news anchor : five infatuated falun gong members set themselves on fire in tiananmen square. it, i immediately thought it was fake. (policeman speaking in mandarin on tv) chen: i'm a tv professional. it's just like we used to do at the tv station. althe departments are connected. when the police have a case, they tell the tv station what to produce. so they were really worried and made me a key target to be converted. they used every method to force me to give up. they forced me to sit in front of a tv or eight hours a day. the volume was over 97 decibels. they forced my eyes open. i tried to resist. they did this for 22 days. after 22 days, the tv speakers broke. very cruel. some prisoners lost their minds. theyorce youo watch nonstop so the pressure mounts. will your mi accepit? they played it endlessly. if you hear it a thousand times, you might let your guard down. oh, maybe it's true. and once a crack forms in your logical thinking, they will drill into it until they break your will. (high-pitch noise) many people in the brainwashing center were deceived and they gave up

former chinese leaderjiang zemin — the man who stepped in after tiananmen square massacre — has died. a time when china is once again gripped by protests. a new drug is shown to slow alzheimer's disease in its early stages. scientists describe it as momentous. and celebrations in melbourne as australia go through to the knockout stages of the world cup. it's 7am in singapore, and 11 pm in london where buckingham palace has issued a formal apology — following remarks made by a senior member of the royal household to a black charity founder — who said she was questioned about whether she was really british at a royal reception on tuesday. lady susan hussey is godmother to prince william — the prince of wales — and served as lady—in—waiting to the late queen. at a gathering hosted by the queen consort, lady hussey made comments described by the palace as �*unacceptable and deeply regrettable�* — and said that she had stepped aside with immediate effect. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has the latest. buckingham nicholas witchell has the latest. palace yesterday afternoon. bucki

i think that's the first time as far as i can remember since tiee tiananmen square.be overly optimistic about the development. i think we are still very far away from seeing the ccp's power being really threatened. one thing we overlooked is how closely the chinese government is monitoring the whereabouts of all of these protesters. i think i'm very concerned in the coming days and weeks that the government is going to crack down upon those who have participated in the past few days and whether it's very important to monitor the arrest in the aftermath of these protests. maria: yeah. i mentioned this earlier. china has the best surveillance technology on the planet so clearly they understand and know who is on those protest lines and who is yelling for the xi jinping and communist party to step down. when do you expect the tanks to roll in is that what happens next if we look at t tiananmen square and what happened there? >> it's hard to say. we certainly hope not. but i think there are different stages in terms of the government's response to protests. i think as of

. >> trace: it's not tiananmen square yet. it's moving that direction. these are getting more boisterous every day. you can see the people in china fed up with the zero covid policies. the white house isn't saying anything about it. >> a couple of things, it's interesting that you bring up tiananmen square because if you look at the chance and the songs they are seeing, they are socialist, non-communist songs and they sang these very songs before what we saw happened before our eyes back in 1989 in tiananmen square. we did have a spokesperson from the national security department today pushback on this. but i think that the white house has to be very careful here because when we bring up tiananmen square, we know this even the people they want freedom, this isn't going to happen overnight and it's certainly not happening in a vacuum. we have a communist country that is looking at their people that they would perceive as being out of control and we've seen what they have done in the past. we saw what was done in hong kong, what's been done in china. prote

like tiananmen square for instance. well, very different from tiananmen square.nt discontent with the government, taking over one central area of the capital, tiananmen square. this is wholly different. this is the population of china. it isn'tjust this is the population of china. it isn't just young this is the population of china. it isn'tjust young people. it's not just students, although there are plenty of students there. and they are everywhere. when you look at the different demonstrations, and i have been examining them quite carefully out of interest to see who they are, what they are saying, they are so aware of the problems of other places. you look at crowds in shanghai, they are chanting slogans and they are angry about what's going on in urumqi. when you look at students in beijing, they are holding up blank pieces of a4 paper which they got from the students in hong kong, who are complaining about censorship there. the chinese authorities seem to be at their wits end. the click farms and bots are pumping out pornography and gambling adverts just to

