can see that china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including going to ship the spratly islands and that's disputed by the philippines and vietnam and others discover a reef that's claimed by china and the philippines and that particular battle began 8 years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels in that area let's get more on this with katrina you started by 1st in beijing katrina so china as long as for this region that's not likely to let up now what do the authorities make of the section of state's remarks. well they're furious about the statement that's been made by washington and at the same time they're not surprised they've been talking about the sell chinese you for a few weeks now government think tank a few weeks ago came out and said that there is an increased chance of conflict in the south china sea because of the u.s. now about this statement made by the u.s. secretary of state nor official response from beijing as yet but the chinese embassy in the u.s. has released a statement firmly opposing it saying that the u.s. is comple

in to the spratly islands the south china sea and what was different about this i think was that chinesefighter scrambled that sounds like an escalate. well the again from an american perspective the escalation was the chinese speeding to militarized these islands in the 1st place moving its military capabilities doubt into that region engaging in provocative behavior against the commercial activities said military forces of other minor countries in the region that have claim to those islands so it's a response to chinese intimidation rather excuse me how we come of this being intimate. in the south china sea there have been no military forces nobility bases there the chinese except the united states military but not in the south china sea and not even in the philippines because the united states withdrew its forces in the philippines but united states is back in the philippines the philippines and the united states have an ounce to 5 different locations scattered all throughout the philippines where u.s. troops will be stationed on a rotational basis this threat to china from yet more u

with malaysian vessels chinese boat swarming future which is a philippine island and recently also china named 2 regions in the spratly and the paracel islands as administrative regions calling them the. islands run through there's been this going to do for months. trying to put in searches on u.s. politicians to experience. i think i think that will be inevitable if you look at the pattern there's been a tit for tat in various areas in that and this bilateral relationship appears to be in freefall just on monday china's foreign ministry spokesperson watching you said china was slapping sanctions on 4 u.s. officials including ted cruz and marco rubio who are senators and that was in response for the u.s. earlier putting sanctions on chinese officials including chen 20 war who is the number one official in province because of diligent human rights abuses there and change is a very important person in the chinese communist party is a member of the 25 strong pull it bureau and earlier and that we'd be us said it was also putting sanctions on any chinese officials involved in disrupting travel to tibet for which china sai

wrapping up the building of artificial islands incidents with malaysian and filipino votes beijing naming administrative cities in the disputed areas of the spratly and the paracel islands and the u.s. is saying that china has been doing this while the international community has been distracted by the card 900 demick and beijing has flat out denied this so far catrina do stay with me because i want to ask you about another source of tension for beijing at the moment now china is accusing democracy activists and hong kong of trying to launch a revolution it's described campaigning for recent primaries as a serious provocation which may have reached a tough new security law it's imposed on the city more than 600000 people turned out over the weekend to choose candidates for september's legislative elections and hong kong katrina this is a suggestion that over half a 1000000 people could have broken this new law what could happen now. that's right well the chinese government say is that they are investigating what happened presumably it won't be the 600 people that turned up on the weekend it may be those organizers who are held to account now acco

swarming uncomfortably close to future which is a philippine island and also china has named 2 administrative cities in the disputed spratly and the paracel islands as well and as part of this ongoing dispute joiners put sanctions on some u.s. politicians that we can expect more of this kind of tit for tat reprisal. i think if you look at the pattern i think there's definitely going to be some sort of response from china the bilateral relationship as you mentioned oh you just seem to be in freefall on monday afternoon china's foreign ministry spokesperson what a said that beijing was slapping sanctions on 4 u.s. officials including senators marco rubio and ted cruz and that was in response to elliott sanctions put on chinese officials for allegedly rights abuses in shin junge and those sanctions included the official chen who is very important here in china a member of china's 25 strong pull it bureau and earlier that week washington said it was also sanctioning chinese officials because of travel disruptions chair tibet although it didn't name any particular officials there and then china said it would respond in kind so

they are important trading centers, so a lot of shipping goes through, including around the spratly islands which are two separate island chains in the east china sea -- south china sea. what they have been focusing on is building up their military capacity, essentially turning the low-lying reefs into bases that can house fighter jets and oftnot, putting quite a lot armory on them as well. there is an incentive for china to turn this into a military fight and the -- the risk is that because no one is pushing back against china in the south china sea, we will wake up one day and realize 10 years from now it has militarized the entire area. rosalindk you so much, foreson, executive editor federal governments. -- scheduled to be with bloomberg later. we speak with a former president of the new york fed, liam dudley in the 8:00 hour. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: this is bloomberg surveillance. new yorkrancine from and london. let's get straight to markets. marvin, what do you do with the dollar right now? -- it has moved a bit, we have to look at the liquidity being put into the system, and

