u. s. and china? we're seeing it now. we've seen in geopolitical terms, over issues like taiwan and, and, and now we're seeing it in the corporate world. it's really stepping up. it began with, wow, way for the tech telecoms gear provider while way, which is has strong links to chinese government and approve problematic around the world and tick tock in some ways. is a much more public version of this. it's the public face, a much more public face for this corporate competition that we're seeing now between the u. s. and china and its ideological competition. it's basically you're seeing 2 very, very different styles of corporate governance coming head to head. you know, critics, i pointed out that western tech firms also have issues with transparency when it comes to data security or their data policies to the algorithms perhaps, perhaps. and that also there have been instances of western tech employees using the algorithms to target reporters. for example, or other firms, i should say, i don't, these people have a point

and if china pro delivers reels or weapons, her strong weapons to russia, this new truck, tragedy would be gone. and obviously a, the u. s. would put up sanctions on china and this is what channel does not want. so there might be weapons from china in russia, but i don't know. it is so far. i don't see that it would make much since in china's prospect of to provide officially weapons to russia either made one little point exactly when it comes to sections. i mean so far, um, at least from what we know and china has been following in the way the sanctions policies the west are imposed against russia. we don't know about illegal sort of se deliveries of semiconductors are the pilots for weapons productions and stuff. but a, so far, but china has been very cautious and not to take side of russia by i'm going against sections that the west imposed against russia. and hence, we've also seen lots of warnings of by the united states. as we also mentioned is her what kind of sanctions could we be seeing from the u. s. or that has seems to be mobilizing politically, in order to already worn every one, the china as a possibly at l

and is actively also involved. to get to the implications reconciler, this is a new area of u. s. china strategic competition. ost intense in the indo-pacific but also evident in other regions. we are going to see, and our, seeing the u. s. and china used tools and diplomacy to strengthen military ties and increase their influence with third countries. this is an area that will be part of a competition. they sometimes try to use this to undermine u. s. alliances without a lot of success. the trend that i see something different. it is u. s. allies or partners that are engaging the pla as part of their broader china strategy. some are doing this very consciously for, mostly, symbolic political reasons. i personally do not think washington should get too upset if countries like australia and singapore are using symbolic military cooperation with the pla to off that they're much more substantive military cooperation with us. rather than trying to stop it we should focus on limiting it. limiting the pla ability to learn from foreign military. limiting the ability to learn the things that we teach allies and partne

u. s . and china? so dialogue will help reduce some of the confusion, the miscommunication, but fundamentally, beijing and washington have a lot of distrust between between them. so that needs to be worked at dialogue can help. they can also have done wrong, reinforced the suspicions. so i think one of the key steps is of course, to have more transparency and to have a bit of a pull back on some of the more, you know, active kinds of actions that the most or for leaning actions that beijing is doing, say in the south china sea, near taiwan, or new japan, professor in char, from singapore national university. thank you so much. now to middle law, we on the disaster management agency of the country says $190.00 people have now died from died after cycling freddie. the storm slammed into south african to south eastern africa with the rental, rain and high winds. this is the 2nd time in a month that pretty has made landfall in southern africa, having earlier struck madagascar and mozambique it is one of the

u. s. and some western government said, allows china access to private data. and as a security threat, the company and the chinese government both deny this. so who should we believe this isn't high story? ah hello there and welcome to the program. i'm the stars the attain. now tick tock, the chinese owned video sharing up has one huge popularity globally with over a 1000000000 active uses. but it's also become another battle ground between the u . s. and china. washington says tick tock as the effect of the spying tool. we'll discuss the arguments with our guests and just a few moments. meanwhile, the, the company's chief executive appeared before a congressional committee to answer questions. members of congress spent 5 and a half hours. grilling shows you chew, accusing tick tock are being controlled by china and a danger to teenagers. before the questioning began, he explained just how popular the app has become. 2 years ago, i became the ceo of tick tock. today, we are more than a 1000000000 monthly active uses around the world, including over a 150000000

