the second, he doesn't want to criticizes president xi because xi controls the government.at tells you something about how president trump views the role of leadership in a large country, that it's subject to how people react to personal slights. that, indeed, is how the president has shown this he's reacted. not sure that's the case with president xi, though. >> is there a plan for the u.s.? there are already cases here. not a great number of cases. one thing clear about this virus, it spreads easily, very easily. what is the plan if cases begin to i don't want to say skyrocket here but if they continue to grow as happens with viruses. >> as i indicated before, you've got a range of government agencies including cdc that are monitoring, attempting to respond in individual cases. the challenge is if this thing grows exponentially that can overwhelm the government response. you can see it taken to another level. we've not seen the creation of a special czar for handling this issue as we saw under president obama with the ebola when he took a very experienced official at the

people have not really seen xi jinping. even in newspapers, you would expect to see him every day on the front cover. since the coronavirus story started, he has not been anywhere. there's speculation he has not been in the public eye because people want to criticize him. he's preparing, meeting people, being friendly, wisng people well, talking to locals about the food they areelling. it's the first time we have seen them be open. >> this virus was fst attacd it in the city of wuhan which ha s been in lockdown for weeks. you can see those figures going up through the last few weeks. while all of this has been are meant to be seller rating e lunar new year. we know that the -- celebrating the lunar new year. we know that it was supposed to go through the end of january. it is finished but things are a long way from normal. >> her ein sha -- here in shanghai, the commercial capital normally home to 24 million people. it was supposed to be the first day back but it was a trickle. the banks and shops remain closed. there are a

how is president xi responding? interesting.r the week and there was a speech published by president xi that apparently he talked about being in control of the situation in hubei. he said he had given verbal and written instructions to officials, but it was in fact xi , in the speech, who ordered the quarantine of surrounding cities. it seems the publishing of this speech is an intent to push back against criticism that he has stepped away, really, and that he was largely unseen during the crisis. him up toes is open criticism, because many say the handling of the crisis and the wuhan and hubei an issue and there are concerns about the was of lower doctor -- whistleblower doctor who died. it really leads to as many questions, some could argue, as answers. it's interesting that president xi sought to publish this, pushing that against criticism that he has stepped away from handling the crisis. president xi says he has been in control since january 7. paul: all right, tom mckinley in beijing. thanks so much. the spread of the cor

and in their discussion last night, the president and president xi discussed increased cooperation. they discussed the role of the world health organization. i mean, the loss of life, the coronavirus that is impacting people of china and, fortunately, a small number of people in the united states to date, is -- it's heart breaking but we stand ready to work with china to provide them any and all support. the president made that clear last night to president xi >> 11 americans among the 61 diagnosed on the cruise ship off the coast of japan >> right >> that aside are you confident the threat of this virus as it relates to americans here has peaked and is now declining? >> well, out of an abundance of caution, the president took unprecedented steps to end airline travel and limit access from china to the united states. and we are encouraged by the results. we're encouraged by the numbers. but we met late yesterday with leaders from the cdc we got the latest briefing our team is going to continue to lean into that we think that the threat here in the united states remains fairly low be

xi might have been taking a step back.en in wuhan earlier, but now state media is saying xi is in the middle of the government response and you can see him in the street mingling with people, which is quite rare. he was wearing a mask and having his temperature taken, and it's a way to show empathy to the people of china who have had their lives upturned because of the virus, the travel restrictions, the new controls put on cities viewed this is a way to show that the government therying to respond to people's frustration. yvonne, some factories resumed operations but the business fallout continues to spread, right? yvonne: it seems like things are just beginning when it comes to the fallout. a handful of manufacturers have said they have resumed operations. tesla reopened its plant in shanghai and ford. caterpillar saying most of their manufacturing plants are back online. you still see some cautious automakers, honda just recently said they will not be reopening their plant earlier than february 17. that is following the

tension in that relationship over trade and other things so he said president xi is workingen hard o do everything he can and there was no criticism there but i have heard from other white house officials privately, pardon me, that they are distrustful of some of the data and are genuinely disappointed that they are not accepted into the u.s. >> we will -- [inaudible] headlines global economy shows strained as virus starts to take a toll and the finance ministers and central bankers from thena group of 20 major economy warned in rehab where the gap is there is a coronavirus poses a serious global growth and agree to take action should in fact intensify so what you expect on this? >> on the congressional side i'm not sure at this point as jeff mentioned the response in the u.s. has been the outbreak of the u.s. has been contained at this point so the congressional role and i expect to hear more members talk about it this week and they are backed up in town and it's one of the topics of the day outside of the presidential race and a couple of the items that are happening out here so i

