so, any one of these things could have changed the fate of the communist party of china and the establishment the chinese communist, the people's republic of china. but at the end, we're dealing with the chinese communist party today and we can basically understand it better or we can just basically pound our way into strategies that may or may not work if we don't fully understand where the other side is coming from. and that's one of the things that we try to teach the students at the commanding staff college. you have to look at both sides of the issue. and you've got to understand the enemy, which is straight out of sun tzu. know the enemy, know yourself. there is a big argument out there that we very seldom know the enemy to the deep, in a deep enough manner to make the key strategic decisions and plans and policies that we need to make. so, with that, i should have stirred somebody up and i should have some questions. so, camille. >> that you do, geoff. as a reminder for everyone watching whether that's through our facebook live stream or through our youtube stream. thank you for all of

the first cases of covid-19 appeared in china's early as november of 2019 and the communist parties of china withheld information from the rest of the world as it sought to downplay the potential impact of the virus. china repeatedly silenced the brave men and women of its own country who tried to sound t the alarm and as a result countries around the world were ill-prepared for these critical early stages of the fight against covid-19. now more than 2.1 million people have died from this virus including more than four and a 20,000 americans. it's impossible to gauge how many of those lives could have been saved by earlier intervention but this should serve as a cautionary tale when it comes to managing threats from china. we cannot allow china to continue standing onle the sidelines while four other nuclear states play by the rules as we hope they will. the administration must push to get china into the negotiating table at the negotiating table. the thick cloak of secrecy surrounding the chinese communist party has made it nearly impossible to verify information about the breadth and

china over a host of issues continues into 2021. the new year also marks a milestone for beijing. the 100th anniversary of the founding of the communist partyf china. in a new year's speech, president xi jinping said the centenary ushers in the prime of life for the party, but warns the road ahead is long, as china pursues hardline policies both at home and abroad. those policies haven't set well with the u.s. and the trump administration. based on an executive order by trump signed in november, the new york stock exchange announced it would begin delisting securities of three major chinese telecommunication firms by january 11th. china said it will take necessary counter measures. but beijing is also hoping a new leader in washington will signal a fresh start. china's foreign minister spoke of a new crossroads in a recent interview. >> china hopes that the next u.s. administration will resume dialogue and cooperate, so that bilateral relation will return to the correct track. >> reporter: a chinese expert says improvements will not be easy. >> the strange ties between the two countries will be eased in the short-term. but it will be diffic

be creative in all the ways that stoke well of what you're saying clearly not lost on the communist party of china you've you talked about the fact they have the biggest telescope right now on the chinese you think the telescope where the alien communication would likely be through 8 radio waves so if illions send signals to earth the chinese will be the 1st to hear it. we don't know what it's like trying to argue for more money with the government for its base programs let alone important as for physics research but do they sometimes say you know what why don't you get your own house in order and solve some of these basic problems like when the protons decay new chilling is also laid how does the sun generate. reversing magnetic field feel what he is thought. that i have asked here rather than spend money going up there let alone the space was all i can say is no there's no one panacea that solves all problems in any given moment but there are pockets of research where you have ambitious people who are creative and smart and they want to learn how the sun generates its energy and how you know how

of the chinese communist party inside the united states. as president trump's secretary of state, mike pompeo, warned lawmakers, he said the threat from chinainside the gates. pompeo said further the chinese communist party has penetrated everything from our schools, city councils, local and state legislatures all across american business and universities as well. pompeo today delivered another speech in which he highlighted the foreign policy accomplishments of the trumped a managers over -- trump administration over the past four years. here with more, fox news correspondent rich edson. >> reporter: good evening, lou. what the trump administration and secretary of state mike pompeo are doing here today in this speech is warning of links between al-qaeda operatives and iran. the secretary saying that there is a confirmed link between leaders, al-qaeda leaders in iran and using it as an operational headquarters. >> has a new home base. it is the islamic republic of iran. as a result, bin laden's wicked creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities. >> reporter: u.s. officials have said for years that there the has been senior al-qaed