china stands as of a pro russian utility. i think it's credibility in europe and from the perspective of the u. s. as a peacemaker, is pretty low. so china going to russia and then potentially having a call later with president. so lensky will not lead to any piece talks in the near near term, especially because china is 12 point piece plan on ukraine has never been completely or explicitly accepted by the russian or the you creating inside edition with the ranger group. and we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you. now to the war in ukraine, kiva and moscow are both suffering heavy losses as fighting intensifies in the eastern city of bock boot. the commander of the ukrainian forces says that the situation in buck boot remains difficult, but that his soldiers are repelling russian attack. so the fight for control over the city has reduced it to ruins. over the weekend, ukrainian, president zalinski said more than 1100 russian soldiers have been killed in the area of the head of the russian mercenary, wagner group insisting his troops are still advancing. even though

china. we understand that, and how the u. s. will be living with china, it is a matter between the u. s. happening today in ukraine, we have to be interested in limiting this war and ending this war. that is why this factor should unite us. russia is an aggressor. russia should not be on the sovereign ukrainian territory. it should go away, not with force but to retreat itself, to respecting the international law. it shouldn't be occupying the nuclear power plants because it is a threat to the whole of the world. i'm talking about the zaporizhzhia power plant. that is the risk, and other countries should do this, all of them. despite the geopolitical differences, we have to be interested in peace. from the sovereignty, to the territorial integrity, to the end of this war. >> under what conditions would you be willing to speak directly with vladimir putin? >> translator: i think that today, we don't have any circumstances to talk to the russian president because he doesn't hold his word. we don't have any confidence in him. and he killed thousands of people in order to discuss a diplomatic

u. s. and china are with power. competitors are the u. s. c's china as a peer competitor. and so if that is the relationship in which a 0 sum interpretation of it, it means any game for china is pursuit. as a loss for the united states, voters in cuba are electing a new national assembly. no campaigning has taken place and there are no opposition . challenger's voters will instead endorse nominated candidates, the countries facing rolling power blackouts. and the cost of living is a major concern for voters series ago reports from the cuban capital. we're here in the polling station in havana where people have been coming since very early in the morning to cast their valor to their picking the members of a nation assembly who will eventually elect this country's next president among the candidates, our former president. we've got the current president, me in the mail and people we have to pick among the candidates in there. this you can see right here. some of them in this case is mighty like after she is the daughter of a will gap. and once they go inside this building, th

call an action reaction o engagements between china and the united states militarily. asia pacific is where the economic and military rivalry between the u. s. and china is being played out. the u. s. has been challenging. china's expansive and increasingly assertive claims in the south china sea, with what it calls, freedom of navigation operations. china's military and political pressure on tie one to accept chinese sovereignty has also increased tensions in the region. we now back to the normal of modern history with the world of our up into competing great powers and complete power walks. and that's what we're saying in, in the pacific region. it's never that competition is inevitable. conflict or war is not inevitable, but it's more of a possibility i think, going forward and it has been looking backwards. the growing geopolitical uncertainty has seen countries unveil new strategies for the region that includes australia, new security and technology. pat with the u. s. and the u. k. it's also set off an arms race as country seat to modernize their weaponry, but not everyone believes military might, is a useful deterrent at the defense

u . s. and china. washington says tick tock is effective. the spying tool will discuss the arguments with our guests and just a few moments. meanwhile, the, the company's chief executive appeared before a congressional committee to answer questions. members of congress spent 5 and a half hours grilling shows you chew, accusing take talk of being controlled by china and a danger to teenagers. before the question began, he explained just how popular the app has become. 2 years ago, i became the ceo of tick tock. today, we have more than a 1000000000 monthly active uses around the world, including over a 150000000 in the united states. oh, app is a place where people can be creative and curious. and where close to 5000000 american businesses, mostly small businesses, go to find new customers and to fuel their growth. now tick tock itself is not available in mainland china. we're headquartered in los angeles and singapore, and we have 7000 employees in the us today. still, we have heard important concerns about the potential for unwanted for an a

