you quoted mao zedong.m the establishment of new china, the ferocity has been to treat africa with the spirit of sincerity, of genuine cooperation, and mutual respect. i think that has been a common thread, breaking the decades since 1949 to today in terms of understanding the relationship between china and the continent. anchor: would you say -- you say they treat all those countries with equal respect but there was also russia and the united states and the west. they wanted to gain influence in africa as well. do you think china itself at the time was also very mindful of what its position could be or should be in the future if and when the cold war ended? >> certainly. the world has changed tremendously since the early 1950's. geopolitically, of course, we have seen the cold war between the soviet union and united states and tried to play an important part of that geo strategically. from that perspective, certainly africa has been seen as a battleground may be even a playground for colonial powers. it to

the communist party went to work on passing a resolution favorably equating xi to the dictator mao zedongdiucao, armed with posters, homemade glue and a full satchel of outrage, went to work in manhattan. he compared xi to a magician conjuring chairman mao's spirit. >> badiucao: xi jinping has tried to portray himself as another mao zedong, another red sun of china. he wants to achieve what mao has achieved. he wants to be celebrated as this godlike figure, like mao enjoyed in his time. >> wertheim: it was by accident that badiucao became a leading critic of the chinese communist party. in 2007, he was a law student in his hometown of shanghai, watching a film online, when the movie abruptly switched to footage someone had secretly embedded depicting the 1989 student protests in tiananmen square. ( protests ) >> badiucao: and that is actually the very first time i know this exists. >> wertheim: so, wait-- so you're in law school? you're in your 20s. >> badiucao: i am. >> wertheim: and the first time you're hearing about the tiananmen square massacre-- this worldwide news-- and the first t

to understand how we need to remember china's first leader mao zedong. volutionaries. hell bent on destroying western capitalism. >> guerilla war has accomplished its aims. >> inspiring insurgencies all over the globe. >> burma, tieland, malaysia, the philippines, the khmer rouge in cambodia. >> they call themselves marxist len nist maoist. >> the shining path guerilla movement. >> even a nuclear apocalypse was acceptable to mao in his great struggle. if worse came to worse and half of mankind died, he said, imperialism would be raised to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. mao's successor had a different approach. his main goal was to make his poverty stricken country rich. so, he opened its borders to trade and sought peaceful coexistence with the west. >> he came up with a theory that he called hide your strength and bide your time. just steadily invest in the chinese economy and just ease your way into the international system. >> the first peace keeping engineering unit. >> china funded the un and provided humanitarian aid, a remar

we're being told by economists that this is a move back to mao zedong's state-controlled economy. >>ust say that the way that they have done it very often is very clumsy. >> stahl: there's no question that the tension between china and the united states is rising. we're certainly competitors now in a heightened way. shouldn't that give people pause about pouring money in? >> shan: well, think about it. china is the holder of treasury bills to a tune of $1 trillion u.s. dollars. there's more chinese money in the united states than american money in china. so, if you're worried about the competition between the two countries, who should be more worried? >> stahl: he argues that china's economy is still a good bet because their market is so big, with 1.4 billion consumers. and there's some merit, he says, in xi's state intervention, if compared to the united states. >> shan: i'm a free market believer. but now, china has better roads, better highways, better airports, better ports, better bridges than the united states, a country which dazzled me when i first arrived in 1980s with its i

kai-shek and his kuomintang party fled to taiwan, then called formosa, after losing a civil war to mao zedong'sts. communist china never controlled taiwan but has always considered taiwan a breakaway province. ♪ for decades, taiwanese lived under martial law, and the island was a one-party state. but in the last 30 years, taiwan has tried to create a multi-party democracy with respect for rule of law, human rights, and a booming economy. last year, president tsai ing-wen was re-elected on a platform of protecting taiwan from chinese domination. today, she highlight -- highlight u.s. military and diplomatic support. >> this collaboration between the defense industries of taiwan and the united states signifies the solid vow of partnership. nick: but the requirements of that partnerip are deliberately ambiguous. in the early 1970's, president nixon and national security advisor henry kissinger launched us-people's republic of china diplomacy. in a joint communique the us acknowledged, all chinese on either side of the taiwan strait maintain there is but one china and that taiwan is part of china.

president xi is the most aggressive and most maligned leader that china has had since mao zedong, andhas stated time and time again that he wants to replace the united states as the world's global leader and change the international order. one of the ways he wants to achieve that is certainly to achieve technology domination over the united states. something that they have capabilities themselves to do their own research and do their own creativity and innovation. but they steal most of it. that is the reality of it. they are also seeking political, economic, and military domination, as well. these programs are all connected to each other. >> gillian: sorry to interrupt you, i want to make sure i ask you real quick if you are surprised that china is doing this on the cheap, as well. $50,000 a month might be a lot of money to normal folks, but $50,000 a month to extract directly from an american, some of the most useful and certainly valuable technological information out there circulating at u.s. universities is really not much money. >> no, it's not. and full disclosure, dealing with

but xi jinping models himself after mao zedong.f all, recently concluded uyghur tribunal in the u.k., led by sir jeffrey nice, concluded that china is committing genocide and crimes against humanity in the uyghur population. also at the same time the court recognized, the tribunal recognized that xi jinping has a direct involvement. this particular leader that the international community will only call president is actually trying to defend the communist ideology and trying to create a new norm in the world that it's okay to do business with a den genocideal regime as long as it's in line with the business. this is the leadership trying to promote their own system of governance that goes in the face of democratic norms and values and this is a regime that commits genocide in the daylight. so the international community had has the to speak up and follow a u.s. example, united states has denounced more than 90 punitive sanctions under both trump and biden administration. the sky did not fall when our government spoke up. i was lucky