appearing on chinese state television, mr xi also addressed rising economic anxieties, promising therge—scale lay—offs. that pledge comes as millions of people in china returned to work after the lunar new year break, which was extended from january 31 to curb the spread of the virus. but precautionary measures remain in place. work hours are staggered to prevent rush—hour crowds. several major cities including beijing and shanghai remain quiet as many factories and offices are still closed. translation: actually, i still think it's a normal life. it's fine as long as we pay a little attention to it. for example, disinfection and being careful not to have close contact with people. but masks are not enough to convince people to leave their homes. in this beijing shopping mall, temperatures are being checked at the entrance but there were few shoppers inside the stores. the world health organization has expressed concerns about the spread of the virus beyond china's borders, stressing their objective remains containment. in recent days we have seen some concerning instances of onward

i had a good talk with president xi. we talked mostly about the coronavirus. they are working really hard. i think they are doing a professional job. with our worldch organization. we are working together. world health is working with them. i had a great conversation last night with president xi. it is a tough situation. i think they are doing a good job. >> what is the impact on the global economy? >> i think china will do a good job. it was a hoax. that's a very good question. should they expunge the impeachment in the house? they should, because it was a hoax. it's going to unify the country, and it has in a lot of ways. look at our crowds and support. what unifies it is a great success. our country today is more successful than it has ever been. >> coming up tonight on c-span, senator bernie sanders at a politics breakfast at saint and some college in new hampshire. after that, president trump's remarks at a job summit in north carolina. and james clyburn of south carolina announcer: tomorrow, mike pompeo giving an address. noon, nancyat pelosi addresses a

again you've touched on this but if you can just put into perspective the significance of president xi jinping and knowledge ing that china hasn't necessarily done the best with this that is that is significant yeah i mean he used the word shortcomings he was the president of china i haven't heard the president of china admit shortcomings in the government but he did that on friday night that is extremely rare and that just underscores i think just how serious the situation is now president xi jinping of course is a man under enormous pressure right now as i say his his desire is to get you know the economy moving again but i suspect that you know his economists and advisers have perhaps also been saying you know it may not be possible to do that right now because the virus is not totally under control although just across the border in guangdong province on monday the government there announced that it was lowering its emergency level from grade one to grade 2 significant because guandong is where china's i.t. sector is concentrated and of course that is an area of the country that re

all of this as president xi jinping has been declaring this a people's war against the virus. a lot of manufacturers are under pressure to ease the shortage but also to make sure they have enough masks for their workers so they can continue to make what they always make. burberry said its demand in greater china has been affected. 24 out of 64 stores in mainland china is closed. foot traffic is looking really low in some stores that were open with stores with limited hours. the company said as of now, the spending looks as though it is holding up they expect that to change now that so many companies have put in restrictions from chinese nationals from spreading >> parent companies of names like coach, michael kors giving outnumbers too burberry doing the same there. thank you for continuing to follow this one for us >>> when we come back, can wall street make it five in a row that's the question we'll ask our next guest futures are lower by about 97 points shares expected to surge at the open plenty of question marks about growth in 2020 >> and the bull case for casper after i

becomes a bigger fire but for no it's only a spark objective remains containment china's president xi jinping has been out in a beijing neighborhood promising the fight against the virus will be one indian brown has more on that. we haven't seen much of president xi jinping during the past couple of weeks that changed on monday when state television broadcast pictures of him visiting a district of beijing he met neighborhood representatives volunteers and medical workers and there he was wearing a surgical face miles i think that's possibly the 1st time we've seen the chinese president wearing a face mask he also had his temperature taken this was president xi jinping doing his best to burnish his man of the people image he also came to deliver a message he said that together the chinese people the country can overcome this virus if they work together. we must fight the battle for total warfare and the people's war against the epidemic with full competence we must have the confidence that we will definitely when president xi jinping also wanted to deliver another reassuring message to