and china. so we have the ceo of tick tock testifying before a u. s. congressional committee and explaining the great length, the tick tock goes to in order to protect the data of its users. however, these answers are not satisfying for many in the u. s. congress, i in addition to that, there are concerns about problematic videos on tick tock depicting violence, suicide, drug use, and other harmful issues that a similar app which operates on the chinese mainland sensors. at this point in the testimony, we heard a rather harsh questioning of u. s. officials are where they pressed the seo of the tick tock corporation about why a similar censorship measure was not being used for content directed at the united states. as was done with contact directed at the chinese mainland, here's the interaction. the typical u. s. experience. it should be compared to other u. s. companies, because this is common. what's your parent company has the technology to prevent it because you prevented china, but you can't prevent it here. why is the difference is why i'm askin

u. s. and china. what did the foreign minister have to say about taiwan? so woods from chin gung on taiwan and said that for the united states, taiwan is the 1st red line. it must not course. now he rather st. and rebuffed any claims or comparisons between ty one and ukraine and said that strictly this is a domestic matter that taiwan is an inseparable part of china. of course, it's a self ruled island with strong relations and it's an ally of the united states. but china sees the united states as continue to interfere in that massive, which it says is a domestic affair. so going forward we see no change in time is approach to taiwan and chin gung indeed said that beijing will continue to take any necessary steps towards reunification. okay, thank you for that. katrina you that for us live in beijing. let's get a little more analysis on this. we can speak to andrew k, p long. he's an international independent journalist, and he joins us now live from hong kong. thank you for your time, sir. so with the foreign ministers, comments on russia, the more turbule

and nervous private sector. he struck a conciliatory tone on china's relations with the u. s, saying the 2 powers have benefited from each other's development to china in the united states can and must cooperate. and there is a lot that the 2 countries can achieve by working together to me and circumvent and suppression is in no one's interests. yacht. lucy, omaha. so o facing is yet to reveal the full extent of the government overhauled from this year's meeting. but with she, family and control his aims of increasing china's political, military and economic strength. a clear vision covers chinese foreign policy at the eurasian group. they political risk consultancy. she joins me now from washington, dc. it's going to have you on the program. you know, we are used to she asian ping talking tough. now he's talking about china's great wall of steel. how much of this is tough rhetoric? how much of this is on words that will be turned into action? thank you for inviting me to the show again. so she is, words are in line with his goals to modernize to chinese mil mil, military in

and possession of nuclear weapons. at the same time, the philippines has several u. s. military bases on its territory and is in the middle of a territorial dispute with china over the spartley islands. political activists, renada reyes, says the country would need washington's help to develop these weapons, raising tensions in the region. i think it's a very dangerous proposition right now, especially considering the tension in the region, the ongoing quantum snakes here in this part of the world. sturgeon, the proposition was not mean having the philippine government. it's only nuclear weapons because we don't have the capacity to produce such my suspicion is that it will be the us. we should be positioning in nuclear weapons. and if that means, once the constitutional ban is removed and this will result in greater attentions and could potentially trigger a newly with arms race between the u. s. and china. once that happens, the philippines should look after its own interest. it should the sheet to align itself with the interests of the american states because our national interest is not the same as the us. we have an outstanding being an issue in china and relat

u. s. we have an outstanding being an issue in china and relation to the west philippine see we hope to be able to resolve that to get to a matic and political means. certainly not through the u. s. b s. and us troops on our shores because i think that would all the, made the problem and will not lead to any meaningful resolution that has been official to the philippine people. and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. was he right back here at the top of the hour? the title for me see, is believed in men inside it with them. oh, he stole fire from the cruel gods.

