so gordon chang, starting with you, the perception, of course, has been that china is this dynamo.ll true? >> no, it's not true and it's never been true. china has not been the engine of world growth. i mean, to be an engine of growth, you've got to accept imports to create manufacturing in other countries. chine is is an exporter and because of its predatory policies a lot of manufacturing that now occurs in china should be occurring elsewhere. also they have problems with their domestic consumption, which is not growing as fast as it should, and imports in china, which would create growth elsewhere, to be a real engine of world growth, they're not growing as fast as they should. the real engine of world growth remains the u.s. consumer who is just about tapped out, by the way, and that's a real problem for china because last year 149.2% of china's overall trade surplus related to sales in the united states. >> brown: yasheng huang, weigh in there. do you see more potential for positive growth from china? >> the imports are increasing, and the imports from the united states into c

well to talk more of china's military aspirations i'm not joined by author and forbes columnist gordon chang thanks very much indeed for joining us live in r.t. well as the u.s. and indeed other countries throughout the world are looking to curb that military spending thanks to the economic pressures at the moment china is bolstering its might why is it doing that oh china wants to project power of its new aircraft carrier for scientific research and training well of course it's not it's meant to try to countries in the region especially in the south china sea where china's claims the entire body of water is an internal chinese lake and of course china wants to project power not only southwards but northwards towards mongolia and russia they talk about the last territories clearly wants to get the use territories in a later day so it's threatening its neighbors but is it itself feeling threatened. well no country right now threatens china and that really is what is bothering the countries in the neighborhood and the united states because no country. war against fiji basically what's going on

aircraft carrier heralding a new era for china's naval fleet and as author and forbes columnist gordon chang says its neighbors should keep a close eye on developments in the communist led superpower. it said that its new aircraft carrier is for scientific research and training well of course it's not it's meant to try to intimidate countries in the region especially in the south china sea where china is claims the entire body of water as an internal chinese lake and of course china wants to project power not only southwards but northwards towards mongolia and russia they talk about the last territories clearly beijing wants to get these territories in a later day but no country right now threatens china and that really is what is bothering the countries in the neighborhood and the united states and basically what's going on is there is a military build up which really is the big sin the past is in the world today its most recent white paper it talked about information technology and cyber war also clearly they're putting money into their navy and to their air force the only ladder really is

joining me now is gordon chang.united states credit rating and many folks watching china's 8% to 10% economic growth as the u.s. lumbers along with maybe 1%, there's this nagging feeling in this country that ascended. is that too pessimistic? >> i believe that we're going to go into the second part of a double-dip downturn. and in this, america with the world's largest internal market will do just well. china, which is especially dependent on international commerce, will be the biggest loser. we've got to remember that it was the current account surprise countries, the exporters that suffered the most in the great depression. so, you know, america, which is a deficit country, an importer, will be just fine. >> we know this week we saw numbers from china that shows china is pushing record surpl surpluses. china is exporting more than ever before and the united states is importing those goods. the united states borrows the money from china to buy chinese goods. then china takes the money and invests it in its military

gordon time. as it's proven by either party you should try to fight like them group or united nations so to speak drastically changed my life lots of people in washington d.c. including the current administration the obama administration and i'm afraid that label giorgio was labeled as an aggressor will play a very very bad role into a future in the near future in the country's development in so many ways in terms of relationship between the united states and georgia but in a recent article you say sweetie and former egyptian president hosni mubarak have many similarities can you elaborate on that for us. well we. are talking about a country that has no opposition were present and the real public alive we have one president how do you want them in. soccer truly treats george as he's on the stump. the only difference to the size of georgia and egypt. really matter how much egypt was. playing a great great deal. for the united states in terms of. the middle east and georgia does not in the region but the fact still the same people prisoners be if you know free media. in georgia and we have autocratic rulers who whose

. >> lororna gordon of the bbc tes us why they're building their own version of philadelphia. >> reporter: it's glasgow. or is it? the signs are being changeds are appearing on the streets. hollywood is coming. with part of the center of the city standing in for philadelphia, for a big-budget film where humans are battling to stop zombies taking over the world. the star of the movie, brad pitt, is already causing a stir with his visit to the uk. it's thought he's visited glasgow bere. but this is the first time he'll have filmed here. >> i think most people are chasing brad. >> what about you? >> oh, of course. of course. why wouldn't i be? >> reporter: there's plenty of speculation about what is to come. >> there's going to be a car crash scene filmed on the road. that's about it, really. just car crashes and things. and zombies apparently. >> reporter: the city has been used as a backdrop for films before. this upcoming movie starring ewan mcgregor one of the latest to be shot here. but "world war z" is the largest production ever seen in glasgow. its boost to the local economy estimated upwards of 2 million pounds. >> felt that we had a