naturally , with a single one with a single china well, now, if you conflict with china, and for thechina, this is the main thing, because china is able to unite eurasia and china are two strategic main tasks. threats. neither there nor there, therefore, it will be necessary to deal with china, and in this sense, of course, a very big problem represents europe, i don't know who, to be honest, there are a lot of people among our leadership who are counting. i mean above the leadership to get back on track with europe. well , here's what the president's latest decision on these companies has been. yes. this suggests that we are beginning to respond to sanctions. moreover, most likely, we have calculated this instant response. they accepted the sanctions. let's accept the same, this is stupid, you don't need to shoot yourself in the foot, but you need to gradually look at you need to shoot in the head and not yourself. yes, it is desirable, it is desirable immediately in the head not to imagine the desire already two shots said that the british. one now, and they will be killed, but i w

china will not forgive us for this. it 's true. you understand this very welllm, and he can wait as long as he wants the result, and therefore, when they talk all the time, and the chinese, and they, uh, are in no hurry. they know that eternity is behind them they understand perfectly well, they expect us to won, and we will win, they understand it, but another thing is that the post-soviet countries. it's strange, yes, they behave like so many here in russia. oh, so the operation was supposed to be carried out. there, within two weeks, everyone was defeated, kiev was taken, and that was it. well, listen, we are faced, uh, with a dangerous, insidious, very cruel enemy, despite the fact that there are also slavs there and half of them are russians . every city is this the problem is terrible political consequences, the city is turned into a. there is no fortified area, people who are hiding, and now we take into account and therefore we must act why? well, look, that is, if we took the americans. well, we would have gone to the ruins, but we can’t do the mariupo

well , china's logic here is interesting, huh? and what can happen anyway? ally also decided to celebrate victory day , maybe 18 aircraft. this is not the largest number of aircraft that china's taiwan sent to taiwan's air defense intelligence zone a last year. this number has grown. yes, above 120 units. how do you understand this is a complete imitation invasion, well, or operation liberation, what will it be called? i don’t know, it ’s really about the fact that the escalation is on the rise , but i would like to add here to you respected experts on the united states, what exists, and in any case, i have a very , uh, confirmed feeling that every failed adventure of the united states of foreign policy closes even more adventures, afghanistan ukraine and, logically, even more adventures - this is only taiwan will already plunge the world into a full-fledged already large-scale global crisis much more exceeding than so the ukrainian operation and so on. what is happening now, of course, is happening, and at the behest of the top leadership of the united state

unveiling washington strategy to compete with china, he was also accusing beijing of undermining global security. from your perspective, is that criticism justified? well, i think that criticism like, with many criticisms that are leveled by both china and the united states of each other. there is an element of truth and it is inflated and distorted and exaggerated in ways that i think are not healthy. and that really just reinforced the kind of 0, so i'm thinking of both sides increasing. we have towards the other, china is a concern to the united states and to other countries in certain ways. but the biggest concern, as i often tell people, is not specifically china's threat to the west or other countries. it's the threat posed by the kind of interactive worst case in 0, some dynamic that is increasingly coming to the 4 in interactions in relation between china and the united states and some countries of the west. it's that dynamic, it's driven by these kinds of grows large, simplistic narratives that don't account for the different complex and cross cutting interest of the countries phase. is that kind of narrative, that's really the threat to the g

china, as well. ., .,, ., ~ i. be coming in north korea and china, as well. ., .,, ., ~ ,, be coming . thomas, thank you so much for “oininu as well. thomas, thank you so much forjoining us— as well. thomas, thank you so much forjoining us on _ as well. thomas, thank you so much forjoining us on newsday _ as well. thomas, thank you so much forjoining us on newsday with - as well. thomas, thank you so much forjoining us on newsday with your. forjoining us on newsday with your analysis. much more about the pandemic on the special section of our website. just log on to bbc.com/news, or download the bbc app. in the uk, police have issued 50 more fines after parties at downing street and other government buildings were found to have broken the rules on gatherings during the covid lockdown. neither prime minister boris johnson, nor the chancellor rishi sunak were involved — although both have already been fined for other gatherings. the main oppositon party, labour, says there is evidence of partying at the heart of government on an industrial scale. here's our political editor chris mason.