yeah i mean i want to not get too political and obviously but but you know the communist party of china their twitter account is that but the present united states. they i mean that think that a lot of that that in terms of the standards now twitter's a u.s. based company based in in california. so you know it gets this is obviously through the lands of the people that work through twitter and not to the land of legislation or really any truly impartial and again if you care it was sort sorry mom will bring clear back and was there is there too much focus on donald trump just because he is the president of the united states and was so prominent on twitter i mean a mention of ali there we talked about both sonora before we talked about the terror take this is not isolated to this one man. no it's not and we're seeing lots of people online saying this is unprecedented and of course there are many people around the world we not know it's not there are being leaders from all sorts of other countries that have had actions taken against them we've seen lots of other moments when content has b

party's relationship of the chinese government. we know at least one member of the house intelligence committee had sexual intercourse with a chinese 55k reno others have taken money from companies tied to the communist party of chinaw we are learning something even more amazing. barbara boxer, longtime democratic senator from california who retired in 2017, has registers as a foreign agent for company. the american subsidiary of a chinese surveillance company that has been blacklisted by the united states government. this evening under scrutiny, barbara boxer deregistered under pharaoh as a foreign agent. it doesn't mean she's not lobbying for them. the whole thing is pretty amazing. we thought we'd have gordon chang, senior fellow, author of the great u.s. china tech war, and he joins us with reaction. gordon chang, things were coming on. it's not that i'm surprised that barbara boxer would do this. i am shocked that in this environment she thought she could get away with it. what does it tell you that one of the most famous former senators in america registered as a foreign agent for a chinese surveillance company that had been blacklisted. >> it tells me that the chinese communist party has completely infiltrat

by the horizon advisory group, he runs an innovation center in close partnership with the communist party of chinaatever it is, it's not a problem for our leaders because no one in the chinese government voted for donald trump. it's not like they're dangerous but you know who is dangerous? any american citizen who doesn't agree with msnbc. watch. >> the whole idea of prevention needs to be examined by the new congress. what do i mean? we still don't have a domestic terrorism law. we still don't treat this like we do international terrorism, change the religion of some of those people that enter the capital and you've got violent jihadists, the fbi with undercover informants, electronic surveillance, agents and their groups and organizations and we've got nothing like that going on. >> tucker: so the government should change the religion of those people. the government now has the right to change the religion according to the g-man on tv. that's a big change. when did this become a theocracy? with that we were allowed to believe any religion we wanted to believe even ones that morning joe doesn't u

we are in a new cult war with the communist party of china.y are trying to surpass the united states as the global leader in advanced technology. that's going to have tectonic impacts on our economy, on our way of life. these are some of the questions we should be debating, and if we take an agenda to the american people, then we can be successful and that will translate into votes. so we need to get away from he said/she said. we should be talking about the future and put out a plan that's based on clear articulative values, not this insider baseball common inside washington, d.c. >> someone i know that shares your views about big policy debates. let's take votes. maybe my side will win, maybe my side will lose. senator rob portman just announced he's not going to seek re-election in two years. he said it's simply not fun anymore. let's listen. >> it's kind of shirts and skins, isn't it? that makes it more difficult to find that common ground, because elected officials aren't rewarded for that. what they're rewarded for is throwing out the re

encouraged people following him to support one of the leading propaganda outlets for the communist party of chinand just in case you think we are exaggerating, here's what he wrote. "especially during the 18 party congress, follow chinese state media." most politicians might feel slightly hesitant about endorsing chinese state-run media and public, but not jon ossoff. if you learned anything from hank johnson, if you're going to do it, you might as well go all in. last year we learned that jon ossoff's media company -- is media company -- received thousands of dollars from a chinese-backed media giant. ossoff didn't even bother to claim to care about transparency. in fact he refused to release any more financial documents related to foreign investors. but stop asking questions. america is racist. that's the answer to everything. by the way, it would be nice if someone disagrees with a claim which we are all the time, because that claim is totally false, it's poisonous, and it's wrecking what has been for a couple hundred years now a pretty great country buried ours. but increasingly no one pushes

will make the kind of investments so that technology advancements are not driven by the communist party of chinawith the chinese people. and we have to build a new set of coalitions i think around technology that may replicate the economic coalitions and alliances of the 20th century and the military alliances in the 19th century. a lot there. and thank you for giving me two minutes to get that out. but i'm really excited about turning the page. i can tell you the overwhelming sense of my republican colleagues is they're willing to join in this effort. >> senator warner, willie geist here. your plate certainly is full as you laid out. let me ask you about working with those republicans as we look on the other side of the screen, beautiful pictures on what looks to be a beautiful inauguration day in washington. with the arrival of joe biden, someone you worked with, worked in the united states senate with many of you, there's been some expectation that things would change there because of personal relationships. the fact of the matter remains it is a 50/50 senate. there are a number of senators t

