or for more let's bring in my colleague melissa chan from d.w. news asia as she has covered china for many years she joins me tonight from los angeles melissa it's good to have you right here on the show you know what my pompei you said it is technically true hong kong has been losing its all taunting me for some time now but knowing it and saying it are 2 very different things when it comes to us chinese geopolitics why do you think on pay you said what he did when he did. well i think the immediate cause and effect is exactly what your report has been talking about which is beijing's aggressive decision to enforce this national security law on hong kong but we can go farther back to 900 $97.00 and the hand over and the transgressions on the rule of law over the course of that time and of course what happened last year with the protesters and it's clear that the protesters are going to continue it's going to be a long hot summer in hong kong so those are the reasons i would also say though a bit more cravenly is that this is an election year in t

what he wants to do with taiwan yeah well he definitely has a lot on his plate that is for sure melissa chan with the w. news agency wanting us tonight from los angeles melissa excellent insight and analysis of the situation thank you. i don't think that facebook or internet forums in general should be arbiters of truth i think that's kind of a dangerous line to get down to in terms of deciding what is what is true and what isn't. and i think political speech is one of the most sensitive parts in in a democracy and people should see what politicians say well that was facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg defending his controversial position not to prohibit or even label his faults or untrue political messages in campaign advertisements even if they mislead the public as of this week face book and twitter are in 2 opposing camps for the 1st time ever twitter has flagged several of us president trump's tweets which twitter does when the accuracy or truthfulness of the content is in doubt it was an angry tweet about mail in ballots which trump opposes that started this trump tweeting there is no way

melissa chan reported from china for al-jazeera for several years before her credentials for a vote she now works for a number of outlets including d.w. news asia and some of their diplomats have come out to say and blame the united states as being the ones who created this virus during a military game international military games that was held in china they are accusing. the americans of having brought the bars to china to hand and so you have this geopolitical spat where both sides are 8 arguing sometimes based on what appears to be unsubstantiated conspiracy theory we've been speaking to analysts in both china and the u.s. about this and of course they have very different perspectives but there's one thing that they do agree on relations have never been this bad but i think the u.s. relation is. historical sense try and us as the established diplomatic ties. for decades when her young heads the center for china and globalization think tank in beijing and has close ties to the chinese government there is a wide. consensus 'd among. the vicious here in china and got more among business