henry wang, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. it's a pleasure to have you on our show. i'm mindful that you were the founder, the creator of a think tank, the center for china and globalization. you said you wanted it to be a bridge between east and west. right now, it seems many of those bridges are being burned. would you agree? well, i think it's... yeah, absolutely. we see things have changed a lot in the last five to six years, basically. and a lot of dialogue has been cut off. there's a lot of communications cut off. and most, of course, on top of that, the covid—19 pandemic has also isolated many countries. and also given the, you know, the trade war, the sanctions, the... ..ideological and tax code decoupling and all those things add up. i think that we really need to strengthen the dialogue, strengthen the communication and bridge—building. absolutely. i hope we will continue to do that. but in the context that you've just laid out, everything from protectionism, economic nationalism to the impact of covid around the world, do you think it was wise for china to

henry wang, i thank you so much forjoining me on hardtalk. thank you very much. thank you, stephen.orthwards through the night accompanied by the odd rumble of thunder. not as warm for the day ahead, and there will be some sunshine around certainly, but equally a rash of showers will develop as the day goes, that's because we got low pressure moving into the west now and throwing bands of rain or showers our way. we're are also seeing some misty, low cloud and fog coming into eastern scotland, and it will be a much warmer start to friday, quite a close night and end to the night. quite a close night that mist and fog could hang around, cloudy for the northern isles, showers developing quite quickly turning heavy and thundery, and then more persistent rain pushes into the southwest of england, western wales and more notably northern ireland later in the day. it turns quite wet and breezy, increasingly breezy, particularly in the west, so it will feel fresher here. we could still see 25—26 in the east, but not as warm for northern england, north wales or scotland as it was during the

my guest is influential chinese think tank founder and sometime government adviser henry wang.