and the communist party keep saying it is democracy.n't chairman mao call it the people's democratic dictatorship? yes! to be totally honest, yes. we do not know much about democracy, other than the face value of the term. other than some gigs that we had in the last ten years before 1989, ten years we looked at the west. what the real driving force that brought us to the streets of beijing in 1989 was not so much our knowledge, deep knowledge of democracy, it's our deep knowledge of lack of democracy. we know what it is than when we don't have democracy. and you were from a relatively privileged background. you were a guy that had the chance of a higher education in a beijing university. in a way, i'm surprised that you were prepared to risk everything back in 1989, because there must have been a lot of fear. you knew the party was not going to easily accept what you were saying. again, we wanted to apply pressure, so hopefully they can take the better option. yes, we were privileged. all university students in china in 1989 will be so

i'm not familiar -- i'm not familiar with those tapes, but, look, the communist party isn't importanthat's important is the communist idea. people on the left are part of a a religious movement. they believe that the world could be redeemed. the planet can be saved and the world can be redeemed and they see themselves as the redeemers and that means that they are willing to use the power of the state of the federal government to impose their views on everybody else. that's why they are so dangerous. is that idea that we have to confront. not a political party, not ade particular organization. that's the idea that you can have social justice. how can you have social justice when the people administrating it are going to be the same people that are corrupting it. there is no society outside of the individuals who make it up. there are only social justice of whoever is politically on top. the problem, the root cause of all social problems is us. it's our greed, our greed ego tism and insensitivity and it's a fight of every generation to maintain civilization and democracy. reagan said, f

party today. why will it you trust bernie sanders who was a lifelong supporter of communist causes? why would you trust anyone has his honeymoon in the soviet union? that is to the democratic party is today. with the help of debbie wasserman shultz i make no apologies. >> host: the did you care about is the conservative what was the reaction from longtime colleagues and parents? >> my mother believed family was more important than impala tex i think both my eight parents were worried because the panthers to end my life and they were vicious most of the people they murdered were black but because i was threatened they were worried. >> host: what about your friends but. >> pylos every friend ever had. every last one. new never realized when you learn there but if you do 88 to be politically incorrect to can use your friends to lose every friend that you never had when you don't even noble conservatives are. i found out that was not true. >> host: "big agenda" has been reviewed by a well-known conservative. >> a brilliant man i love believe are and what you say. halle we able to see how

he will step down as president of the country but remain head of the communist party.e has been, the word is that he is sort of appointed or is preparing the vice president, who is about 56, 57 years old, younger generation, a technocrat who was going to at least theoretically take over in february 2018 as president of the council of ministers and the council of states. ul will remain very much the power behind the throne until he passes behind the scene. it will be interesting after that. host: president obama also repealed the wet foot, dry foot policy. do you think president trump will continue -- consider reinstating it? guest: it does not seem that he will consider changing what president obama did. this started under president clinton in the mid-1990's to do with a migration crisis at the time dealing with cuba. announced asort of a way to resolve the crisis is that any cuban coming to the country who is caught in the high seas trying will be returned to cuba. however, if you are able to land on dry land, then you are and can be brought into the country and there

they gave complete support to the communist party. if you might have normal diplomatic relations where you could compete, i don't know if china was very competitive with the united states in terms of its overall influence in sudan, it was a country that wanted to have normal relations. it wanted to have some semblance of influence where it -- i think there are a few chinese cultural programs that were carried out in sudan. i think it does want to do those kind of things. that is more important than party to party relations. >> we are quickly running out of time, let's take a few questions. >> the gentleman on the gray jacket. >> when it is paul. i'm currently at gw. >> did this competition extend to latin america? >> you had a question? you raise your hand? >> i am from the university of maryland. i just got an email from a i just got an email from a colleague in namibia. you're talking about africa telling me about an article in the new york times. i knew that when i was there, the question is where they there in the. you studied and

grand daughter of deng xiaoping, being investigated, so there are political implications as the communist partyo a reshuffle ahead of the party congress later this year. thank you so much for that. we are still watching that story. a worsening situation therefore anbang. has been suspended in the tokyo session amid claims it could be filing for bankruptcy next week. we are following this story. we have been talking about voesta and its various for a couple of years now. why did it take so long to reach a deal? it involved 15-16 carmakers, a massive recall, 100 million airbags, probably ¥1 trillion in total liabilities, so a massive crisis. committee anding lead better has to negotiate with each carmaker. interest by each carmaker are not always aligned, so they have to negotiate with each one in terms of the legal ramifications and continuity of their business. founding family still controls more than half of the company shares. key committee came along way to get to where they are today. rishaad: tell me about next steps did what happens next? according to our sources and other media reports,

