joining me now, will ripley, who is live out of taipei.y bizarre story. hello to you. the wta is coming out strong, making bold statements we normally haven't seen from companies and organizations that do business in china. what are they saying? >> reporter: they're saying something, don, that the nba didn't say, that the ioc is not saying weeks ahead of the beijing olympics, despite the fact that peng shuai is a three-time olympian. they're standing up for one of their stars. peng shuai is a grand slam champion and they don't believe after posting that detailed allegation of essentially being sexually assaulted by a powerful, influential former party leader, that she would then retract all the allegations and send this email to the wta and say, everything's fine. i'm good. i'm resting at home. they don't believe these pictures with the caption "happy weekend," ignoring the huge controversy and firestorm, they don't believe she's just willingly sitting silently right now. and so steve simon told erin burnett that if they don't get an expla

let's go to will ripley in hong kong.ill, you're quarantining in a hotel where it was. >> reporter: yeah, that was surprising to know. a man is on the fifth floor and a man in at opposite room tested positive as well, a man in his 60s. so health officials are puzzled to find out how the virus jumped to another room. is it going through the air ventilation system. they sent us notices that we need to rent air purifiers for the room if we want to exercise in the room. and they also question the mask. and they wonder if it was more contagious. it was detected in the hallway between the two rooms. we are allowed to open our doors. of course, we're putting on masks, you have to change that mask. when you collect food or trash, outside the door, i stuck my arm out the door to show you how densely this is packed. every plastic covered chair you that see down the hallway, somebody is in the room there. therefore, you have a lot of people in a relatively close space. if there's concern about venv venti ventilation, that can be pro

keep rooting for us. >> will ripley in hong kong. stay safe. >>> japan isn't the only country taking these measures. cnn has the story from jerusalem. good morning, hadas. talk us through how israel is hoping to contain the new variant. how many cases are we talking about? >> reporter: isa, right now there are two cases of the omicron variant. after the first confirmed case they decided to issue strict new am measures. the first is to close the borders for two weeks. health officials say that's the time they need to understand the variant, especially how it will interact with the vaccines. israel only opened the borders to tourists on november 1st so they barely had three weeks before shutting the borders. any israeli in the country, no matter where they're coming from, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated, have to go into quarantine for three days. they get two negative pcr tests before they can be released. any israeli coming from what's designated as a red country which is most of the african countries except those on the northern s

cnn's will ripley has our report. >> you can see that as soon as you started talking about this storyent to color bars. when china's communist rulers don't like the message -- >> this is not being aired in china. >> reporter: they silence the messenger. they have an army of sensors waiting to push that button. cnn coverage of tennis star peng shuai, blocked inside china. >> it really tries to control the story and the narrative. >> reporter: controlling the narrative means scrubbing social media. her explosive post on november 2, erased within 30 minutes. look for the story, and you get this message -- sorry, no relate vanlt results found. the scandal, a high profile state propagandist referred to it as the thing people talked about. no mention in the mainland's tv or digital media. outside, news outlets tweeting updates of peng. in english, on a platform blocked in their own country, an irony not lost on millions. some even mocking the state media tweets. peng is seen smiling, but not talking, at a tennis tournament. having dinner with friends and a chinese sports official, who just

will ripley is live in hong kong for us.this happened as president xi was meeting with generals to discuss further strengthening china's armed forces. what do we make of this? >> he was telling their military, christine, that they need to train, they need to get out in the air to gain the upper hand in future wars and of course this is a president who has said repeatedly that he won't rule out the use of force to reunify with the island of taiwan, an island that has its own military, its own government but is claimed by china's communist rulers. they have claimed it since the end of the civil war. they say they believe these repeated ariel incursions are a deliberate message on the part of china to try to intimidate them and exhaust the much smaller taiwanese air force to make them feel tired and overwhelmed. the defense minister firing back this morning saying they will not be intimidated, they do have counter measures in place. visited a taiwanese airbase and they showed off their new f-15 fighter jets which would have a h

