they're never going to be best friends they do have wars i'm issues they've seen them japan is now of america china and the united states are you know clearly not seeing eye to eye far from it so japan is kind of caught in the middle of a stunt quite a good job i think of patching things up and not less in that sort of not letting the china relationship gets here right but i don't think you know we're really talking about whether talking about a golden era we're talking about sort of both sides could in their differences aside and just getting on with things more than more than real friendship japan was also considered an important partner for the united states india and australia in the throat or in the pacific region do you see that their cooperation simon continuing. and broadly speaking yes i do i think that you know japan is very committed to that they are now lots of democracies in asia and beyond civic reason as you say it's rearranging to see how the relationship with the united states develops so if trump if president trump does get another term in office i think that japan probably would

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they're never going to be best friends they do have water i'm issues they've seen them japan is now of america china and the united states are you know kiddy not seeing eye to eye far from it so japan is kind of caught in the middle of a stunt quite a good job i think of patching things up and not lessing that sort of not letting the china relationship to its here 8 but i don't think you know we're really talking about whether talking about a golden era we're talking about sort of both sides could hang their differences aside and just getting on with things more than more than real friendship dramas also considered an important partner for the united states india and australia in the indo-pacific region do you see that their cooperation simon continuing and broadly speaking yes i do i think that you know japan is very committed to being a partner alliance of democracies in asia and beyond the pacific region as you say it's really racing to see how the relationship with the united states develops so if trump if president trump doesn't get another term in office i think that japan probably would have

china apologies are not enough. yeah i guess what's public ordered about it is that often when japan has made apologies it will then do other things engage in other actions such as you know if you sitting there yes they can shine that you mention that you china and south korea and also north korea the perception that japan was nothing since you know when it apologized sort of it's kind of a vicious cycle and also sometimes the street that's depicted in japanese history textbooks which is then sensient by the minister of education up until the very different story to what china and the koreas tell about their history so yeah it's really hard for them to. know richardson from australian national university is asia pacific college of diplomacy thanks for joining us on camera. still ahead here on al-jazeera. oh by the protests in ivory coast as president out of sight of the time his decision to run for 3rd term . and flying high once again we have the latest from hong kong as this apple resumes transit flights from mainland china to stay with us. but. we've got the winds picking up over the next couple of days many part

japan is a neighboring country, so we will stay focused on imprproving andevelopingg the bilateral relationship. >>> china has been placing more importance on tie's with japan as tensions between beijijing a washington ratchet up. a state visit to j japan by president xi jinping was set to take place in april but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. people in beijing expressed concern about abe's resignation. >> translator: the relationship between china and japan has been tense at times, but it was getting better. it would be regrettable if bilateral ties were to become strained under a new prime minister. i hope that a person who is friendly to china will take over from abe. >> relations between japan and china worsened over matters including claims to the senkaku islands in the east china sea. a crawler collided with coast guard ships in 2010. in 2012 the japanese government purchased some of the senkakus from the private owner. japan controls the island. the japanese government maintains they're an inherit part of their territory. >>> a south korean government spokesperson made a statement s

china. and guess what? for many of... even america's allies in east asia —japan, south korea, philippines, thailand — they do more trade withd states of america. so the chinese have clearly caused a lot of concern. but i believe that they're also managing it and they're making mistakes. i was questioning your use of the word benign, because when you hear what some of china's neighbours say, particularly pertaining to the fact that it set up military bases in the south china sea, malaysia is very annoyed, vietnam, the philippines, you know, mahathir mohamad, in august 2018, the malaysian prime minister, warned against a new version of chinese colonialism. indonesia in june this year sent a letter to the united nations stating that its economic interests are jeopardised by china's territorial claims in the south china sea. i could go on and on with numerous examples. they don't see china as benign, kishore. i completely agree with you. in fact, i believe that the term benign superpower is an oxymoron. no superpower is benign. united states is not benign, china is not benign. every superpower will defend its interests. that's

situation things are getting a lot trickier, quite ironic but because of excessive aggression from china,japanve aggression from china, japan has to increase the level of forces, but u nfortu nately the level of forces, but unfortunately the western alliances start to crumble down, because of the leadership of mrtrump, down, because of the leadership of mr trump, certainly, down, because of the leadership of mrtrump, certainly, is basically dividing the coalition of the west and certainly not putting it together, so basically, the environment that japan is facing is very, very tricky and very, very difficult. we would like to think that things would start improving in november after the us election but hey, we don't know that yet. there isa we don't know that yet. there is a lot of ambiguity in the geopolitical factors right now as we speak. 's return to internal matters withinjapan, and especially the right wing nationalist support for this days. how do you view that now? it's not only the right wing. the fact of the matter is that these events, along with harris shima and nagasaki is also be