communists the left said go to hell is basically what happened. i have no respect for those leftists, many of whom are leaders of the democratic party today, by the way.y today. when you know.t you why would you trust bernie sanders who's been a lifelong supporter of communist causes? he's been very consistent. why would you trust anyone who chose to have his honeymoon in moscow where the soviet empire was at its highest murdering 40 million people and putting a hundred million and a concentration camp. that to the democratic party is today. bernie sanders-- that's the reality. i may know-- host: david horwitz, the day you came out as a conservative, what was the reaction of some of your longtime colleagues and parents? guest: my mother believed that family was more important than politics and i think both my parents were very worried because the panthers lead my life after this woman was killed and they were a vicious gang and most of the people they murdered were black. because i was threatened , they were concerned about it. what was the other party your question? host: reaction of your friends. what do you remember? guest: i lost every friend

lot of people what he called the starvation army, people without work and he also ran into the communist partynd as the other people that were researching at the time, john steinbeck, carey mcwilliams that wrote a book called the factory in the fields or something like that were all interested in communism because it looked like the present system didn't work at all. so guthrie started doing that and eventually he got thrown off the radio station and started doing cowboy songs because he was such a partyline communist. if we have bernie sanders i guess i could say socialist and we would all feel more comfortable if he came to new york not long afterwards where he was greeted by the communist party. there was a quote in one of the papers that said one ended and now guthrie is going to sing it. he didn't think it was going to work. he still believes it but he doesn't think they are going to get there in 1944. he's taken this version of events and put his own spin on it. >> it was for propaganda. it sort of works but as i discussed in the book it depends on who you think it is. he's talking about

this is also testing the chinese communist party's governing ability, and whether they can address thend poorair address the issues of pollution and poor air quality. that is something xijinping is trying to present poor air quality. that is something xi jinping is trying to present to the world as well as the domestic audience. how big of a sticking point do you think this issue of steel tariffs is going to be?m point do you think this issue of steel tariffs is going to be? it is an ongoing issue. it has become particularly pressing, because what is happening in the political arena and what is happening inside china, thatis and what is happening inside china, that is affecting it. i can only see the problem escalating. thank you very much for your analysis. it's a big day for pakistan. today it re—joins the msci emerging markets index — a massive reputational boost for the country, and a sign that things could be turning around for a nation that's been beset with political and terror related problems. the msci emerging markets index is made up of 23 emerging markets including india, c

party in germany doing? how is it different than the communist and socialist parties that are all over europe, and does it have anything to do with co-ops? >> yes. the name of the party in germany is called the die linke. "die" is "the," " and "linke" is the german word for "left." they didn't want there to be any ambibiguity ababout we ththey were comingng from, so oy basically call themselelves the left party, die linke, and it is a party thth came together out of two other parties. firirt was the left wing of the social democratic party, the old established socialist party that has been in the government, has s been the government. last leader of germany before angela merkel, the current lead,, was a man named d schroeder, and he was a member of the social democratic party in germany. the left wing under a very, very charismatic leader, which was important, a man named oskar lafontaine, withdrew from the socialist party in order--excuse me--to found this new party the die linke. the other part of the die linke is the party that used to be the dominant party in what was east germany. you know, the east germa

i'm support the communist party. want to see change. -- i do not support either of their programs. right until the last minute, i could change my mind. >> unlike last time, voters have 2 candidates to choose from in the second round. they had to decide whether tuesday a communist stronghold or vote for the president's new party. >> clamping down on cuba. you president donald trump will announce plans for miami to roll tok barack obama's policy cuba. he is expected to tighten rules on americans traveling to the communist island. federal policy will restrict american companies from doing business with cuban enterprises controlled by the military. he is trying to meet a campaign pledge but struck down of closing embassies are breaking diplomatic ties. trump's's said it -- aides said obama's easing has not helped human relations. cuba, donald trump plans to roll back part of the historic deal reached by present -- former president barack obama. he is stopping short of cutting diplomatic ties with the island, while campai