cnn's phil mattingly is at the white house and will ripley is live in taiwan., let me start with you. it sounded like it was friendly enough, but clearly there were some tough topics. what are the takeaways? >> candid and direct, and i think it's well known. the president of china, president of the united states, and that was the basis of the conversation. i think with the best framing that i heard related to the three and a half hour virtual engagement was the idea that there were no breakthroughs to report and none were expected. that wasn't the point of this sit-down of this bilateral meeting between the two leaders and their top advisers. the point was to establish a way to manage the relationship that's become increasingly divisive and your report over whether there's taiwan or trade or human rights issues. more and more you've seen the u.s. and china kind of running into the issue headlong and that was at least the u.s. side of this meeting to hoping to try to address. not necessarily hoping to find solutions. not necessarily having deliverables but inste

here's cnn's will ripley. >> reporter: when china's communist rulers don't like the message -- >> thisilence the messenger. they have an army of censors waiting to push that button. they don't want the people to see it. coverage of tennis star peng shuai blocked. >> it really tries to control the narrative. >> reporter: controlling the narrative means scrubbing social media. peng's explosive post on november 2nd, accusing a retired chinese leader of sexual assault erased within 30 minutes. look for the story on china's leading search engine, you get this message "sorry, no relevant results found." the scandal so politically sensitive a high-profile state propagandist referred to it on twitter as the thing people talked about. inside china state media staying silent. no mention in the mainland's tv or digital media. outside, those news outs eagerly tweeting updates of peng in english on a platform blocked in their own country, an irony not lost on millions following the story outside china, some even mocking the state media tweets. peng is seen smiling but not talking at a tennis tourna

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will ripley is live in hong kong for us.se war planes flown near taiwan since october, john, and the motives behind this, according to taiwan's defense minister, intimidation of taiwan, testing taiwan's defense capabilities because they scrambled their fighter jets and defense systems every time this happens and they also want to send a message to the united states which just days ago sent a surprise delegation of lawmakers to meet with taiwan's president, tsai ing-wen. china would never explicitly reveal its reasons. china gets intelligence every time they conduct these missions and what makes this one on sunday unprecedented is that for the first time in addition to the 18 fighter jets and five nuclear capable bombers the y-20 an aerial refueling aircraft, which allows china to conduct longer-range missions potentially putting within striking range, analysts say, u.s. troops in okinawa and potentially endangering u.s. troops in ga tguam. this is aimed at taiwan but not so directly to the united states. the president was at

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here now is cnn's will ripley. >> tennis in china. a billion dollar business for the wta.ents reportedly a third of their revenue. highly lucrative and for the chinese government, highly prestigious. now, it's all on the line. the wta is demanding answers. where is tennis icon, peng some shuai? is she okay? she has not been seen in public since november 2nd. the 35-year-old doubles grand slam champion accusing china's 75-year-old vice premier of coercing or having sex about three years ago at his home. chinese propaganda on overdrive, seemingly trying to silence the outcry, chinese journalists claiming these are from her we chat with the caption, happy weekend. no time stamp on the photos. no actual direct communication with peng herself. on endorwednesday, a suspicious e-mail only adding to fears for her well-being. the e-mail retracts her allegations saying i'm not missing nor am i unsafe. i've just been resting at home. everything's fine. the wta not convinced. demanding proof she's safe, a probe into her allegations. the organization's ceo telling "outfront" he is prep

cnn's will ripley takes a closer look at the complicated relationship between the sports world and theovernment. >> reporter: china's 75-year-old former vice premier, the onetime face of the beijing 2022 olympics, and the man who stands accused of sexual assault by one of china's premier tennis stars, peng shuai. her disappearance in the wake of the allegations on november 2nd and mysterious reappearance over the weekend fueling a firestorm that threatens to dismantle china's worldwide sport aspirations, or does it? while the women's tennis association's threat to pull a ten-year multi-tournament contract could cost china, contracts with major league baseball, the nba, formula 1 and others put china on course with its goal to make sports a $780 billion industry by 2025. >> this could be the biggest sport economy in the world. >> reporter: sports is already big business in china, home to almost 1.5 billion potential fans. according to analytics company global data, chinese firms' sponsorship agreements with the international olympic committee and football federations fifa and yew a fa a