a former communist leader has died as the country faces its most serious protes since tiananmen squarelaura: welcome to [speaking non-english language] -- welcome to "bbc world news," we begin tonight with the treatment of alzheimer's. a major trial of an experimental dementia dg showing for the first time that the progression of early-stage alzheimer's can be slow down. nearly 2000 agents to our in the study. the effects of the treatment were small but they have prompted huge excitement among researchers. our medical editor fergus walsh has more. >> dementia is the most feared condition among older people. but mavis quinn, who is 80, is enjoying her retirement, such as coffee mornings, despite a diagnosis of early-stage alzheimer's. >> i don't feel old. i don't feel tired particularly. we enjoy life together. i have a family that i adore. i enjoy them. life i think is rather nice. >> for short-term memory is badly affected and she increasingly relies on her husband, rodney. >> what are you going to do with yourself today? >> i have no idea. >> you were going out. >> thank you. come on

we saw this happen in tiananmen square and the protests were much larger and use the military to strike it down pretty hard. when he brings in riot police, bringing in the military, he can shut this down and we have to understand that. we need to use the bully pulpit of telling the world and americans that this is autocratic regime, we should use that. what the spokesman did is whitewashed it. we need to think about strategic campaign of the economy, they know how important that interface we have and how much we depend on it, most of the stuff we get is cheap stuff. china and gdp, it has grown before covid, 9% a year for the last four decades. when they came into the world trade organization what we did, there economy has grown and they used the growth of their economy to challenge the west, challenge the united states not only in the pacific region but globally. there's a connection between what you are seeing even though this is not an economic disruption we saw a lot in tiananmen square but is based on covid, it is the same kind of relationship xi has had with the people which is aut

i want to know if this is your opinion because i remember tanks in tiananmen square and we areere near that right now. >> that's for sure i think that's an accurate statement. it is the largest since tiananmen square, the protests it is not anywhere near the same significance i think we have to look at the protests differently it is directly as a result of the frustration, understandably so, of the lockdown now for almost three years in different forms from invasive testing on regular basis to lockdowns and shut in an apartment for long periods of time. that frustration is entirely understandable the other kinds of demands in terms of the government and in terms of freedom of speech are there, but they are a small part they are a derivative as opposed to primary that's an important point. the tension for china and the government is opening up and freeing the economy and freeing the people from this terrible anxiety they're under and the likelihood which leading officials say of a significant outbreak the variant in beijing is significantly more transmissible than omicron and om

what happened in tiananmen square was a moment that has defined, if you like, everything that has happenedinese communist party, from that moment in 1989, made up its mind. it believed, and still does, that the reason the soviet union fell apart was through weakness, was through tolerating western values, by allowing those cracks to open up, into which those freedoms started to filter in. civil society organisations, dissidence not being restrained strongly enough. and i think the lesson that china has learned is that, you know, to hold on to power, you have to be absolutely ruthless. we do now find ourselves, once again, despite all of those thoughts back 33 years ago, as you say, that this was the end of history, that the world was moving ever closer to this sort of...a system of shared values, we can be absolutely certain, notjust because of what's happening in ukraine, but the direction china has taken over the last decade has brought it home more forcefully than ever, that we are back in an era of ideological competition, if not outright, open cold war. it caused a sensation. north ko

china's former leader jiang zemin, who came to power after the student protests in tiananmen square inp on a vast scale and saw high—speed growth. a chinese communist party statement said he died of leukaemia and multiple organ failure. his death comes as china sees some of its most serious protests since tiananmen square, with many demonstrating against the tough covid restrictions. in afghanistan, an increasing number of restrictions are being imposed on women by the ruling taliban regime. in the past month, women have been banned from parks, gyms and swimming pools. girls are still barred from secondary schools in most of the country, and women are not allowed to work in some sectors. from kabul, yogita limaye reports. rare moments ofjoy in a country where so much is often bleak and sad. but the mothers of these children denied the right to be a part of the memories they're making. women aren't allowed in parks anymore. barred from the simple pleasure of a bit of fun with family and friends. this is only a male privilege now, one that many from the ruling taliban appear to enjoy, wh

