jinping you know, i'm i'm concerned because i don't have the same confidence when i look at xi jinping other policies that he will have the same prudence. on the other hand every chinese leader. has got to think that he makes a military play against taiwan and loses. that will behi and possibly the end of communist party rule in china because the people would rise up. and i mean, this is in probably a myth, probably not even true. but people, china certainly believe it. so that is i mean, that's strategic myth. i want them to believe because that causes them be cautious. so i feel strongly that we need to. taiwan's military deterrence and united states as it's doing that and what's striking that the japanese really for the first time now are viewing this security of taiwan as part of their own security. so the japanese are contributing to that deterrence posture. but a lot of the things our politicians do visit the taiwan are purely symbolic to show how much we love taiwan. and that actually is highly provocative to the chinese government in beijing. the chinese public. and, you know,

jinping you know, i'm i'm concerned because i don't have the same confidence when i look at xi jinping other policies that he will have the same prudence. on the other hand every chinese leader. has got to think that he makes a military play against taiwan and loses. that will be the of him and possibly the end of communist party rule in china because the people would rise up. and i mean, this is in probably a myth, probably not even true. but people, china certainly believe it. so that is i mean, that's strategic myth. i want them to believe because that causes them be cautious. so i feel strongly that we need to. taiwan's military deterrence and united states as it's doing that and what's striking that the japanese really for the first time now are viewing this security of taiwan as part of their own security. so the japanese are contributing to that deterrence posture. but a lot of the things our politicians do visit the taiwan are purely symbolic to show how much we love taiwan. and that actually is highly provocative to the chinese government in beijing. the chinese public. and, y

, it is remarkable. that he was seen as an acolyte of xi jinping's, it is remarkable.— jinping's, it has been a day _ jinping's, it is remarkable. now, it has been a day since _ jinping's, it is remarkable. now, it has been a day since elon - jinping's, it is remarkable. now, it has been a day since elon musk i has been a day since elon musk launched his rebranded twitter, he took away the bluebird, replaced it with a black—and—white x. here is the official moment that marked that big switch. the symbol being shone on to the twitter offences in san francisco, the keener might notice that the old logo was still in place on the wall, that, though is now being changed. workers are removing it. the first person to adopt the new x was elon musk, here is his new twitter page, but the plot thicken, that work to remove the old logo was stopped the after san francisco police were called to the scene, to respond to reports of a possible unpermitted street closure, apparently the owners of the building were not told the sign was going to be removed. matthew will be here with the headlines at th

i from that dictator comment by joe biden about xi jinping?_ biden about xi jinping?sident - biden about xi jinping? i don't think much. president biden l biden about xi jinping? i don't - think much. president biden speaks his mind, and he spoke the truth. the chinese to accomplish, the publicly stated so commanded past. but webber gone right now, but i think it's encouraging, is that kramatorsk —— that janet yellen is working through the door under guardrails in this relationship. she has a crucialjob on economic policy and national security. the treasury department as a primary announcement for enacting sanctions on terrorist organisations, and state sponsors of terrorism, on russia and instance of the war. there is a lot on her plate and a lot of important discussions to have with the chinese leadership. it's a really good signal that she is the first one to go through that door that secretary blink and think the president biden from, frankly, he has known xijinping the president biden from, frankly, he has known xi jinping for decades, and a lot of posturing ther

xi jinping back often.parade of a biden administration officials who went to china to sit down and talk. henry kissinger, 100 years old who opened china under president richard nixon of course sitting down xi jinping there. he really got to the truth, what did henry tell them? do you think xi jinping listened? did he give him the straight stuff? >> xi jinping has had so many visits. bill gates, henry kissinger, that's about making shooting pink look like a big world later. but i think henry kissinger of old would have been very strong on military deterrence he always understood that was key and real politics and world politics as a kissinger message that goes straight to strong military deterrence to keep xi jinping backed off. eric: it may be he told him just that and said i am 100 years old i can say what i think. we will have to find out. doctor rebecca grant always good to have you, thank you. >> thank you. eric: will have more news here and "fox news live" when we come back. and this rookie pro... prof