their sacrifice voided a personal visit to a controversial shrine which is cause division between japan china and south korea but laura richardson is an expert on the region she says prime minister has changed in fact japan's security policy japan has made a lot of the pole of use of both the fed reparations and to normalize their relations with many of the countries that they did have conflicts with there are still some ongoing issues some of the victims especially in china or in south korea the countries that well the brunt of japanese imperialism still pursuing their own forms of justice took quite a long time the conservative party and the ruling liberal democratic party has been pursuing mullally way in it's the fence and security policy a lot of officials believe that that peace constitution is quite outdated because it was signed in the context that it was kind of enforced the punjab and by the occupying u.s. forces and. it was done sort of enact it in the context of the immediate post-war when the u.s. was to demille it tries to plan but now that. almost immediately after that the col

did you know about china and japan? >> yes i knew about china and japan. >> how? >> but we were at war with japan. when we were at war, i studied and found out what it was about. that ended that relationship. one of the targets, it wasn't used, it had fallen over. you know could. it's in the southern part of japan. >> when did you joined the military? >> i didn't join. i was drafted. >> when? >> june the 21st, 1950. >> that's when i got married. >> you were married at the time? >> then you joined the military right before the korean war? >> it was during the korean war. i was drafted by harry truman. >> then it's not june 21st. the korean war broke out june 21st, 1950. >> that was 1950. i was 51. >> oh 51. so did you know that you were going to be dragged to the korean war. >> no. no idea. >> so where did you get the basic military training? >> maryland. the army grounds. i had no combat training. i'm one of the few that did that. >> you had no combat training? >> i had no combat training. i did it in the land of georgia. my diplomat is right in there if you want

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chinas. the chapters on japan into the region.one of the chapters had a variant is the description on how it balances the power of globalization both the opportunities afforded by it as well as some of the drawbacks and i think that you explained how japan balanced between the two. would you like to comment on that i thought that was a great chapter. >> it comes from the japanese poem that talks about how they set up another japan to keep it safe from the world so that it would always be a divine land. in many ways it's always been separate from the world which is certainly not true that the same time japan has clearly maintained their ears to the world of this in the west would find questionable but they wrote the book because honestly i lived in japan in the '90s and parts of 2,000 but i was back there during the terrible terrorist massacre in 2015 i think it was. i was in tokyo and all the news was coming in so immediately as someone that lives in america, your body reacts physically and i thought here's another attack. what do

china and india. so that's 60 years ago. so think if japanthe out were still fighting skirmishing over world war ii in 2000. that's 1940 plus 60 is 2000. that's where they are with india and china. have not settled the border. no one has silted the problem and that's i would we have the flash point. asia cannot figure it out how to get that, whether it's the south china sea, east china sea, boreds, not just china. it's japan and russian cambodia and thailand, different nations but the say certaintiveness of the parties desire to be seen again as a hegemon in asia that has driven so much of this, and the concern is that eventually flash points can just multiply. you can lose control of the situation. ultimately that's the scenario i talk about in the war chapter, hurtt history of the war between china and the united states. we should be very worried after decades of economic growth and political integration it has even more interstate conflicts than it did before. they have not solved it. that's bat data point to look at. >> questions about wh

going to see a lot of the power all of china has come from the fact that we have outsourced much of our manufacturing capacity from america from you. europe from japan to china so now there's going to be a process of the de globalization this is a subset of that the globalization is called the china fixation remember him wasn't too long ago when people were describing the u.s. china relationship to symbiotic relationship where we sent them their jobs they sent us cheap goods even though it was mutually counterproductive people described it as. symbiotic and therefore have no endgame attached to it and those who are warning what would happen if these 2 separated they mayhem it would create and that was just not accepted that here we are do you trying to fit cation i guess what that theory i guess that was employed this is one thing we're going to cover in upcoming episodes of summer solutions we're going to talk to chris fenton who was a china you know bull he was really bullish on that spent a lot of time being essentially an ambassador there now he's kind of pulling back and even the likes of steve benen see him almost as an hour and steve bannon i

going to see a lot of the power all of china has come from the fact that we have outsourced much of our manufacturing capacity from america from you. europe from japan to china so now there's going to be a process of the de globalization this is a subset of that the globalization is called the china fixation remember him wasn't too long ago when people were describing the u.s. china relationship to symbiotic relationship where we sent them their job they sent us cheap goods even though it was mutually counterproductive.