do we see this escalate to the point of a tiananmen square, for instance >> no, we don't. i think every newspaper that i looked at today, i probably looked at five or six of them, and they all had the tiananmen square comparison in the lead paragraph. tiananmen square was triggered largely by a young generation whose political champion, the former leader and reformer hu yao bing had died. and the movement became a movement that was focused on these political issues xi jinping, as you know, has no political opposition he took care of that in the recent party congress. so this isn't about politics this is about understandably frustrated and angry population who is suffering job loss and economic hardship from a ridiculous covid policy. >> so he doesn't admit that he is wrong he tweaks around the edges things largely go as they are. and that's it, stephen i mean, that seems to be so limited. it does seem like these protesters are of a younger generation they did not witness the miracle of economic growth that he sheparded in the '90s or so. they were not young enough to remem

you mentioned tiananmen square. the tiananmen square protests existed for six weeks kind of unfettered before the chinese government did anything. so their model is actually not quick suppression of protest, but waiting and planning a kind of more complete crackdown. i hope that doesn't happen now. i think it would be smart for xi to show a bit of openness. that would help quell some of the protests, but that remains to be seen whether that will be the case. >> it's incumbent on all of us to keep our eyes focused on this over the days and weeks to come and not turn away as the crackdown comes. thank you so much. i could do the whole hour on this. >>> coming up, guess who's coming to dinner. republicans hold an anti -- at his club over the thanksgiving weekend. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. is "andl reports" only on msnbc zon. they'll give you the new iphone 14 pro. (scrooge) amazing phone. (cecily) plus verizon gives you another apple gift too. like apple watch se, ipad, beats fit pro... (scrooge)

lockdowns and mandatory testing resulting in the largest antigovernment demonstration since the tiananmen square protests in 1989 and with the massacre of student protests this story adds china is easing some of its coronavirus restrictions in the face of the astonishing illustrations across the nation but the government showed no sign of abandoning its zero covid policy and use of the so-called nuanced account to bury news about the protests online. that's the "washington post" take on it. when it comes to the white house response yesterday, the "new york times" picks up that story about the response saying the white house reacted cautiously on monday to the scenes of chinese citizens denouncing the country zero covid policies and revival of that widespread censorship bigger statement reviewed almost verbatim in the white house by john kirby the spokesman for the national security council yesterday the story adding the statement was a sharp contrast to the repeated condemnation of the iranian authorities for their monthlong effort to put down the protests against tehran mr. mcconnell: mr. presi

some people are making comparisons to the tiananmen square massacre and we hope that does not get thatecause that is a humanitarian crisis. china is on the world stage and there are cameras everywhere, and that is how we live today. it probably won't be everybody being let out an xi jinping giving into the demands, but at the same time the worst that could happen i don't think will happen. guy: does it accelerate the fragmentation, the deglobalization we have been seeing and is that inflationary and how do i position for that? anna: i do think it speeds up deglobalization. deglobalization began in 2018 with the trump tariffs. everyone had been thinking about reconstituting supply chains at that time and the pandemic made it necessary with the supply chain debacle. now the political risk is at the center stage in terms of supply chains. i do think deglobalization is still a theme. we are not calling for a complete deglobalization but the de-risking of the supply chain and that is inflationary, because globalization was to reduce prices. if you undo some of that, it will mean higher pric

