where it's thought to have biological weapons and the capability of production, any new thoughts on that? >> well, laura, we know that it started in the wuhan food market and that's the original story of the chinese communist party and only responsible to ask where it did start and i still think the most likely hypothesis is

the chinese communist party certainly since xi jinping took power has run a total mobilizational and ideological campaign to say that a foundational threat to the chinese communist party is the aspiration to democracy and human rights among chinese and more broadly. if you are a vladimir putin in russia, you're not afraid of the united states armed forces. you're not afraid of maybe other security threats. you're fundamentally afraid of your own citizens. look at maduro in venezuela and the lengths to which he has gone. i think democrats need to work harder. we need to make democracy work. we need to grapple with new technologies which i think have turned on their head our assumptions about how technology could empower human freedom. it's empowered autocracy in many respects. but there is so much to work with out there and there are so many people all over the world who want our support and help. >> we've got a panel of optimists here, and that's good. but it is a tough moment. it's a dark moment. i would like to get a little bit of sort of why democracy has been ebbing, if we can agr

they're producing more mosques and you get no real information to transparency got lost in the chinese communist party and this is always a bad sign if they stop communicating transparency but really briefly about communicating i find it quite interesting and we chat today that with the death of this doctor who said to have discovered the virus in the 1st place but it was silence has been a lot of criticism and the party isn't deleting or or blocking those messages today which is quite interesting that's 989 all over again like it is i'm sure many people to lose control perhaps just can't because people get really angry and in front of the cameras they always say we don't trust the government anymore help us what's going on and that could be the start of the beginning of the end of the communist party of china a free place thank you very much for coming in. in another sign of weakness global growth german industrial production dropped sharply in december and exports barely edged it was a figurative all year for manufacturing in europe's largest economy production of cars of machinery drives the german

the increasingly nationalist rhetoric and the tightening grip of the chinese communist party is concerning and express very clearly in the national intelligence that required individuals organizations and institutions to assist the state security apparatus to caveat a range of intelligence. in many ways chinese nationalism may prove to be a greater adversary in communist soviet union. of course china remained a source of economic opportunity for western nations. the hope of some that greater economic action would produce political changes not hugely overoptimistic. we should not be blighted by the size of the potential market pre-china is not now nor likely it any perceivable future going to become a more liberal or democratic state. indeed it seeks greater strategic advantage met so far with mixed results. we would be better to accept the chinese strategy is to make the world more tolerant of and more permissive towards totalitarian regimes. we must respond by meeting -- making the world a better and safer place for democratic and free nations whose underpinning stability is based on the