arrived in hong that he learned abouchina's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at tiananmen squareidly on video) >> vincent: (crowd chanting) (vincent shouting) st>> narrator: since the ps began, millions of hong kong residents have participated, making them the largest on chinese terrory since tiananmen square. (m shouting) on this night, vincent has joined thousands of othe in the center of the city. one of their slogans is "liberate hong kong: revolution of our time." in >> vcent: (crowd shouting) >> narrator: a few hours later, the violence escalates (crowd shouting)s the first live roufired by the police. (gun fires) a warning shot. (shouting) >> vinnt: (shouting continues) ♪ ♪ >> i thought a lot on my own future. i had to be mentally prepared to be arrested or even to be sent to the prison. >> narrator: at 22, agnes chow is already a veteran of pro-democracy protests. she's not worried about showing her fa because she's already known to the authorities. she was recently arrested. >> when i woke up and i opened the door of my room, i suddenly saw five police offirs standing ou

look at richard nixon with the first steps to open with china, i think in the aftermath of the tiananmen square massacre, george herbert walker bush did not do enough to push back on china. i do agree with john on his assessment of clinton, of george w. bush and obama on china. i think they counted on dialogue and trying to bring china into the community of nations as a way to respond to that threat. i think it is abundantly clear that did not work. china was going to do what china was going to do. while we are a country that tradees in rules-based and other mechanisms, it is not necessarily that way in china. we got it wrong for a long time. host: how involved with your group in the creation or negotiations, discussions the white house had leading up to this china trade deal? guest: from the early stages and during the campaigns we told all the candidates back in 2016, here is the challenges with china. here are possible ways to respond. we did find president trump and his team were very agreeable in terms of being aggressive to take action. we have seen that in a number of respects. the mecha

researcher told me that the reaction to the news of his death could have turned into another tiananmen square in china do you agree with that assessment. i think it's tricky it's certainly seemed to be. a shift in the sense of the communist party's legitimacy coming into question on a massive scale i mean i think you know so many people are saying my reach out pete is just is just filled with comments about this stuff they're expressing support and hashtags like i want free speech and you know trending on seeing a wave on the micro blogging platform in china i think the real tricky thing is this question does that translate into you know mobilization on the streets does it translate into internal competitions for power or visa v xi jinping and that's what we don't know i mean i think given the situation of the virus even if only for health reasons people may be reluctant to go to the streets but i think in terms of the sense that there's latent lack. limits on the comings presidency and that that starting that there are large numbers of people that's not only about a particular official or a

outrage perhaps it was 31 years ago in the weeks leading up to the devastating bloodshed in tiananmen square but certainly i think you know the government is going to survive it it's going to survive by responding this way more censorship and more control in the right adrian brown there thanks so much still ahead an al-jazeera fears of another escalation in syria a certain sense hundreds of military vehicles across its southern border. separatists in cameroon threatened to boycott landmark elections we'll have the latest on the ground. hello now the latest storm that's gone through the u.s. which is a violent one has at least gone off shore it's going to cause some damage in northern europe and as it goes away what was in the west which was snow from into the cascades in the rockies is now this across the plains into the midwest was rain shasta south of that there's a contrast in temperature is not a huge one so these are probably just just going to be xander still rather than thing more vicious than that this is sunday's picture we're looking at which is a much drier and sunnier one in seat

. >> they will ban and censor other things like ti tiananmen square, or even the corus you c.is so viral, the coo said it is growing faster than fact 5 facebook. if you don't stop stuff like this it go viral and encourage others. >> that video is unbelievable, in old days just cram into a phone booth. why is it ticktock seems to be getting momentum where all others copies each others stories and stuff. >> closed market 1.5 billion people, any time you get bite dance, i can tell you there are companies that would kill to have a, be required or or inencouraged to put a billion eyeballs on the platform. that is their huge advantage right now. >> i went to china in business, we had to get rid of our telephones or computers, this is way far advance from what i'm familiar with. >> may -- you brought up -- is oh, uopen -- onus on you too, we share everyone, i use biometrics to get to my phone, and i scan my keys. >> you share your inlocation all of the time. >> i do not. >> on inst gram. >> and you are following me. >> a great thing out of silicon valley, says when it's free you are

