they obviously had some kind of relationship now you have a new president, xi jinping. do you hope to see the same level of communication even better between president obama and president xi jinping? >> you see such high level contact in communication is always crucial for the future development of the relationship. so we would very much -- just very much want to see closer communication and contact between the leaders of the country. >> rose: one area where i think the united states would obviously welcome chinese help is having to do with north korea. how do you see what's going on in that country today and the dramatic news of the execution of the uncle of the present north korean leader. >> you see, there's no sufficient clarity about the domestic situation but for china this is a very important issue because our national security interests are at stake. because korea is one of our neighbors. >> rose: right. >> rose: so we have to make sure that there's no nuclear weapons on the peninsula. we have to make sure that stability and peace would be maintained and we are

xi jinping. the hope to see the same level of communication or even better between president obama and president xi jinping? >> you see high levels of contact in the communication. it is always crucial for development. we very much want to see contact between the leaders of the country. >> one area that i think u.s. would welcome chinese help is the issue in north korea. how do you see what is going on in the country today and the dramatic views of the executions of the uncle of the president of the north korean leader? >> we see no sufficient clarity about the domestic situation. for china, this is an important issue. our national security interests are at stake. korea is one of our neighbors. we have to make sure that there is no nuclear weapons. we have to make sure that stability and peace would be maintained. we are doing our best to facilitate negotiations to address these major concerns. >> do you think they are listening to you? >> we are doing our best. it is up to others on whether they

this is not something that the current president, xi jinping, suddenly started.urrent president will change their current direction. military expansion will contribute nothing to china's future, its economic growth or prosperity. i will work to ensure that he understands that. >> do you believe that japan could be a counter, counterweight to china? a rising japan under your leadership? >> translator: i have no intentions of countering china militarily. but i am responsible for protecting japanese waters, territory, and japanese lives and property, and i intend to execute those responsibilities. when it comes to military expansion, and this applies not only to china but japan, asean in east asia, and the asian region as a whole, it's important to enhance transparency of military capabilities. on the question of military power it's important to be managed properly while ensuring transparency. >> mr. prime minister, you know that there is around the world now a controversy. i was wondering what your reaction was to the idea suggested by the u.s. ambassador that it i

president jinping has launched a campaign. he has also sought to stabilize the party's power by tightening the noose on any critics in the media, universities or even from private business people. i'm not ready to bet against china. its leadership has shown itself to be capable of difficult decisions and smart execution. if the leaders do manage this transition well, china will emerge stronger and become the largest economy in the world. if they don't, they will like lie face a slump and perhaps political tension that is bubble up in the wake of a slowing economy. 2014 in china in the year of the horse, but for all the rest of us, 2014 is the year of china. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and reed my time column this week. let's get started. >>> you've heard my take on what to look out for in 2014, let's get straight to a terrific panel to get their opinions and. zanny minton beddoes is the economics editor of "the commission. ian bremer. bred stevens is the pulitzer prizewinning columnest for "wall street journal," and anne-ma

one message being widely shared calls on president xi jinping to make an example by disclosing his assets players in civil society have been campaigning for some months now for the implementation of an asset disclosure system for political officials. but apart from a few pilot program sets it on a local have gonese deals unheeded. several anticorruption activists have been sent to jail. of activists were arrested last year after posting an open letter online and organizing a rally in beijing calling on the country's leaders to disclose their assets. charged with disturbing public order, they are awaiting trial and could be facing up to five years in prison. >> web users in the united arab emirates and visiting tourists post videos and photos under the hashtag, promoting the state and explaining what they like about it. the online campaign was organized by the tourism board. they want to showcase the beauty, unique identity, and true culture ofa7guc 01/08/14 01/08/14 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! i had a short crowbar. i put it in the

. >>> chinese president xi jinping delivered a new year's address focused on his country's reforms. the speech was broadcast by state-run tv and other media on new year's eve. xi emphasized results achieved in 2013, such as economic policies and anticorruption efforts. he says his government has drawn a grand blueprint for the country's future development and will press ahead with reforms in 2014 to make the country rich and strong. >> translator: the chinese are pursuing the dream of realizing their nation's great rejoouf nation. i hope that people from various countries will also realize their dreams. i sincerely hope people from all countries can understand and help each other while striving for their own dreams. >> xi made no mention of china's territorial disputes with other countries. >>> the president of russia has also outlined his vision for 2014. vladimir putin says he hopes the new year will bring better relations between his country and japan. putin wrote letters to world leaders, including prime minister abe. he told abe great progress was made last year in bilateral re

