was no cross to talk to dr park now on wang from the chinese university of hong kong thank you very much for being with us in the program sir first off quentin has been here all being cordial talks with president but why is the u.s. secretary of state in the country now what do you read into the timing of this visit. well i think the secretary of the state is physically. of maybe trying to. opportunities to trying to bring you more western capital into the m.r. in the first phrase and number two is trying to do suppose. you could call me. well see the thing is what's interesting there it's the balance of power is there in their region as we know the chinese have been one of the few partner countries of myanmar. last century and only on monday this week the chinese delegation healthy talks there so what is likely to happen next i mean the countries relations with the chair that could this visit affect say for example could china see the visit of america's top diplomat as a threat to strategic interests in the region. yeah. i think china is seeing the pursuit of korean turns to miramar is

subsidiary of fast retailing, the operator of the casual clothing chain set up scholarship funds for chinese university students. fast retailing wants 80% of new recruits to be nonjapanese to open more stores outside the country. they hope the scholarships will encourage the brightest graduates to work for the company. >>> meanwhile, super market operator eon signed a contract with universities in vietnam in september. the retailer will provide scholarships and accept interns. they hope to make arrangements with other universities to recruit their students. >>> now let's check the markets. the dow-jones average rallied on friday, making it a four day gaining streak on the back of a tax cut extension and favorable housing date a for more on trading, ramin mellegard is at the tokyo stock exchange. a few more trading days left for 2011. how are things kicking off in tokyo this monday morning? >> just a few days left, ai. this morning actually pretty positive start. let's have a look at the opening levels for the nikkei and topix. up over 100 points for the nikkei this monday morning. topix up 6 points. le

president held talks with me in a march on military cooperation dr package none one from the chinese university of hong kong says for beijing washington's high profile trip was an infringement of its national city to interests. i think china is seeing the visit of korean turns to me and my is the threat now this kind of threat truly is posing from two angles i think the one china are and. thailand coalesce and extend them all but most of the china has been contribution to more than seventy percent of. the right investment. and eve the us is not the m.r. and bring you more western capital into the m.r. . will have more opportunities and are getting power to try to live the dominance and even producers of the chinese investors and in capitals as a result so the chinese government has been saying it is is the visit of is more than peter completely either me or my market this is number one number two i think it also bring in some more uncertainty regarding regional security because china has been importing more than eighty percent of all your food this break. which is between the knees here in sing

two hundred political prisoners and eased a media censorship dr park and long walk from the chinese university of hong kong says that washington's trip is an attempt to expand its influence eastwards countering beijing's position in the region. but i think china is seeing the recent north korean turns to miramar is a threat now this kind of threat tree is posing from two angles i think the one china are has been conjured to more than seventy percent of our own torah investment. and eve the u.s. is able to although not year mark and bring you more western capital into b.m.r. myanmar will have more opportunities and bargaining power to try the lair first the normans and even bruises of the chinese investors and the capitals as a result so the chinese government has been saying it is is the visit of the year most is over never more than peter completely either me or my market it also will bring in some more uncertainty regarding regional security because china has been importing more than eighty percent of all through the market district. which is between the knees here in singapore now china has

. >> that was professor ito from university of tokyo. >>> a chinese state run firm has become the first foreign company to sign a contract to develop oil deposits in afghanistan. the deal between the china and national petroleum corporation and afghan government was signed in kabul on wednesday. the company will develop an oil field in the northern province with estimated deposits of 80 million barrels. it will pay user fees and part of the profits from sale to the afghan government. the contract also calls for a cmpc to build infrastructure such as roads in the area. >> translator: the chinese company will build schools, hospitals and other facilities to help with the development of the region. cnpc is the second chinese firm to sign a contract to exploit afghanistan's natural resources following a company that has invested in a copper mine. the development of its rich natural resource says seen as a key it afghanistan's self reliance. china and india are competing for contracts in afghanistan while developed nations are holding back due to the country's poor security. >>> a the top of

our next guest is phil saunders, an expert on the chinese military at the national defense university the coauthor of a new report, ," buy, build or steal, china's quest for military aviation technologies which details china's aircraft development and procurement strategies." phil, merry christmas and thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> how have the chinese been going about trying to build their air force and how effective have they been? >> my coauthor and me talk about three main routes, buy, build or steal. if you buy you can purchase the most advanced aircraft you can get, but it leaves you dependent upon a foreign supplier. if you build it -- >> in the case with the russians where they get their aircraft from? >> russia has been the critical one and burned the chinese in the 1960s when they split with russia and they had a bunch of aircraft they couldn't get parts for. so buying is one route. the second route is to build it yourself and then you have all the indigenous technology, but you're limited to what your own aviation industry can produce, and then third is steal to tr

