sometimes i go to tibet to buy my spices. the furs i get from as far away as russia.arrator: ma lives with his fami in a muslim residential district. there are many of these districts in lanzhou. he has de well for himself and has built a beautiful two-story concrete house that is very unlike traditional muslim dwellings. ( conversing casually ) narrator: he lives with his wife and three daughters. his son lives elsewhere. four is a large number of children for a chinese family. gladney: now, these minority groups in china receive certain kinds of special privileges, preferential treatments. for example they're allowed to have more than one child, and in the rural areas, many of them have two to three, four, five and many more if it's a very poor area. ( class reading in arabic ) narrator: the government also allows muslim children to take additional classes, like this one in arabic. they need arabic to read the koran. ma's daughter, wen di, studies here. she hopes to become an interpreter for china's muslims, who go on pilgrimages to mecca and other holy places. wen

rare consensus in the need by this fire hoping to bring all sides to the negotiating table but in tibet and just mr robert honest questions the motives of some nations. how sincere the western powers are of course is another matter they are beginning to realize that what they're doing in syria because it's taken so long and then so messy and unsuccessful is beginning to make them look very bad indeed i don't think there's any doubt that the west if ever they have are losing the argument the intellectual argument is in this case they're beginning to look very shortly there to begin to look as if all are interested in these oil and power but it doesn't matter how many syrians get killed now eventually it sinks into the to the political leaders that this actually doesn't make them very good look very good enough to even domestically eventually people begin to notice so they start moving a little in the security council but how sincere they are i'd seriously question. a peaceful syria is the desperate dream of the a one druze community that has made its home on the border with israel assays

you also have large parts of china, tibet, that may not want to be part of china. they'll have to deal with that. it's a headache being an american boy try becoming leader of china they'll have a huge challenge on their end. >> gavin: speaking of headaches, those participations of arab spring the concern of egypt, what is your sense where things are going, what direction things are going in, in the middle east right now? >> i'm a little bit optimistic than i think a lot of americans are. i think it's going to be pretty tumultuous. i think of eastern europe after democracy came there. you know boy, it was messy. romania after all these years. >> gavin: sure. >> 23 years is still something of a mess. having said that, i think that the system was unsustainable and that winston churchill was right about democracy i think it's going to provide a marketplace of ideas and the islamist parties if they don't deliver they'll be pushed out. people have inconsistent aspirations. they want to have a more islamic state, but they want growth, they want schools and trying to recon

this new map of eastern eurasia where they compete with each other because chinese warplanes based in tibet now have the indian subcontinent as part of their arc of responsibility. indian satellites can spy on chinese military bases so the indian and chinese now have suddenly discovered this map of eurasia where their military interests overlap which didn't exist 50 years ago because the technology would not have allowed for it. so the world is flat is a true thesis up to a point. up to a point. mountain ranges, space, deserts still matter. >> rose: when you see countries that have historically been enemies of each other, is it most often explained by territorial ambition? geography or is it explained by, you know, the desire to have influence? >> when you look at the borders on the map, what the map defines as the human differences-- humanity's divisions between one country and another, between this country and that-- that's why the map itself is somewhat rhett regrade, somewhat reactionary to take the map at face value because the positive thing to do is look at how humanity can come toge

he wouldn't stand up for tibet in dealing with the chinese in the first -- the whole first year and halfinistration was about america has been too strong on the world, dix stated too much, i'm sorry about it. that's what it was. and now he's turning around talking about the kind of things governor romney has talked about the last year. >> let me show you a bit of debate of your candidate last night. >> okay. >> he was mr. congeniality last night. let's watch. >> you were stuck with mubarak? >> no. i believe as the president indicated and said at the time that i supported his action there. we had to go into pakistan, to get osama bin laden. that was the right thing to do. it's widely reported drones are being used in drone strikes and i support that entirely. >> well, i mean those -- that's what he said all along. he's always supported drone strikes. the point he made last night over and over and is we want kill our way out of this. in other words, we're fighting a totalitarian ideology that's wrapped itself around, you know, a twisted version of a great religion and we have to fight that

>> there are good sports but tibet hayou had better be tall. people got here as early as 4:00 in the morning. so the to to the players go by. we andd which is already busy. this is the beginning of the parade you can see a flat bed trucks that are having their musical equipment ready to go. i see floats coming going. players will arrive here in their convertibles waiting to the clout. unlike two years ago when there were in a trolley car. one street up that is market street and already it is jammed packed shoulder to shoulder with people already lining up hoping to see their players getting their cameras ready to go. >> if you get there you are way deep in that spot. there are probably some spots like said will that take a lot of walking. you have to keep walking until you find a little piece of real estate. >> exactly. in fact i talked to a family earlier i walked up to marquetry let's listen now. >> the whole city bay and orange not just the ferry building other buildings in downtown san francisco. we are on market street and you can see barr

it has forces stationed in tibet not in a significant number, but it has improved infrastructure to thepoint that it can raise an increasing willingness and capability of the pla to deep with the forces and if need be and perhaps most interesting leon china's northeast border with north korea the pla presents itself as a force that is preparing in my judgment operate unilaterally in the face of the crisis or demise. there is virtually no evidence of any collaboration are in the interaction between the two militaries, certainly no exercise activity that we can see, and this speaks to a pla that is prepared to do risk mitigation and operate on its own but not in a collaboration and that stands in contrast to how it presents itself with other regional borders. going for a couple of interesting things to look for, if and when the pla reforms of military region structure we can expect a force that is more joined in nature and is in a better position to conduct power projection even beyond china's borders using the land force as a component. and perhaps finally we can easily anticipate along

they told the cia to stop what they were doing in tibet to undermine the people's republic of china,stop it. so that's number one. we have spent nearly half a billion dollars in money, in intelligence operations to undermine the islamic republic. we need to stop that as we did with china. the second thing we did with china is we put a moratorium on the constant, persistent patrols of the seventh fleet right off china's shore. we can do something also to demonstrate that the fifth fleet is there to protect american interests, not to harass and undermine iranian interests. those are two concrete things we can do in conjunction with having a serious, broad agenda for strategic realignment with the united states and the islamic republic of iran. that's the formula that worked with china, and that should be at least tried with the islamic republic of iran. [applause] >> if we widen the negotiations to cover more topics, how do we deal with the diminishing prospects for a two-state israeli/palestinian solution, and how do we construct something that does not lead gcc states to think that t

he's met with the dalai lama a few times, always raises human rights and tibet issues in meetings withchinese leaders. aaron mentioned that governor romney believes in speaking out on human rights. one case where we saw governor romney speaking out on human rights was on the cheng wan cheng affair, and i think that's a good example of the obama administration's commitment to human rights where our embassy allowed in a prominent dissident, protected him, gave him sanctuary for a few days while negotiating or not negotiating depending on whether you talk to the chinese or the american side, an agreement for him to stay in this country freely. and then he changed his mind once he came out, and the agreement was renegotiated. this was a pretty bold thing to do, to let him in and then to negotiate him out. in the middle of this, governor romney issued a statement denouncing the obama administration and secretary clinton for throwing him out of the embassy, for forcing him to leave and called it a tragic day for the united states. um, that was irresponsible, it was factually wrong in that he