w reported clifford coon and who has covered the congress in beijing for many years and is watching a closely for us today. clifford talked to us about the significance of this month . parliament shooting ping is expected to make some big changes. he is and add these changes. some of them are personnel, some of them are about the structure of the party and they mark the culmination of what has been an incredible power play pretty much over the last decade, during which time he's sold to position himself right at the center of the party and he's had to go through all these different motions to get all the factions in place, so that now he is truly the supreme leader on. if i can describe, i mean i've attended 14 of these of these congresses. and they really are the most extraordinary events there where you have 53000 people sitting there applauding in, in concert. and it's, it's really pure theater. and it is indeed a rubber stamp parliament. but it does also give us an idea of the direction things are going on. what we've learned so far, even from the opening of this, is that 1st of a

and we want to keep talking about beijing's involvement in this deal with clifford coon in our resident, china analyst clifford a deal brokered by beijing. how significant is this for she and us government? i think it's very significant because basically we've seen china's economic rise for many years and we've seen its military rise the way it's been building up its army. but for the longest time, it's want to match that rise with a sort of a diplomatic muscle that it's never really hard. and it's been under pressure to do more internationally to, to be a better global player and am so in this way, it's very important. and development, it's also the week that's been in us. it's been quite a week for chinese foreign policy. it began at the national people's congress where she campaign. i'm named the u. s. which m as as a, you know, a negative in, in chinese development, which normally you would, you know, try and couches in different terms. we actually specifically mentioned the u. s. so i think what we seen this week with this deal to end the week, and at the beginning of the week, chi

the issue is the latest source of tension between china and the you, us and clifford coon and my colleague joins me for more on that. clifford, let's start with his testimony. there was, this is highly anticipated. a lot of people talking about how this would go, how did it go? i think it's fair to say it didn't go well for, for tick tock or its parent company by dance. it was basically, they done a lot of preparation. they'd install the ceo who, who looks in many ways like he's, he's a chat g p t version of, of the. so, you know, here, exactly, you know, he's, he's, he's singapore in, so he's not mainland chinese. he's harvard, goldman sachs, you know, he's got these excellent credentials. he's a great appointment and they hope that by that that they can basically present a much more progressive, a much less china people's republic of china aspect to the company. and instead he faces grilling and am i mean tech ceos never do well in these congressional hearings. i think it's probably fair to say, but he still, he, he evaded questions. he was, he found it difficult to answer things. for ex