what happens to xi jinping's diplomatic policies now?ohn: unfortunately, shery, the answer is we don't know yet. if and only had mr. qin gang replaced by the former foreign minister, wang yi, we have not gotten expiration or detail about what exactly happened. we may in the future get that. if there is some sort of -- and we don't know if there is some sort of investigation of qin gang. the practice in the past has been to announce that, so we think there would be some sort of announcement. if there is a health issue, as the foreign ministry said in the past, there would be trying to explain why qin gang was not going to the foreign ministers meeting in indonesia. that might be announced later as well, but there is no guarantee that we will ultimately find out exactly what happened. haidi: he keeps his role as state counselor, at least for now. does that tell us anything? there's not a lot of certainty as to what this means, that this is a temporary arrangement, whether wang yi is here to stay. john: i wouldn't read too much into the fac

president xi jinping instructed his countries military to be ready to invade taiwan. what is your assessment of whether he will? >> it's been discussed publicly that instruction can be ready by 2027. that means that -- to be ready. that doesn't mean conflict is inevitable. i'm not sure that he has and today president xi jinping and deliberation arm leadership have doubts whether they could pull off successful full-scale at cost to them and they paid more attention as he thinks about taiwan and records doubts as well only an objection we smoke military with incredible success and fighting back with motivation against bigger military but also weapon systems, the fact that certainly putin but also president xi jinping underestimated, put together a strong coalition in support a of ukraine and solidarity of the west moving to accept economic costs to inflict damage on russia's oil that gives cause to leadership and i don't think any of those underestimate president xi jinping's control on their will. >> do you have what would trigger that? >> there are two things given th

we know that xi jinping operates on deadline.er, the use of force is not the first option. in fact, if the options that one needs to put in place, if everything else fails. if that is xi jinping's objective, then so far it's having the opposite effect. more than 70% of people here now say they're willing to fight to defend their island home. they do not believe that resistance is futile. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news in northern taiwan. north and south korea are marking 70 years since the signing of the armistice, which ended fighting in the korean war. earlier, north korea's leader kim jong—un welcomed russia's defence minister sergei shoigu, to pyongyang and showed off north korea's latest weapons. meanwhile in south korea, a ceremony paid tribute to un soldiers who played a crucial role in the fighting. meanwhile in south korea, a ceremony paid tribute to un soldiers who played a crucial role in the fighting. in london the high court has ruled that prince harry can take the sun newspaper to court over claims it used illegal

that sends exactly the wrong signal, to see jinping. and putin. but to your point, we have to do much more to re-energize our industrial base. i think the biden administration agrees with that. so, there's by partisan focus in the senate. on doing just that. >> so, what's out there in terms of proposals on the industrial base? >> part of it has to do with longer term procurement contracts. right now, in terms of the defense budgets, you get one your contract. so, if a company is producing say 150 millimeter howitzer rounds, they don't know that they can be doing that on a much longer term budget cycle. . so, there's, that is a real strong look at looking at our navy shipyards. we have dramatically shrunk the ability to actually produce ships. and do the work that's needed for maintenance, we have some marines right now that have been in maintenance for 2 to 3 years. not ready. so, that has been a wake up call. i think this is an area of bipartisan support. we've got briefed on this literally last week in the armed services committee, they have a n

xi jinping bet is that the u.s. will not want to go to war with two allied nuclear super powers, russia and china at the same time. if russia is no longer in xi jinping's camp, china will have to think twice before going after taiwan. that is how we deter the invasion of taiwan while avoiding going to war. my foreign policy accomplishes both goals. >> shannon: if president xi jinping sees we took land and gave him land that was not his . >>g does not reason based on analogy, hesed on hard. russia has largest nuclear stock pile in the world, they have hyper sonic missile capabilities, combine with china naval capacity in addition to economic independence on china. however, if russia is no longer allied with china, that weakens xi jinping position. we end the ukraine war and address the taiwan situation while avoiding war in one fail swoop and it is shocking nobody in either political party is talking about it, which gives me greater confidence and i have deep understanding of geopolitics, greater conviction it will t