will ripley there for us in hong kong. thanks very much, will. good to see you. >>> i want to bring you some breaking news coming into cnn now. israel has recorded its first case of the new b.1.1.5.9 virus. at the top of the show, it's been discovered in south africa. the country announced seven southern africa countries placed on the red list. this follows as we told you at the top of the show, not just israel's decision, but we now have italy and germany and europe potentially looking at doing the same. now, this variant that has been discovered in south africa as we told you in the breaking news about 20 minutes or so ago, researchers believe it is much more transmissible, and we do not know at this hour whether it can evade vaccination and whether vaccinations will still be able to protect us. a huge concern. we have seen countries acting fast. we've seen stocks taking a plunge this hour. and european stocks, asian stocks, and u.s. futures also down as well as airline stocks. we'll stay on top of this breaking news for you this hour. >>> now,

cnn's will ripley joins us from taipei with more.g shuai is being censored. what doesn't the government want people to know? >> reporter: yeah, i'm not surprised, anderson. i've been out here in asia covering china for eight years and i've lost count of the number of times that our reporting on cnn has been blocked by chinese censors. it's being blocked right now. i think we have a live picture from beijing. so every time we talk about something controversial, whether it be women's rights, chinese censors essential cancel k the me too movement in that country because anytime there's a controversial post like this it's wiped off the internet. they pull any sort of controversial television programs off of streaming services. there was a tv program about gay high school students that was hugely popular in the mainland that was yanked by the government midseason. when you talk about the rights of ethnic minorities. so peng shuai is just the latest example of how nobody, even an iconic worldwide tennis champion who's beloved inside and ou

will ripley for us, thanks very much, will. see you. >>> well, australia sending police and defense personnel to help authorities deal with violent protests. demonstrators set fires to buildings in the capital for a second day as you can see there, despite lockdown being ordered. protesters from the provence overlooked. they are calling the government to respkt the right of self-determination, to limit ties with dhchina and resume developments in malita. >>> the u.s. embassy in can i he have is warning of unusual military activity along russia's border with ukraine and crimea. situations could change without notice. satellite images appear to show russia gathering close to 100,000 troops along with tanks and military hardware in the region. meanwhile, ukraine is launching a special operation along its border with belarus. it is aimed at preventing a migrant crisis similar to the one that erupted, if you remember, between belarus and p poland about a week or so ago. >>> now, a bombing in the somali capitol killed eight civilians

all senior leaders have the goods on everybody else. >> reporter: will ripley, cnn taipei. >> and whatchina blocked our feed the minute we put this report on on peng shushuai. they don't want the people there to see it. >>> up next, we pay tribute to the dancing granny, who as we say earlier lost some of their members in the parade tragedy in wisconsin. [gaming sounds] [gaming sounds] just think, he'll be driving for real soon. every new chevy equinox comes standard with chevy safety assist, including automatic emergency braking. find new peace of mind. find new roads. chevrolet. ♪ ♪ you are my fire ♪ ♪ the one desire ♪ ♪ you are, you are, ♪ ♪ don't wanna hear you say... ♪ ♪ ♪ i want it that way ♪ feel stuck with student loan debt? move to sofi and feel what it's like to get your money right. (phone chimes) ♪ ♪ ♪ i jump up on the stage ♪ ♪ and do my money dance ♪ ♪ i throw some money up ♪ ♪ and watch the money land ♪ ♪ i do my, i do my i do my money dance ♪ move your student loan debt to sofi - you could save with low rates and no fees. earn a $500 bonus when you refi... and get your m

cnn's will ripley joins us live this hour from taipei to talk more on this.tory. it's just heartbreaking. what is being said about this across china? >> reporter: we do want to warn our viewers some of them might be very disturbed by the video that we're going to show here in a few seconds. so just want to give you a heads-up. we're showing it. we've made the decision to show it because this is important. it's important because it speaks to the misinformation about covid-19 and animals that appears to be rampant in some parts of the world, including in china. and it speaks to the fact that even more than a year and a half into this pandemic, this kind of thing is still happening, and people and animals sometimes are suffering. even in china with some of the world's harshest pandemic protocols, what you're about to see crossed a line. security footage from southeast china friday sparking outrage on chinese social media shared by a devastated dog owner. some viewers may want to look away. covid prevention workers force their way into a locked apartment. one wit