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this could be bigger or the next tiananmen square.as talking with my friend steven united states earlier on the program he said it might be bigger than the swelling that came after in response to government and communism with tiananmen square. you know, jesse, one quick thing here, john kirby speaking to the press a little bit earlier. he was asked well, what does president biden say about all of this? what is his response to the students, the chinese that are speaking out and john kirby said that the president doesn't have anything to say. he can let the protesters speak for themselves. this is how the protesters have been speaking, jesse. they have to hold up blank sheets of paper because slogans have been criminalized. criminalized a year ago china took over hong kong. slogans are criminalized. so many protests have happened. so many people holding up white sheets of paper that the paper manufacturer had to actually ban them. they were forced by the chinese government. they said that simply the blank sheet of paper for white piece

that's because there was also a death and memorials which had sparked the tiananmen square protests soeople are making comparisons already, and in light of the fact we have these covid protests as well as a lot of these concerns, the chinese leadership is going to be thinking a lot about this. >> eunice yoon is your audio up can you hear me? >> reporter: now i can hear you. >> my question before was guan guangzhou, is beijing preparing a response they've seen several days of this unrest. the police presence is there there has to be some more, i guess, forceful approach they're taking whether it's formalized or not >> reporter: no. beijing -- the seen your leadership has not actually acknowledged the protests at all yet. so from a leadership level, central government level, they haven't actually formalized any type of response however, what we did see on a local level is the city of g guangzhou is lifting its lockdown it's still keeping control in the high-risk areas, especially, they say, one particular district people have said they're starting to see some of those controls easing up

it's interesting you began with that clip from tiananmen square.ou know who praised the crackdown? private citizen donald trump. so, what we've seen in a way is trump has corrupted a whole lot of other politicians. this is infective trump. trump has taken it to a whole different level, so now they're fearful, and they won't say the truth. >> the specific piece, a fresh strand of political hate, which has been mainlined, as i told viewers, it's another conspiracy theory tropes, and combined black and brown immigrant hate with this handler anti-semitic tropes, that there's a secret kabal, you were what grammy hall would call a real jew. >> wow? >> is the joke is the casual anti-semitism displayed in the film, which is being -- shout-out to grammy hall. a lot of people feel, especially in places lake new york, washington, l.a., and there are jews around, and then you see it buckled with replacement theory, and a synagogue bombing, and you say this is part of the wider hate and violent. where do they if fit into that, even if trump has the legal abilit

many articles have been written, some people saying this is not 1989 tiananmen square.people say it will be a hong kong reaction mechanism that we have seen the playbook of before, which is aggressive. what is your first take on what the chinese authorities will do to quash these protests? george: the answer is in your question. they will quash it if need be. although as you said in your package that last night was a little quieter, there was police presence in many cities, arrests have been made, and it is too soon to say that protests will fizzle out like a firework, but if they do resume, and people continue to be as angry as they are about protests around the zero covid policy, i have much doubt that the inkling of the government is to crush it as they do in hong kong. dani: if that is what the inkling of the government might be, what is at stake for them? what is at stake for xi who is just coming off the 20th party congress which he tightly controlled? george: i think this will have come as a shock. if you are control obsessive as xi jinping is an holding leadersh

of a communist party leader living in the united states writes don't let china stage another tiananmen square massacre. i would love your take on what the white house should have said instead of saying we stand with protestors but we're moving on. >> one reason president biden should speak in his own voice on camera in support of these brave chinese protesting the communist government is to prevent another tiananmen square massacre by saying if the chinese communists use force against their own people there would be massive consequences not just sanctions on those responsible in china's government or withholding visas from family members but concrete actions like withdrawing china's most favored nation status. we should stand with these voices of freedom inside our number one adversary. joe biden is saying exactly what he did throughout the cold war and what barack obama did in 2009, we don't want to be seen as foreign meddling. everyone knows we aren't meddling and these are organic protests of the chinese people not just about covid policies but their yearning for freedom. they're dying to

to the protests -- tiananmen square protests, do the protests help?protests were idealistic, too bad they ended in a massacre. there is a hope in saying nationwide protest of the deaths in a city. those two have to be viewed as vicariously experienced all over the country. when the students come to the streets in shanghai to protest, it is not because they have friends or care that much about the city, it is about they and everywhere in china people have their own frustrations and went something like this comes out it is a way to express them vicariously. shery: we have been talking about how these protests are not uncommon, there are protests, from all over china from time to time. this is more organized, this seems to be a bit more systematic. do you agree? >> almost. there are protests all over china, according to the ministry of public security. there are a dozen or so every day. strikes and roadblocks and sit ins. they were not politically labeled in the same way that this is. they are not confrontational with a central authority as this one is.