and will, gang was a close ally to xi jinping. cakes for her. he disappears. they scrub everything of any evidence of him. obviously he was a huge public figure, the top foreign diplomat. now it's huge that they are acknowledging something did go wrong. what can you tell us? >> his predecessor wang yi was in the position of foreign minister for a decade. they don't have turnover in chinese upper echelons of their diplomatic ranks. xi jinping basically took qin gang, guided him up through the rairngs gave him the number two diplomat of all of china, the face of china diplomacy, the guy who was the chinese ambassador, who was at the washington wizards gang trying to do a three-point shot and on cnn the next minute blasting the united states and nancy pelosi saying china might take military action he is a true definition of a wolf warrior. has been in the post for quite a long time. especially xi jinping with this third presidential term. he put people in place who were going to be the people that he can trust, the people that he han

xi jinping's bet is the u.s.l not want to go to war with two allied nuclear superpowers russia and china at the same time. but if russia is no longer in xi jinping's camp in china will have to think twice before going after taiwan. that is how we deter the invasion of taiwan while avoiding going to war. i hope it comes as both goals. shannon: if president xi sees he took land and the west agreed to give them chunks of land there not his how does that deter president sheet from not going after taiwan? what does the word differ from a consensus about the republican party and the biting administration. xi jinping does not reason based on an analogy. he reasons based on hard power. a note which has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world but i worry we're going closer to nuclear war with russia. they also have cyber hypersonic missile ahead of the u.s. but combined with china's naval capacity, more naval ships in the u.s. in addition to our economic independence on china, that puts a china and a strong position. h

maria: well, there's also another worry about what xi jinping is doing now.er up 1300%, gordon. i want to take a break and then come back and talk about this because i don't know if xi jinping is directing these people to come to america, to become saboteurs? we'll see. we've got a lot more with former speaker of the house newt gingrich and the gatestone institute's gordon chang. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ [squirrel 1] here we go, another teen, another selfie. [squirrel 2] wait, wait. she recycled. [squirrel 1] well that's not a selfie, that's a self-lessie. [squirrel 2] oh. that's terrible stacy. ♪ maria: welcome back. we are back with former house speaker newt gingrich and gatestone institute senior fellow gordon chang. gordon, i mentioned the number of apprehensions at the southern border of chinese nationals. over the last year it is the up 1300%. do you think these people are running from the communist party, or are they being directed to come and stay in america until further word? >> both. first of all, we're seeing desperate middle class chinese, because t

maria: well, there's also another worry about what xi jinping is doing now.don. i want to take a break and then come back and talk about this because i don't know if xi jinping is directing these people to come to america, to become saboteurs? we'll see. we've got a lot more with former speaker of the house newt gingrich and the gatestone institute's gordon chang. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ - i'm sherry - and i'm john. i'm a pharmacist. as we were starting to age, it's like, well how can we help our cognitive abilities? we saw prevagen. i did read the clinical study and went ahead and gave it a try. i feel that prevagen is helping me with overall clarity and as a pharmacist, i've recommended it to, not only just customers, but also to friends and family as a safe product to try. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. our heritage is ingrained in our skin. and even when we metamorphosize into our new evolved form, we carry that spirit with us. because you can take alfa romeo out of italy. but you best believe, you can't take the italy out of an alfa

i know xi jinping pretty well too. i was just leaving the world bank we had gone out to report with the chinese about the next stage. i had a chance to meet xi. i'll always remember he said 86.86 members of the communist party. it's probably now about 95 million people. i spoke to a lot of presidents and ministers about economic policy. not one would have given me their party membership. it's pretty clear where xi jinping was trying to go with the communist party. if you talk about the yellen visit. maybe the two countries could start to have some progress together. there was a restructuring deal. a lot of the chinese banks and lending organizations build up the debt in africa and there's been a problem with restructuring done in the past with something called the paris club other developed countries because china didn't want to take the hit while frankly site to each other in the developing world pick minority is the trump national security. off they've done is raise the costs for both sides. i think this is perhaps o

