if you go back to what deng xiaoping said, i think what china has very clearly enunciated in the last years is that it has found its way across the river and it is willing to show that path but without imposing any type of political or economic mechanism. and letting africa and other parts of the world develop on their own terms. anchor: china may see itself in whatever turns it wants to but it is viewed by the u.s.'s influence across africa as a bogeyman. they knew an enemy, and economic animate, and that is china. >> certainly, at the beginning of china's new economic beginning with africa 20 years ago, perhaps some of that rhetoric about china being a partner and having a neocolonial agenda, with its own spirits of rapid growth and taking people out of poverty, that might have had currency. i don't think anybody in africa really thinks like that. china is just another potential source of developing. i was speaking earlier this week with a senior official in an african country. he said if people worry less about what china thought were africa or what africa needed from its partners,

traditionally since the deng xiaoping era china has said it will never go into an alliance. unless the xi leadership or contradict deng xiaoping they have to finesse the top of an alliance -- finesse the talk of an alliance. there is a line of thinking among chinese experts that the partnership is greater then any alliance, there is no limit to the partnership. they would certainly disagree about the peaking narrative. of course this is a reflection of pressures from the external environment, and are aspects of this that might change if sanctions were removed on russia, russia might be more amenable to cooperating with the west, chinese experts say. russia has other partners in vietnam and india and china finds this disconcerting in certain ways in chinese academic publications. i would also say china is a lonely power. it does not have many choices for big powers to partner with. i think the chinese experts see a value in the partnership with russia for that reason as well. the other line of thinking that shin jong mentions is the domestic drivers we just heard from david s

and from the reforms of 1979 and deng xiaoping up till today, which is, i guess that is what 41, 42 yearsso, four decades, they have had an incredible economic run. and with that they've developed a military that's really significant. as we go forward over the next 10, 20, 25 years, there is no question in my mind that the biggest geostrategic challenge to the united states is going to be china. of that, i have no doubt at all. russia is important. not unimportant at all. russia has very significant military capabilities. north korea and iran are still there. terrorists are going to be around for quite a while. but i think china is clearly the most significant geostrategic threat we face. david: as we talk today, there have recently been some reports that the chinese have a hypersonic missile. gen. milley: yeah. david: that can theoretically go into space and then come down with a nuclear bomb, escaping our ability to knock it down. is that something i should be worried about, or all americans should be worried about? gen. milley: well, what you saw, and i don't want to get too much into

. >> stahl: but by his 20s, china under deng xiaoping had adopted the free market, and shan went to studys investing for american pension funds and university endowments. i was about to ask why any american would invest right now in china. it's so unpredictable. >> shan: well, investment is a risky business. china, as a market, is not for faint-hearted. >> stahl: you don't know what the leadership's going to do tomorrow. we're being told by economists that this is a move back to mao zedong's state-controlled economy. >> shan: i think that'll be too far to suggest, but i must say that the way that they have done it very often is very clumsy. >> stahl: there's no question that the tension between china and the united states is rising. we're certainly competitors now in a heightened way. shouldn't that give people pause about pouring money in? >> shan: well, think about it. china is the holder of treasury bills to a tune of $1 trillion u.s. dollars. there's more chinese money in the united states than american money in china. so, if you're worried about the competition between the two countr

president jimmy carter asked my boss to meet with deng xiaoping, ahead of -- during the war.aiwan relations act, we should honor our commitments. it's important for people to see that when we have a treaty or when we say we are going to defend the north korean peninsula, or we are going to help japan, which is now talking about increasing its defense budget beyond its traditional 1%, that we are going to make good on our commitments to that region. anti one is essential for people in that part of the world, particularly the chinese understand that we mean it when we say it and that's one of the worries that a lot of us have coming out of afghanistan. when we left a lot of the people that supported us behind. general jones and i grew up in military -- you never leave your wounded on the battlefield. our credibility has been strained. we need to basically reassure that part of the world and reassure that we are going to be there if they need us. >> really quickly, how do you -- going back to scott's question -- how do you get greater buy in on the scope of congress that isn't o