of you, sink or swim. it's party time in beijing — communist party time. china's21 be marking the centenary of the organisation which took power in 19119 and has been there ever since. but the mood this weekend isn't celebratory. china's foreign ministry has attacked a british scheme, applying from first thing monday morning, which would allow thousands of hong kongers to escape the new security law and settle in the uk. and it issued a blunt warning to taiwan, which it says is part of china — "independence means war". what explains the belligerent tone? the issues are slightly separate - _ hong kong will be - a difficult talking point between china and the uk in years to come. it might poison the. relationship as well. the issue of taiwan, - this is standard for china because china has always regarded taiwan as its i breakaway province, _ and president xi has been shown to take taiwan back before too long, although we don't know yet... - in terms of taiwan, | it is more of a signal to the biden administration. the ball is really in biden's court, with what is goi

of criticism in this speech. this speech is cheerleading for the chinese communist party. you praised the initiative and their developing countries and say the united states should follow china'smodel. is that the role of the american un ambassador to be cheering on the chinese communist party at the expense of the developing world and at the expense of america? >> it was not my intention, nor do i think i cheered on the chinese communist party. what i recommended in that speech is that africans need to open their eyes on how they feel they deal with the chinese, and i would like to see the united states government to do more in africa to compete with -- >> did you have even a word of criticism about the chinese communist party about its murderers and torturers and concentration camps and genocide, did you have even a word of criticism in the speech that you gave? >> i spoke about human rights there. that's the speech but you don't see my other engagements with students who ask questions that i answered frankly. and i don't ignore human life. i talk about the fact that -- >> that in the speech did you address? >> it is referred to as something that we promote in the united sta

. >> may i ask, do you consider what's happening with the communist party of china is doing there. ou believe they're guilty of genocide? >> what they're doing there has been referred as genocide and i know that the state department is reviewing that as we speak. what they're doing is horrific and i look forward to seeing the results of the review that is being done but certainly -- >> the state department issued a designation, i believe, on the president's last day. so, your understanding that it is now being reviewed by the state department to see if that is appropriate. >> i believe the state department is reviewing that now because all the procedures were not followed and i think they're looking to make sure they are followed to ensure that that designation is held. >> okay. thank you. here it is. i apologize. he stepped out and gave me the seniority card. senator carden on virtual. >> i am with you. appreciate it very much. and let me thank our nominee for her incredible service, distinguished service on behalf of our country. and thank you for your willingness to continue in p

administration is that there are serious national security issues around partnering with the communist party of chinanot open up as promised. instead, they went more inward in the chinese communist party, over 40 years of engagement. next up, the word on wall street from janet yellen's comments on tax increases and when they're coming to the strong results from netflix. we've got everything you need to know for your money this morning. stay with us. my retirement plan with voya keeps me moving forward... even after paying for this. love you, sweetheart. they guide me with achievable steps that give me confidence. this is my granddaughter...she's cute like her grandpa. voya doesn't just help me get to retirement... ...they're with me all the way through it. come on, grandpa! later. got grandpa things to do. aw, grandpas are the best! well planned. well invested. well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. maria: welcome back. time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. joining me right now is chief investment officer, jack adlin, fitzgerald group principal, k

argument that american style democracy is too chaotic and what we have here again, the china communist party of chinais much more stable and to follow. the bottom line is, and i know that this is a, you know, people like to throw around the phrases like cold war, i think this is very different than the cold war, but do you have any doubt in your mind that the goal of the chinese communist party is to be the world's predominant political, geopolitical, military and economic power and for the united states to decline in relation? >> i do not. >> you have no doubt? >> i have no doubt. >> okay, thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator rubio. i'm told that senator coons is with us electronically, is that true? >> that's correct. >> i can hear you, i can't see you -- oh, now i can see you, there you are. welcome senator coons, the floor is yours. >> thank you, chairman, ranking member menendez, thank you so much for to be with you, tony, it's great to be with you again. thank you to you and your family, to evan and john and lila for your willingness to serve once again. given your previous secretary