clashes on the border between china and india and of course growing tensions between china and japan china and vietnam china and malaysia china and indonesia china in the philippines why shouldn't western countries like the u.s. side with its own. allies in the region against an increasingly belligerent beijing where all of those powers that you mention from japan to india all have separate issues with china they're not the same so if the united states and others come along and say they are siding with a group of powers they're not the same issue they're siding with does the u.s. really have a very strong view on the disputed border between india and china probably not the u.s. has a separate kind of set of issues than all of these powers and as a separate relationship for instance with japan which is a treaty ally of so these are not the same problem we shouldn't just dump them all together ok fair enough but what about the wider issue which is china seems to have a lot of problems with its neighbors off shore and who doesn't mean you know in europe countries have problems with their neig

in our bay avoided a personal visit to a controversial shrine which has caused division between japan china and south korea is dead he said to richard offering to the sunni shrine which orders the war to head. well still ahead here on. the part of protests in ivory coast after president alice on the guitar his decision to run for a 3rd term. of the why the u.s. postmaster general is being investigated for his stance police service ahead of the november elections. but. we're seeing some rather stormy weather just around the middle of the states of the u.s. should see this little clutch of showers there just around the carolinas pushing up towards maryland easing up towards new england more wet weather live the storms violent storms pushing out of central canada down around the dakotas again mass making its way for the east was as we go on through sas day heavy showers there just around the appalachians over towards virginia notice further west where we could do with the rain still very hot seem fane x. 45 celsius on enough to across a good part of california south california of course with t

earlier are they avoided a personal visit to a controversial shrine which has caused division between japan china and south korea the center ritual offering to the sunni shrine which honors the water at. well still ahead here on al-jazeera business is the big and small are suffering in colombia as unemployment doubles in the. 3rd why the u.s. postmaster general is being investigated for his stance on the service ahead of the november presidential election so stories after the break. we've got the winds picking up over the next couple of days many parts of the middle east dry as one would expect a chance of the odd shot just around the southern end of the red say the main feature really is going to be that way is spilling out of iraq coming out across kuwait into the northeast of saudi arabia him caught so we could see a little bit of lifted dust and sand as we go through saturday and on into sunday temperatures again getting up into the mid forty's a similar temperature there for baghdad will be one of 2 showers up towards the black sea the caspian sea and once again because he wanted to show jus

did you know about china or japan? >> yes, i knew about china and japan. >> how? did you learn about it? >> well, we were at war with japan and when we were at war i studd studied a little bit to find out what it was about. of course we dropped the atom bomb over there and that ended that relationship. by the way, i was in the hospital over there in one of the targets for the atom bomb, it wasn't used because it was fogged over. they couldn't -- you know what it is? in the southern part of japan. >> oh. when did you join the military? >> i didn't join. i was drafted. >> when? >> let's see. june the 21st, 1950. >> oh. so -- >> right after i got married. >> oh, you were married at the time? >> yeah. >> then you joined the military right before the korean war? >> it was during the korean war. i was drafted by harry truman's -- >> then it's not june 21st. the korean war broke out june 25th, 1950. >> i was in '51 when i joined the military. >> oh. '51. >> yeah. >> did you know you were going to be drafted to the korean war? >> no. i had no idea. >> where did you get th

in the race south korea, japan, china and germany all marching their way back to 52-week highs to discusser there's better opportunity beyond our borders let's bring in the trading nation team. nancy, we're looking at the s&p 500 trading at 23 times earnings you could argue that valuation wise the u.s. market is starting to look a little bit more expensive. would you start to look for opportunity outside the u.s. markets like germany, south korea and china? >> yes absolutely there's been a lot of head fakes on tglobal market. my partner took a position at the end of june in china though it's run up about 18, 19% since then, he owns the local a shares we're still very optimistic about china as a trade going forward. you've got the leadership is supporting tariff targeted companies with lower vats. banking system is no longer being used to prop up stocks you've got a new economic plan lastly, it was first open and demand for the rest of the world. we think there's a lot of room to go in china >> an interesting correlation between the weaker and the weaker out performance in certain global e