will ripley standing by with the very latest here. and disappeared for speaking out. that's what many fear is happening to peng shuai, the 35-year-old, one of the top-ranked doubles players in the world, accusing china's 75-year-old former vice premier of coercing her into having sex. peng's shocking claim erased within 30 men's from chinese social media. that was more than two weeks ago. peng vanished from public view ever since. her wabo account, with more than half a million followers blocked. the tennis world outraged. serena williams tweeting she's devastated, shocked, saying this must be investigated. on wednesday an email claiming to be from peng released by a state-owned broads caster. the email reattracts her allegations saying, i'm not missing nor am i unsafe. i've just been resting at home and everything is feign. the man who received the email, the head of the tennis association, is not convinced. . >> for us to see an email that basically denied what happened and said it didn't and that all is great,s i'm just struggling

cnn's will ripley joins us live. will, is there any way to know if these new photos are legit?ng people more concerned about the safety and the whereabouts of peng shuai because you have these photos with no time stamp. we don't know who is taking one of the photos. she's there in front of hefr stuffed animals and what appears to be her house by herself with a caption that says happy weekend. despite the fact that there is a global firestorm over her post accusing a former chinese premier of forcing her to have sex three years ago at his house, which was deleted in 30 minutes. she's been erased from chinese social media. her media profiles, you can't find them if you search for them in chinese and then she says happy weekend and sends an email saying everything is fine. i'm great and resting at home. it wreaks of somebody who is being held against their will and not able to communicate and express her views. >> and what are the financial implications of the wta potentially pulling out of china? >> it's massive. they have the regional headquarters in beijing. they have a ten-yea

let's go live to taipei and bring in cnn's will ripley. nice to see you.s of their adversary. given the last 18 months, the temperature rising between these two countries, this is note worthy. >> reporter: and what is also note worthy, christine, are these brand-new satellite images released just minutes ago by washington think tank csis. not a mock up, but actual aircraft carrier that china is almost finished building in shanghai, that has technology equivalent to u.s. aircraft carriers. this would be china's third aircraft carrier. the other two are using outdated soviet technology and ski slope runway that requires a lot of fuel, and only certain planes can actually take off. this new aircraft carrier according to satellite images uses the catapult, that is the main stay of america's 11-strong aircraft carrier fleet. a catapult can push planes in the air with less fuel burn. a variety of planes can be brought on a carrier with this technology. experts saying it is pretty much on par with what the united states is using, perhaps even more advanced than s

all senior leaders have the goods on everybody else. >> reporter: will ripley, cnn taipei. >> and whatnn's current feed into china. china blocked our feed the minute we put this report on on peng shuai. they don't want the people there to see it. >>> up next, we pay tribute to the dancing granny, who as we say earlier lost some of their members in the parade tragedy in wisconsin. of risk and reward.ce so you can enjoy more of...this. this is the planning effect. ♪ limu emu... & doug ♪ ♪ superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help showing the world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance so they only pay for what they need. (gasps) ♪ did it work? only pay for what you need ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ spider-man no way home in theaters december 17th ho ho ho! not again. oh no. for the gifts you won't forget. the mercedes-benz winter event. get a credit toward your first month's payment on select models. hi. so you're the scientist here. does my aveeno® daily moisturizer really make my dry skin healthier in one day? it's true jen. this prebiotic oat formula

we might not get, you know, during the sam again, but i would, but i shall live in, i think in ripley brownie gaz and i will be only a new one. yeah. well, thank you so much for giving us such a rapid reaction to today's developments and taking the call doctor mom to sell me . professor benner, she economics at the s c p europe business school in london. thank you very much. while belarus has condemned poland, border crock don calling it violence against people on another countries territory . this is the backdrop to what we just been speaking about polish border guard to fenced off. the frontier firing water come and tear gas to prevent migrants from breaking through the top. you an official claims to be on aware of the cracked on despite pictures being broadcast to the world. ah, with the ports do they say that a polish said used to water cannons against those migrants? how can you comment on this? we don't have a confirmation on that. obviously if there was any such a treatment that that that would, that would be wrong. there should not be any use of force in dealing with with the

