>>in that package we heard from the prime minister of kazakhstan, karim masimov. and next year the country will be hosting the 7th world islamic economic forum. that's it for this week's world business. thanks for watching. we'll see you again at the same time next week.

kazakhstan is -- is in central asia. i think it was probably 3,500 miles from beijing. c-span: the thing that -- you know, you tell a story, but did you have freedom to go anywhere in the country? >> guest: nominally, i did not. i was supposed to have permission to go anywhere i want. so i had flown to kazakhstan to get around the rules 'cause if i went to another country and then re-entered china, i could say i was simply on my way to beijing and pass through the sensitive region, where the muslims had been rioting during the holy month of ramadan. c-span: and you could enter that part of china, and they would not ordinarily have given you any trouble at all? >> guest: i didn't know. i mean, you could certainly -- you -- there are entries to china where i had come across the border, say from hong kong, where i had never been bothered before. you would come in in a seaport, and -- and it was not sensitive. you could fly into shanghai. i had never crossed this border, and i -- i -- i -- i was taking a gamble because i was really curious about what the state of muslim unr

china's solution to the problem is overland pipelines through kazakhstan or pakistan or me and yanmar. one of the problems is input to it in the event of some kind of u.s.-china confrontation over taiwan, where with china find some country that was willing to endure the united states by putting oil into those pipelines to pump to china. probably not pakistan, and not myanmar. iran would probably be the best bet. a nuclear-armed iran would probably be more willing to do that. don't the united states and china have a convergent interest in the uninterrupted supply of oil from the persian gulf at safe and moderate prices? we have heard that argument again and again. that is basically an american argument that we pitched to the chinese. my sense is that the chinese have not bought that argument. a couple years ago, a colleague in washington and i spent a couple weeks in beijing in talking to chinese analysts and retired chinese diplomats. we deliberately pitched that argument to the people we met, with the exceptions of a couple of profs. we did not get any takers. the basic response was

at 109, greece ranks below egypt, zambia, rwanda, and kazakhstan. country has to work hard to do this poorly. again, an editorial in "the wall street journal." john on the line for independents, you are on with bob davis, "wall street journal." are you with us? we will move on to mike. caller: there was some sort of possible technical difficulty. what is the possibility that there was something more sinister related to this? we have seen on the news what led up to the crisis was hedging or shorting companies and forcing them lower than they actually were and causing panic. could this have been something that was just the same type of thing, but struck down from weeks to minutes? guest: i doubt it, but if somebody had some sort of a computer program to start buying when the market went down 1000 points, i'm sure they made a lot of money in a minute. it is possible. host: west haven, conn., democrat. caller: good morning. i'm understanding is still trying to check out what was the reason, whether it was manueal r a glitch. no one was there to double c

it was in, and belarus -- kazakhstan and belarus and other places. have twice as many inspections because we have so many fewer sites to inspect. >> i think it would be great for an eight grade level memo on how much less is more. someone will take -- that could be taken either way. i think it would be helpful. >> senator, if i could elaborate on the answer i gave before on the number of inspections -- the 18 are divided into two categories. the first 10 are both at deployed and non-deployed size. eight are at non-deployed sites. in the first category, we carry out inspections that were required gavotte inspections under start ii -- that were required inspection the -- inspections under start ii. under this treaty, we do both in the same inspection. for all practical purposes, the number of inspections is about the same as it was. >> thank you. secretary clinton, thank you for being here. i seem to remember in a previous hearing on this issue of short- range tactical weapons, they are not included in the start agreement? and it was an issue for the r

life in the aftermassachusetts of the earthquake in haiti, dale agreed her, when was serving in kazakhstan who lost his life in january and terrence who was killed by a roadside bomb last memorial day in iraq. the secretary had a 22-minute conversation with her european counter part, foreign minister bernard kushner and german foreign minister and u.k. political director jeffrey adams and u.n., i am sorry, e.u. katherine ashton. this is the kind of regular interaction that the secretary and other leaders in the governments have with their european counter parts and they talk about multiple subjects but the predominant discussion was just a -- to update themselves on the current status on -- of negotiations and new york toward the u.n. security council resolutions. and you know, had a schar vein last night our deputy firm rep in new york participated along with other representatives from the security council nations in a dinner hosted by -- the iranian foreign minister. and it was a frank and professional exchange and members of the security council pressed the government to meet internatio

at 109, egypt, zambia, rwanda, and kazakhstan. this is an editorial in the "wall street journal."john on the line for independents, you are on with bob davis, "wall street journal." are you with us? we will move on to mike. caller: there was some sort of possible technical difficuy. what is the possibility that there was something more sinister related tthis? we have seen on the news what led up to the crisis was hedging or shorting companies and forcing them lower than they actually were and causing panic. could this have been something that was just the same type of thing, but struck down fro weeks to minutes? guest: i doubt it, but if somedy had some sort of a computer program to start buying when the market went down 1000 points, i'm sure they made a lot ofoney in a minute. it is possible. host: west han, conn., democrat. caller: good morning. i'm understanding is still trying to check out what was the reason, whether it was manueal r a glitch. no one was there to double check on it, like the various two or three departments or regulators. there was no one there to check . tha

china's solution to the problem is overland pipelines through kazakhstan or pakistan or me and yanmar. one of the problems is input to it in the event of some kind of u.s.-china confrontation over taiwan, where with china find some country that was willing to endure the united states by putting oil into those pipelines to pump to china. probably not pakistan, and not myanmar. iran would probably be the best bet. a nuclear-armed iran would probably be more willing to do that. don't the united states and china have a convergent interest in the uninterrupted supply of oil from the persian gulf at safe and moderate prices? we have heard that argument again and again. that is basically an american argument that we pitched to the chinese. my sense is that the chinese have not bought that argument. a couple years ago, a colleague in washington and i spent a couple weeks in beijing in talking to chinese analysts and retired chinese diplomats. we deliberately pitched that argument to the people we met, with the exceptions of a couple of profs. we did not get any takers. the basic response was