sacrifices he avoided a personal trip to a controversial shrine which is cause division between japan china and south korean or loren richardson is an expert on the region she says prime minister has changed japan's security policy. japan has made a lot of the pole of use of both offended reparation and normalize their relations with many of the countries that they did have conflicts with there are still some ongoing issues some of the victims especially in china or in south korea the countries that well the brunt of japanese imperialism still pursuing their own forms of justice took quite a long time the conservative party and the ruling liberal democratic party has been pursuing mullally way in it's the fence and security policy a lot of officials believe that that peace constitution is quite outdated because it was signed in the context it was kind of being forced upon japan by the occupying u.s. forces and. it was sort of enacted in the context of the immediate post-war when the u.s. was to develop tries to plan but now that. almost immediately after that the cold war broke out and the

we have — to put this incident into context, this year we've had similar incidents in japan, china, franceat is growing because of climate change. however we do need to put into the context of the british railways, they are some of the safest in the world, and the extreme weather action teams that network rail employee actually pick out a lot of these incidents before they ever affect any trains or passengers becoming a risk. so we need to put this into context. are you just now saying we are just coming to understand the real implications for our entire railway networks? no, not at all. we've been working on our research for the past ten yea rs working on our research for the past ten years in helping global railway organisations to develop their resilience to understand the effects that climate change are having and will have on the networks now and in the future. and we've been working closely with network rail as a partner on many of those projects. so they have been at the forefront of global understanding in these kinds of issues. part of your expertise is in civil engineering — what

impossible if you are from japan, china, or korea. so the united states was supposed to remain an anglo-saxon and predominantly protestant nation forever on ward. that was the idea, that was the hope of the people who passed this bill. the republican majority in congress and some southern democrats voted for it, as well. the only votes against this law really were from people from the ethnic cities, from new york and from chicago and from philadelphia. places like that. many of them catholic and jewish. but they didn't have enough votes in congress to stop the bill from being passed and certainly not enough political clout to stop president calvin coolidge from signing it. as i said, this law was a sign of a certain fear and weakness i among the white anglo-saxon majority, as well. and the weakness can be glimpsed in what was going on in american culture in the 1920s. which is the main topic of the lecture today. the '20s saw a number you have fierce conflicts between supporters of an older white, mostly protestant and very deeply rel

those are the people trying to sell europe to america, japan, china et cetera, but even the intra— europeannge and this is catastrophic drop in business. that given the way in which this coronavirus is moving and working and changing, what are the sort of measures, realistically, that governments together can do?|j think governments together can do?” think it should start working together. at the moment, we are looking, even within the european union, governments acting very much to their domestic audience. when governments look inward, this tends to be terribly bad for tourism business. one thing they could do is be much much more sophisticated in the way they introduce bands. all quarantine measures. —— bands is interesting the uk introduced quarantine on belgium as a whole in germany at the same time is if you have been to antwerp you should solve quarantine so a different level of sophistication and nuance taking place even within europe. but it has to work, doesn't it? it's all well and good to say quarantine yourself but you need a test and trace system or something that backs up syst

china is threatening to break apart japan. beijing, you hear thoughts that china should take over large parts of the russian far east including vlotovstok. there's talk about trying to settle a treaty and take more territory from central asian countries. right now you see in beijing extremely disturbing tendencies. when they talk about taiwan, as they have been since the middle of february, about invading it, we ought to take that with the greatest amount of severity. eric: besides the president taking action, shouldn't the world body and others? taiwan was kicked out of the un. let me read you part of an editorial. it says the nations standing up to communist china are democracies that value individual freedoms and the dignity of the individual, the exact opposite of xi jinping's dictatorship where survival of their brutal ccp, communist party of china, of course, is what it's all about. a committed alliance of like minded free democracies cannot only stand up to the bully but make is internationally unimportant. besides the

china japan you can india are also in their race. is a race against the time there is a pandemic outbreak there was a huge effect on society nobody doubts about this war and therefore it's a race and. not that much against the competitors and at the moment and hopefully all of those vaccines would work there is a raise also to have enough capacity you always start in the beginning and you can cover everyone and therefore it's good that other players are. in the game as well . last week russia claimed to breakthrough president vladimir putin proudly declared his country was the 1st to approve a vaccine russia all now began testing the vaccine on 40000 people but some scientists doubt the vaccine named sputnik 5 is really ready. what's beyond doubt is that thanks to high tech methods used by the likes of cure back research is moving faster than ever it used to take 10 to 15 years to get a vaccine to market now some companies have moved to clinical trials in a matter of months regulators expect to break. there as early as next year no o