flu like symptoms, he will be having most likely the virus for many months and a very virus will be ripley caves in duplicating itself. and by doing that, you will have more and more mutation coming out. and by the end you would be have in what we call a ryan's with the new characteristic. right? oh, and i assume that is albany lane. i'm sorry to interrupt you. that is only compounded by the low vaccination rates in africa. absolutely, absolutely. i think that's a we did lots of lobby is money on your channel. actually saying that you can not leave africa actually without vaccination because of that we operate in with our health and the half of the world than we are playing, catch 22 k. and often we might, we might come back to square a 0. so if you have lots of immunocompromised 1st and what can happen, one person like what's happening right now, one person can give you a new variance and his voice. now it's called actually and they're monitoring barnes and the man monitoring. and after that, you have the class upper, it's what we call the variance of interest and answer what we have is v

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. >> cnn's will ripley joins us from taipei. the language is so sensitive around this issue.ause concerns when there is a slight slipping in the language. >> reporter: and that's why the ministry foreign affairs in taipei blasted beijing, and particularly chinese state media for mischaracterizing in their view what president biden said. he supports the one-china policy the urgnited states has had for decades. what they didn't mention is the taiwan relations act you just heard president biden mention. the act compels the united states to sell taiwan defensive weapons, taiwan about the $5 billion in weapons in the u.s. just last year. but it's being vastly outspent 15 to 1 by beijing, which is building more weapons, more missiles, more ships, more planes, and some fear that if this regional arms race doesn't get under control, it could escalate and perhaps even tip over. >> okay. in terms of how this moves forward, what's the talk in taiwan, for example, about the future of the relationship between the u.s. and china and how taiwan falls in between? because, you know, a lot of

will ripley, thank you very much. "new day" continues right now. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, november 19th. i'm john berman with brianna keilar. we're maybe an hour away for a vote that is a huge step for president biden and his agenda. the build back better social agendaing poised to pass the house. it comes after we saw some history overnight, long-winded history. the longest house speech on record. kevin mccarthy touching on everything from carrots to "red dawn." if his goal was to have the vote in the dark, it didn't work. the vote is coming. >> in the light, actually. house democrats plan to vote on the build back better plan who lawmakers reconvene about an hour from now. they are confident they have the votes to pass it. what happens after that is more unce uncertain. democrats will need all 50 members of the democratic caucus on board. let's bring in jessica dean live on capitol hill. tell us about the state of play as we have a pretty important steph

. >>> we now go to asia and will ripley who is in hong kong where two people tested positive for the is in the quarantine hotel that you're currently in right now, right? >> reporter: two floors down from me. it was a surprise to check in and hear about this plethora of cases on the fifth floor. i'm up on the seventh. and it is having a pretty big impact for the people in those two rooms, a south african man in his 30s, and a man in the room across the hallway in his 60s, both of whom tested positive within one week of each other. when they tested for the virus in the hallway, they found traces of the virus even though these two men did not have physical contact with each other, authority ies say, and we vaccinated. initially they said one was wearing a mask that they think is improper, it has a valve allowing for air to escape. every time we open our doors, we're supposed to change the mask every single time. put on a new mask whenever you open the door to put out your food, put out the trash. or in my case, i stuck my arm out the door and took video down the hallway to show people

cnn's will ripley is live in taipei city with more on this developing arms race that could threaten theng. >> reporter: good morning, laura. yes, these talks couldn't come at a more critical time. analysts are telling me, because china has been expanding its arsenal at an alarming pace, and other countries in the indo-pacific region are doing the same. >>> u.s. president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping meeting virtually this week as the world faces what analysts call a growing threat. an intensifying arms race across the indo-pacific, potential flash points across the region, raising the risk of a nuclear conflict, threatening to u.s., its allies and the world. >> if you have a serious conflict, you could end up with nuclear weapons being used and we're not talking atomic bombs. we're talking hydrogen bombs and this is a different warfare entirely. >> reporter: the world's most assertive power, china. the united states us suggests beijing is building nuclear capable silos, testing more ballistic missiles than the rest of the worldcom bi-- world combined. the chinese navy the