u. s . and china? so dialogue will help reduce some of the confusion, the miscommunication, but fundamentally, beijing and washington have a lot of distrust between between them. so that needs to be worked at dialogue can help. they can also, if done wrong, reinforced the suspicions. so i think one of the key steps is of course, to have more transparency and to have a bit of a pullback on some of the more active kinds of actions that the mores are for leading actions that beijing is doing, say, in the south china sea near taiwan or new japan professor in chung from singapore national university. thank you so much. thank you. it's catch up now and some of the other stories making headlines around the world. china is reopening. it's quarter to foreign tourists for the 1st time since 2020, it will start reissuing all categories of baez's from wednesday. the tourist ban was imposed early in the code in 1900 pandemic. china dropped it strict 0 code policy late last year, and as gradually been easing travel r

u. s. we have an outstanding being an issue in china and relation to the rest philippine c. we hope to be able to resolve that to this, to a matic and political means, certainly not through the u. s. b s. u. s. troops on our shores because i think that would only aggravate the problem and will not lead to any meaningful resolution that has been official to the philippine people. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you next time. ah, the ah . the claims of the king of the belgians leopold the 2nd to the congo were finally authorized by the leading european countries in 18. 85 in the very heart of the african continent. a state under the rule of the belgian monarch was declared since the beginning, the congo free state was total, may him for the local population and functioned as a universal concentration camp. the majority of the population, including women and children, were forced to work on the rubber plantations. those who failed to fulfill their quota were beaten and mutilated to keep the congolese

u. s. and china have disagreed of a. what has happened in the south china sea, but what makes this particularly dangerous? is the timing right now. the distrust and the tensions between washington and baiting are at an all time high, making any potential confrontation, particularly risky. european union leaders amazing and brussels for 2 days of talks . the united nations secretary general is also attending the meetings will focus on the e you support for ukraine. the block, single market economy and migration $27.00 leaders from across the union are expected to join. australia's prime minister has reveal details of a proposed referendum that will give constitutional recognition to the nation's indigenous people. australians will vote on it later this year if it passes. a panel will be set up to advise parliament on issues that impact the lives of aboriginal people. anthony albanese spoke at an emotional news conference on thursday, outlining the plans t. she's a morris request. i said, do i said it was straw, you don't m

u. s. and china, with the massively subsidizing technologies and rumbling on here in the background is a dispute in which germany is at the center. because germany has sort of at the last minute come in and eventually derail, but with an existing deal to essentially ban the sale of combustion engine, cars new combust the engine cars and the post 2035. germany is no seeking a new car vote for something called e fuels. it might all sound a bit technical film, but this is really something with germany. it's taking a lot of heat for we are not expecting any sort of a big breakthrough on this today. but is a debate which is rumbling on. ok, thank you for that. i, rosie. i corresponded rosie birch out in brussels. ok says up to 13000 ukrainian troops have been killed since the sauce of russian invasion. the true, i figure, of course, cannot be guessed at the chaos of war. many death can't be properly documented. as bodies can't be recovered. the soldiers registered as missing leave behind, loved ones, desperate for news, and unable to grieve. a battle ground turn to place of morning by 3 luna ashley w

u. s. and china, even the u. k, announced back then the u. s. it's probably close to satellite that it was that golden age of relationship with china. the us is that again, we're going to use or again, i'm sorry to get out the click of a clip of because he's just so much great conflict for us today. hillary clinton in china in 2008. so i will listen, and i appreciate greatly the chinese government continuing confidence in united states treasuries. i think that's a well grounded confidence. we have every reason to believe that united states and china will recover and that together we will help to lead the global recovery. again, as we see the best reputation as well, we've got a great relationship with china, x, y, z. now that just isn't the case anymore. they've really been prodding fine, and they've been prodding china over china's relationship. ever growing closeness with, with russia. sign is chinese constant insistent as was agreed in the one china policy that taiwan is not part is part of china. fundamental is not, is passive. china, which