after the korean war experiments were conducted at mcgill university to better understand the methods of the chinese scientists and talk to drugs and to test subjects kept them awake for days and blasted them with music with devastating effects. the results of these tests were supposed to better train american soldiers to withstand torture but the cia used them to optimize their own interrogation methods the us intelligence guidelines show how an anti torture training program was turned into a manual for torture as a cynical case of reengineering. the goal is to confuse the prisoners to break them psychologically and to make them feel awfully weak and powerless. two of the preferred tools noise and loud music. the cia allows up to seventy two hours of continuous deafening sound during interrogations making it impossible to sleep. my understanding is that the cia believes that would be easy to interrogate these people if they were so weak and if they if they didn't have the will that they were brought in with but i have i have absolutely no incentives for why or what went on. but how does music tortu

enormous foreign study movement and if you're a member of the chinese elite, one thing you want your children to have 1 a foreign university education. you have something like a half million chinese people who studied abroad and then gone back to china, most in the past decade, and these children are either clever people with scholarships or very wealthy to afford foreign university fees, and it's extraordinary the influence that they have in modern china. they completely dominate the technology industry in the big tech companies, and they have huge numbers and founded by attorneys and have huge numbers of them working in high positions, and they completely dominate the think tanks on practical policy, and the most interesting thing is there's starting to be a big force in the come mewist party -- communist party itself. there was one at brookings did a study of what proportion of the central committee of the communist party are educated, and it's going up and up and up, 6% in 2002, and up to 7% -- sorry, 10%, nearly doubled by 2007, and he reckons with the changeover next year, it will be up to 15% or 17%, so it's getting

chinese young people... >> yeah, because they didn't have any university for ten years. they didn't even know who arthur miller is. they don't know who pinter is. the only person they knew, brecht, because brecht is east germany. at that time-- i can't do it now-- i gave a lecture for three hours. and at that time i could because i just came out of university, i am full of the human condition and this drama terminology, which i can't do anymore, you know. >> hinojosa: so at that point, did you imagine... did you think, "look, hollywood is on my radar, hollywood..." because now you live in hollywood. >> no, that was before hollywood. >> hinojosa: exactly, but were you thinking at all like hollywood might be something that... >> no, i never think hollywood might be something ever, because you have to understand, my... the actors in england, my time, they may want to go to hollywood... >> hinojosa: but they would never say so. >> they would never say so. it's like really selling yourself. you see, so you never think about hollywood. and you never think about getting awards.

enormous foreign study movement and if you are a member of the chinese elite, the one thing you really want your children to have is a foreign university education and so you have got something like half a million chinese people who have studied abroad and then gone back to china. most of them in the past decade. and these children, these are either very clever people who get scholarships or they are very well connected people sure they are wealthy enough to afford foreign university fees. and extraordinary the influence that they have in china. they completely dominate the technology industry and all in all the big tech companies. they have huge numbers, founded by returnees or have huge numbers working in high positions. they completely dominate the technocratic think-tanks that advice the government on practical policy, and the most interesting thing, they are starting to be a big force in the communist party itself. if you look at cheng we have workings, who has done this sort of study of what proportion of the central committee of the communist party are returnees or uneducated. it is just going up-and-up and up. it was 6% in 2002

i mean, if you're a member of the chinese elite, then the one thing you really want your children to have, um, is a foreign university education. um, and so you've got something like half million chinese people who have studied abroad and then gone back to china, most of them in the past decade. and these children, these are, you know, either very clever people who get scholarships, or they're very well connected people, the children of the elite, or they're wealthy enough to afford foreign university fees. and it's extraordinary, the influence that they have in modern china. they completely dominate the technology industry. they find all the big tech companies, you know, have huge numbers -- founded by returnees or have huge numbers of them working in the high positions. they completely dominate the, um, the technocratic think tanks that advise the government on practical policy. and, and this is the most interesting thing, they're starting to be a big fort in the communist -- a big force in the communist party itself. there was a scholar called lee at brookings who had just done this sort of study of what proportio

country's friendship with beijing holding talks with chinese officials last week joseph chang a professor of political science from cong city university told us the two countries are very important cooperate of partnership that allows pakistan to counterbalance its relationship with the united states. pakistan has been be seen spece. the history of the people's republic of china increasingly pakistan has has a certain strategic value to china certainly as for your normal pakistan's relations with the united states in difficulties because of the nato attack on is military post last month and the washington d.c. the fuse to deliver kind of policy. against any government and at the same time it is very significant the top chinese diplomat when he was in pakistan he met the president the prime minister the army chief of staff arguably the most powerful soldier in pakistan as well as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the head of the into services intelligence so it seems that sign would be would have been ours to give more military aid to pakistan to balance against the weakening ties between pakistan and the united states and

country's relationship with beijing holding talks with chinese officials last week joseph chang a professor of political science at hong kong city university says the two countries have an important cooperative partnership allowing pakistan to counterbalance its relationship with the us. pakistan has been beating spece throughout the history of the people's republic of china increasingly pakistan has has a certain strategic value to china certainly is feel normal pakistan's relations with the united states in difficulties because of the nato at packed on is military outpost last month and the washington d.c. the feels to deliver kind of policy defy be pakistani government and the same time it is very significant that the top chinese diplomat but he was in pakistan he met the president the prime minister the army chief of staff aga. brede the most powerful soldier in pakistan as well as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the head of the into services intelligence so it seems that china would be would have been ours to give more military aid to pakistan to balance against the weakening ties between pakistan and the united states a