okay, thank you so much, will ripley. we'll be talking more about that coming up in the show, these controversies over peng shuai's disappearance and the new concerns over the upcoming winter olympics. the beijing games are less than three months away and china has a great deal at stake. so far no country has declared a boycott. beijing isn't the only one with big money to lose here. u.s. companies look to china for a big chunk of their revenue. the u.s. sports business institute told cnn back in 2019 that the chinese market makes up at least 10% of the nba's profits. that number is expected to rise to 20% by the year 2030. and athletic brands depend on china for big money as well. in 2018, nike made some $6.2 billion in china. that number rose 21% from the previous year, and it's much higher than in north america. nike saw just a 7% increase in sales here over that same period. all of this just scratches the surface of money to be made in china. we haven't even gotten into streaming and endorsement deals. so what makes c

fact that two of the police officers that were sued over the second amendment preservation act in ripleysoon as they can i'm afra that 're gog uff. makeliceicthisnts to wt todo it. ( gun firing ) >> o'donnell: missouri state senator eric burlison and state representative jered taylor co- sponsored the second amendment preservation act. they say there are plenty of missouri law enforcement officers who support the law and are not having any issues. those having problems, they say, don't yet understand it, or are receiving poor advice. >> jered taylor: i think there's bad information. i think that they're getting bad information. if you ask ten different attorneys, they're going to give you 15 different answers on any number of issues. >> o'donnell: some of the law enforcement that we spoke with in southeast missouri, they say it's preventing them from putting bad guys away with federal help. how do you respond? >> eric burlison: i think that the dust needs to settle. any bill that comes out, originally there might be ambiguity from understanding what the intent of the bill was. our intent

as a chaplain i served with seat -- seal team two and 2012 in camp ripley.we would see mercy -- murphy's face on the wall. host: did you have a question for mr. kitfield? caller: no. my question, i have read a number of books on medal of honor winners, and about the only time i call is on veterans day. and i come from people that served dating back to the spanish-american war with my uncle carving 18 on the sole of his shoe so he could go out with blackjack pershing to chase poncho via to my grandfather who went as a lawyer and lieutenant in world war i and my father who signed out out of college and he did 40 years. i chose to serve, and i only did 30 years. i was pretty upset i could only do 30 years. i did that as a chaplain, first with 3-2, and then seal team two, and then i worked over there with the defense attache in pakistan over in the fit fleet. -- fifth fleet. host: as a chaplain is there something that you often came back to when you talked to the soldiers. caller: they sent me to study arabic, so i talked to the imam where i was. i did a lot of

for the latest beijing bureau chief live in the chinese capital, will ripley is in taiwan for us as wellll, it is the topic here, seems in tractable as well, what did you learn in terms of progress on taiwan? >> reporter: well, it is the number one issue when it comes to u.s./china relations from the beijing perspective. i know steven can probably speak more to that. from the mainland's perspective, taiwan is an inseparable part of china. here in taipei, they feel very differently. they've had their own government and their own military for more than 70 years, since the end of china's civil war. they want to forge friendships, if not alliances, with countries that will acknowledge taiwan as an independent self-governed -- you can't say country because china -- it's a red line for them. but in taiwan they call this island, this self-governing island, its own country and they want to be recognized as such. they fall short of declaring independence because they don't want to push beijing over that red line that president xi talked about in that read-out with president biden. china putting o

. >> will ripley is out front. >> reporter: tennis in china. a billion-dollar business for the wta.. reportedly, a third of their revenue. highly lucrative and for the chinese government, highly prestigious. now, it's all on the line. the wta demanding answers. where is tennis icon peng shuai? is she okay? a household name in china, peng has not been seen in public since november 2nd. the 35-year-old doubles grand slam champion, accusing china's 75-year-old former-vice premiere of coercing her into having sex about three years ago at his home. chinese state media on propaganda overdrive. seemingly, trying to silence the growing global outcry. a chinese journalist tweeting these pictures of peng claiming they are from her wechat with the caption "happy weekend." no timestamp on the photos. no actual-direct communication with peng, herself. on wednesday, a suspicious e-mail released by a state-owned broadcaster. only adding to fears for her wellbeing. the e-mail retracts her allegations saying, i'm not missing, nor am i unsafe. i have just been resting at home and everything is fine.