and this comes as a way of the immunization of china from u. s. officials and u. s. media blaming china for the pandemic. now china has was back and said the united states should be turning serious public health issues into political weapons, new report, anatomy, origins of coven, 19 the u. s. energy department, now differing from some other government agencies that of the f. b, i in the united states has said the corona virus pandemic is most likely to have emerged from a chinese laboratory, created deliberately for research, but leaked unintentionally into the world. china predictably is furious and pushing back the lack of cooperation from china has made it difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of the pandemic seems lovely is extremely unlikely. this is an authoritative scientific conclusion that experts from china and the world health organization reached after visiting the relevant laboratory and blue hand and holding in debt exchanges with relevant researchers. the relevant party should stop playing up de la league theory, stop sneering, china, and stop polit

u. s. and china have disagreed. of what has happened in the south china sea, but what makes this particularly dangerous is the timing right now. the distressed and the tension between washington and baking are at an all time high making in potential confrontation, particularly risky. at least 8 people have been killed in russian drones strike still the ukrainian capital. why does his attack hit his school and a student dormitory? south of keith. one of the victims is an ambulance driver who was called to the scene. more than a dozen people have been injured. australia's prime ministers reveal details of a proposed referendum that will give constitutional recognition to the nations indigenous people. australians will vote on it's later this year. if your peers, parliament has removed the to gray people's liberation front or t p are left from the list of terrorist organizations. it's a significant step towards forming an interim government in the northern to gray region. a peace deal signed last year ended fighting bet

u. s. and china. once that happens, the philippines should look after its own interest. it shouldn't sheet to align itself with the interest of the american station because our national interest is not the same as the us. we have an outstanding being issue in china relation to the west philippine sea. we hope to be able to resolve that to get to a matic and political means, certainly not through the u. s. b s. u. s. troops on our shores because i think that the only agra made the problem and will not lead to any meaningful resolution that has been official to the philippines people. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. ah, the medical waste is actually a huge environmental issue. and with the pandemic, personal protective equipment, or p p e waste has skyrocketed. i'm 50 i and you're watching the cost of everything . where today we're going to be examining what happens to all of the medical ways generated every year from hospitals, clinics. and now individual

and vietnam. now the u. s. among other governments has accused china navy trying to force god of bullying ships in this area. and we also renewed focus subsequently from the u. s. in the indoor pacific. a recently, the u. s. did a deal with manila to build more military bases in the philippines. also grew to supply us trailer with nuclear power submarines. and all of these moves have been very much criticized and condemned by beijing. and they said that the u. s. is and circling china and what it considers its own backyard. when do you think all this is going, do you get a sense at least from the language being used by both sides, that the tension between the 2 is escalating once again? well, we definitely have heard very strong language from dating on friday. warning that if the u. s. does not stop what it says are provocative acts that the us should, that consequences of any unforeseen incidence. now, this is not the 1st time we've had confrontation in this region and differing accounts. but what makes this difference and particularly dangerous, is the timing and the relationship between china in the u. s.

respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity and ukraine, while disrespecting china sovereignty and territorial integrity on the taiwan question, why does u. s. gas china not to provide weapons to russia while it keeps selling arms to taiwan in violation of the august 17th communique. why does the u. s. keep on professing the maintenance of regional ties and stability while cowardly formulated in a plan for the destruction of taiwan? we minister in testified his rhetoric opposing the interference by outside forces on activities relate to taiwan independence. and he reiterated that timeline in china's 1st great line that united states must not cross. i'm to say, he said that the resolution of that tie one issue is a matter of, for the chinese people and no other country in this flat on this planet has the right to interfere. he also re eatery that china retains the option to take all necessary measures to achieve the so called gray unification with taiwan. ah, and he also blame the you as for the right intentions between washington and aging and said that if you, it does not change his path. there gonna be some conflict and confrontation. may