he took power in the aftermath of the tiananmen square crackdown and led the world's most populous nation stephen mcdonell reports. he will be remembered as the leader of china when his country rejoined the global community. he is also known as a powerbroker, economic reform and something of an eccentric. after the bloody 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around tiananmen square, china was ostracised internationally. in the aftermath, he was chosen as a compromise leader in the hope that he would unify hardliners and other elements. he prioritised market forces, giving china the highest level of per capita growth of any major country. but political reforms were put to one side. and he has been criticised for the mass detention of practitioners of a certain following who were seen as a threat to the party. he was at the helm for the hong kong handover, when china joined the world trade organisation, and when it was awarded the 2008 olympics. whether it be playing ping—pong... singing or shoving off his hawaiian guitar skills er... jiang zemin was a showman, in sharp contrast to the leade

this is an interesting test, this is a tiananmen square moment for the chinese people to be locked downit's not about covid. it's more about control and power and xi exerting that power and using covid as an excuse. maria: well, look, we never heard from this administration in terms of support for the people of iran. you had courageous women on the ground in iran, pushing back on that authoritarian government. so don't expect any comments from this administration to side with the people of china. but we'll be watching to see if the white house has anything to say about this. meanwhile, markets this morning are impacted. they are down. oil is also down, dropping below $76 a barrel. biden's treasury department announced it will allow chevron to he resume pumping oil in venezuela, he ken. this as opec is set to make a big call o on oil production net week, a day before sanctions are set to strike russia's industry. what are your thoughts about oil and how it impacts stock. >> we saw y with china a slowdn because of the draconian lockdowns and demand coming down. we are in an energy policy

i'm wondering from your perspective, since tiananmen square, have you seen protests like this in china, some citizens going as far as calling for political reform? >> there are many protests in china every year, sometimes tens of thousands, but they're all small and local. they have to do with things like land use rights or prices or local government abuse. this is the first time since ts tiananmen square that there have been national protests, not really nationwide, in about 16 different provinces, on one issue. >> how long do you think this uprising will last, considering the chinese government's relentless censorship policies, not to mention the crackdowns? >> well, the discontent and the anger that's reflected are continual and probably growing. but the protests are not ongoing. to the best of our knowledge, there were no protests at any of these sites on monday, the police presence is large. some of the sites, for example, in shanghai where the protests had been some of the loudest have been walled off. and so as of monday there was nothing, and of course once protests like this l

protests but also _ since the tiananmen square protests but also what has happened tonight is happened tonight is rishi sunak the relatively new prime _ is rishi sunak the relatively new prime minister has given his first major— prime minister has given his first major speech about foreign policy, he has _ major speech about foreign policy, he has talked about the golden era of relations with china. that period in which _ of relations with china. that period in which david cameron and xi jinping — in which david cameron and xi jinping were drinking pints together and inducting chinese football into the premier league, that is over rishi _ the premier league, that is over rishi sunak says. that would have been _ rishi sunak says. that would have been the — rishi sunak says. that would have been the case anyway, the uk's position— been the case anyway, the uk's position towards china has been hardening for some time. but still, ithink— hardening for some time. but still, i think in— hardening for some time. but still, i think in the context of what we are seeing — i think in the