and so people then look at china and say, well china is an authoritarian state to and i wanted to marcy and china has designs on taiwan. so trying to attack taiwan, just like russia, ukraine. so you get this deeper the sense of this of alarming threat on posed by these types of states. when in fact the calculations the, the stakes involved, the interests involved in these 2 cases are quite different. and it is a gross simplification and a distortion of the reality to simply apply what's going on in ukraine to what the chinese can do today to taiwan. now, it has, of course, in some ways, reinforced the image of china and russia being aligned with each other, which they are in certain respects. china has not come out and full throated, we endorsed the western nato position about the nature of the war. even though china, very much opposes invasions of sovereign countries by other countries. and china, however, does not want to openly reject russia. but it does not also want to come out and fully endorse what russia has done, support russia, and try to prevent the west from pressure, russia

talking about the so-called new limit partner, unlimited partnership. - we can see very well, but in the discussion china continues to develop, well, repeat about the russian federation, and we see that economic relations also have a tendency to deepen, in addition to this, china is promoting quite a bit not unfavorable for ukraine theses in the information space he says that he never blames the russian federation for the war against ukraine, he says that the west is to blame for everything, the united states of america is to blame for this, that there is no need to apply sanctions against the russian federation because it destroys logistical trade relations, economic ties, etc., about the fact that there is no need to transfer weapons to ukraine, this allegedly does not contribute to the resolution of the conflict, but only adds fuel to the fire, and so on, in addition to this, china continues spread disinformation in relation to ukraine, for example, in relation to the so-called 20 biolaboratories in which the united states of america allegedly developed biological weapons and even uh, even covid-19 an

you know, well, you understand, we are a small country, we are, here we are, the usa is crushing china is crushing, and we somehow had to get out. this is how we did it. well, we won't announce any more sanctions. and this is a very interesting position in general, that they put pressure on us there, they put pressure on us, but we are actually with you in heart. this is how small asia is trying to behave now. in the sense, not malaysia, but asia minor , their support is being crushed by such usa and they are in the dollar mass on the other side. they are very afraid of china and china, in my opinion , is just now beginning to understand, judging by the statements of the leadership, china that the strike is aimed not only and not so much against russia strikes aimed, of course, against china because in china it is, uh, the main and unity of the real economic competitor in the united states and china was terribly unwilling to admit it, at least, even for himself and still he thinks, and i'm here, just george, than absolutely agree that china thinks that he will be able to get out and th

lot of money, if not more than what they are currently earning for this whole business, well, they are active in china there is such a well- known ukrainian cool blogger about the stock. well, they buy everything from the chinese for the stock, but we understand that in reality, not only the energy revolution is happening all over the world, yes, this one the storm will affect a lot of countries, uh, we understand how much the standard of living will fall on the other hand, this moral revolution, that is, europeans are used to counting money, europeans understand yes, what's the point and how much does it cost where to earn and they already know that so to speak, everything was planned for the next 10 years, if it wasn't russian, you understand bloody chaos , maybe it would all work out like this, little by little, but the idea itself is not bad, well, remember the creation of the european union as such already after the second world war, it's better, as they say, to trade to be economic with each other better was not invented in general in the history of europe and we see this effective model so well

well in history. there are moments, but what does this mean, this means that china will receive all energy resources atourse, we will be forced to take lower, which means their economy will grow even more, and they will receive. the west will get directly, so to speak, a different result than the one they wanted, that is understand such such indeed. here is the situation. like this, like this, sometimes it's easy to start a war. and it’s very difficult to finish, you understand, it kind of burns out, it must burn out, it must come to some kind of result on its own. let's hope this dock doesn't drag the whole world into a nuclear holocaust, which is possible, i don't have to deny it. it may not be necessary and it is not necessary in my opinion. no, no, we don’t need to say something to us. e on our part, so to speak, reassures. little do i say that the likelihood that peace will come. eh, here nuclear war is higher than what it ain't never never it was never like that. here, she is even in the caribbean crisis. i was not as tall as she is today, so to speak, but uh, of course, this is the problem of th

trend lines are, are going towards companies diversifying, whether it's using china as a basis for there's i chain as well as diversifying china as a marketplace. right? so hopefully be some reforms internally within china to make it a truly welcoming country. coming back to the question of economic blogs, maybe told he co, how countries in the, in the region view this, do they feel that they need to make a choice between close economic ties with the us. all with china. do have to choose between. i pad on the one hand and the p p, p o, the road and belt initiative on the other countries such as united states in japan where the full market economy and plus open and transparent. government must stick together to set the rules as high as possible, taking into consideration labor standard, economic environmental conditions and intellectual property, and so on, so forth. shina is yet to overcome those hurdles, as was said by our american colleague, you get each and every company, not only state own company, but private company effectively run by members of the communist party. it's not the economy we're talkin