the south china sea claims by china include ownership of the spratly islands which are also claimed by the philippines vietnam and others the scarboro reef is claimed by china and the philippines and that this feud began 8 years ago when the philippine navy a pretend that 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels in the shoal compares announcement comes after china impose sanctions against 3 u.s. politicians and the envoy for religious freedom those targeted include senators ted cruz and marco rubio well supported legislation president donald trump signed in june calling for sanctions over the repression of weaker as the u.n. says about 1000000 we have been detained in reeducation camps in xin jiang china's foreign ministry is warning the u.s. to stay out of china's internal affairs me found some engine tension the u.s. practice is in serious interference in china's internal affairs in syria's file ation of basic norms in governance of international relations china opposes and strongly condemns that response to u.s. wrongdoing china has decided to impose sanctions starting from today. it's go

well china claims about 90 percent of the china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which is disputed by the philippines vietnam and other countries to the scarborough shoal is claimed by china and the philippines that disagreement escalated 8 years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels a singapore and man has pleaded guilty in the u.s. to working for china's intelligence agency and for chinese scientists are under arrest because of suspected ties to the chinese military last to be detained tango in is expected in court on monday diplomats in the chinese consulate in san francisco are accused of harboring a u.s. immigration says all 4 lied on their visa applications about belonging to china's people's liberation army. thousands of people have gathered for another nights of protest in the u.s. city of portland oregon. asked to share the latest live pictures coming to us there from the pacific northwest we have recently seen a crackdown by federal agents states officials have opposed that months of protests that began over the death of g

or china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including get a ship of the spratly islands which are also claimed by the philippines vietnam and others and the scarborough reef is claimed by china and the philippines and that just keep going to years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels in the area are white house correspondent can be healthy it explains a significance of pompei statement. well i think what's so pronounced about this is the fact that up until now the u.s. had always maintained that when it came to disputes in these territorial waters and the claims that china has made in those waters that this really needed to be resolved at u.n. backed arbitration so this is a complete departure from that standpoint the u.s. secretary of state in his statement as well as tweets as you mentioned coming out very strong accusing china of bullying accusing china of being completely unlawful of its claims and making clear that the united states is now standing with its southeast asian partners in terms of moving forward that they have been conce

unlawful well china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which is this putrid by the philippines vietnam and others the scrubber show is claimed by china and the philippines and that this agreement escalated 8 years ago when the philippine navy a pretend that 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels in the area when hay has more now from bangkok. in several areas of the south china sea islands at holes in reefs have been transformed china claims almost the entire area and for years has been militarizing the islands constructing remote outposts i want also claims parts of the south china sea along with several southeast asian countries including vietnam which is mounted the strongest challenge to beijing last month the vietnamese prime minister opened the latest southeast asian leaders summit with a strong statement on the issue without mentioning china. while the entire world is mobilizing its full force to fight against the pandemic responsible acts and violations of international laws are still taking place affecting the environment of security

geopolitics han china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which is disputed by the philippines and vietnam and upis. is claimed by china and the philippines that disagreement escalation 18 years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels in the area well richard hadrian is a political scientist and author of asia's new battlefield u.s. china and the struggle for the western pacific he says this is more than just an empty statement from the u.s. i think if you really look at the statement and compare it to previous statements not only from trump administration but from the obama and other american administration i think this is a major departure in terms of american policy in the south china sea and also has some very important not only legal but operation other i mean if you look at the language of the statement it does not only reject as unlawful trying to aggressive activities and its historic rights to much of the south china sea and beyond all the way to north and to in the sea waters off the coast of ind

until last week china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which is disputed by the philippines vietnam and others to the scarboro shoal is claimed by china and the philippines but disagreement escalated 8 years ago when the philippines navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing boats. the u.s. military has released what it says is proof that russia is violating the u.n. arms in bargo in libya the pentagon flames these satellite pictures show military equipment supplied by russian mercenaries being used on the front lines of the conflict these include fighter jets defense systems and on the vehicles the u.s. as russia's boosting support for the warlord. monic training from misrata the janay military has been saying all along that mercenaries belonging to the russian wagon group are in the front lines in sirte so these american this statement by the u.s. africa command sort of come from what they've been saying that you know in may the u.s. africa command said that 14 fighter jets were moved to which is sort of south central libya south of si