but if putin is no longer in xi jinping's camp then xi jinping absolutely has to think twice before going think taiwan is more important for the u.s. than is ukraine because we depend on the semiconductors that come from that island nation that power our modern way of life including our cell phones, cameras, all modern technology, our cars, and so on. that is why i think that taiwan and ukraine are not really the same thing. we shouldn't treat them the same, either. but it is by ending the war in ukraine and doing that deal that requires putin to exit his alliance with china that we also deter china from going after taiwan in a way that avoids war. that should be a top foreign policy objective of the next president. >> one alternative of course is that putin and xi jinping have much more than economic ties but also are both authoritarian leaders and they, on a sort of values proposition have more in common with each other, don't you think? >> you could have said the same thing about brezhnev and mao in 1972 when nixon made the move of pulling mao from under brezhnev's hands. today putin i

maria: well, there's also another worry about what xi jinping is doing now.1300%, gordon. i want to take a break and then come back and talk about this because i don't know if xi jinping is directing these people to come to america, to become saboteurs? we'll see. we've got a lot more with former speaker of the house newt gingrich and the gatestone institute's gordon chang. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ - i'm lynette. this is my husband, arthur. - yeah, you wouldn't believe we're in our 70's, huh? (lynette and arthur laugh) - i have recommended consumer cellular to so many people. - she was the one to convince me to come over to her side. (arthur laughs) - that's right! - [announcer] come over to consumer cellular and start saving. get unlimited talk and text with a flexible data plan, starting at just $20 a month. - the coverage has been excellent. - you know, it gives us exactly what we want. - you should go with consumer cellular! - [announcer] switch today. call or go online. scout is protected by simparica trio, and he's in it to win it. simparica trio is the fi

this as very close to xi jinping and this is the most surprising thing. half a year ago xi jinping made him foreign minister and to have him so swiftly, suddenly removed, given he was seen as an acolyte of xi jinping's it is remarkable. a 48 hour strike by nhs radiographers in england has begun this morning. staff at 37 nhs trusts are expected to walk out after rejecting the government's pay offer of a 5% increase plus a one off payment. 0ur health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. picket lines outside hospitals in england again today, but this time it is radiographers showing their discontent. patients are coming through the door are not getting the care we deserve because we don't have the staff to provide it. it is estimated the vast majority of nhs patients undergo tests or therapy with the radiographer, including mris, ct and ultrasound scans and radiotherapy. i qualified in 2017 and since then, 20% of my class has left radiography, after doing a degree for three years and that is a great shame, really. 30—year—old john kelly worked as a radio

xi jinping certainly was told by vladimir putin that the russian military would easily take ukraine's capital. i think the fact that the russian military attacked against ukraine has been a complete disaster probably causes president xi jinping to ask himself can i really trust what my generals are saying. >> but he also warns the risk is far from zero. >> i don't believe that any leader in beijing and washington or in taipei wants to see military conflict. the fact that leaders may not want war doesn't prevent war from happening. >> reporter: a potential clash with pyeongyang is also top of mind for washington and its strategic partners. russell says the north has tried to strike divisions with its missile launches, hoping to convince japan and south korea the u.s. will not back them up. but that appears to have backfired. >> instead what north korea is seeing is a closer and closer alignment of the three governments. this is pyeongyang's worst nightmare, and it's also a very big headache for beijing. >> reporter: he says part of that has been japan's willingness to rethink its regio

this guy, the foreign minister is too close to xi jinping to disappear like this.ll around the world, we that you can rely on the communist party and by the way everything about him from the foreign ministry website loses speeches, it is all taken out, he's a nonperson right now. this brings up the worst kind of power struggles we have seen in the past in moscow and beijing. it is destabilizing. stuart: the chinese communist party takes political power in return for prosperity for the chinese people. is that deal breaking? 30 seconds left. >> is starting to fray. they are explicit about it. for one hundred years the chinese communist party's history brought prosperity and stability. now is starting to break down. they are getting defensive. i expect the next foreign minister and the entire team will stress don't worry about this. the economy is fine, they are under stress. stuart: michael pillsbury, very interesting story. we will see you later. and new data links the chinese commonest party to schools in america. lauren: the confucius institutes, this is similar t