will ripley is out front. >> reporter: zhang gaoli, china's 75-year-old former-vice premiere, the one-timend the man who stands accused of sexual assault by one of china's premiere tennis stars, peng shuai. her disappearance in the wake of the allegations on november 2nd and mysterious reappearance over the weekend, fueling a firestorm that threatens to dismantle china's worldwide sport aspirations. or does it? while the women's tennis association's threat to pull a ten-year multi-tournament contract could cost china, contracts with major league baseball, the nba, formula 1, and others put china on course with its goal to make sports a $780 billion industry by 2025. >> this could be the biggest sport economy in the world. >> reporter: sports is already big business in china. home to almost 1.5 billion potential fans according to an l analytics company global data, fifa and uafa alone are worth more than $2.2 billion and growing. athlete sponsorships and sports manufacturing account for lucrative deals for companies like nike. in 2018, nike made some $6.2 billion in china. that number rose

. >> reporter: i'm will ripley at the hong kong international airport, where a third person has tested positive for the omicron variant. two more cases detected in this quarantine hotel i'm staying in right now. all incoming travelers to hong kong are required to quarantine, and the territory panned non-resident arrivals from europe, africa, and the americas. any country where omicron has been detected. japan is taking things one step further, banning all new foreign arrivals as they also confirm their first case of the new variant. >>> this morning, the white house says it doesn't anticipate new travel restrictions beyond the countries in southern africa, but industry groups are concerned. the u.s. travel association is urging the biden administration to reconsider the temporary ban. they wrote over the weekend, covid variants are of concern, but closing borders while vaccinations have proven incredible durable. joining me now is u.s. travel association executive vice president tori emerson-barnes. thank you so much for being with us. what is your message to the white house this morni

will ripley is out front. >> reporter: you can see that as soon as you started talking about this storyen china's communist rulers don't like the message -- >> this broadcast is not being aired in china. it's being censored. >> reporter: they silence the messenger. >> they have an army of sensors waiting to push that button. >> they don't want the people there to see it? >> cnn coverage of tennis star peng shuai blocked inside china. >> it really tries to, um, control the story. control the narrative. >> reporter: controlling the narrative means scrubbing social media. peng's explosive post on november 2nd accusing a retired chinese leader of sexual assault, erased within 30 minutes. look for the story on china's leading-search engine, i get this message sorry, no relevant results found. the scandal so politically sensitive, a high-profile state propagandist referred to it on twitter as the thing people talked about. inside china, state media staying silent. no mention in the mainland's tv or digital media. outside, those news outlets eagerly tweeting updates and images of peng. in engl

. >> thank you for explaining all of that, will ripley.on college political science professor robert ross. so professor, thanks for being here. how do you interpret president xi telling president biden that, quote, whoever plays with fire will get burned? >> well, beginning in the trump administration, continuing through the biden administration, the united states has challenged most of the norms established in u.s./taiwan relations since normalization relations with china in 1979. the chinese perspective that's tantamount telling the leadership on taiwan we have your back. and for the mainland, their concern is to the extent america supports that leadership it may be encouraging that leadership to declare independence. that has the mainland concerned. the closer we get a leadership they don't trust might cross the red line. so the mainland leadership has been increasing their military presence, their warnings, be careful. you go too far, we may have to react. we may have to warn you more forcefully that this is getting dangerous. >> profe

as a chaplain i served with seat -- seal team two and 2012 in camp ripley.ld see mercy -- murphy's face on the wall. host: did you have a question for mr. kitfield? caller: no. my question, i have read a number of books on medal of honor winners, and about the only time i call is on veterans day. and i come from people that served dating back to the spanish-american war with my uncle carving 18 on the sole of his shoe so he could go out with blackjack pershing to chase poncho via to my grandfather who went as a lawyer and lieutenant in world war i and my father who signed out out of college and he did 40 years. i chose to serve, and i only did 30 years. i was pretty upset i could only do 30 years. i did that as a chaplain, first with 3-2, and then seal team two, and then i worked over there with the defense attache in pakistan over in the fit fleet. -- fifth fleet. host: as a chaplain is there something that you often came back to when you talked to the soldiers. caller: they sent me to study arabic, so i talked to the imam where i was. i did a lot of humani