sea marking the majority of that territory as chinese territory is invalid a time it claims the spratly islands the parasail islands and much just think its territory that it's also claimed by its neighbors the philippines and vietnam now stretching is held at that time as planes ah invalid we haven't had a response yet from beijing it is the weekend here but they're likely to be in serious hit by this and also repeats on many statements that they have previously that a strategy is simply acting as a lot of the united states and holding the company ministrations lead but certainly it ties between australia and china are also not very good earlier this year china i mean a threat you've repeated calls for international that independent inquiry into the origin of the current virus had done they could not really infuriated beijing in results and subsequently and they've seen that in some posts or in these in polls as well 1 as increasing tariffs on as exports of grain are truly going from 0 to contribute in china. now the top u.s. health agency has issued guidelines calling for the full reopening o

well china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including in a ship of the spratly islands which is disputed by the philippines vietnam and of those the scarborough shoal is claimed by china and the philippines the disagreement escalated 8 years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels. not us federal agents sent sent to portland by president trump of a gun fired tear gas a protest as and made arrests demonstrators have rallied every night for 8 weeks demanding racial equality and police reforms we just in oregon state say the agents in riot gear are only making things worse harding reports. federal agents again firing tear gas at black lives matter demonstrators in downtown portland. the protesters have spent weeks demanding racial equality in america while others are calling for police reforms and an end to brutality by officers the city center court house is the focus of the anger in portland. that anger increased when president donald trump ordered federal agents to be sent to the city to protect the port 18 arrests have been made this

until last week china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which is disputed by the philippines yet nom and others the scarboro shoulders claimed by china in the philippines that disagreement escalated 8 years ago when the philippines navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing boats a singapore and man has pleaded guilty in the u.s. to working for china's intelligence agency and 4 chinese scientists are under arrest because of suspected ties to the chinese military the last to be detained tango in is expected in court on monday diplomats in the chinese consulate in san francisco are accused of harboring a u.s. immigrations as all 4 lied on their visa applications about belonging to the chinese people's liberation army. the u.s. military has now released what it says is proof that russia is violating the u.n. arms embargo in libya the pentagon claims these satellite pictures show military equipment supplied by russian mercenaries being used on the front lines of the conflict these include fighter jets air defense systems and armored vehicles

expanding their military presence that they both are named administers of regions in the parasolid spratly islands called shisha and that now beijing has in the past implied that australia has taken cues from washington has been behaving essentially like a lapdog of the trump administration we expect that they will repeat similar sentiments and certainly australia's foreign minister maries pain is juice meet with like home pay of next week to strengthen a strenuous ties with its biggest security partner but this is definitely going to have ramifications with china and china is the biggest trading partner of australia and this relationship was already hit earlier this year when scott morrison the astrarium prime minister urged the world supersport independent investigation into the origin of the current virus and beijing was very unhappy with that and consequently we still impulsive a strategy in beef and a silly in bali in fact it's true no thanks very much. for singapore rainman has pleaded guilty in the us to working for china's intelligence agency and for chinese scientists because of suspected

china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which are also claimed by the philippines vietnam and others the scarboro reef is claimed by china and the philippines and that dispute began 8 years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing fishing vessels in the area mark a tree in the us our correspondent live for us in beijing and standing by china really not happy with my pompei as comments. no not happy at all for china all issues of territory are a red line and they've become firas at this statement now we haven't heard from beijing as yet but we have had a statement from the chinese and the see in the u.s. quite a lengthy statement saying that they firmly a porous us secretary of state's comments saying that he's trying to stir up trouble in the region that he's intentionally sowing discord between china and its neighbors and that is also exaggerating the problems in the region it goes as he goes the statement goes on to say that the u.s. is flying against the u.n. convention on the law of the sea somethin

campaign of bullying to control them the south china sea claims by china include ownership of the spratly islands which are also claimed by the philippines vietnam and others the scarboro reef is claimed by china and the philippines of that dispute began 8 years ago when the philippine navy a pretend that 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels in the shoal earlier china imposed sanctions against 3 u.s. politicians and the envoy for religious freedom those targeted include senators ted cruz and marco rubio both supported legislation president trump signed in june calling for sanctions over the repression of weekers china's foreign ministry is warning the u.s. to stay out of all of china's internal affairs and white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more. this is just another escalation in the tensions between the united states and its adversary china now as you pointed out this announcement coming from the secretary of state comes on the heels of beijing retaliating for the measures that took place late last week by the united states with regard to additional sanctions the china retaliating the

incidents with malaysian boards swarming close to philippine claimed islands and on the paracel and spratly islands disputed territory china has also named its own administrative regions in recent months the world health organization says secret averse pandemic will worsen if countries fail to observe basic health care cautions infections have no top 13000000 the agency says there will be no return to the old for this forseeable future. the situation we're seeing is countries that overcame the furthest peak of the outbreak but having is distractions are now struggling with the new peaks and accelerating cases in several countries across the world we are now seeing dangerous increases in cases and hospital wards feeling again it would appear that many countries are losing gains made as proven in measures to reduce risk are not implemented or followed restrictions of being reimposed on the u.s. state of california to combat a surge in the corona virus infections businesses including gyms bars and movie theaters they've all been told to close it's one of several u.s. states which has seen a spike in c