the interesting thing though is how somebody seen as being so close to xi jinping, appointed by xi jinpinglf a year ago, could so quickly have been removed from this post. and because of the opaque nature of governance here, all manner of questions are being asked about this. i mean, he disappeared and sort of wasn't showing up for his normal duties about a month ago in the official explanation was health reasons. as the weeks went on and he wasn't reappearing, people started speculating maybe it's some sort of political punishment for him. then online the rumors started spreading about him having had an affair with a television presenter and that she also had disappeared. course it could be a combination of those two things as well. his enemies in the party could be using an extramarital aair to get him >> here in washington the select committee on china is looking into u.s. investments into chinese technology companies. the committee sent letters to four capital firms expressing concerns over investments in quantum computing and other advanced technologies. we spoke to the ranking member

janet yellen not expected to meet with xi jinping, this as the cia director william bernstein decouplingfoolish. joy to be gait stone institute senior fellow and offer of the coming collapse of china and the great u.s. china tech war author gordon chang. your reaction to the visit from secretary yellen. off she goes. >> we should not be sending senior officials to beijing, after all the chinese have done this year including the spy balloon they should try to bend relations, not the united states and china are sending senior officials like janet yellen and anthony blinken as an acknowledgment of the position to the grander core of china. this is really bad policy it is not a couple she wanted setting out to do we have so many disagreements i just don't see where we start intending janet yellen to beijing and this time it's not good policy. cheryl: they say in the release, the trip is july 6 of the ninth and she says we're going to be with senior officials. the importance to root enter manager relationship communicate directly about areas of concern and work together to address global chal

we know that xi jinping operates on deadline.one needs to put in place, if everything else fails. if that is xi jinping's objective, then so far it's having the opposite effect. more than 70% of people here now say they're willing to fight to defend their island home. they do not believe that resistance is futile. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news in northern taiwan. a ukrainian competitor has been taken out of the world championships for refusing to shake the hand of her opponent. it was deemed as shameful. our reporter has more. this is a ukrainian fencer olga hyland. ukrainian officials gave her permission to face the russian fencer at the well fencing championships in italy just hours before their contest. the russian was competing under a neutralflag. competing under a neutral flag. it competing under a neutralflag. it was significant because it means olga kharlan has become the first ukrainian fencer to face a competitor from the first ukrainian fencer to face a competitorfrom russia or belarus since the invasion of ukraine

xi jinping does not want you to understand that. one more thing.s helpline appeared as i was leaving the administration in a new york times reporter grandpas headline, and i had been working on religious freedom issues and i was unembarrassed to speak about my faith in its centrality and how i thought about america's place in the world was that the headline for the new york times was "mike pompeo, god diplomat." it does not get better than that. [laughter] then i read the article and realized there was this fundamental misunderstanding about who we are as a judeo-christian nation and how we deliver good outcomes not only for our own people but people all across this world. i am confident we will get it right. i am long america. i deeply believe we will get another 250 years because of nights like tonight and the opportunity to come together with people like you in community around the central ideas. thank you for doing that. for those of you underwriting, bless you. for those of you volunteering your time, bless you come in for those of you gatheri

we have seen the foreign minister, who was reportedly very close to she jinping.sort of his mentor, brought him up politically. now, you see him being scrubbed, essentially from the internet. i was watching that happen, reporters were showing that today. they will try to wipe this guy off the map. like he never existed. he was the foreign minister. so, what does this show us? especially whenever you see putin and prigozhin, when you see prigozhin in this weird coup attempt or whatever it was, it shows that putin and xi jinping, these autocrat regimes, they appear very thuggish, very strong, very intimidating. but underneath it all, there is a deep insecurity that has to lie in these leaders to engage in this type of behavior, abby. i see a lot of insecurity and there is dreams. remember, it wasn't long ago, just a couple months ago, that putin and xi jinping stood before the world. what did she jinping say, and i'm paraphrasing this abby, he said there was an no limits partnership between himself and putin. he said that the world was gonna see a change, and the wo