companies but are subjected to the course and part of the chinese communist party. people think china, restrict visas. i think make the more available and create initiatives for a brain drain if the parties going to put them under that kind of course of power. there's a lot we can do from economic competition standpoint. i think the trump administration did put a lot of important measures in place but there's much more that we could get. >> and, can ask you to fold in an answer to the question about what you think about the regional comprehensive economic partnership? >> okay. that one is easy. it's not much of a trade agreement. it's certainly not china driven. it doesn't consorts not much of a trade agreement. it's a way below the sort of standard trade agreements that we sign. it's a political sign for sure that asean southeast asian nations, are going to move forward with their visions of regionalization. it's extremely important to them and we have to take it seriously. i hope that the next administration can overcome this sort of bipartisan turn against trade because when it com

china is a strategic and global competitor of the united states, and the chinese communist party routinely engages in economic coercion, military aggression, human rights abuses, and influence operations. its policies deliberately damage u.s. interests and values. in the face of the ccp's dangerous goals, the united states must maintain a strong, competitive stance. rising to this challenge is now a sprint and a marathon, that will require sustained political will, expanded cooperation with allies and partners, and properly aligned resources and personnel. last year, i introduced the strategic act, the first comprehensive legislative proposal to compete with china effectively. this bill was written with democratic senators' input and other democratic organizations around this city who are in the think tank business along with republican think tanks. and it should be noted that china is not a partisan issue, it is an american issue. i know senator menendez has strong concerns in this regard also, and i hope we will work together as we move forward with those challenges. i hope and expect th

. >> reporter: secretary of state moving to lock in gains made against china's government accusing communist partyof genocide. >> chinese communist party has committed these crimes against humanity. >> reporter: a continuation of the urge to hold china accountable for the coronavirus pandemic and the trade war that has cost the us economy $300 billion. >> the chinese pattern of misconduct is well-known. >> reporter: across the arabian see experts tell fox news the abraham accord, foundation steps for middle east peace, that will cement the foreign relations policy. >> remarkable to have four muslim nations, two arab nations enter into peace agreement with israel joining egypt and jordan, a seachange in the middle east. >> reporter: one of the rat from your policy achievements the incoming biden team plans to keep declaring in september they will build on these steps mature, signature comprehensive the trump administration in the eyes of the president's on team is a pre-abca24 economy, the strongest the us is seen in 3 decades according to the wall street journal. poverty tumbled and america's leas

dagen: yeah, the opportunity to essentially bet on the communist party of china and hope you get treated correctly. that's calculation that you would be making. tom, great to see you. tom lydon. >> you too, dagen. dagen: raised price target due to growth in the tech giant's cloud business. microsoft will be reporting its quarterly earnings after the bell tomorrow. we are just getting started this morning, coming up former cke restaurant ceo and any puzder on getting america working again as california is ready to lift stay-at-home order today. next hour, we are looking at the risk of a stock market bubble with the word on wall street. then florida congressman great stoobie talks covid-19 relief negotiations and former nebraska senator bob carrie weighs in on bipartisanship and whether the biden administration can indeed unify the country. in 8:00 o'clock hour buddy carter talks the latest on america's energy policy and former senior adviser the president george w. bush karl rove talks about president biden slew of executive orders, don't miss a moment of it, you're watching mornings with

global understanding of the challenge that china represents just because of how dishonestly, how badly, how nefariously, frankly, the people's republic of china and the chinese communist party that leads it handled the covid epidemic. >> welcome back to the briefing room, to your briefing room. we'll be spending quite a bit of time together starting shortly, and i very much look forward to that, but today first i have the privilege of introducing for the first time to this room the 71st secretary of state mr. tony blinken. with no further ado i'll turn it over to tony. >> thank you. good afternoon. let me start by saying that my first ambition is to be known as the man who brought ned price to the state department briefing room. and that at least is mission accomplished. well, in all seriousness, thanks everyone for joining me here today. this is my first full day on the job as secretary of state, and to restate what i said before, it is a deep honor to be in this job and i am gratified that the president sees fit to entrust me with this responsibility, and i am incredibly excited about the work ahead, especially working with the men and women of the state department to try

