he is the most powerful leader since mao zedong.en to the chinese constitution is the core of the party. the propaganda machine will be ramping up today across all of the front newspapers and state television to underscore president she's centrality in the party and for the future of the country. that is how the communist party is trying to portray this. paul: thanks for that. we will be hearing from him throughout the day. for now, let's check in on the first word news. journal the wall street says secretary of state mike pompeo also took part in the phone call between president trump and ukrainian counterpart that has prompted an impeachment inquiry. state department officials about comp desk commented on his role. president trump's personal attorney has been ordered to provide documents to the house intelligence committee over his medications with ukraine. morrisonn p.m. scott told president trump he was ready to shed light on matters under investigation in washington. that is amid reports that the white house saw his help -- sou

mao zedong stood up and proclaimed the people's republic of china.he focus is on the achievements as they see them over the last 70 years. many would argue the last 30 years have been correcting 40 years of mistakes prior to that. we did have a report of open progress. the question now is it china will continue to open up the economy or the strength of the state owned enterprises will pose a challenge to the private sector. that is on the economic front. beyond china's borders, there are concerns about the continuing anti-china protests in hong kong and the pushback that china is facing from the u.s. and some of its allies on a number of fronts. paul: all right, tom mackenzie and selina wang, thank you for joining us. in hong kong, the city is bracing for another wave of massive protests in response to china's anniversary. sophie kamaruddin is live on the streets of hong kong. what can we expect today? sophie: it is calm and the city right now but it will not be a quiet national day even with scaled-back official activities. i'm across the hong kong

mao zedong came to power in 1949 vowing to eliminate class and abolish capitalism. affluent families lost their wealth and many lost their lived as mao pursuis utopian vision of communism. that vision recommed in the famine, and left aost 90% ofrom the population living in extreme poverty. that all changed in the 1980s, when leader deng xiaopingg loosened state control over china's economy and permitted private enterprise, reforms which would rn the country into the world's second largest economy.rs yater, chinese cities have become shopping meccas catering to china'rapidly expanding middle-class, and upper class. chinese consumers make up a third of the $1.3 trillion globaluxury market. and luxury spending is expected to grow by over 10% this year. it's a trend tao liang has in the bag. the 26-year-old is known as "mr. eags," an entrepreneur a one of the country's top online influencers. he has millions of loyal fans who hang on his every recommendation. during an online campaign last year, his company sold half a million dollars worth of bags in just six minutes. >

china became china today by embracing capitalism, deng xiaoping, who was the paramount leader after mao zedongntrepreneurship spirit of the chinese, that is how china became so powerful economically. so now what xi jinping is trying to celebrate is what he calls the china model, that is part of capitalism, part of communism, it's the way that it is part—controlled and yet economic development model, and he is trying to also sell this to the rest of the world. we only have a couple of minutes left to talk about the celebration or marking of the adversary, so we need to look at the competing narrative, and you will get a few seconds to tell me the competing narratives. we all know there will be protest marches in hong kong on the 1st of october, they will be wearing black, we may see tear gas. we have many hundreds of thousands if not more muslims incarcerated in camps in changing, there is a us china trade war, there is a fast flowing economy in china, how much does the competing narrative of china plus back problems undermine the celebrations? diane, how much does it undermine the celebrations

the black panther party has a motto, it is a quote by chairman mao zedong of the chinese communist partywe are the advocates of the abolition of war. we do not want war. but war can only be abolished through war. in order to get rid of the guns , it is necessary to pick up the guns. power to the people. >> they know where political power comes from. >> are you going to arrest him? go ahead. go ahead. all right. >> the black panthers and other revolutionaries referred to members of the national lawyers guild as revolutionary lawyers. william shown here is a member of the national lawyers guild reported by the house committee on un-american activities to be made up of communist front lawyers. he was one of the attorneys for the chicago eight charged with conspiring to incite riots in chicago during the 1968 democratic national convention. he was also defending the new york 21, a group of black panthers indicted on charges of conspiring to blow up a number of public buildings. let us now listen to attorney as he seems to be inciting the black community to revolutionary violence. >>> if you

xi jinping is the most powerful leader since mao zedong.hat implications does that have for china becoming a major power thehe world, not to mention decoupling we are starting to see with the economies of the u.s. or the financial systems of the u.s.. xi wouldwhat president like to avoid is a crackdown. that would have significant economic and diplomatic consequences for china. we cannot rule it out. i think there is a very high bar before beijing comes in with a serious security crackdown in hong kong. is also quite willing to see hong kong diminished in its importance to china. it is already far less important for china's economy than it was 10 or 15 years ago as shanghai comes up as a financial sector, as china relaxes capital controls. those unique features of hong kong start to erode in terms of their value to beijing. i think for xi jinping, there is a willingness to revisit hong kong's role for china. i do not think that translates to launching a crackdown anytime soon. cannot rule it out, but there is a quite serious risk even for x

ideologue,dogmatic, very ambitious like mao zedong?ever know unless we try to test that through a sensible approach to negotiations. that is what i hope we do. now, i have not a lot of confidence in the trump administration is going to be able to do that but i hope to be proved wrong. kathleen: one more quick question. when you look at not just president xi, but when you look at the people around him -- again, 70 years into this, looking at all the challenges. from their point of view, they are trying to deal with what they see as a big threat and may be unfair challenge from the u.s. what is the leadership around xi looking now? how are they going to move this forward or not? would well, i think they -- many other leaders in china would like to pursue the kind of reassurance approach that deng xiaoping and his successors pursued. but they are trying to figure out how do you do that while still looking strong domestically? course, thed, of domestic risks are always the most prominent ones for china's leaders or for politicians in any c

. >> schifrin: not since mao zedong, communist china's founding father, has a chinese leader suggestedrly the world could emulate china. at since mao has china ha leader as powerful as xi jinping. if what the party leader says is the bible, the scholars who decipher it stud the national communist party school flies the party flag and teaches the party's version of china: united across 55 minority groups, and the torch bearers of the communist flame. professor han qungxiang says xi inherits that legacy, and is now china's indispensable leader. >> ( translated ): the country's development needs xi jinping, and people's happiness needs xi jinping. if china wants to become a big strong country, it will need xi jping. >> schifrin: xi says his workifi starts at me. his goal is to double china's g.d.p. and per capita income by he says he wants to increase the prosperity many chinesalready joy, and now expect, and reduce poverty. >> ( anslated ): now in the xi jinping era, china has developed. xi is dealing with making china great and strong. >> schifrin: and that strength is also the military