well, china can influence russia, but is china now inclined to influence russia after seeing what is ing? well, you you know, it seems to me that the most accurate position of china was expressed by one of the journalists on the chinese state channel well, although they do not have others, and she said that you want us to help you, she means from the united states, their allies helped you to defeat russia so that you concentrated their efforts on us well, this is madness, and of course the chinese actually think so, of course the chinese do not want russia to lose this war, er, this senseless war, and in china they understand everything, because the most let's say a delicious uh market they had this european union and all these projects there belton road and others they included the european market as such an important component and russia itself with its crazy war for everyone and including ordinary russians and even for this putin regime and they definitely broke their plans in this way, and it is not easy for china to maintain this seemingly balanced position. although it is more p

well. i mean, we, we just to need to keep that in mind. and china is very willing to invest in research and term scientists around the world. not only in europe, also in the united states are obviously contributing if it comes to international collaboration with chinese fund now. or what does the chinese military want from these collaborations and what does it actually good? well, china has a very, very clear goal that stated, you can read it a very publicly. it wants to be the scientific global superpower by 2050. that is the aim and in order to get there, they have a concept what they call military civil fusion. so science essentially has to serve the state, the party, the military and scientists are in a way subjugated. and my feeling is that the scientists here in europe rather look at the individual which might be a nice guy, a nice woman, braille young collaboration. and they kind of ignore or are complacent about the system behind that. and you very much some a bit as one head of dw is investigative team. thank you. ukrainian president wagner

but against the entire west and against the dominance of the united states, well , it is clear that he wants to flatter chinathis. well, other countries too. yes, we understand that this is not happening, that's why the state of china is now. let's we all understand that china could gain more support. this is how the chinese do it . well, it dodges, but in a cunning way, what you noted, it tries to take a cut from this equality. unfortunately, we also have the constitution. thank you maksym yakovlev, head of the department of international relations of the national university of kyiv - the mohyla academy and the director of the school of political analysis of the sciences were with us in connection with maxim's passive. we already have our next online guest. this is mark voencher, a military analyst senior researcher at the institute of european political analysis in the states, former special adviser to the commander of american forces in europe, congratulations marko good day and thank you for the invitation glory to ukraine glory to the heroes so rammstein, we understand that the west is gradually but fin

well, i'm not joined by, isn't it as much as the head of the w's investigative team summer. welcome to the studio. now, what's wrong with corporation with collaboration with, with, with china. why, what's, what's the big deal here? well, essentially get, we're looking at the grey zone of scientific corporation between chinese and european and scientists here. so what i mean by greys owing is it's not like european scholars are actively collaborating with their chinese partners to help china build the world's best army. that is clearly not, they are intention. but as one security saw us here in germany told us, scientists are living in their very own scientific bubbles. so they want to advance research. they want to progress and science, and that's as far as they think. now to give you a practical example, especially when it comes to basic research, you do that as a kind of blue sky research. so you don't really know what the application at the end might be. you just plow ahead. and in doing so, let's say a researcher is looking at ug or rhythms to coordinate objects. now that can be very helpful, for instance when it comes to traffic, but it can also be very helpful if it

where china is? well, that's a very good question. actually. it's also a puzzle that china wants to, you know, to on code as well. why? the expansion of china, the economic expansion of china, got so worried by other people considering that this country, china, is, is a country with a history of peace and development. and this is what we are all told to. it's a pass that we're being told to follow and we all believe that we don't believe in calling that we don't believe in bullying. other people. everything is based upon mutual trust, not a mutual cooperation. this is what china has been doing or all, but apparently other people do not believe that and they don't buy this thing. so i think this is a situation that we all after and we have to confront the handle properly, but things will get changed. i think eventually yes, for the pacific islands the issues of being raised and we see that relation between china and australia as being, being difficult for quite some time, but was the new prime minister of

