country will allow its newspaper to call on another foreign country to sending troops to hong kong to remove the hong kong sarentral government away from hong kong, which is part of hong kong, part of china. so i would say, let's call a spade a spade. there are political forces in hong kong which, for many years, denied that hong kong is part of china. they want to return hong kong back to the british, which is impossible. they want to return hong kong to the americans. they wave american flags in the streets of hong kong. they try to raise the tensions between china and the united states, and there are forces in the united states which fuel these frenzies, so... all right, victor gao. .. ..let�*s call a spade a spade. ..we�*re almost out of time. you've lived through many different eras in your life in china. do you really believe that the chinese communist party's way of ruling right now... people around the world see it as deeply repressive, systematically repressive, is that sustainable for another 100 years? truly, i believe it will be for another 100 years and longer. why? because if there is any politi

requesting a foreign power to impose sanctions against the chinese government and the government of the hong kong sars other collusion charges. that will be the high-profile one, given the impending closing down of the apple daily and the role that that newspaper serves in society as a voice for the pro-democracy camp which of course is on life-support here in hong kong. >> stephen engle covering that key story in hong kong. take a look ahead at the day ahead for australia now. australians trust in china has dropped to a record a while confidence in the u.s. hedge risen. we will be speaking with natosha in a few moments with more details. in the meantime, new zealand has -- the virus cluster in sydney grows. we will also be getting the australian pmi's in less than half an hour. lots more ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> australians trust in china has plunged new lows with more than six he percent of people saying they view the country as a security threat rather than economic partner. 16% say they trust beijing to act responsibly in the world. these are the most striking findings of the 17th annual po

over the longer term we change some aspects of our lifestyle, i was part of the enquiry into sars in hong kongver time, i am decisions that will be made over time, iam not decisions that will be made over time, i am not sure they will be made tomorrow or today, but they are considerations. do we wash our hands more frequently? that is a very basic thing, which if we could keep going, but would reduce the rates of disease. i think this is actually about, this isn't as simple as freedom or non— freedom, as i said before, it is about whether we change gradually, become more aware, and i suppose the other aspect is, it isn'tjust and i suppose the other aspect is, it isn't just the and i suppose the other aspect is, it isn'tjust the uk we need to consider. we also need to look at the global picture and that is something that has been discussed in cornwall, the g7 have come to some agreements year about better pandemic preparedness, about sharing vaccines with low income countries, and we hope that we take a more broad perspective, so it isn'tjust about ourselves. all of these things have to be put

think, jake, if you look at asia, hong kong, for example, they reacted very quickly to this particular pandemic. in part, i think it's because they got hit so hard with sarst muscle memory. we may be the same way next time, as soon as something starts to crop up or we feel that there's a threat, we may react much more quickly. hopefully we do, but i think the scientists, you got to let them do their job and continue to give the best evidence-based recommendations. >> a new study found that the delta variant first identified in india, it has a higher transmission rate than the original variant. it's tearing through u.s. counties that have lower vaccination rates. what's your biggest concern about this variant? >> well, just to give you some context, so this is 60% more transmissible than the alpha variant, which is the uk variant. and that was 50% more transmissible than the variant before that. so this is way more transmissible. that's the big concern. two issues, one is that if you're vaccinated, i think you got really good protection. you can see that on the screen there. it obviously goes down after -- you got to get both doses. if you get just one dos