last week well china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which is disputed by the philippines vietnam and several others the scarborough show is claimed by china and the philippines and that disagreement escalated 8 years ago when the philippine navy pretended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels the u.s. military has released what it says is proof that russia is violating a u.n. arms in bargo in libya the pentagon claims that these satellite pictures show military equipment supplied by russian mercenaries being used on the frontlines of the conflict but these include fighter jets air defense systems an armored vehicles the u.s. says rusher is boosting support for the warlord khalifa haftar well it trainer has more from misrata. the janay military has been saying all along that mercenaries belonging to the russian wagon group are in the front lines in sirte so these american this statement by the u.s. africa command sort of come from what they've been saying that you know in may the u.s. africa command said that 14 fighter jets were moved to

china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which is disputed by the philippines vietnam and others this is claimed by china and the philippines that disagreement escalated 8 years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels in the area well let's discuss this further with richard darrien who is a political scientist and author of asia's new battlefield u.s. china and the struggle for western pacific his eyes from manila thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera before now the u.s. had not taken sides on the territorial disputes in the south china sea the stakes in the region are extremely high as we've seen how much ammunition does this new u.s. position give to other countries certainly claim to the territory how much does it in bold in them you think. you know we have a lot of naysayers saying that this is nothing but a statement is just pure rhetoric saying that this is just a cynical ploy by the trump administration to drop all the president's numbers and the very tough elections in nove

until last week china claims about 90 percent of the south china sea including ownership of the spratly islands which is disputed by the philippines vietnam and others the scrubber show is claimed by china and the philippines and that disagreement escalated 8 years ago when the philippine navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels. well u.s. federal agents sent to portland by president trump public and fired tear gas a protest us and made arrests demonstrators have rallied every night for 8 weeks in the west coast city demanding police reforms well leaders in oregon state say the agents in riot gear only making things worse. the. federal agents again firing tear gas at black lives matter demonstrators in downtown portland. the protesters have spent weeks demanding racial equality in america while others are calling for police reforms and an end to brutality by officers the city center court house is the focus of the anger in portland. that anger increased when president donald trump ordered federal agents to be sent to the city to protect the port 18 arrests have been made this week fi

to control them the south china sea claims by china include ownership of the spratly islands which are also claimed by the philippines vietnam and others the scarboro reef is claimed by china and the philippines and that this feud began began 8 years ago when the philippine navy apprehend that 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels the shoal compares announcement came hours after china sanctioned that u.s. officials in retaliation for washington blacklisting a number of chinese politicians over beijing's treatment of its we are minority those targeted include senators ted cruz and marco rubio both supported legislation that president obama signed in june calling for sanctions over the repression of leakers the u.n. says about 1000000 we have been detained in re education camps in xinjiang china's foreign ministry warned the us to stay out of china's internal affairs me from south engine pensions the us practice is in serious interference in china's internal affairs in serious violation of basic norms in governance of international relations china opposes and strongly condemns that in respo

thousands of years and china's military continues to build installations such as on the spratly group of islands the u.s. secretary of state michael b. is says the chinese claims to the south china sea are completely unlawful and washington supports a 5 asian countries indonesia malaysia the philippines and vietnam to what's been described as their inherent right to exclusive economic zones there. the philippine secretary of defense the finland's on the supports promptly is message to china and there in santa says china should abide by the 2016 ruling when the philippine government won its case against china at the international tribunal in the hague but philippines president rodrigo to tear down has repeatedly said the china is a far more powerful country and doesn't want to risk going to war the u.s. china this is seen by many countries as a conflict between 2 competing superpowers but geopolitics isn't the issue here in the philippines for millions of filipinos living in coastal communities like this one food security is at the heart of the south china sea this. many of the fishermen who sail

thousands of years and china's military continues to build installations such as on the spratly group of islandsthe u.s. secretary of state michael b. is says the chinese claims to the south china sea are completely unlawful and washington supports a 5 asian countries indonesia malaysia the philippines and vietnam to what's been described as their inherent right to exclusive economic zones there. the philippines secretary of defense the finland's on the supports promptly is message to china and there in santa says china should abide by the 2016 ruling when the philippine government won its case against china at the international tribunal in the hague but philippines president would really go to tear to has repeatedly said the china is a far more powerful country and doesn't want to risk going to war the u.s. china this is seen by many countries as a conflict between 2 competing superpowers but geopolitics isn't the issue here in the philippines for millions of filipinos living in coastal communities like this one food security is at the heart of the south china sea this. many of the fishermen wh