at secretary kerry's peace initiative in the mirld east, joining me, ziad asali, dennis ross, and shibley telhami. >> this issue as sthibly says is the ultimate conflict in the world and it is exceptionally important to the arabs and muslim to have it resolved. so i think the mere fact of bringing the partisan negotiations will buy time for the united states and all the parties, so that the other outstanding burning presence, violent issues in several countries in the region will be easier to handle if this at least there is this appearance or more than appearance, a real attempt at resolving this issue. >> rose: and then we turn to china, a new business enterprise, joining me, bruno wu and tom middelhoff, the company is bt capital, we talk about doing business in china. >> china is in the phase of going through a major social transformation. no matter what people actually do have access to actually all kind of information, and the, i agree transparency will bring better understanding among the people, but it is going to take time. it is going to take time for the world to understand chin

can any new arrangement work, though, shibley telhami if they say we are not going to participate?that is really, immediately that is the major question, is how will the muslim brotherhood react? and here are the options. on the first -- they certainly can try to stay peaceful. they have been largely peaceful. they can stay peaceful, put masses into the streets, play the same game that the opposition did, paralyze the country and put pressure, have them, you know, acknowledge that they are part of the installation but on the other hand, if nothing happens and they are being arrested, we know that there have been offshoots of the muslim brotherhood that have been militant in the past and this could happen again, this is a dangerous game being played and how the muslim brotherhood reacts is going to be a central, but one thing i say in terms of the hope, some people think they really have an interesting coming back to play, because they could win a parliamentary election given given the disarray in the opposition, they wouldn't do it now -- >> in other words it is not clear where the

and for that, i'm delighted to be joined this evening by shibley telhami, the professor for peace and development at the university of maryland, a senior fellow with the brookings institution's sabine center and author of the world through arab eyes arab public opinion and the reshaping of the middle east. mr. telhami, it is a pleasure to you have on "viewpoint." >> good to be with you. >> john: we have a lot of ground to cover. does the white house's refusal to "make a determination or label the events in egypt" pass the smell test for you at least in terms of u.s. policy and law? granted interim government led by a civilian has been named but if this isn't a military coup, what is? >> well, look, there are two sides to this. one side is of course the technicality. obviously if the administration makes that determination then you know, congress is really obligated by law to cut off aid to egypt which obviously the administration doesn't want to do. that technicality is important. by the way the aid to egypt which obviously is the subject of this law was never given because of democra

at secretary kerry's peace initiative in the mirld east, joining me, ziad asali, dennis ross, and shibleyhami. >> this issue as sthibly says is the ultimate conflict in the world and it is exceptionally important to the arabs and muslim to have it resolved. so i think the mere fact of bringing the partisan negotiations will buy time for the united states and all the parties, so that the other outstanding burning presence, violent issues in several countries in the region will be easier to handle if