u. s. and china, in this decade perhaps we know some us generals have said we will. what's your opinion? i don't think a conflict is inevitable. why? i don't, i think we are in a dangerous period. it's clear that she g paying has given his military the order to be ready by 2027. but that's different. come in order to go by 2027. so i'm a firm believer that deterrence remain off the ball. and that's why the step that we've seen that japan investing in its own defense australia, as you said, with the office deal investments that we see korea making human progress in the, in the relationship of the united states with the philippines. right. all of these things i think, send a message, a web of like minded states, the web u. s. alliances and partners in the region is, is drawing tighter. and that's a good thing for deter. you think we can avoid the worst outcome here. mr. johnson, we appreciate your time and your analysis tonight. thank you. thank you for the opportunity. ah, you get those parliament has voted to increase prison sentences for homosexual acts to a maximum of 10 years. laws ag

china. right. and so what that did is it really made the u. s. economy dependent on china. and by doing that, you've been got a situation now where, where china could really supercede the u. s. which was then the economic powerhouse of the world really, and become the technological innovator manufacturer of pretty much everything in the world. now we still secret some in the us, you know, politicians have described china as a threat. do you think that given no, china is now leading role in many technological spheres that washington will make some efforts trying, could say literally slow it down with, with seeing that already i think now bundle was way products being imported into the united states. they tried to put pressure on all of their partners specifically in europe to stop that as well. it's more of a veil in terms of trying to shut down in some way the chinese economy and trying to inhibit their export power. but obviously as we says, they can't inhibit their export power too much because then no one's gonna get washing machine shoot themselves in the fall. absolutel

u. s. we have an outstanding being an issue in china and relation to the west philippine c. we hope to be able to resolve that to get to a matic and political means. certainly not through the u. s. b s. u. s. troops on our shores because i think that would only aggravate the problem and will not lead to any meaningful resolution that has been official to the philippine people. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t. v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you next time . ah, ah, ah ah, ah, with the discovery of the new world, at the end of the 15th century, there appeared atlantics, slave dre. the slave traders from european countries started building forth on the western coast of the african continent to transport the african inhabitants to america, to be forced into hard labor. until the middle of the 17th century. portugal had played the main role in this atrocious business. then great britain, france and the netherlands took the leadership for the span of 400 years of legal and illegal slave trade. about 17000000 people were forcefully sh

china that areas with disagreements. how if this is done in a proper way, without making you to this make got diplomacy and shocking on top of the hill as the u. s. s. at china has long been investing in africa. what do you make all the countries well, in africa, especially when it comes to cooperation with russia and rivalry with the west is going to be quite a difficult because out of $55.00 african countries that you mentioned are all not the same. you have some of the poorest, much more smaller and they have no weight in terms of resisting pressure from washington. they rely on western powers on almost everything. i think we have to go to united nation general to see the no fought. then you have the middle african country powers and then much more bigger african countries, such as all africa that will resist openly without any fear of any pressure from washington. so it really depend on what kind of innovative ways of new engagement i think the is the need to deal with issues of currents, the digital currents and to avoid sanctions in terms of the usage of the system and other mechanisms in which the united states is using global public good

u. s. slender or attack china and as to prime, china will not make america great again or stop is rejuvenation. and if an internal specialist, andrew long says that the u. s. is trying to provoke china and create another ukraine like situation in taiwan. you loudest thesis, food of the boost standards and the boot whole. and it's saying one thing but doing another apart from 2 to. ready called integrity, a sovereignty, for example, is the so called international order. and then when it suits the united states, they will. ready if you lost these, with long term, would throw the order of the window. for example, the lady and iraq, afghanistan. and you know, even without the approval of the international community in the united nations. and, and they took that they have taken, you will actual actions to impose the will and on all other concerns. as far as taiwan is concerned, i think the ever taught us realize us that there was a risk at the united states to try to pro booked charlotte into taking premature action and creating another ukraine situation over taiwan. so i think that the, and, and a