there are also fears creeping right now among many residents in hong kong that communist party leadersing are starting to undermine the one country are starting to undermine the one cou ntry two are starting to undermine the one country two systems formula. that's right. we got a taste of that from the interview with chris patten. he summarised it quite nicely. it is worth saying not everyone in hong kong is against the chinese president. he does have his supporters. of course, those who agree with lord patten will take to the streets because xi jinping is seen as the streets because xi jinping is seen as a the streets because xi jinping is seen as a divisive leader in china and in mainland hong kong. a great day in hong kong. thank you so much for joining day in hong kong. thank you so much forjoining us. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. cyber security experts now believe a global ransomware hack may have started with corrupted updates on a piece of ukrainian tax software. the attack has spread to at least 64 countries. governments, ports, banks, oil companies and ai

votes of today would like to see he scored higher than many of the others he also satisfied the communist party as he was from a working-class family and was a devout atheist and his background was russian so the two were greeted by officials that had concerns for the reliability of a rocket at the base day parted and then returning to a the transporting and it was erected just two days earlier he was helped into the spacecraft and all through the of procedure officials were observant anytime the stress could be too much for the 26 rural. however to be quite composed considering this history of which she was the center now at t minus 80 minutes account resumed and it he negative 30 minutes the technicians left the service to our as the countdown reached zero those rockets came to life and a half a million pounds of fuel began to burn whole fleet a controlled manner he was the first to ride into the cosmos with the vibration sitting on top of the most powerful creation of man part of his new venture. i get excited he did go into orbit about 150 miles don't quote me on that so those are a couple

and and with a communist party of the philippines absolutely but they have there been any peace talks to be of the armed groups that are now holding some areas of. this stage there is no peace talks the philippines is not the only country where isis has made inroads the same happened for example in afghanistan and we had a chance to interview the former i've got a son present hamad karzai just a short while ago he's opinion is that whenever isis expands. abroad that mosque with their house geopolitical actors what about the philippines do you believe that these islamist extremism that you are now dealing with in mar i mean is it homegrown or is it exported into your country and then what we what we are seeing is that the local and the local terrorist groups have links to international groups that is what we're seeing. and definitely there is support coming in definitely very linked and in fact. apparently receiving directions from outside of the philippines. however and that's exactly what they are what they are addressing making sure that this is contained within morrow we itself now

strengthen the hand of hardliners within the cu ban strengthen the hand of hardliners within the cuban communist partye inconsistencies in this policy. for example, obliging us citizens to come to cuba in organised groups. that means the chances are they would stay within state run hotels and not the private centre, exactly the part of the economy that the trump administration is trying to empower. there are a lot of people suggesting this is misguided but the administration is clear that the previous of nurses and midweek, rolled over for the castro government, and that they will take a harder stance. —— the previous administration was weak. we will keep the focus on donald trump because the president has once again taken to twitter. the president has taken to twitter to confirm he's being investigated for obstruction ofjustice in connection with the firing of former fbi directorjames comey. he said: "i am being investigated forfiring the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director!" once again he called it a "witch hunt". he also insisted that "after seven months of investigations a

he is expected to remain ahead of the ruling communist party.al news 24 hours a day powered by 2700 journalists in 120 countries. this is bloomberg. we are joined by bloomberg's paul allen. good morning. >> we are seeing some weakness. often a sixth of 1%. we may see gold stock leading the decline. the unemployment rate expected to hold steady at 5.7%. that is notoriously unpredictable. one stock to watch is bhp. they will name a new chairman either today or tomorrow to replace jack nasser. other things to watch, the new zealand dollar will be in focus with first-quarter gdp out of new zealand. off will rise to 7/10 of 1% the back of the disappointing balance of payments. more from bloomberg technology, next. emily: this is bloomberg technology. after worst selloff for tech stocks the market is trying to find its footing. the companies that solve the biggest losses fell once again after the federal reserve meeting but after the $176 billion wipeout we have seen since friday, our tech stocks too expensive? james,, whoing in covers these stories.