producers are not allowed access to real networks in china japan south korea or the usa. the u.s. decision to withdraw 12000 troops from germany sent shock waves across the country raising concerns about security and transatlantic tides but for the locals of the bavarian town of 5th sec where a 3rd of those troops are stationed it has also left some fearing for their livelihoods. what will become a fill say it's a very in town with just 6000 residents who've lived for years alongside the americans at the nearby rose barracks is that all over. this conflict the guns it's terrible the whole area the economy the shops the americans always use them just as we do that economists are not strong v.v. out. some of us play football with the americans it will be a pity to see them leave again the 2nd cavalry regiment of the us army is a key economic engine for the structurally weak region and until now it had provided full sec with a guaranteed. employer and supply of customers many locals work for the military in some capacity for example in vehicle maintenance the american presence is vit

china japan the u.k. and india are also in the race. last week russia claimed a breakthrough president vladimir putin proudly declared they were the 1st to approve a vaccine which he said his own daughter had been vaccinated but scientists the russian vaccine in sputnik 5 is really ready. what's beyond doubt is that thanks to high tech methods used by the likes of cure research is moving faster than ever in normal times it would take 10 to 15 years to get a vaccine to market some companies have reached the clinical trial phase in a matter of months regulators are expecting a breakthrough as early as next year no other product in the world has a larger potential market many nations have already placed orders for hundreds of millions of doses. plans to produce a 1000000000 pay year if it's faxing comes to fruition the question is whose will hit the market 1st. of all this i'm joined now by franz verna hasi c.e.o. of care vax it's good to have you on the show. when will it be for when do you expect your company to have a vaccine ready for

we opened offices in india, japan, china over the last two years and we have doubled or done on this. region has been the americas, specifically u.s. and canada. we are also doubling down on this. we are on a come i would say, global rollout -- on a, i would say, global rollout and we want to deepen our technology competence. annmarie: prior to this job, you are a partner at an international private equity firm. what does the current landscape look like for sponsors? it has been almost three years now. i think, probably the way i see it, there's opportunities which are coming up. i think the financing markets look pretty good in some regions. due to the pandemic, there is companies which are available for transactions, maybe more than before. and i think that is fundamentally an attractive environment. but of course, there is lots of uncertainty also with the second wave of the pandemic, the cross regions. it is probably not such an easy play but there is opportunities from our perspective. matt: how closely are you following, you know, the virus uptick? the last few days in germany,

my advice to him is now you have china with the trade agreement, have trade agreement with mexico and canada, you have one with south korea and japan we know of a a consortium and e trading bloc we can go to china, a lot of us have the same complaints about the chinese and then we could go as a bloc led by the united states and say we demand a new deal. we don't want to keep you down but what you do stop exploiting the generosity we've given you over these decades. >> host: that is interesting. i want to talk about -- when we relate, we speak about china. it has given us, we've seen american intervention in iraq and afghanistan which i know that you've seen as a complete waste of american lives and, of course, american treasure. how do we extricate ourselves from places like iraq and afghanistan? we know the would be a vacuum. we know there are concerns with isis and of guiding and other actors and middle eastern how do we get out of those big wars, focus our energy and resources at home? >> guest: i think for affairs like life frankly are like child rearing. you pick your fights and your priorities. to make big priority now is chi

in the last couple of months, i think there has been countries anchored by china, japan and thailand,korea, malaysia at once you get out of predatory loans. indonesia is unhappy. anybody that is touching the chinese border right now has a consequence. russia just pulled out of selling air defense missions because they claimed the chinese were spying on russian technology. countries have an issue. happened lot like what with russia in the cold war. you think about the new cyber command that is being developed? , the cyber command -- i think you have to have the capability to defend yourself and the capability to project force. , and i what is happening hope it evolves is that the types of conflicts we will be engaged in our what some people refer to as cognitive warfare. disinformation, misinformation. elements all tools or of cognitive warfare, trying to get your opponent to behave differently and never having to engage in any physical conflict. would it not be great if they decided on their own just too -- ? i would love it if cyber command had a large component of cognitive command.