many of these chinese come here to universities and get the best education and then they go back home to empower their government and corporations. at one point, we did a very good job keeping human capital in this country. we need to encourage them to stay here -- whether from china -- and also develop the capital we have here. it's got to go back to the best creators of jobs in this country are business people and we cannot strangle them, feel that we are against them, and we cannot permit class warfare that makes people believe that because they go out and earn a hard living and the judy hsu society, that they should be punished and take from the haves and give to the have nots. while we believe in compassion and helping those who are unfortunate -- it should not be enforced by the government. we did the best jobs ourselves. host: the democrats' line. caller: my question has to do with time. i am curious why nobody wants to of knowledge of the time. host: what do you mean, susan? caller: pipeline -- i've done those before, two or three months of work and those jobs are over it. it

chinese, parenthesis cary nelson, university professor so this has been an opportunity to reach out topeople across the country and around the world about issues that i think are important. c-span: how long have you been at the university of illinois? >> guest: i sometimes they just after the civil war but actually is since the fall of 1970. c-span: where did you go to undergrad? >> guest: antioch college in ohio, a wonderful school and not only was it a very progressive school but it had really do need programs where you went to school half the year and you worked half the year. so in ohio i spent six months as an assistant teacher at a fifth grade -- rate school in harlem and i worked in an office in new york. i worked in a hospital for three months here in washington d.c. and bethesda actually. the store where you got great academic training but also were sent out to the world to discover what work is. one of the things i discovered, couldn't take orders from anybody and i couldn't show up from 9:00 to 5:00. i had to be and my own control and basically that left me with being a prof

him mark lai was a chinese historian that taught one of the first classes at san francisco universityaving no formal academic history. community activists move to rename it after his death in 2009. >>> bay area fans of military history are getting a chance to visit a famous battleship. the "uss iowa" is in richmond where it is undergoing restoration. joe rosato jr. shows us the public and rare peak on board. ♪ >> reporter: it is one thing to read about military history in books and another to see it from afar. there is nothing like the experience of tactually walking its plaengs. >> it has a soul of its own. you get to see it every day. >> reporter: the docs of richmond have become the tem pore many rather home to the historic battleship, "uss iowa." >> the deckhouse is corroding down to the main deck. >> reporter: after more than two decades in the sassoon moth ball fleet, it is undergoing restoration before heading to los angeles to become a floating museum. there is plenty of work before the ship's final trek. 60,000 square feet of wood deck need replacing. acres of steel to paint.

accounts by western diplomats or so-called sort of enlightened chinese diplomats, if you read what they say about kim jong il, there's almost a universal of a vfr well-informed, rationale political leader. the buffoon stereotype of kim jong il really distracted people from the fact that he was a leader with some measure of flexibility and realism who could have actually been dealt with much more than he was, particularly in the last few years. >> all right, john delory from the university graduate school of international studies in seoul. thank you very much. one of kim jong il's lasting legacy will be the country's nuclear development. in 1994 the year kim came to power, north korea agreed to freeze and dismantle its nuclear weapons program. four years later, the u.s. and north korea held the first round of high-level talks about pyongyang's suspected construction of an underground nuclear facility. negotiations with north korea became a back-and-forth of broken promises with pyongyang pledging to stop its weapons program in exchange for aid only to later renege. in january 2003, north korea withdrew from the nuclear nonproliferation

chinese were killed shocked the world. >> donald gold stein is a professor of international affairs at the university of pittsburgh. >> the japanese went in and raped women and killed people. and there were pictures of this and people saw dead bodies in ditches and it was quite the provokation. >> one of the issues for the united states was the japanese withdrawal from china and yet that was something the japanese were totally unwilling to consider. >> japan was facing its own destiny. a confrontation with the united states in 1937. >> it is the incident with a gun boat on the river which was clearly marked with american flag and clearly we know that the japanese attacked it. >> oliver: two sailors were killed and 48 injured. >> they fought against the japanese bombers as well as they could in this wanton assault. the attack was without sem ambulance of justification and relations is grew worse because of the sinking of the panay. >> this was outrageous this small little country the size of the state of california was acting like a bully in china tease the dog,isease the dog, the united states. >> oliver: by december 1940

chinese were killed shocked the world. >> donald gold stein is a professor of international affairs at the university of pittsburgh. >> the japanese went in and raped women and killed people. and there were pictures of this and people saw dead bodies in ditches and it was quite the provokation. >> one of the issues for the united states was the japanese withdrawal from china and yet that was something the japanese were totally unwilling to consider. >> japan was facing its own destiny. a confrontation with the united states in 1937. >> it is the incident with a gun boat on the river which was clearly marked with american flag and clearly we know that the japanese attacked it. >> oliver: two sailors were killed and 48 injured. >> they fought against the japanese bombers as well as they could in this wanton assault. the attack was without sem ambulance of justification and relations is grew worse because of the sinking of the panay. >> this was outrageous this small little country the size of the state of california was acting like a bully in china tease the dog,isease the dog, the united states. >> oliver: by december 1940