but became permanent >> much to the shock of beijing for decades, china's founding revolutionary mao zedong had been threatening to liberate taiwan by force but all of that changed with mao's successor, deng xiaoping deng pursued a kinder, gentler approach to the world including taiwan he made it an offer. he thought it couldn't refuse. if the island returned to the motherland it would be allowed to essentially run itself keeping its own political system, its economy >> and >> even its military his offer slogan was one country, two systems >> dung's old classmate challenging, whoa turned him down >> but >> quietly trying abandon his father. shanghai shakes old pipe dream of taking back the mainland the prime minister visit to china in september 1982, provided the opportunity to open discussion done, then offered one >> country, two systems to the british colony of hong kong in the 1980s hoping it would eventually become an lawyering example for taiwan >> hong kong was supposed to be the test case to prove that the prc could be trusted to actually tolerate another system >> then suddenly a b

china mao zedong , who stood behind mao zedong, who supplied weapons throughout the civil war, if nott union and joseph stalin, this is not an independent victory for china , the people's republic of china, the chinese communist party, which, which now, which is now in power , well, then you had to give up, as one ukrainian president said, you have to be consistent, that's how you have to be. consistent, no one will get away with it, yes, please, well, and that's why, and when we talk about all this peacekeeping, about china's position, well, it 's obvious, it's pro-russian, and what, what should we do in this case, on the one hand , well, there is a situation, we understand that china is quite a strong, strong player, we understand that it seriously helps russia, and it is important that during the visit of the chinese representative, the ukrainian... in the office north korean missiles were also demonstrated to the chinese by the president, because periodically there we on the ground again hear that there is not enough evidence, and we talked and talked, in particular there was a re

this is cnn >> in a conversation with henry kissinger in the 1970s, china's leader mao zedong said he could live without taiwan. >> for now but in 100 years, we were wanted. he said and what's more? we are going to fight for it >> mao's one on hundred-year deadline may arrive ahead of schedule >> in a chinese >> documentary called chasing dreams the country's bravest warriors declared their willingness to die. >> in an >> all-out invasion of taiwan it was accidental. >> if it's too hard to remove the mines and taiwanese waters. one says we would use our bodies to clear a pathway but we shouldn't go to my fighter jet would become a >> missile rushing towards the enemy if i used up my ammunition says a pilot i want to see the other side of the strait. a soldier declares i've been preparing for that day >> a war >> over taiwan would be an act of madness tens of thousands could die nearly one million jobs have disappeared. >> there could be a global great depression nuclear weapons would be on the table and attack would be a massive gamble for china's communist party could risk losing the

who could give him the elixir of immortality, the same, let's say, a more modern story, this is mao zedongy created him, well, until recently he was also looking for various doctors, experts, from tibet , i searched for them somewhere in the world, who were supposed to... come and give him this elixir of eternal life, putin also has a shaman in altai, who probably promises him something, putin needs it, he will not understand , he is a sick person, to understand that there will be no eternal life, but that's the way it is maniacal desire to take with him as much as possible, you know, i'll tell you this story at the very end, why he loses, actually in the movie red dragon, it's one of the series of films about hannibal the lecturer, according to the famous bestseller, and hannibalector and... he was caught by an employee fbi and he says, i was doing everything right, how did you, i, i was hiding, hiding, i was doing everything right, how did you find me, what's the reason, and the fbi inspector said, performed by edward norton told him, you're just sick, professor, putin is just sick, that

role if you will for a leader in china, at least in comparison to the last several decades after mao zedong. so there is more responsibility on him and his team of loyalist, including li qiang the premier, who will deliver his first work report tomorrow. haslinda: all against a challenging backdrop. our chief north asia correspondent stephen engle in beijing along with eric zhu from bloomberg economics and charlotte yang in hong kong. we speak to the chairman and cio of one of asia's largest independent wealth managers for his outlook. later, we check on india's appetite for travel with cleartrip, and the destinations that are proving most popular. we are leaving you with a nasa spacex crewed mission launch set for 11:53 in hong kong. that was delayed from yesterday, initially slated to be launched. crew-8 consist of three american astronauts and one russian cosmonaut. we will bring you details shortly. keep it here with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ haslinda: welcome back. here's a look at the week ahead. china's national people's congress begins tuesday. officials are due to unveil the nation'

miafter mao zedong couldbe vuln? >> he's vulnerable. with power comes accountability and china is falling you apart and he isg blamed and a we've seen signs that do not occur in periods of stability. they coincided with xi jinping getting his third term as communist party general secretary, in other words, as ruler of china and that can't be a win coincidence. there are things occurring in china that we don't know about but they don't point to stability in the chinese regime. in fact, they point the other way. maria: does that mean to you that xi jinping gets more aggressive, gordon or do you the economy plummeting, the stock market lost $6 billion in value in the last couple of years, two years or so, does he become more aggressive or does he worry that the economy is so weak and the equities are so weak that he needs partnerships? >> it could go either way. but we have also seen xi jinping become more aggressive recently. it's not just taiwan. it's also in the philippines and south china sea. the state department warned the united sta