protests not seen on this scale since 1989's tiananmen square. demonstrations against new covid restrictions. we'll have a report from beijing and we'll talk to dr. fauci. >>> and a deadly act of online cat fishing, involving a state trooper, a teenage girl who was horribly duped and a deadly ending. welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper. nearly one week after donald trump dined at mar-a-lago with openly antisemitic holocaust denier nick fuentes along with another, rapper kanye west, not only has mr. trump not publicly condemned fuentes or his sick ideology or ye's, the number of republican officials willing to name him by name or helping to mainstream him remains shall we say rather small. i reached out to the offices of a few top congressional republican leaders today. none offered comment. a few republicans have publicly condemned trump's actions. liz cheney and adam kinzinger, bill cassidy and susan collins, but trump is the only publicly declared 2024 candidate. and only a couple of rivals have criticized his move. former new jersey governor

beijing is now clamping down on the biggest display of this since the protest back in 1989 in tiananmen square. people are checking cell phones. universities are sending some students home. >> raging against three years of covid lockdown measures. protests peaked at historic levels never seen during the era of president xi jinping. it signaled to some that is power in his third term could be tested. >> we don't want to authoritarianism. we want human rights. we don't want a monarchy. but after unprecedented demonstrations in china and elsewhere and clashes with police over the weekend, anger appears to have simmered and police who are out in greater numbers appear to have more control on the streets. >> china is a country governed by the rule of law and the various legal rights and freedoms enjoyed by chinese citizens are fully guaranteed in accordance with the law. at the same time, any rights and freedoms must be exercised within the framework of the law. >> activists are under threat of investigation for their role in the pushback against covid lockdown measures and clinical impression. now

to -- not to embrace sort ever overblown initial takes on these protests that liken them to tiananmen square or even the 2019 protests in hong kong, and it's -- it's sort of a confirmation of that, that eunice reported, that indeed the protests seem to be quieting down that's pretty much what we were anticipating, although that's actually faster than we first expected >> and to be clear, you think they will quiet down because beijing will completely clamp down on them and send the police up >> so we actually think that there is -- there's other evidence that the central government would like to loosen the zero-code of policies. the trouble is exactly how to do that without ending up in a situation where there's a super disruptive outbreak because there just aren't enough people vaccinated right now for the population to be able to withstand opening up that doesn't create a serious outbreak, but we have the science. the release of 20 measures earlier this month indicating that crackdowns -- that lockdowns should be more targeted and also xi jinping's appearance at the g-20 where he wasn't wea

you mentioned tiananmen square yourself. we have heard crackwn on protests previously. may be people around him that would speak to him about making a concession? >> i hope so. i hope youere -- i hope he will respond to people's demand. i think it is important for the international media and foreign governments and international institutions to pay attention to this issue and warned the chinese government that we will punish you if you dare to crackdown on the protesters like you did four years ago. >> let us turn to somalia, eight people have been killed during a siege of a hotel in mogadishu. militants stormed the hotels armed with explosives and guns. -- hotel armed with explosives and guns. gun fire exposures are still being heard and some government officials jumped out of windows to escape. malia's -- somalia's minister was inside when they were attacked. >> there was a massive explosion. it shookhe foundation of the building in which we were meeting. as soon as the explosion took place we had a moment between the explosion and the soldiers coming in. we left. we

. >> this is going to be, potentially, the most serious uprising since tiananmen square. one thing that xi jinping will not tolerate, ashley, is civil unrest. so i think it's going to roil markets for quite some time. >> if the chinese yuan continues to weaken against the u.s. dollar, it's going to slow down a lot of growth. at the same time, this unrest is also bringing uncertainty, and markets don't like it. >> there's going to be 65 million americans shopping today on cyber monday. every one of us is trying to vetch our dollars. people are looking for value, they're going to try different brands, different retailers, different stores. ♪ ♪ ashley: oh, yes, the holiday spirit alive and well. today is cyber monday. everyone on their laptop, their computers, their mobile phones ordering away like crazy. midtown manhattan. it ises 11 a.m. on the east coast on monday, november the 28th. cyber pond. i'm ashley webster in today for stuart varney. take a look at your money, how the markets are doing. well, they're all in the red today, modestly so. the dow can, the s&p and the