hong kong is going to be perceived in the eyes of the rest of the world and, and how china is playing its cards yet? well, i think china just created a moral hazard. full leaders of them will take more credit countries in europe and in north america. if they accept john these 2 with it, then they basically are telling offer a tarion countries in the world that if day, then mix somebody who has done something particularly odious. put him, put him in a position of authority and whatever sanctions imposed on that person's will be lifted. so that is making it practically impossible for the united states government to allow to on need to visit the us. and then we will get into it and acrimony of the chinese authorities accusing the u. s. and perhaps other western countries hoping horsed out or hong kong because they would not accept the chief executive of hong kong. we should never be in the situations like that. i want to talk a little bit more about john lee the now and that will affect how he is a momentum. so i, i think both of it to, you know, come into national status here and john leave promise to rest

least not help it minimize the damage from china’s anti-russian sanctions refuses to do so and instead toughens the rhetoric against the united states as wellakes an increasingly active stance on broad issues of world politics. in particular, president xi of china recently held talks. jinping and e of french president emmanuel macron, and during these negotiations with children. i think i made a very important statement. he said that the bloc confrontation that the united states is pushing and which is intensifying as a result of the ukrainian conflict, behind which the united states stands much. with her, than the ukrainian conflict itself , uh, yuri vladimirovich, what do you think that comrade sitin told the truth, he is very worried about the bloc strategy of america and he is most worried about the creation of an anti-chinese bloc in asia, the creation of this bloc is going by leaps and bounds. i would say that the great anti-china wall is being built. it already consists of very significant fragments and watchtowers from the fortress walls. look there, japan with american bases from the security treaty there is south korea with americ

china. i've heard this from other analysts as well that china is the next to enemy. and the china is looking on a serving this war quite closely to see how far russia gets with its war. that it's, that it's a campaigned on ukraine that's raging in ukraine and to see how far it could get in perhaps it's moves on taiwan. we've heard a very strong warnings from the u. s. presidential biden, as far as taiwan goes, but how willing the american public would be to back a war that would evolve chai, china and taiwan. that's another question i want being such a small island so far away from america. right? julia brief if you could. and how do you think shows his address is going to be received here in, in germany, but also in europe too. we haven't seen much new coming out of his speech. these are a lot of issue that issues that he already had talked about and other occasions also, for example, with an interview with our chief political correspondent this week. but especially looking at ukraine. we've seen the korean foreign minister just a few days ago now in davos, saying t

case, for example, with the deployment of an american missile defense system in the republic korea well, chinaact very harshly, and now, apparently the united states is generally moving to such a thing as speaking openly about the fact that they are opposing china specifically. well, north korea is moving away for them, uh, a distant plan. well, that is, it turns out that they are not really afraid of what they said, that missiles will fly there, er, to american territory. in fact, it's not very worrisome. no, why bother, but not enough to start doing it. uh, so not very much. well, because in order to solve this problem, firstly, you need to understand that north korea rocket technology made a significant leap, by the way, largely due to obama's strategic patience, in which many, many eyes were closed, including the fact that north korea's rd250 engines rang out, apparently in ukraine, taking advantage, so to speak, of the chaos in the country after the fourteenth years and the fact that north korea generally just continued the nuclear missile program diplomacy could have helped. well, if you

well, china's done well if you look at the figures, because the with, with his 0 covet policy, fewer chinese people officially have dine. my issue is, listen, china, you could make it better for your citizens, because now we've got the vaccines. so why don't you use the pfizer, madonna, astrazeneca brands, for example, which have proven greater efficacy. and the idea is, we don't want you to die. so immunize, immunized those one rouble groups have the antivirus at the ready if needed. and then you can also open up rather than incarcerate large numbers of your population . so in answer to your question, do i think china is doing the right thing right now? i think it is a bit too draconian. only china can do what china does, right? i would be more relaxed about how i would do it, which is immunize, and be a little bit more relax, professor abraham, me. what it means to make of the fact that according to the world health organization figures, 53 percent of the deaths occurred in lower to middle income countries, while just 15 percent occurred in high income countries on it, on only 4 per

china to c, w, h o in the world, they reported late. they claim there was no community or human human transmission. and now i'm trying has done quite well for the last 2 years compared to other countries. but they're in an extraordinarily vulnerable position, and they're really trotting on people in human rights and economic, a productivity. and the 0 coven strategy of china simply is not sustainable. as back to teacher said at lawrence, would these comments from the w h o give trying to pause with the country. consider shifting its policy at all. i think not, i think, you know, for judging ping, it's a matter of saving face. i in the fall there is going to be the communist party congress. i oh, he is seeking a longer and more powerful term. and basically china staked its reputation on its handling of co 19 and i think he's in too deep. so i'm not expecting a significant shift, but maybe we'll see a slight one because you know, the truth is, is that covered is nearly as infectious as measles. the new ama cram. so variance where you put somebody in a room for an hour. i'm with measles and 8 people will walk out with it. that's what they'