liu xiaobo has been a constant thorn in the side of the chinese communist party since his involvementhen he and others got together and put together a manifesto called charter 08, with a specific plan to overhaul the government this was too much for the government this was too much for the authorities here and they put him behind bars for attempting to subvert him behind bars for attempting to su bvert state him behind bars for attempting to subvert state power. translation: as an honest intellectual with self—respect it was inevitable that i would write something which is antiestablishment. following the tiananmen square crackdown liu xiaobo was offered asylum inside the australian embassy, but when he got to the front gate he didn't go in. deciding instead to stay in his country and try and change it from within. for this he's paid a terrible price. that'sjust about within. for this he's paid a terrible price. that's just about it for this edition of outside source. we've been covering the new deal between the conservative party and democratic unionist party in the uk. this is an ar

they sought to destabilize democracies and communist parties. now with various other element elements and in france. they broke into the computers of law firms & attorney-client privilege documents were up on the wikileaks. what is amazing to me is that the president continues to deny that this happened. this attack on the united states occurred. they continue to describe this as fake news. furthermore, we have the fact that the fbi director was certainly fired because of the russia investigation. the president has admitted that. with all people in conversations with the russian ambassador. yet that very clear act of obstruction of justice, attorney general sessions is not willing to answer questions about his communications with the president about the real motive for firing james comey. even though the president is willing to talk about that with the press and the russian ambassador. her attorney general cannot balk about with the u.s. congress. that looks like a cover up to me. >> as i said, we are intruding on to the hour of chuck todd and "

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important up thelly for shoring president and surrounding him with a crown of glory of the old communist party and he can carry the mantle forth into the future. >> very briefly, the story we tell each other is that as chinese economy slows it is more inclined to take an adventurous roster overseas. are we making false assumptions, or is that true? >> more adventurous posture? >> trying to rally people around the flag. in the absence of delivering the trip to milan, will they be able ofdeliver the satisfaction punching somebody in the nose? >> i think they have relied on very high income streams to people. and as those decline, it becomes more difficult to do so. you have to look out around the world for other income streams and report -- reward people in other ways. i would point to the relationship with pakistan. you never find china talking about isis, right? you never hear them talking about terrorism, right? they prevent their own terrorists from leaving. they closed their borders. they aren't interested in international terrorism. but they do things like going to muslim schools and force

-- while has been xi jinping there, the chinese communist party has a tighter grip on hong kong- windpipe. the international community, britain in particular, has not made the fuss it should have been. your sentence at the handover "i relinquished the administration of this government." thedid a blurb for wonderful book, let's bring up a quote from 10 years ago. a modern history of hong kong. orther governor patrick anyone representing the people of hong kong, if the transfer of power was a moot point. they are not represented in the handover. that is what the professor is saying at oxford. help me with the modern hong kong. do they have any representation today? >> they have some, but very little. the really important parts about the people of hong kong is an understanding of the relationship between pluralism, rule of law, prosperity, free markets, free politics is part of their dna. it is good from around it is not only older people that feel that way, it is younger people. people like joshua wong and the younger generation that feel passionately about freedom and should be r

to do in france, and as russia has been doing since the 1917 revolution, they did it through communist partiesy years, now they're doing it through other fringe elements. if he wants to call that fake news or just a witch hunt, he's just living in an alternative universe. i seriously yes his competency to be president of the united states and to defend us against foreign aggression if he doesn't face the reality that russia has been engaged in this type of conduct. and we certainly need to have an independent special counsel who will look into the question of who in the united states collaborated with the russians. what we know right now is that several members of the administration have lied about their contacts with the russians. in the case the general flynn, lied about receiving money from the russians. and we need to find out who else has received money from the russians, who contacted the russians, who may have collaborated with the russians with respect to the hacking of computers in the united states. this is a serious investigation. he's certainly not going to intimidate bob mueller.

sense or surrounding him with the clout of glory that he really does carry the mantle of the old communist party. and that he can carry it into the future. >> before he got to questions, the story we tell each other as china's economy slows it is more inclined to take more adventurous postures overseas. you think that is right or wrong? more adventurous posture? >> rally people around the flag. in the absence of delivering the trip to malign, will we deliver the emotional satisfaction of being able to punch somebody in the nose. anne: i think that will calm. the issue right now is that the system has relied very high income streams to certain supporters. as income streams have to be maintained, and is growth clients and profit declines, it becomes more and more difficult to do so. you have to look out around the world for other income streams and reward people in different ways. i agree completely with you lie's analysis -- eli's analysis with pakistan. you never find a china talking about isis, terrorists, and that is mainly because they close their own borders and keep their own muslims from l