is involved on the origin of every symptom of the virus to investigate but china also has the virus probably ridge of agent elsewhere by also communist party inside out how directors plus. corona virus outbreak. welcome to. join us a team of experts from the world health organization has to china to investigate the origins of the corona virus the international team arrived in the. first cases of the virus detected in 2019. months in the country. but. it is not looking to blame for the spread of the virus. more is victor garber he's from the center for china think tank close to the chinese communist party to go welcome good to have you back on the program thank you for having me mr goh how committed is the chinese government. to carry out their work for me i think china as a whole the chinese government and the chinese people are fully committed to working closely with the w h l team of scientists. study and analyze what happened. in december 29th cheating and what exactly is the origin of this 5 years this is very important i think the chinese people want to know the truth mankind want to know the truth. speaking about knowing the truth. y

president-elect joe biden, and a lot of republicans as well have been compromised by the communist party of chinathey are just afraid that president trump is going to prove this in these last few days, and they are going to be in big trouble. it is kind of one of those flip the script kind of things, saying that there was insurrection by trump supporters. i think there has been treason and insurrection by corrupt politicians. i think what you are seeing is people are fed up with it that trump has become our voice. you see what is happening on social media. does it get any more communist party than banning all conservatives from social media, who we are all dumping amazon. these companies want to just turn their backs on all of us and pretend that there was not election fraud? anybody with half a brain knows there was election fraud. we are supposed to say did not happen. we know it happened. host: how do you know? caller: did you watch any of the hearings that anybody keeps saying there is no evidence. there was all kinds of evidence. right now in italy, we have a judge, i cannot believe we are n

sides. 3, take on big tech shutting down conservatives while empowering terrorists and the communist party of chinaat the first white house press briefing of the biden administration, press secretary jen psaki was asked about the biden administration's stance on the impeachment of president trump. here is what she had to say. [video clip] >> does president biden believe president trump needs to be held accountable for the capital insurrection? and does that accountability require that president trump be barred from holding future federal office? >> he has spoken very firmly and fiercely, publicly about his views of the horrific events on january 6. he has also spoken with members of congress about that, as you all know. he is going to leave it to members of congress to carry out their constitutional duty and determine what the path forward is and with the mechanisms are going to be, what the process and timeline will be. certainly, he ran against donald trump because he did not think he was fit to serve in office, long before the events of january 6. he is here today because he decided to run again

a chinese company do we understand where that data is going shows the nefarious mindset of china communist partyge of a worldwide crisis like covid. >> maria: joining me to talk more about this gordon cheng the coming clasp of china and the u.s.-china tech war. it's great to see you. i know you had such an incredible handle on all of this. what are they doing with our d.n.a.? >> we really have to be concerned, maria, china is collecting our d.n.a. not allowing the transfer of chinese d.n.a. outside of china. the real concern here is that beijing is developing what's called a new type of warfare. the in 2017 edition of the authoritative publication the science of military strategy published by china's national defense university talks about new warfare with, quote: specific ethnic genetic attacks. that really means that the next disease from china won't affect the chinese but it will effect everybody else. so this is really the concern of china taking our d.n.a. >> maria: wow, this is just extraordinary. i know that john ratcliffe former dni said to me on this on one of the programs that i host t

communist party? did you have even a word of criticism about the chinese communist party about its murders, tortures, concentration camps, genocide? >> republican senator ted cruz grilling linda thomas greenfield of her controversial comments on china communist party funded institute in 2019, she recalls her career as long record of calling out china while pledging to take a cut tougher stance on beijing if confirmed. >> anthony linken vows to confront beijing. >> the relationship between the united states and china is the most important relationship we have, it has met adversarial aspects to it and still has cooperative ones. >> blinksen adding iran must return to the nuclear deal before the us does and expressed concern over the treatment of kremlin -- detained by moscow before searching his home. governor cuomo is residing in new york city might be back on the menu in new york city after all. >> carley shimkus has reaction to the possible reopening. carley: a glimmer of hope for new york city restaurant owners because governor cuomo said he might open indoor dining in the big apple. take a listen. >> this has been economically devastating for a number of businesses, restaurants included so i want to get them up and running as qu

describing this as an attack on free speech with people like secretary of state mike pompeo comparing it to the communist party in china. of course, we should note president trump still enjoys the full range of his first amendment rights at any point in time he can issue a press release. he can come out and give a news conference. he has plenty of ways to communicate with the american people that don't involve tweeting from his phone. >> these are private companies at the end of the day. after all that. heidi, house democrats are poised to introduce one article of impeachment as early as tomorrow. what more do we know? >> there's broad consensus here from democrats that is building to introduce this article and actually vote on it to make president trump the only president in history to have been impeached twice. look, this is moving quickly. they were actually drafting these articles while they were fleeing the capitol, discussing impeachment. let's take a look at the calendar here and break this down. so the article could be introduced on monday. we're expecting it to be introduced on monday. a vote then would occur