tiananmen square i drove through this week is empty. any places where people gather together is still supposed to be banned, but we see it happening in all parts of the country where factories are supposed to be reopening, but migrant workers are stuck in their home townes in the country side. there are many hurdles to trying to resume some sense of normality here. the government is extremely concerned about the economic impact of this virus, and is almost trying to will the country out of this outbreak. >> doctor, from what you can tell, is it sensible for the chinese government to start trying to get people to get back to work in a normalcy and such, or should there still be this sense of almost a national quarantine? >> i think it's hard to tell because we don't know how many, how transmissible this disease is. it's unclear if the closing down the shops and everything that they have been doing, if that's really preventing this from getting larger or if it's actually not making any difference, if it was already going to sort of end on

bishop's article for years what he's saying there is this is the worst threat to the party since tiananmen square this is a huge crisis, those that cause a crisis of confidence in the government and a 2008 earthquake that the government highly criticized for and don't know how many thousands of people died, a high-speed train incident that also really got to the creditn't in 2011 of the bureaucratic system there but those are isolated in places and to certain sectors of society what is happening with the coronavirus is the entire country. is shutting down every single person is affected. and now, have this event with the doctor that died that tried to warn everyone, shut down by the government, krcriticized by the government you have a face to this. it reminds me of, say, the arab spring which started in tunisia with a face of the fruit seller so upset how would you say? >> set himself on fire. >> right because he is -- his fruit taken by a bureaucrat. that was a face that really cat lized a protest. >> still it feels strange to talk about a challenge to the communist leadership which has solidif

seen so much open anger perhaps the last time was you know 31 years ago before the protests in tiananmen square and of course experts say this anger is serving to undermine trust in the party that has ruled china for 70 years. in a national emergency the country's leader is normally front and center not so china's president xi jinping his meeting with the visiting head of the world health organization in late january was 1 of his few recent appearances on state television nightly news we normally features prominently and since demanding a transparent and timely release of information about the coronavirus more than 2 weeks ago he's yet to visit. instead he sent the premier league chung to test the temperature and encourage medical workers you know the figure one analyst says there's perhaps a good reason for the president's disappearing act if things turn that. thing the earners will be young. and so in a way seeing peeing is protect himself from being too much exposed by the crisis. it's almost 2 years since she was appointed president for another 5 years that was after china's parliament vote

of speech and it's on a scale that i think china experts say we haven't really seen since he tiananmen squareo. eric: if it spreads, it could affect the whole globe. they write in the new york post, china's he leaders know they have an national emergency on their hands but for political reasons they're trying to control the narrative by down playing the seriousness of the epidemic. they punish those who report about this unfolding disaster, even though honest and accurate reporting would save lives. he goes on to point out there are not enough virus kits in hospitals, maybe they're down playing the numbers to down play the numbers of coronavirus folks and punishing people who are lying, police can punish you and pull you off if you're online. one et noted active -- one noted activist they say is missing. he's been posting videos on youtube and twitter. missing because he's been apparently telling the truth. >> this crisis is laying bare in the most brazen way, eric, for the chinese people just to the extent to which the chinese communist party is willing to go to sacrifice the well-being of i

look at richard nixon with the first steps to open with china, i think in the aftermath of the tiananmen squarecre, george herbert walker bush did not do enough to push back on china. i do agree with john on his assessment of clinton, of george w. bush and obama on china. i think they counted on dialogue and trying to bring china into the community of nations as a way to respond to that threat. i think it is abundantly clear that did not work. china was going to do what china was going to do. while we are a country that tradees in rules-based and other mechanisms, it is not necessarily that way in china. we got it wrong for a long time. host: how involved with your group in the creation or negotiations, discussions the white house had leading up to this china trade deal? guest: from the early stages and during the campaigns we told all the candidates back in 2016, here is the challenges with china. here are possible ways to respond. we did find president trump and his team were very agreeable in terms of being aggressive to take action. we have seen that in a number of respects. the mechanisms