are there any one of our communist party comrades party members? >> anthony: no, no, i'm kidding. but, no, what i mean to say is, it just seems that the realm of the possible here is very big. >> daniel: absolutely. it's a big stage. >> anthony: mm-hmm. >> daniel: i mean, in new york city, or in other places in the world, you can see that it might be a massive project. but that's probably the only one in the whole city. but in shanghai, there's ten massive projects going on. and then there's ten more coming up in the next couple years. >> tim: you know, it's a big world, big city, but small village at the end. and i think food is the best weapons on earth to make peace. it's the food, it's the drink. we have better peacen earth and you're probablthe united nations ambassador. >> anthony: in time. >> tim: and these little shrimps are from south pole and only new zealand has the right to farm them. try it, with your wasabi you like. >> koko: a lot of chinese restaurant in new york? >> anthony: i grew up in the '50s and '60s and even then, chinese restaurant, chinese food, was really

it used to be the case that the republican party was the, you know, the anti-communist party, the hostile to russia party, the most, you know, vladimir putin was a big boeingy man. donald trump wins the nomination, gets elected and all of a sudden a big lot of republican voters have a much more favorable view of vladimir putin and democratic votersers d head in the opposite direction. this is a kind of, both sides do this. so i'm sorry, that is a rather long answer to your question. i was much more struck by the latitude he has. and clearly he made the swroak about being able to shoot somebody in the streets and people would forget him. i don't think that is the casement but within the realms of kind of normal politics, i think he could get away with pretty much anything. >> he's their guy. >> yeah, he's their guy. >> and and that's a more powerfl thing. so again, imagine you are a coal minor in west virginia. so lots of democrats didn't understand why people in coal mining towns in west virginia voted for a kind of billionaire who showed up there and said you know, guys, you are going to

really change, if you have free political elections, you have political parties other than the communist party, we will talk and negotiate, but nothing more for nothing. >> yeah. i think that the everything that you said is correct but i do find it slightly bizarre and a bit hypocritical because, if you think back, a couple of weeks, you had president trump standing with his hand on glowing orb with the leaders of saudi arabia, who obviously have a lot of human rights violations themselves. so i understand what you're saying. i personally think that we need as many steps as we can to have free trade with cuba, to empower those cuban people to be more successful. i don't know if this throws a wrench in that plan or will facilitate that plan, we'll see. but you know, again sort of the context of all the things that he could be doing, i'm not sure that this is where americans want him to be spending his time, nor see the consistency. david: carol, before we go, jean kirkpatrick, once our u.n. ambassador, she said there is difference between authoritarian government and a totalitarian government.

sense or surround him with this cloud of glory that he really does carry the mantle of the old communist party, and that he can carry it forth into the future. >> before we go to question, very briefly. the story we tell each other that as china's economy slow it's more inclined to take a more adventurous posture overseas. do you think that is right a wrong generally? is a basically true? >> you mean militarily? >> rally people around the flag. do they say in the absence of being able to deliver the trip to mow lawn, will deliver emotional sentimental satisfaction and the up to punch somebody in the nose. >> i think that will. the issue right now is that the system has relied on very high income streams to certain supporters, a and this income streams have to be maintained, and as growth declined and profit streams certainly decline, it becomes more and more difficult to do so. so you have to look out around the world for other income streams and reward people in different ways. i would, i agree completely with the analysis and i would point to relationship with pakistan. you never find china

sense or surrounding him with the clout of glory that he really does carry the mantle of the old communist party. and that he can carry it into the future. >> before he got to questions, the story we tell each other as china's economy slows it is more inclined to take more adventurous postures overseas. you think that is right or wrong? are we making false assumptions or is it basically true? anne: more adventurous posture? >> do they try to rally people around the flag? in the absence of delivering the , will we deliver the emotional satisfaction of being able to punch somebody in the nose? i think that will come. the issue right now is that the system has relied very high income streams to certain supporters. as income streams have to be maintained, and is growth clients and profit declines, it becomes more and more difficult to do so. you have to look out around the world for other income streams and reward people in different ways. i agree completely with eli's analysis. with pakistan you never find a , china talking about isis, i agree completely terrorists, and that is mainly because they

the most important event in the political calendar this year is the 19th party congress of the communist partyto the government arrangements in china. he wanted a tremendous, successful event to mark the occasion of the return of hong kong to chinese sovereignty. we have seen kong to chinese sovereignty. we have seen protests, we have heard there had been some people detained and now released. how great are those tensions and what are they over? the tensions and what are they over? the tensions are absolutely enormous. the people of hong kong, in particular the younger generations, wa nted particular the younger generations, wanted democracy. democracy, as we understand that in the united kingdom. the chinese government under xijinping will kingdom. the chinese government under xi jinping will not accept hong kong becoming a democracy. and this is where the basic tension lives. how much more liberal is the attitude in hong kong compared with china even 20 years on? the basic attitude between people in hong kong and in china, very different. hong kong, having been a british colony for 143 years