analysts say he aims for a summit between ma ying-jeou and chinese president xi jinping at an asia pacific economic forum in the mainland this year. xi has been pressing taiwan to agree with political discussions with an eye toward eventual unification of the two sides. >>> asian nations with underdeveloped public water supply systems are beginning to turn to japanese technology to provide them with safe drinkable tap water. one japanese municipalty is enjoying success in promoting its water supply technology overseas. >> reporter: regional municipalities operate almost all the waterworks systems in japan. western japan provides clean tap water to the city's 490,000 households. the city developed a water purifying machine with a private company 15 years ago. microorganisms attach to activated carbon to clear out pollutants. the machine is half of other technologies. its uses less chlorine to disinfect the water. officials started promoting the technology with private firms from 2010 to emerging economies in asia. >> translator: we have a long history of the city of technology and manufactu

officials with the chinese foreign ministry say xi jinping will visit from february 6th to the 8th. they say russian president vladimir putin invited him. analysts say xi's decision to go reflects the importance of relations between the neighbors. russia is a vital economic partner for china. leaders from the nations cooperate closely on international security and energy. xi's first trip abroad as president was to russia. he has held summit talks five times in the past year. japanese prime minister shinzo abe says he wants to attend the opening ceremony on february 7th. the leaders of the u.s., germany, france, and other nations, won't be there. analysts say they're protesting against russia's human rights record, including discrimination against homosexuals. putin told russian and foreign reporters last week that the olympics are a competition for athletes, not politicians. >> translator: the olympic games are designed to depoliticize the most acute international problems, and create additional opportunities to build bridges. it would be silly not to use this opportunity, and it wo

had last year was that the chinese and the xi jinping in his first year would really be consolidating his power by focusing on the domestic economy, worrying about the slow down of growth and so forth. and instead, we've got the uncertainties thatcome out of their declaration of the air defense identification zone, continued tensions with the japanese come and to some degree the south koreans on territory and the philippines. is it surprising to you that the chinese are pouring all of that effort into, this early in xi jinping stun? >> i think what xi is trying to do is to reinforce his authority both at home and abroad. he is a different kind of leader, and he seems much less hesitant about demonstrating that. the chinese are juggling a very, very competent agenda, but he and those around him don't want to make any suggestion that there is weakness and vulnerability on china's part that others can take advantage of. the other aspect of this though the really warrants notice is that this is a phenomenon not just in china, it's all across northeast asia. if the intent of our policy, th

whole system, but let's also keep in mind that i haven't heard much about the chinese president, xi jinping's reformals and i don't expect to hear from him, or president putin or many other leaders. it's called the second oldest profession for a reason. everyone does it. let's get started. >> robert gates worked for eight presidents. his last job, of course, was secretary of defense. starting under president george w. bush in 2006 and ending under president obama in 2011. he has just published his memoirs simply called duty, unusual and controversial move when one of the presidents he served is still in office. and he criticizes that president, or so many say. we'll get to that. i wanted to start off on the substance of the key decisions made on his watch. iraq, afghanistan, libya, syria, iran. you know that secretary gates is in a neck race. if you're wondering if it's whiplash from his critics, it is not. he tripped and broke a vertebra. thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> so, fred kaplan calls this memoir a primal scream. do you think it was a primal scream? >> no, but i d

is it surprising to you that the chinese are pouring all of that effort into, bizarrely in xi jinpingstun? >> i think what xi is trying to do is reinforce his authority both at home and abroad. is a different kind of leader and he seems much less hesitant about demonstrating that. the chinese are juggling a very, very complicated agenda, but he and those around him don't want to make any suggestion that there is weakness and gullibility on china's part that others can take advantage of. the other aspect of this though that really won't notice is that this is a phenomenon not just in china. is all across northeast asia. if the intent of our policy, the rebounds that would wrote about, that i wrote about, if the intent here was that the united states could find a way to deal credibly, not only with china but all the other states in east asia in an effective way and give them kind of shared incentives for cooperation, hasn't turned out that way. the palpable tensions between japan and south korea. of course, the issues between china and japan to the fact that you had more assertive leade

campaign and now what you've exposed, exposes themselves and their relatives the brother-in-law of xi jinpingf the leaders are involved in this. it's come at a bad time for them and potentially embarrassing for them. the whole chinese leadership push against anti-corruption is actually something that they want to keep in house and don't want the media to play a watchdog role in this. our timing is exquisite but it is pure coincidence. >> in terms of the retaliation against any of you working inside china, how do you maintain access? how do you dig out these records? >> well, we're unusual in our organization actually works with reporters in each country we work in. we've been doing a series of stories on these leaked files in russia, america, canada, using native reporters and did the same in china. we had a mainland chinese partner working with us. very secretly for more than six months. then when we started going to people for comment, they were actually warned not to work with us anymore. their operation inside mainland china shut down. >> in addition to them being shut down has there been