what is xi jinping doing?ple escaping from the ccp or are they being directed, to come and set up shop in america, and get direction later because i am told by my border sources most of those people are military aged men coming in getting the apprehended. >> yeah, i sit on the board of texas department of public safety, foundation, i know our border people well i have done a a number of missions with them, i spoke with them recently, and since operation lone star began, in march 2021 we've had -- i'm sorry 8600 chinese military males apprehended at the texas border alone, now my view, to leave china you need exit visa, this isn't just like migrating from mexico, you have to come across the world, on an airplane you have to land, you have to pay a human trafficker to traffic you ins no payments are more than it costs to land in america in american airport, the only reason they are coming in through the border, the way coming in, is they don't want to be known, what they do by the way, when texas bps grabs them

she met with about everybody besides xi jinping.he met with the premier on friday and the new economic czar , the former in drc chairman, now vice premier. so, they do not really know each other. not like the previous. they had built rapport over the years. a harvard educated english speaker, they got along. also janet yellen met with the pboc and a finance minister. there were over 10 opportunities of what you would call substantive talks friday and saturday to ci to eye on some things while acknowledging that there are differences in others. still, state media in china was pretty harsh on the overall tone of the relationship. beijing daily on friday expressed doubts about some sincerity from washington. every time there emerges some positive signs when the two sides restart dialogue, they are extinguished by washington's suppression and containment of china in a blink of an eye. that was a commentary, unnamed, written by some unnamed editorialist at the beijing daily. still, there are challenges going forward. keep in mind joe bid

given the weakness on the chinese economy, is xi jinping and the administration starting to care morebout u.s. fdi or are they likely willing to endure the pain for, you know, what it means politically to hold their ground? >> so, china wants american fdi. frankly, how much the chinese view and i view myself is no matter what china does right now, the united states government is not going to allow american companies to invest into china you see kkr, the private equity giant recently announce the shuffling of the management team in asia to de-emphasize. seqoia split operations. you saw the head of blackrock just left the china head there's a feeling that the biden regime is strong-arming american businesses not to invest in the china market right now out of national security concerns the united states is no longer a free market economy where businesses are allowed to invest in china because of the low cost or the good value in manufacturing or the market to sell into. anything that's touching technology or anything that the national security council can deem as a national security thre

and monica just mentioned it that xi jinping talked about strengthening the military. and just today we are going to talk about economic and environmental, and whatever else we want to talk about, they're like let's get ready to invade taiwan. any part of the approach we are making to persuade and that? >> i don't think so and i think she put a finger on it. and said this a number of times that they should be ready for an actual war. if you look at the indicators and the way that he talks, that he the pla does not think that they are ready yet, but they are trying to fix the problem. they are acting like a country that is getting ready for a war, and i looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck then maybe it is a duck. at the same time they say that they are strangling, the use of the word that xi jinping is using. this is a dangerous situation and end this context, pete, as you are projecting you have to project strength. have to see that any attempt to use military force or otherwise will fail. instead what biden and has a administration are projecting

we know that xi jinping operates on deadline.opposite effect. more than 70% of people here now say they're willing to fight to defend their island home. they do not believe that resistance is futile. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news in northern taiwan. we have some breaking news, information coming from the west midlands police, they see a 14—year—old boy has been arrested after a seven—year—old girl died following a hit and run accident on thursday evening. we'll bring you more information as soon as we get to. north korea has staged a military parade to commemmorate 70 years since the signing of the armistice, which ended fighting in the korean war. north korea's leader kim jong—un attended the display of new drones and missiles, and hosted delegates from russia and china. meanwhile, in south korea, a ceremony paid tribute to un soldiers who played a crucial role in the fighting. this included over 80,000 troops from britain. and to mark their contribution back home, one former england cricketer has been painting portraits and

xi jinping thinks he needs to rule by law. he thinks he can get away with it. of the day, it's not smart. we believe laws matter but he doesn't. he using the full extent of state power right now. >> gillian: so given the caution from the state department, what would you advise americans on the ground to do in mainland china? civilians, whether they're there for work or a holiday. how can they try and not run afoul of this new law? >> there's no way to not run afoul the law if you're in business. indeed, if you're in china anyway, even as a tourist, you can be picked up for reasons or no reasons at all. so it is not been advisable for americans to stay there. xi jinping as a matter of policy has been promoting and encouraging xenophobia. this is strong anti-foreigners sentiment. so it's not the state attacking a foreigner. may be some person feeling, you know, the state is going to encourage this. so they're going to do something. there's a long history of anti-americanism, of anti-foreignism in china. xi jinping is stoking it. >> gillian: we certainly wish any