trump as president is the one guy who is saying xi jinping is great.hase one trade deal done and we are engaged together, he will get this fixed. underneath trump you have people complaining about the chinese on every front, and you feel that in munich today. whether it is on 5g or on hong kong, whether it is on intellectual property, whether it is on the south china sea. you name it, there americans with a serious problem with china. if trump changes his tune on china in a significant way, it is very different environment in 2020. vonnie: how much is the split between what is being said publicly and what is actually the bowl? of thed seem the goal u.s. and china would be the same thing. ian: the goal of the united states and china is the same thing in the sense they both want the economy to grow as quickly as possible. what i am saying is if it suddenly looks like the bowl will not be met and suddenly the goal istates -- trumps very much organized around november. it is around these elections and choosing the economy to make the election look good. th

xi jinping in state media.not been seen for the past two weeks and raising a lot of questions and speculations in the government's role in the containment effort. now he's reappeared wearing a mask, visit a hospital and videoconferences with workers on the front line also sounding confident and determined. so all these images meant to put to rest all the speculations and questions and basically reinforcing the notion he's very much in control of the government's response and also cares about the people. but the thing is, laura, until he goes to wuhan which is 600 miles away from beijing, there's still going to be a lot of skeptics when it comes to the government's strategy and effectiveness at the epicenter. >> steven, president trump keeps making this claim about how the virus could actually slow down in the coming months. take a listen. >> the virus, they're working hard. looks like by april in theory when it gets a little warmer when it miracerously goes away. i hope that's true. >> is that true, steven? >>

with how you satisfied president xi is handling the coronavirus? pres. trump: i think president xi is working very hard. i spoke with him recently. he is working really hard. it is a tough problem. i think he is going to do -- look, i've seen them build hospitals and a short period of time. i really believe he wants to get that done and he wants to get it done fast. yes, i think he is doing it very professionally. we are also working with him and helping him as of the last few days. reporter: people don't seem to trust the data coming out of china. are you worried about that? pres. trump: i know this, president xi loves the people of china, he loves his country, and he is doing a very good job with a very, very tough situation. reporter: [indiscernible] doing any investigation? pres. trump: if it comes up coming us. we will see what happens. that is up to senator graham. and he is traveling with me. we can have a trade deal with india, but i'm saving the big deal for later on. we are doing a very big trade deal with india. i don't know if it will be done

largest number of fatalities outside of china the deaths all standing at 8 there in china president xi jinping has admitted they were shortcomings in the country's response describing coronaviruses the largest public health emergency since the founding of communist china back in 1949 we look further afield to italy as well where 5000 people have been quarantined in the north been told to stay home 132 people have been infected 3 have died as well while in south korea the president has called for unprecedented powerful measures to control the out break let's begin in south korea this report from robert brought . the worst affected areas in so. east korea the city of daegu and neighboring chango county remain at a virtual standstill to mask clusters of infections account for the majority of cases reported so far one of them at this hospital quickly spread infecting more than 100 patients and staff wards are being prepared to treat the increase of new coronavirus patients raising the alert to the highest level came at an emergency meeting chaired by president moon j. in this weekend the n

another interesting thing to watch is xi jinping himself. i think it's terrific that he decided he wanted to be in charge for a long time. all of the longtime leaders i know get their good ideas early arend their later years following on old ideas. i think xi jinping's ideas are out there and if he lasts until 2030 we will see the same as that. there is an impetus for new ideas that comes with new leadership in china. i think we need to be -- the reagan administration used to say that we need to be moderately worried about this and intelligently worried about it not go crazy which is what you said in your opening remarks. the last part of this is, in there is armedr intervention for humanitarian purposes. you would think you would see that out of china but they did right and that a couple of times against vietnam and indonesia. importantat is a very point, thank you. >> commissioner cleveland. >> do we see any differentiation in chinese assessments of what they are willing to protect when it comes to economic investments? are they more incli

another interesting thing to watch is xi jinping.t is terrific he decided to be in charge for a long time. all the longtime rulers get their good ideas early on and in their later years are pretty much following up old ideas of his ideas are out there now and if he lasts until 2030 we will just see reruns and know what is there. i think the impetus from new leadership in china, china forfeited for a while by sticking with what they have. what was it the reagan administration used to say? we need to be moderately worried about this and intelligently worried about it but not crazy which is what you said in your opening remarks. >> the last part of this is in the un charter there is armed intervention for humanitarian purposes. you wouldn't think you would see that except they did threaten that a couple times against vietnam and indonesia but we haven't seen them trade for it and that is an important point. >> commissioner cleveland. >> one final question. do we see any differentiation in chinese assessments of what they are willing to