industries, and rotection of assets property that is american-owned rocess inside of china, those things that are central. communist party actually alked from it and that work remains to be done. anus: that was the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo, peer nder and the host of to peer conversations. the markets, we are just seeing a little bit of new york stock exchange that it will no longer china's three biggest fate, telecommunications companies backtracking on a plan escalate hreatened to tensions between the world's economies. jules, good day to you? a big turnaround, potentially on track for the 2008.t ohio's close since turn around and wondering in the d be next pentagon as firing line. is the most bizarre series witnessed hat he has in his career. players in hong kong rising 7%.he libraries of over he chinese income was up by 10%. -- is who publishes on the weak leadership by the treasury department. ackson calling the move quite unexpected. reacted, arkets have too. it has paired some of its gains, state owned banks seem to be buying the green pack, the strongest fix, june whether or notrt there is too much mome

communist-run city. that is most unfortunate. it had a special status. china's communist party committed to that status for 50 years. they broke the promise about halfway through. now the people ofg kong are living under threat of this national security law you referenced where actions they , take pose risks of jail. they have some of the people who are doing simple acts of what we would consider our first minute amendment right to protest, they have been put in jail. it is telling. there were a group of people who chose to flee hong kong and now they have been imprisoned and tried inside of the mainland in china. that is a bad sign. david: china and the u.s. had tough trade negotiations over several years. now the first phase has been completed. in hindsight, do you think we have gotten out of the first phase what we thought we would get, more chinese purchases of american products and more access to their market, or it really hasn't happened yet? sec. pompeo: no, i think they will ultimately deliver on the commitments they made in the phase one trade deal. some of it was sloped a little bit the fact that the global economy slowed down tremendously. they have said they would, a

president she's hands may be tied this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of china's communist party where members will be celebrating the party's achievements and that may include standing up to the united states adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong or world leaders have been reacting to joe biden's inauguration traditional u.s. allies are celebrating biden's promise to return to a more multilateral approach challah ballasts takes a look. joe biden. and many nations it led to the new the u.s. inauguration was relayed in dozens of languages and the need is translated what it would mean for the country's. kind of feel and from the other give isn't even macdonald frankly said that these have not been for easy years that we've had with donald trump someone who is u.s. president because europe along with russia and china are the biggest opponents of the united states so a lot has gone wrong here with joe biden there is now someone in the white house who wants to repeal the transatlantic partnership. in russia t.v. networks focused on soldiers around the campus who with one channel comparing

president she's hands may be tied this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of china's communist party where members will be celebrating the party's achievements and that may include standing up to the united states adrian brown al jazeera hong kong bruce wolpe is a visiting fellow at the united states studies center at the university of sydney joins me now live via skype from there could have you the search on the program how much of a change in policy towards china will there be without the u.s. sort of trying to look weak i mean can biden use any of trump's current positioning with beijing to his advantage. in terms of the principles and thank you for having me on the cd in terms of the principles involved i don't think there will be much deviation at all i'm a what trump wanted to achieve and there are serious is serious structural imbalances in the relationship that want to be addressed i think there will be a profound change in how it's done currently it's a it was a president trump president xi china u.s. mano a mano trade war and other strategic issues that were played out i be

the founding of the chinese communist party fortune was founded in 1921 for that celebration china has announced they will end absolute poverty and you have seen that, they met that goal and as part of the centennial goal announced they would double gdp and double disposable per capita income between 2010, and 2020. even with covid-19 which slowed the economy it looks like they are going to achieve that goal so to highlight quickly another statistic which says a lot about challenges that lie ahead from china. when i visited in 2000, and wrote about this effort to narrow the wealth gap a statistic i always heard about from local officials was the fact real incomes on average were one third that of urban incomes. that proportion is roughly the same so despite the years of effort, the growth and income, one 23 gap between people from the countryside and the city. we have seen an explosion in wealth inequality in china and the note inequality expert found the wealth gap in china is roughly comparable to that in russia which might come as a surprise to some people. even more worrisome i