. >> carry refusing to call xi jinping a dictator. >> president called xi jinping, called him a dictator do you believe he weeltsdz power of a dictator today in china. >> there is no question at all that president xi, is the -- major decider, of -- of the direction and of the policies of -- >> is he effectively a dictator. >> well, i am not -- i don't think you've to get into i am not going to get into. >> he does we would the power of. >> he wields enormous power. >> alabama congressman member of house proposition natural resources committee congressman good morning to you so many questions to ask you -- >> good morning. >> by the way, let's, by the way, let's remember here, that it is china, that is now restricting rare earth minerals exports now going after us, saying that they are going to i mean they are threatening to pull elements we need to produce elect vehicle batteries what president biden says is going to save the world? >> so we've argued that with biden administration, for the last 2 1/2, three years we've got the resources here, look at iron range in minnesota we've got al

and and it's a certain kind of society that i think xi jinping has in mind. right. and and that's a tough society. that's like a strong it's a great power society to sort of capable of standing up to the us and others and and, and so, you know, yeah, they've, they've definitely targeted the lgbt community in shanghai and elsewhere. they've, they've shut down a lot of the wechat accounts that, that, that community uses. there's some indication that they are surveilling lgbt activists much active, much more intensely. and a lot of that, you know, it comes back to this idea that the lgbt lifestyle, which previously the communist party really didn't have. i mean, they were not they didn't approve, but they also didn't really go out of their way to say much about it. it was kind of a don't ask, don't tell approach in a lot of ways, especially, you know, the later years of the hu jintao era, that's that's reversed. they don't i don't they don't they sort of actively disapprove now. and they're using these tools to to express that disapproval. i wonder if someone is that m

xi jinping -- do not do this piecemeal, go in big. how confident are you that taiwan has defenses that it needs. are there things congress can do in supplies and training? sen. coons: i am not confident right now if there is a willingness by xi jinping to go all in and that we would be able to successfully partner with the taiwanese and our regional partners to defund them. there are lessons we can and have learned from ukraine and ukrainian defense that i believe the taiwanese are learning. there are significant investments being made in this year in our appropriations bills to strengthen the whole region and to begin to align around pushing back on china's actions in the south china sea, pushing back on china's economic coercion on smaller countries, and in making sure we maintain a technological edge. everything about chinese doctrine says they would far rather win that war without firing a single shot. we need to pay even more attention then we have been. artificial intelligence, quantum computing, some of the ways that will be cr

we know that xi jinping operates on deadline.n fact, if the options that one needs to put in place, if everything else fails. if that is xi jinping's objective, then so far it's having the opposite effect. more than 70% of people here now say they're willing to fight to defend their island home. they do not believe that resistance is futile. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news in northern taiwan. let's remind you for breaking news this hour because federal prosecutors in the united states have a white in the criminal investigation into the former president, donald trump former president, donald trump for his handling of government documents that after she left the white house. he has been served with three extra charges. is it for the programme. thank you for watching. hello there. sunshine and prolonged heat across the uk has been very limited this july, hasn't it? and actually we had once again some contrasting weather conditions across the country. in fact, in scarborough in north yorkshire, we had just over 40 millimetres of rai

she is not going to be meeting with xi jinping on this visit at all and it's more of a communication you will. >> we need to communicate with china and we also need to diversify our economy and we need to look at more transparency. unfortunately the administration the last year did not support our bipartisan deal to have more transparency disclosure of critical minerals for critical elements that we import in inset materials. where is the dependence of our country for strategic industries and i think that's important for us to say. we've taken some actions here to diversify our economy and open up some opportunities for smart energy production and have a sustainable transition to diversify the economy in the energy and we are not doing that. when you're not doing that you lose all leverage power with china and they could do whatever they want to read we do a lot of talk but don't do the walk in our economic policy is not very smart and hurting a lot of americans with inflation in this administration need to get their act together because appeasement is not going to work with china. w