rule, prompting concerns he could call for or carry out a bloody, brutal crackdown like 1989 tiananmen square. if it happens, it would force president biden to put democracy at the front of his policy, and it could fray relations between the u.s. and china, undermining the strategic interests in maintaining that relationship. china hawks are saying now is the time for the white house to take a harder line against this. >> this is not just some protest on a college campus in america or european capital. these chinese are protesting the world's most powerful, dangerous, total tar yan government. >> these people want to be the most powerful in the world. if they do it to their own people, what would they do to you? >> the white house is defending the response, unnamed officials said a stronger u.s. response could lead the chinese government to turn the focus on the united states and allege foreign interference rather than address the frustrations of the protestors, and the u.s. has an interest in maintaining a base level of cooperation with china. an economic partner compared with iran where the

. >> you would describe this, what second only to tiananmen square in terms of the threat and the visibility of the protests we're seeing >> there have been no threats to the chinese leadership since tiananmen square in 1989 this is the first time i think in multiple cities in china, i don't know how many you reported talking about that, but major dissatisfaction of the chinese people with the government we haven't really seen that in more than 30 years. >> let's talk to boards of u.s. companies that may have operations or be dependent on supply from china. you know -- seems like the cup of coffee's mostly drunk over there. it's late to be making changes, but companies can't be as dependent on china as they have been isn't that obvious >> tyler, ceos and board of directors needed a wake-up call, then this is it. a lot of them have been saying, well, things will get better the elephant in the room here is the relationship between china and the u.s. on a political basis. and if that continues to get worse, the opportunity for reliable sources of supply and commodities and products, you talk ab

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. >> ainsley: zero covid policies boiling over into the biggest uprising since the tiananmen square revoltades ago. >> steve: kevin corke joins us live from d.c. as beijing shows no signs of backing down. doing everything they can to try to calm people down. >> yes, they are. steve, ainsley and b.k., there is a massive, i mean massive police presence right now in beijing. iin fact, it started overnight. and it was designed, it appears to prevent a repeat of the previous evening which, of course, saw rare and open dissent against president xi jinping ongoing covid restrictions. that response protests erupted against 17 provinces over the weekend. demonstrators calling for an end to the constant pcr testing and lockdowns; however, the chinese government, as you pointed out, steve, isn't backing away from the zero covid drive. in fact, in shanghai in beijing, police there have stopped and searched people at sites of protests after crowds there and in other chinese cities demonstrated against the stringent anti-covid-19 measures. as for the white house's view of the ongoing unrest -- >> why is

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maybe we'll see open widespread shooting, the kind of thing we remember from tiananmen square. i would be a little surprised at that. xi has a terrible dilemia. let's be honest. he has rising public anger. you can see it in people's faces and rising covid, it's for real, it will spread and the death rate in china among older chinese is going to be substantial. so xi is in a dilemma that no lead we're want. but i would be a little surprised if there was a massive nationwide crackdown right away. >> it is also in some economic trouble as well than will have global consequences as well. mike, let me ask you about the white house, and the response, how is the white house watching this? >> well, katy, obviously this is a development that is both intriguing and one that is concerning, that the white house is monitoring very closely. when you think on a foreign policy, national security basis, what has been the big idea guiding president biden's foreign policies, that the 21st century is a contest of autocracies versus democracies. so as the white house is watching the situation devel

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. >> tiananmen square is major. suzanne: he says the policies impacted his business. china suspended access to neighborhoods for weeks at a time and can find millions of people to their homes for up to four months. before the pandemic, he would take tourist groups to china. >> right now, there are no tourists, period. the reason everything is back to normal and we can bring the tour back. suzanne: he hears about the covid case numbers and sees the protests on the news. >> everyone has their own right to freedom of speech. suzanne: edward and his family have owned their tourism company for over four decades. >> you can see a big slowdown of imported items coming from china, and the price is way high because of the lockdown, because of shipping costs. suzanne: he said shipments were delayed for four to five months at a time. in the bay area and around the world, people are paying attention to the protests and waiting to see what china's government will do next. as a show of demonstrators -- solidarity with demonstrators, there will be a candlelit vigil at portsmouth squ