china's imports rose the most in five months, good news for xi jinping.okere trying domestic demand, this is a positive sign. moving on from china, what is on the economic calendar. 8:30, jobs report, nonfarm payrolls. looking at wage growth, no earnings of note. alcoa reported yesterday with by how do they do? >> $2.34 billion loss. >> big success. >> there is a glut of metal. earnings fell short of estimates, not so good. >> looking ahead. bank earnings, that takes place next week. tuesday, jpmorgan and wells fargo. and company news, wall street banks could pay $50 million to settle federal lawsuits over mortgage lending. dealtives using jpmorgan's with the u.s. to determine how much it will cost other firms. the price tag for bank of america to settle is as high as $70 billion. $17- as $70 million -- as million. employees withle ties to google x's research arm met with regulators. sliding inrt's sears the premarket after forecasting a loss for the fourth quarter and posted lower holiday sales. the last could be as much as 360 million dollars, sales wer

and i think president obama in his meeting with chinese president xi jinping was absolutely correct when he said that the united states has a huge stake in china successfully enabling these reforms. third big theme globally was the reemergence of al-qaeda from its, from the series of setbacks that it suffered cull -- culminating in the killing of usama bin laden. and here again i think the core geography here was syria and, in retrospect, syria and the whole syrian conflict is looking increasingly like afghanistan in the '80s and iraq in the last decade in terms of being a magnet for jihadists and a focal point for increasing extremism. now, the new form of al-qaeda is somewhat different from original al-qaeda, that, in fact, the defining characteristic of al-qaeda as an organization driven by usama bin laden was the focus on the far enemy. and jihaddism in al-qaeda 2.0 has gone local. the al-qaeda brand is the brand, but it's now very much a finish it's all about local power, it's all about building local alliances. in many ways al-qaeda 2.0 has more in common as an organization with he

discussion of this, and it's going to focus heavily on developing on the private sector of china, xi jinping has said as much. is that good or bad for american business? is that something that will be more inclusive of just business, or are we seeing the cultivation of national champions in china to the continued exclusion, not entirely but to the continued exclusion of a lot of involvement from the u.s., anti-monopoly law, to hammer foreign businesses, reminiscent of the indigenous problems that american businesses have. so does if you like the situation is changing much. >> well, the goal has to be open markets, and to have market forces determine the answer to the question that you're asking. if there are artificial barriers in place, then it's not really letting market forces work. i think we will get some tests pretty soon. when we had our strategic economic dialogue last summer, we had a set of important agreements come out of it. i was very pleased that china moved on opening shanghai free trade zone. they moved altering a decades long policy of presuming industries were closed to for

and i think president obama in his meeting with chinese president xi jinping was absolutely correct when he said that the united states has a huge stake in china successfully enabling these reforms. third big theme globally was the reemergence of al-qaeda from its, from the series of setbacks that it suffered cull -- culminating in the killing of usama bin laden. and here again i think the core geography here was syria and, in retrospect, syria and the whole syrian conflict is looking increasingly like afghanistan in the '80s and iraq in the last decade in terms of being a magnet for jihadists and a focal point for increasing extremism. now, the new form of al-qaeda is somewhat different from original al-qaeda, that, in fact, the defining characteristic of al-qaeda as an organization driven by usama bin laden was the focus on the far enemy. and jihaddism in al-qaeda 2.0 has gone local. the al-qaeda brand is the brand, but it's now very much a finish it's all about local power, it's all about building local alliances. in many ways al-qaeda 2.0 has more in common as an organization with he

i think that this statement by xi jinping about the new relations is a real opportunity for us. i would hope that they would help the united states and china to craft the concept. the gist of it is the following. a lot of the elements of great power contribution -- competition that characterize great power relations in the past territorial frictions, conflicting colonial aspirations are not present between the united states and china. and secondly another thing that's not present as the united states is not trying to keep china down. there are number of chinese who don't believe that but if you look at the level of investment in the level of. , our sponsorship and international organizations what every president for the last 40 years has said our interest for a strong and prosperous and secure china doesn't hold water. the opportunity is to focus the relationship not on the bilateral tensions which need to be addressed but on the fact that there are a series of multinational challenges that we all know about. adequate energy, adequate food and wire, dealing with terrorism, deali