we know that xi jinping operates on deadline.ption that one needs to put in place, if everything else fails. if that is xi jinping's objective, then so far it's having the opposite effect. more than 70% of people here now say they're willing to fight to defend their island home. they do not believe that resistance is futile. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in northern taiwan. us secretary of state antony blinken is due in australia today, the latest stop on his tour of the pacific. earlier, he was in new zealand, where defence issues were prominent. mr blinken's visit is viewed in part as an effort to counter china's implements in the region. let's now bring in viola now when, a senior fellow forindo viola now when, a senior fellow for indo pacific defence and strategy at the international institute for strategic studies, a british think tank. thank you forjoining us on the programme. firstly, it seems the us is really trying to show its commitment to the south comac —— to the south pacific after china targeted the region with

. >> i mean, on let all the way is how we deter xi jinping. >> well, let me jump in.hen you say you divide the lines up as they are today, you mean just giving vast swathes of ukraine to putin? i dictator who's marched into a sovereign democratic country? you would just give him all that land he's taken by his murderous rampage killing, innocent women and children, for example, bombing maternity hospitallands. why would you, as emanuel's be president of united states, the absolute of freedom and democracy? why would you give a dictator vast chunks of a land he's invaded? because i recognize what the real threats are to the united states. the threat to the u.s. is china, and particularly its military alliance with russia. >> so i see an opportunity here to use this as a chance to end the war. >> is this because i trust putin? no, i do not to end . but i trust him to follow his self-interest. and so i think it's the united states's job to be the moral police in the world. >> if so, we'd be having a conversation about libya, about the congo, about much of africa, many ot

xi jinping woodlot let her kiss his feet. reason why we are dependent on them is because of our disastrous decisions we have made here at home. we did not have electric car colts in the united states we would not be as dependent on them for that lithium and cobalt. the decisions with the disastrous economic policy at home on the foreign policy abroad are two sides of the same coin. so my view is this you ask about the national debt. let's talk about a positive vision of how we are moving forward the debate between both parties right now as you have got spending cuts on the republican side some talk about cutting social security and medicare which i disagree with. versus tax increases on the democrat side. there is a third and better way of dealing with the problem. economic growth. gdp growth itself. it's funny how and neither party to talk about the prospect of gdp growth anymore. we are slated to grow at less than 1% gdp growth thisre year. for most of our national history we have grown at over 4% gdp growth how to get from

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having said that, i believe biden and xi jinping will be on the sidelines in san francisco in the fallhink both of those leaders want full on the relationship, there's economic interdependence and want to ensure it doesn't break and that's why talk about de- risking in the u.s. and not decoupling so the direction of travel and relationship is poor but so far the relationship continues to hold up relatively well. >> is there one thing you would recommend to the u.s. government to do right now, make sure we are safe and any challenges but also keep the relationship as an bad, as good as possible? >> it should be focused on competing effectively without unnecessarily containing chi chinese. i love the chips act, the fact that the united states is finally spending a lot of money on building semiconductor capacity and education and infrastructure in the united states and with allies like the netherlands and the japanese, well overdue and supported in a strong partisan fashion. i don't think export controls and investment reviews on a broad number of technologies for the chinese, it undermin

>> well, i think he was widely understood to be a xi jinping loyalist and xi jinping is still -- is surroundedwe saw at the last party congress, filled with his allies. this was a shorten you're as foreign minister, just over six months. so we still don't know what happened. plenty of rumors, especially online in china, a lot to do with a mistress, those sorts of things. the replacement does tell us something important. wong ye has been part of the apparatus for a long time, not the rising star that gong was and ye is probably best known as one of the two interlocaters in the anchorage, alaska meeting with blinken and jake sullivan which were essentially awful. they really tore into the u.s. side and showed the entire communist party's sort of anti-american narrative from the highest levels of chinese government right in our faces, so putting wong ye up there means you have somebody who shares the xi jinping world view in terms of strategic stuff. blinken said he works well with wong ye. what has he accomplished? pretty much nothing. there's a working relationship with a hostile counter part.