reaching she did speak not only about syndrome, but about other issues of concern are here in china as well, about label law and also about a to vets. expressing concerns and the importance of china allowing a, the education of religion and culture and language. when she talked about sin, john, she didn't actually go too deeply into detail. we were trying to listen to for anything that was specifically that she mentioned. but she said that one thing that was interesting is that, that she did speak to families outside of the country before coming here. and she encouraged the government to put some families in touch with relatives. they may not have been in contact with. and she did say that, according to her assessment, there had been situations of arbitrary detention inch and young in china. something that the government has vehemently denied here. they have said that all their measures inch and jang have been related to counter terrorism and fighting separatism. she also talked about that saying, what, well, while these fighting, these things are very important, they must not be done. and

well, china warned the countries of the big seven about this and other things already in a moment in e column about ukraine , you start the world with this sweden is joining nato well, now it's official, because before that they only talked about the decision of the government of ukraine, prime minister magdalena anderson announced today. she called this decision is epoch-making and although there is currently no direct threat from russia, she said that her country will be vulnerable during the transition period, but at the same time expressed the hope that, if necessary, the eu and nato countries will help her in the next few days with a formal application for the entry of the ambassador of sweden into nato together with his finnish colleague will be submitted together at the headquarters of the alliance in brussels well, now we can say with confidence that in case of need the eu and nato countries will help sweden no, god forbid, of course, that there is no need to help but having such a neighbor as russia, you need to be sure that this help will come when needed, and you need to st

hong kong is going to be perceived in the eyes of the rest of the world and, and how china's playing it's cards yet? well i think china just created a moral hazard. full leaders of them will take the more credit countries in europe and north america. if they accept john needs to research, then they basically are telling authoritarian countries in the world that if they then make somebody who has done something particularly odious, pretty put him in a position of authority. and whatever thompson has imposed on that cushioned will be lifted. so given the, making it practically impossible for the united states government to allow to need to visit the us. and then we will get into it an acronym and the of the chinese or warranties accusing to us. and perhaps other western countries are being hosted out to hong kong because they would not accept the chief executive of hong kong. we should never be in a situation like that. i want to talk a little bit more about john lee of mine, and it will affect how he went on so i, i think both referred to, you know, all the international status here and john leave promise

china. american public opinion has been impacted as well. a gallop poll, taken back in february, showed that 79 percent of us adults have a negative opinion of the country. also in april, a pew survey ran to china's unpopularity at 82 percent. so much tension currently going on in the world. the binding ministration seems to just not have caused enough raucous. they now want to intensify the conflict with the country that is the largest on earth in terms of population and a major global economic player. it's not clear where the american people really benefit from this strategy of intensifying conflict across the planet. caleb mob been r t new york for more or less cross wire to political analysts to i was under bruno . hello, this is big kind of worms. they're opening up here. the u. s. department recently edited their website to remove a part about not recognizing taiwanese independence. why do you think the us would do that at this point? well, i think they're a combination of factors. we've had the china increasing its influence in the pac

ah, well china says it's a great to work more closely with fiji on a number of fronts is foreign minister one ve continues a diplomatic blitz across the pacific ocean. one added his country's extra assistance for island nations would come with no strings attached. the chore has added to us and australian concerns about china's regional influence of fiji prime minister says there's nothing to worry about. we all know plenty of ice have been on sewer during this visit. i hope we also know that earl geopolitical point scoring means less than little to anyone who's our community is slipping beneath the rising seas. whose job has been lost or pandemic, or whose family is impacted by that ip address in the price of commodities. one day began is tor, on thursday, in the solomon islands, china recently signed a security deal there. while in fiji, one had been expected the sign of sweeping agreement with foreign ministers from 10 pacific nations, but that's been shelves. he'll go on to carrabas, sam, what tonga, van water, papa, new guinea, and east timor. wayne hay has more from silver. the main