, which is now up to 20,000 members, one of the biggest things since the pre-christian speech communist party. -- khrushchev. often this particular language, they said nothing special to offer language is often littered, misquoted or misrepresented something once said by eugene debs were arguing with an actual racist within the socialist party, and this kind of range of people, the more social democratic right wing of the party based in the upper midwest. that's kind of, there's an article in "jacobin" about that. on the question of reparations, to meet an argument that exists purely in the political imaginary. so how does this look and practice? what kind of proof would we be asking for? would it apply to people who are, let's say, second or third or fourth immigrants from jamaica? obviously like suffrage from slavery and effects of slavery. but connected to the british empire, matthews. there's all these kind of questions that often makes it a purely rhetorical device. so what do we want reparations to do? we want reparations to uplift a historic injustice. if there's disappointed unemploym

it poses a risk potentially to the power by the chinese communist party. so they're tackling it with huge investment. they invested the largest investment in renewables since 2012. a huge amount of money being poured into the secondor here in china. manus: you talk about the money being poured in, there, tom. the world, a great article written by david tweed over there in hong kong which talks about the plaudits that will be given to china but the reality is there are many areas that china has to do better on as a rising power. climate change is not going, as it were, the shining star of us understanding a market economy and -- an accepted economy, one that's got human rights at the center of its policy agenda. tom: oh, absolutely. no doubt about it. what it does do. the refrenchment on trade and climate change we're seing from the white house is give china that opportunity to fill that void and soften the blows, whether it's on issues of human rights abuses that continue here of course or whether it's on what's been discussed in brussels over opening up t

go to london but they sit in a fringe group in the european parliament, with people like the communist partynfluence in the european parliament. applause we have 190 meps, in my alliance, and i meet with the leaders almost every month. you sit with a bunch of communists, what is your influence? when you have a big mandatem you tell everyone about, you don't go and use it. the idea you would sit out this election, win this election and not use your mandate means when people panic about brexit, you won't go and do anything. and what could happen because of that? we will see again a prime minister who wants to bring in a hard border in ireland, a hard tory brexit. that is what she wants but you won't go and count against them. we will be there to count against her and try to get a labour government. applause first of all, i think you have seen why it is so difficult to get an executive restored, when you get hectored constantly. jeffrey does not want to hear what actually happened at the time. i'm listening. that's good to know, but you do that with your ears. i'm listening. applause when it co

and colleague on the other side of the aisle, one of the really great remaining members of the communist party who has allowed me to speak and give this statement. madam president, i yield the floor. mr. whitehouse: madam president, i appreciate my colleague's sense of humor and we'll resume my remarks, the last sentence that i said is that we don't know who is behind that dark money or what they are demanding in return. despite this risk, congress has been unwilling to push back against the tide of dark money. too many are too in tow to the big american dark money emperors, like the koch brothers but once you permit dark money to flow through dark money channels, cash from vladimir putin is no more traceable than cash from charles and david koch. the kremlin's trojan horses is a study of russian influence in western europe done by the atlantic council. russia takes advantage of nontransparency in campaign financing and financial transactions, the report says, to build political alliances with ideologically friendly political groups and individuals as well as to establish pro-russian organizat

much debt in china and he expects more rigorous controls will be put in place after this year's communist partyng exclusively to bloomberg in beijing. there is clearly too much debt in china, that i am not of the few that you should just put the brakes on in a sudden way, because that will create more problems. china has to navigate a situation of growing out of its debt. i would anticipate you would see more rigorous controls following the 19th party congress. i would not want to underestimate these challenges. i am still positive about the economic prospects. >> what leads you to that confidence? >> i am spending a lot of time in the states at the moment, and you can hear some very negative opinions about china will blow up with some sort of debt bubble and banking crisis and so forth. i don't see that happening. it could happen, but it would require some policy mistakes that i don't think are going to happen. of course there will be bumps and issues, and there is the opportunity to get it badly wrong. i don't think chinese policymakers will. know theysee china, i are intervening in the curre