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kristen: you are turning to -- you are referring to tiananmen square in. terms of what people are protesting for, some of them are quite direct. i have heard some people say xi jinping should step down, isn't this the kind of activity that could kit --? could get them in trouble? >> yes, indeed. that is something that we should continue to observe. i want to point to another important phenomena, which is the symbol of this protest. a lot of people, instead of chanting xi jinping moscow, they are holding a piece of blank paper. some of the foreign media are referring to this as the white paper movement, or white paper protests. i think it is significant in the sense that it is a unifying symbol that can connect with people in different parts of china, but also in response to what you are saying, the blink of pete -- the blank piece of paper does not say anything. it is a nod to the denial of free speech. the paper itself is not saying anything. it would be tricky for the government to arrest people for promoting antigovernment suggests. kristen: it is a mes

ever since tiananmen square, tucker, what the chinese communis since t thet party has. they said we're not goingengage to let that happen again. th're going to engage in i the largest, massive aga surveillance state in the history of the world againsinn ci.t our own citizens. and if we get even a whiff ofmp discontent, we're going to stamp it out. and they've been successful inat doing that. nais is the first time in thirty three years that we've pl now seen nationwide protests.em and it's not just a problem or the challenge for jinping and the chinese communist party d from just a one issue covid issue to now a callt for his removal and for regimeme change. so i don't think anyone knows exactly how this will play out, but it's very serious and very clearly the chinese communist party is going to have to adopt a different governance model going forward. >> in lighat's gt of what's hapc there, i don't a day has passeda in the last two years for the rest of us , haven't gotten a lecture about, quote, democracy from the biden administration, given their commitment to democ

we faced the tiananmen square and we rolled tanks into the streets. we're still here and we're on our way to become the dominant country. i think in their minds it was a natural experiment that justifies their ideology. and then accentuates the ideological aspect of this conflict. today. and i'm going to ask a slightly different of question, but i also want to get questions from you guys. so if anybody one please echo. we've got one right away. okay, let's let's go. pc yeah, exactly. so many sort of villas. and my question is for the entire panel or even a moderator, i want to hear your opinion as well. so with the rise of authoritarian countries like russia, hungary, belarus, china, north korea and vietnam do you think the way that the u.s. should reacting to these rising authoritarian nations is by fully embracing our western values, gay rights women's rights, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press which are all things that are lacking. all those countries i just named, um, philip. yes, i guess so, um. yeah, i'm reluctant alway

i think that , tiananmen square?he last almost three years, we haven't learned that much about what's going inside china because they locked down for covid purposes. i think the discussion tent among the people is substantial and these demonstrations are really the first chance they've had to express it. so xi jinping's and no immediate danger. but but let's be clear, people remember the idea of freedom and they don't like giving it up anywhere in the world. well seen what's happened to hong kong? i've been quite extraordinary to the deal that was completely broke by the chinese communist party. this is a very point. you know, a lot people on the left in europe, in the united like to talk about solemn international agreements. well what china did in hong kong shows exactly what they think about agreements. so it comes to trade deals , arms control deals trade deals, arms control deals , environmental protection deals. they'll sign it , but they deals. they'll sign it, but they have no intention of following . have no

i think that , tiananmen square?he last almost three years, we haven't learned that much about what's going inside china because they locked down for covid purposes. i think the discussion tent among the people is substantial and these demonstrations are really the first chance they've had to express it. so xi jinping's and no immediate danger. but but let's be clear, people remember the idea of freedom and they don't like giving it up anywhere in the world. well seen what's happened to hong kong? i've been quite extraordinary to the deal that was completely broke by the chinese communist party. this is a very point. you know, a lot people on the left in europe, in the united like to talk about solemn international agreements. well what china did in hong kong shows exactly what they think about agreements. so it comes to trade deals , arms control deals trade deals, arms control deals , environmental protection deals. they'll sign it , but they deals. they'll sign it, but they have no intention of following . have no