well in uh in the uh case in the russian european case it pretty much revolved around ukraine and everything that happened there in the case of chinauh, well, more recently. this is taiwan but over a long period. this is the topic of the south china sea real controversy, wow! here, as it is becoming quite clear now, it was not about not protecting the allies, but about separating russia from europe from europe, weakening both europe and russia, separating china from asia, weakening both china and asia, and, so to speak, carrying out this grandiose operation in the spirit. divide and rule. to rule over everyone, that is, and sessions with her mantras, and harmony, compromises and inclusiveness, it turns out not to be the fate of the problem is that this is all very good approached e to the period when events develop in an evolutionary mode step by step, as the oceanians themselves like it. and how does it fit in? well, i would say with some very deep ones. uh, hmm, it's a cultural-psychological setting. now we see, yes, that e events are developing in leaps and bounds, through some completely unexpected e, unexpected in their line.

sentiment is so much better because things look good in china and they are allowing some financial institutions to return workers and shanghai as well. you get a couple positive bits of news out of china and the whole of asia is lifted by that. it is early days. there is still, china markets are still down heavily over the past several months, but it shows you that if we start to get some positive news coming out gradually from china, it could reverse sentiment considerably, because china has been so beaten up that there markets have lost so much ground compared to the rest of the world that people are under invested and they are looking for room to do a lot of work putting money back into china, so it is early stages, but it shows you what can happen if investors are more positive on the greater china complex. rishaad: also mark, i just mentioned we have the entire treasury yield curve moving down slowly. is this a bad thing? is it pricing in a more severe downturn? what is your thinking? >> in the near term, it is a sign investors are extremely worried that recession is getting much closer in the u.s. it is a defensive move, even

of lukoil has announced that they are preparing for the conservation of a certain number of oil wells . china no longer choose cheap oil, and this is a serious story, and the second very serious point is that this story does not end this year. that is, it will unfold and the eu countries will to be attracted to this policy because the fact that this year hungary will use, so to speak, to suck oil from the druzhba oil pipeline does not mean that it will do the same in the next year and the european union is already carrying out an energy revolution right before our eyes, i could not even hope that they such people will go for something similar, let it be with colossal exceptions, but the truth is that they went for it, well, that is, really in the energy issues of europe. changes in the conditions available to me in europe. i read that they are really about, firstly, about the issue of energy savings, secondly, about the development of alternative sources, and so on in independent from russia. if i am not mistaken, i heard about those 35% discounts for china, india , which you mentioned yes, a

beginning it's like an olive, branch and blinkin denies that the us has any bad intentions towards china wellna can believe the words that these intentions? in the united states, there are yes plans of words and deeds, firstly, after the visit of biden and negotiations with japan on how to reform the un security council to include japan well, it is possible to turn off china and russia and so on in parentheses secret negotiations of a defensive nature. it is hardly possible to believe in this word. yes , but i want to return to the previous block, will the intellectual level of the current us da biden administration allow us to solve this difficult task, which you absolutely clearly outlined the confrontation between china and russia at the same time. i think no, it won't. yes, and the chinese americans proceed from a very simple, and understanding that it is absolutely impossible to fight china directly, while biden went with, e, an election program that and we refuse to expand our military presence. i will become and cancer and so on, an additional war. now there is no need to persuade chin

on saturday, russia launched some of the missiles that ukraine and march, well, china reportedly tested its own version last year in now family of the victims of the latest mass shooting in the u. s. r. renewing calls for restrictions on gun ownership. 10 people died and buffalo on saturday and what's been described as a racially motivated attack. it's one of nearly 200 mast shootings this year in the u. s. which has the highest rate of gun related deaths among developed countries. he took the m my best for him. oh dear, how dear you. this needs to be fixed. a s a p. mom. we log on president joe biden has praised the bravery of police officers ahead of a visit to buffalo on tuesday. please say 18 year old pasent genderin deliberately targeted black people and was driven by so horde replacement theory out there. as alan fisher explains, it's the deadliest my shooting of the year in the us and police say the new why the accused gunman did it. this was about killing black people as many as possible. we can't sugar coat. we can try to explain of a way talking about mildred illness. no, this