president trump did speak with xi-jinping yesterday.ouse said trump expressed his confidence in china's strength in fighting the vies russ. chinese state media said president xi said beijing is doing all it can to fight the outbreak. cheryl: new evacuation flights from china set to land in the united states today. hundreds of americans returning from wuhan will arrive in texas and nebraska. this is happening as a royal caribbean ship is set to dock in new jersey, testing passengers for the virus as they get off of that ship. at least a dozen people from china are on-board. they're in isolation on that ship right now. now, the outbreak has spread to two cruise ships, one in japan, one in hong kong. over 400 americans are among the thousands of passengers trapped with 60 confirmed cases on the ship. three u.s. citizens already tested positive. this thing still is spreading. it's not contained. lauren: some of the passengers on the cruise ships are confined to their ca cabin. if you have an interior cabin, you can't leave the cabin for day

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china's president xi jinping knew about the our break of the corona virus in early january that was 2 weeks before the government confirmed the 1st person to person transmission of the virus and more than a week before dr lee one leon was silenced by the government for alerting colleagues the president delivered a speech to the politburo standing committee china's most powerful political body that was on february the 3rd but details were only released by state media this weekend those details amount to an official timeline of what the president knew and when on january the 20th she says he issued special instructions to try to contain the outbreak 3 days later the city of woo han was locked down a measure praised by the world health organization some analysts say china's leader appears to be covering his back after mounting criticism that he didn't respond fast enough on one hand. the chinese leaders would like to demonstrate that it had not the late in reacting in taking action to contain the epidemic that it had not tried to conceal the facts from the puppy but then are obviously th

seen the chinese president wearing a face mask he also had his temperature taken this was president xi jinping doing his best to burnish his man of the people image he also came to deliver a message he said that together the chinese people the country can overcome this virus if they work together. we must fight the battle for total warfare and the people's war against the epidemic with full confidence we must have the confidence that we will definitely when president xi jinping also wanted to deliver another reassuring message today and that was on jobs he said that the government would prevent large scale job losses that's because of course china's economy has been battered by this fire as thousands of factories across the country are now standing idle it's a reminder that the world depends on china for so much but so much of what it's producing simply isn't leaving the country and this cern one of the world's largest car producers in japan announced it was shutting production of one of its major plants the problem is the supply chain just last week high on day a south korean car manu

. >> let's talk about the conversations -- it seems like so long ago president xi and president trumpere talking about trade. are they still talking is there dialogue about the virus threat >> yes president trump is full of praise for president xi. on this, the president signaling more openness even as his advisors complain they are not getting enough information the president was careful to praise him and say he thinks the chinese leader is doing a good job in response to that. last night, president trump signaling he had spoken with president xi over the outbreak >> he is working so hard on this problem. he is very smart it is significant group of talented people working. they are calling up our people we are dealing with them and giving them certain advise i had a long time with him he is working really hard. he wants it to go away from china fast and get back to business as usual. >> seems like a constructive dialogue there eunice yoon is live. to say it is constructive the conversation between xi and trump. >> the chinese officials here would likely have been watching president t

xi will be successful. that's what the president says. >>> at home, a cruise ship docked in new jersey this morning with 12 chinese nationals on board. they have been quarantined. all the passengers will be screened. for investors, we are talking about the virus, the question is how long and how much of china will be locked down and what impact that has on their economy and ours. that's the question for investors about the virus this morning. >>> big show coming up. 9:35, just as the market opens, we will have larry kudlow with us. i expect a lot of smiles from him. the economy seems to be in a new wave of growth and the housing market looks set to expand as well. at 11:00 eastern this morning, vice president mike pence will be with us. that's what's coming up at you. two big guests and a blowout jobs report. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ stuart: i'm happy. okay. that's why we're playing the song. you have a lot of reasons to be happy this morning. it's been a triumphant week for the president. th

presidentng talk with xi, for the people in this room, two nights ago. he feels very confident. very confident. he feels, again, as i mentioned, or during the month of april, the heat, generally kind of kills those

