china's ambassador threatened britain with consequences of aung kong and the experiment leader deng xiaoping's former translator and director of the china national association of international studies it's a gal about a continuing arguable british imperial hangover and after considering black eyes mad as protests around the world the new accusations of scotland yard targeting an english commonwealth gold medalists family because of their color and we witnessing a major spring not unlike the 2011 arab spring we speak to one of the government's scientific advisors about revolutionary desires set ablaze by coronavirus although some more coming up in today's going underground but 1st what is darker in the west will become brighter in the east the words of china's ambassador to the u.k. being as he threatened london for what china perceives as imperial meddling in its country along with major nation mandated media like the b.b.c. going on the ground social media editor foreign element joined in that the virtual press briefing on the national security law in the chinese embassy in london he asked ab

china's ambassador threatened britain with consequences of aung kong and the experiment leader deng xiaoping's former translator and director of the china national association of international studies it's a gal about a continuing arguable british imperial hangover and after considering black eyes mad as protests around the world the new accusations of scotland yard targeting an english commonwealth gold medalists family because of their color are we witnessing a major spring not unlike the 2011 arab spring we speak to one of the u.k. government scientific advisors about revolutionary desires set ablaze by coronavirus although some more coming up in today's going underground but 1st what is darker in the west will become brighter in the east the words of china's ambassador to the u.k. being as he threatened london for what china perceives as imperial meddling in its country along with major nation mandated media like the b.b.c. going on the ground social media editor foreign element joined in that the virtual press briefing on the national security law in the chinese embassy in london he asked

new jamming there joining me now via skype from beijing is one of experimenting to deng xiaoping's former translators and director of the china national association of international studies victor gal thanks so much for coming back on do you not believe your phone former colonial masters britain have the right to criticize human rights in china i think britain has the right to do whatever it wants by a need to really consider what's the impact on the fundamental interest of the british people and if what he comments on constitutes an interference in channels domestic affairs then definitely there will be dire consequences of these are arguably empty threats and you're echoing there what the ambassador said that there might be consequences even when nato destroyed the chinese embassy in yugoslavia china said there would be consequences china never does anything except some harsh words briefly and then are probably retire what what is china's position going to be as sanctions are applied as individual sanctions may be applied by the british foreign office and of course as chinese companies

it's all calling me were things best because i'm going to say we have to prove apparently that deng xiaoping's translates or own who said he wanted it julian this wants to be free in this country with things better in hong kong do you think under the british dictatorship when the patten and the disaster. well. it is quite meaningless to come the same types in different era because the time has changed and 2nd which is the last 2 decades actually hong kong and at last in that case of its colonial time all call actually. was implemented with a serious of liberalisation and democratisation measures but it all being returned to the 5 base chain so we can say bache and actually intentional a whole the process of democratization in hong kong and to concentrate power more and more throughout the implementation of one country 2 systems you see the chinese authorities claim that this is imperialist meddling they accuse hong kong human rights groups of being some sometimes in the payments and often linked to cia backed his actions that when u.s. government funded n.g.o.s or the fallout from agent has al

china's leader at the time, in 1979, deng xiaoping, came to the city, and while in texas, he put on aimself to the american people. at that point, houston marked the opening a new chapter in us—china relations. right now, it looks like it is marking a closure of that chapter. and i think this is reallyjust the latest event in a downward spiral in bilateral ties and things are likely going to continue to deteriorate. yes, i was going to ask you how significant you thought this was and how much is diplomatic posturing. how bad do you think this could get? i think this is just the latest in a long list of manoeuvres that both countries have undertaken that are driving the relationship to new lows, but i think it's worth noting that this downward spiral is really nothing new. in many ways, it has been going on for the last few years and there are really maybe two broad reasons for it. the first one, i'd say, is that the gap between the us and china with respect to power is shrinking. china is now two—thirds of the us economy by some metrics. by other metrics, it has a larger economy. chin

that changed in the late '70s and '80s when deng xiaoping loosened state control over china's economy permitted private enterprise. china grew faster than any country ever has, into the world's second-largest economy. but all of that is now in jeopardy. >> china out with g.d.p. data contraction of the economy since began publishing the data back in 1992. >> reporter: the economic plunge threatens the country's economic gains but also xi jinping's plan to eradicate poverty this year. the world bank says 24%-- or 30e milliole-- live below the poverty line of $5.50 a day, and one of xi's key stimulus programs to help lift rurale chint of poverty and to expand china's influence around the world is tin belt and road iative. the belt and road initiative is one of xi jinping's signature policiesand when xi jinping calls world leaders to the belt and road for in beijing, they show up. >> ( translated connectivity is the main focus of china's opening up. >> reporter: 2,000 years ago, the ancient silk road helped china spread goods, ideas and culture all the way to europe. today, china aspires

deng xiaoping in think years at lincoln university in moscow, with khrushchev secret speech attacks stolid and 56, the the chinese were horrified because stalin was their great leader. they believe in him and couldn't understand why khrushchev would do heresy. xi jinping is the general secretary of the chinese communist party. that's the base of this power. he is the chairman of the military commission of the people's liberation army which is the military wing of the party, not the government. it's not a government army. and he is president of china. which is his least important job. when you understand that, you understand that in their mind they have left a century of humiliation and once again are becoming the central kingdom, or the middle kingdom. it's very formidable. you have 1 billion people who work hard and are smart. they don't follow any rules that we understand. so if they can cheat and steal they will. it's caveat emptor, and gigantic bold type. let the buyer the wear. because if we can still from you we will and it's your fault or not having stopped us and stealing so shame

regime in china now that's very different in its set of pathway wes than the have laid out by deng xiaoping. without reform, without the presumption that china will both reform economically and politically, to some degree, engagement has no basis because if you are not converging, then you are diverging, and if china actually is not trying to slowly old maoistof its form of government, it is deciding that that is what it is and that is what it's model is and that is what it is going to be projecting around the world. that is indeed what i think we see in hong kong today so i think we are at a tremendously dangerous moment. we do not have a framework for dealing with china. we have a framework that failed. we don't know what is going to replace it. a very frayed alliance system. i think that is most -- one of the most critical elements that should be focused on. last point. it is with great regret that a note republican colleagues -- this is an issue and norma's interest in actually, of some agreement. the fact that we cannot get together with washington in a thertisan way to perfect framewo