heavy on the economy coming up to me and can further thank you very much for the market or institute for china studies and trade go in there at a wonder for us in london thank you. well south koreans are calling for a boycott of japanese goods dozens of small business owners have rallied in seoul thousands have signed online petitions they want recently tightened controls on high tech imports lifted south korea's president says they threaten to shatter relations and could damage japan more than south korea don't wear japanese brands and don't buy japanese beer or cards that's what dozens of south korean small business owners are urging their fellow countrymen to do until tokyo withdraws its trade curbs earlier this month japan imposed restrictions on exporting goods that south korean high tech companies like samsung need to produce t.v. and smartphone displays as well as semiconductors. we will continue our consumption and distribution boycott of japanese products until the japanese government and the ave administration make an apology and withdraw the export restrictions. japan's trade carbs are seen

businesses are too naive when it comes to china that's the key message from a new study by economic think tank macarthur institute for china studies here in germany the institute has looked at beijing's made in china 25 strategy and says many countries and companies are all too willing partners and helping beijing become a world leader in the tech industry europe fails to protect its core interests we want to talk to one of the authors of that report in a moment but 1st here's more of that story if you want to journey deep into beijing's economic ambitions wild ways european style campus is a good place to start the telecommunications giant is emblematic of the country's plan to become a global leader in a number of key industries. government's made in china 2025 strategy reflects a desire to move away from low cost money factoring towards high tech as well as communications the chinese government is also investing heavily in transport energy and digitize ation traditionally it's gained a lot of its knowhow from abroad over the years the huge chinese market has attracted many foreign firms to the country including ge

for the chinese, meantime. we got an inside look today at how they see the trade talks. i spoke to a vice president at the china institute for international studies china's ministry of foreign affairs. very close to the government. he gave what seemed to be a somewhat pessimistic view in terms of the timing of a potential trade deal. take a listen. >> i think that really depends on both sides and first of all, i think the president had summit in japan very recently, they committed to restart their economic and trade negotiation and the u.s. side also promised not to add new tariffs on china's products. i think that's very important. connell: president trump as recently as yesterday did threaten to add new tariffs. you're confident, you're saying that won't happen. what if that does happen? that would be obviously an issue for the talks. then what? >> well, with regard to this, since last year, america has been -- if that happens, i don't think china wants to see that. china will respond. connell: what is the biggest sticking point overall in the talks? you mentioned tariffs being added. what about the ones that are already there? my recent trip t

for the moment thanks very much. now let's talk more about this now with steve tsang via skype from london he is the director of the china institute of the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london thanks very much for being with us so 1st of all what do you make of the scenes that have been unfolding there in hong kong over the last couple of hours it is very regrettable with the use of force by the demonstrators because they are changing the situation in a very through it seeing twenty's getting to a point old danger the whole cold. if they all wind with their way to doing it then the risk of the chinese government taking much more drastic action test that much closer. yeah i mean i know a lot of people have been have been asking this question about. you know the scenes that there are been unfolding there breaking down costs getting into this building and putting graffiti on the walls and on the desks and. essentially taking over the whole the whole chamber for themselves and this movement has gotten a lot of sympathy from people in hong kong and for people around the world so i guess my question is. are they are they do are they helping their cause

of the institute for the study, retired four-star general jack keane, general, just your initial response to what peter thiel is happening about with google and potential risk with work with china certainly that's there, i share his concern, any major company doing business with china is subject to intellectual property theft, the fact that they were doing business with the communist chinese military absolutely invites penetration by the ccp of google's intellectual property and i'm assuming that many, many attempts took place, listen, if the chinese communists can penetrate the u.s. defense industry which is building nuclear powered submarines and penetrate that, one of our most classified programs we have in the united states, believe me, they were in a full-court press to penetrate google, all that said, i'm confident that the fbi who is involved in counterintelligence is already there. i'm confident the fbi has been involved with google for some time. dagen: what about also the issue that peter thiel brought up that we've raised on the very program in the past that google employees refuse today allow the company to work on project with defense department where they were usi