. >> do you think that president xi should be doing something different? pres. trump: no, he is working very hard. i spoke to him. he is working very hard. it is a big problem. president xi loves his country. he will solve the problem. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: i will be appointing an ambassador to germany. i will say, the ambassador has done a fantastic job. this is just a temporary job. we have five people that we are looking at very seriously. expert people. and at a certain in the point not-too-distant future, we will be announcing who they are. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: say it? >> [inaudible] pres. trump: well, the ambassador will be doing that. he did a great job. he is very familiar with the people. he has done a fantastic job of that. he is going to continue to maintain that because he has such a great dialogue. everybody said that was the deal. it is a great thing for those two countries. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: i am not involved in it. i am not involved. i don't have to, but i stay uninvolved. i don't have to. i could be totally involved, as yo

at one point a title, special envoy of xi jinping. then the chinese told us in september not to use that title anymore. then we had to ponder what that meant. -- himself showed up. i see this is really good news. the details are not so important to me as the cooperative attitude after a really severe emotional experience from both sides over the last two years. >> so i've read the agreement on in english, not the chinese version. what i felt was extremely novel is the dispute resolution mechanism which i know you're calling something else to because it sensitive on the chinese side but we are here in english. really novel 121 sided tariffs if you need to and let's hope it works. and on the intellectual property side, some pretty important gets a special biologics and pharma and all those things. was it worth the cost, the amount that the economy has suffered because of the tariffs? was what only came out of the phase one deal worth it? >> i think so but i try to put myself in the might of another president or other future presidents w

so who did they put on the front lines in state media but president xi himself.xi has taken a back seat publicly, it seems, because of the negativity that has surrounded this. you've got to remember where this originated. it was at the local level, wuhan, hubei province. early on you had a lot of negativity thrown at those local leaders, then the central government stepped in. president xi became really the one i'm taking demand of deployment and coordination. when he did that, it stops at him. when some of the negative headlines start to surface, the concern here from state media in particular and propaganda machine doesn't like this either, you start to blur the two lines of some of the issues and president xi. so they like to buffer that. that's why it was so important to see him today and try to stress in his words they are trying to stabilize and go forth. jim and poppy, it's worth noting going around here you start to see more surveillance, something china pushed forward, going into apartment complexes, everywhere. >> we saw drones talking to people, floati

if it dies down, xi can say, look, we mobilized and beat this down.other hand, there are people who think it will represent a kind of blow to xi in power. >> i think his response has been consolidation of power and i don't see significant internal challenges to xi on the back of this, even if it gets much worse. but i think the economic implications are meaningful. and his willingness to take an iron hand over however many chinese might potentially be vulnerable to this coronavirus does mean that you're going to see longer disruption to supply chain, to tourism and the rest, which in a very politicized environment of the u.s. versus china could play out in ways that people don't want to see in this election. >> you are in looking at coronavirus that we should look somewhat differently about china, chinese power and xi? . >> almost everything thing said and written about china assumes china's rise continues. what i think this should tell us is maybe not. china is a brittle society than many outsiders understand. second of all, by the time you consolida

. >> test for xi in some ways. >> yes you just said it i can't believe he said it xi, he's on the line> he's leader for life. >> he ain't no leader for life listen, when you can't feed your people and you can't get them to work, you're not leader for life >> they're watching far beyond our concerns about the virus itself, both the economic impact and the political impact in china. >> what do you think it means for the people who didn't heed president trump's warning to get the hell out of china? >> i don't know. >> president seems a little vindictive these days. you notice >> the president has said xi loves his country and that the best is yet to come between the u.s. and china >> you know, it's -- he's a great friend of xi >> yes, they spoke last night. >> gave each other a jingle. they're great friends, david when you say they're friends, you say they're great friends. if you say they're great friends, what do we say? they're lifelong friends >> as for the markets, though, we come back to the theory that when the rest of the world looks dodgy in the words of tom lee, global managers

. >> i think president xi is working very hard, i spoke with him recently, he's working really hard.ugh problem, i think he's going to do, look, i've seen him build hospitals in a short period of time, i really believe he wants to get that done and he wants to get it done fast. maria: meanwhile the wall street journal reports that 3 of its reporters have been kicked out of china over an opinion piece questioning china's handling of the virus, joining me right now the author of the coming collapse of china gordon chang, always great to see you. maria: somebody said not sure if they are building hops or they are building prisons, somebody informed on the situation, how is xi jinping handling the situation right now? >> i think he's desperate, you know, obviously what he did for more than a month, december and 3 quarters of january was suppress information. and then all of a sudden he decides o, we have to impose the draconian measures and people in china are now questioning it especially because state media itself said that on january 7th xi jinping presided over meeting, talked about