>> well, i think the pboc has a very different problem. chinanly major economy that will be seeing interest rates go down because they need to continue to step on the gas pedal to make sure they can hit the 5% goal they set for this year. i think overall, they are really between a rock and a hard place right now. i think xi jinping has cornered himself somewhat. te a -- he's taken quite a dogmatic approach to the zero covid strategy, hampering the ability of the central bank on the micro side. you can listen all you want. if people can't by the cars in the homes, there is not much you can do -- buy the cars and the homes, there's not much you can do. >> when it comes to the property sector, which continues to struggle, how would that guide your call in the entirety of asian credit at this point? >> yeah, so, just stepping back, looking at where asian credit is, it is a really tough time, both due to [indiscernible] and sentiment. we are seeing growth spreads in the u.s. buying as well. china and asia certainly is not the only current market that

and the rest of the world, business is doing fairly well. chinaow and vietnam where they make a lot of the products come with are affecting the company. >> what's happening in europe as a result of ukraine? what's ukraine does not play that big of a role and need just russia. they brought that up on a call today. in terms of the volumes they get from these markets, it isn't significant. europe is more in focus because of the inflation issue. people are buying more expensive sneakers and they are able to push through price increases at least for the time being. the question is, will they be able to continue this? for the time being, people are buying more full priced stickers nobody knows if inflation does estate as high as that is, people will be hauling off purchases. the question is, can they keep the prices high? can they call back inflation pain? that is not clear this point. >> have a great weekend, we appreciate your analysis. european markets are wrapping up. we should get the final numbers. the ftse 100 lower during the auction process. yo

well, china we don't know wherew covid-19 came fromhe, but theres 100% that we know that china deliberately spread covid-19 beyond its borders. we know 100% that china is behind these large far flung sentinel games and that means 100,000 americans have been killed each year with chinese bednall and that's deliberate. so i don't know how you work with a country like that . and when you say that you have to work with a country like china, you're giving china a veto over american foreign policy cr, which is what biden s done in some respects. well, a he also signaled that as long these guys are in charge, biden or whoever pulling i the stringss, we're never goinge to even begin to decouplen from china. what we don't expect every country to have the exact same assessment of china as we do. we know that many countries, includingsmen the united states, have vital economic or people to people ties with china that they want too preserve. this is not about forcing countries to choose. >> it's about giving them a choice. gordon this is a mess of a speech. we keep saying it over and over again. this i

i'm so now about the logic of not china about the logic of the west well, it is obvious that we, of course the economic and financial sense, yes, but will the west risk in a certain situation imposing sanctions against the chinese in these relations? well , because there will be an effect with wow, what lady of the track? they often said that they can try to do this, that they can stop the growth of the chinese economy. to introduce similar sanctions , i recalled that somewhere the germans there at the government level are told to collect rainwater and pour it into the toilet. and so now if there will be sanctions against china what will happen what will happen when the first rains stop , you understand, there will no longer be rainwater depends on the season, of course, the chinese. yes, as for the consequences, chinese products will rise in price sharply, because they will be in short supply or in the prospect of a shortage in western markets. this will increase inflation in the west and china will receive its bonus, maybe it does not sell products in full and in the same volume, but now

so song han and so inflation is picking up in china as well, but not nearly as much as it has been rising in other places around the world. why is that? compare with other countries such as the united states, china is less affected by demand lead inflation because it relies more on investment then consumption to drive nomic growth either. so china's current consumer demand extremely weak and consumption is still an important factor in pushing up inflation. china's low inflation rate is also due to the government's strong measures, including price controls and tre, protection to prevent imported inflation from being passed on to consumers. while these measures have had a positive impact on china, in the short term, they have long term costs and are difficult to replicate in a more market oriented economy. and so china still has to deal with important inflation, though, due to its large purchases of oil, gas, and food from abroad. and prices for these commodities have risen sharply. are due to supply sharks, cause for example, by the war in ukraine. how does the country deal with that? chin

china what they don't say now. we need to change the representative. well, at the same time, they were also for a single one, china only represented a single china, taiwan that is, in principle, they always had a single china, but the main point that turned it all upside down was that they crossed out the government in beijing as the only legitimate one. and in the explanations, which gave the middle partment, they do not mention it. they said, yes, we recognize that this is a single state. that is, today they are afraid they do not want to officially declare that the government in kiev is the only legitimate government. so far at this level, but it is not by chance that it says, and far, going in the direction just like in russia's relations, they have not yet said openly. you are not a legitimate state. what difference does it make to us what they say? no, they didn't tell china, i'm talking about it, they don't talk about non-legitimate states, what will change. i say, the opposition of the states, we are not our enemy, we must be strangled, until it tur