does xi have a brutal crackdown a la tianamen square?ecause he say wait, i've been going in the wrong direction, do i need to go to the liberalization model which i'm knocking on wood? i don't know. connell: whether hong kong, or this or something we haven't seen yet, it is part of a big, broader conversation. dan, always good seeing you. we'll follow it. thank you, dan. lauren. charles: lauren: 14 americans evacuated from the diamond princess cruise ship tested positive for the coronavirus virus. which are live at travis air force base in california where one of the air force planes landed this morning. claudia, what is the latest at this hour? reporter: that's right, lauren. there is certainly a sense of relief for some 340 americans who are finally now off of that toxic cruise ship but there is also a sense of anxiety amid confirmation by the u.s. state department that 14 of those evacuees tested positive for the coronavirus. we're told it wasn't known that they were infected until after they boarded buses in japan, headed to the airp

chinese president xi jinping has admitted shortcomings to how the country has responded to corona virus china as the at the center of the deadly outbreak and 3 other countries have now imposed tough new restrictions to contain the spread south korea's president has empowered his government to take what he calls unprecedented powerful measures a 6th death has been confirmed there and 602 infection cases when are you going to do we have vividly witnessed how dangerous it is to have mass meetings in an enclosed indoor space in terms of the spread of a contagious disease i urge everyone to restrain themselves from group of events corrective it is not only an indoor places but also outdoor places which can harm others and chinese president xi says the battle is at a crucial state with millions forced to stay at home and factories closed he admits the. kaname and society will take a relatively big hit those are his words now sunday marks a month since china's epicenter was put under heavy lockdown and iran almost half of the schools are closed and at least 8 people have died there with 43 inf

president xi jinping also wanted to deliver another reassuring message today and that was on jobs he said that the government would prevent large scale job losses that's because of course china's economy has been battered by this far as thousands of factories across the country are now standing idle it's a reminder that the world depends on china for so much but so much of what is producing simply isn't leaving the country and this one of the world's largest car producers in japan announced it was shutting production of one of its major plants the problem is the supply chain just last week a south korean car manufacturer said it was having to hold production because it couldn't get the parts it needed from china it's bad now it's going to get much worse thank you for that update there that say adrian brown live from hong kong meanwhile the number of confirmed cases on a cruise ship in japan has almost doubled if they 66 more people were found to have the virus on the quarantined vessel brings the number of cases onboard to 130 more than 3 and a half 1000 people have been stuck on the

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yon in detail what is needed to prepare for president xi's visit. >> arrangements are being made for him to meet with our japanese officials during his visit. >>> now, global shipping firms are calling off some cruise ship ports calls to japan. the tokyo metropolitan government says one-third of the visits scheduled for tokyo's port have been scheduled. officials say shipping companies canceled 13 port calls as of tuesday. 36 visits were planned from march to december. most of the cancellations were at a new terminal aimed at luxury cruise ships. tokyo officials wanted to open it before the summer's olympic and paralympic games kick off. the metropolitan government was expecting about $1.8 million of economic effect for each port visit. >>> moving now to a pressing demographic problem in south korea, officials say the fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman gives birth to, fell to 0.92 last year. the government also says only around 303,000 babies why born in the country. both figures are the lowest since record keeping began in 1970. south korea has the lowest fert

people don't trust xi-jinping.l that tho the regimese more efficient. they seem to spend time censoring the chinese internet. paul: the consequences for the world economy, i think china says it's officially growing at 6%. i doubt it was that i think it was closer to maybe 5, 5 and-a-half. then you get a cup he he'll of ---kim of half ---couple of -- >> it's a big economic and political event for first. their economy has taken a hit, a lot of factories are closed across china, a lot of american manufacturers, apple, starbucks closed all of their stores. paul: 2,000. >> the journal is reporting that freight bottlenecks are beginning to occur because planes are not flying into china. they fly in an enormous amount of electronic goods inside the planes. once the economy restarts, there will be people trying to get products out by ship, by sea and it's going to be very difficult. so yes, there's going to be a real suppressive effect on the chinese economy which is going to have a political effect on xi-jinping. because

how does this play up to president xi jinping himself? this is something that we know actually even involves president trump. president trump was asked essentially to approach things with china in a calm manner, a measured way, president xi trying to get things a little bit under control because china's become essentially isolated in the world. now, president trump has even said on twitter just a few hours ago that president xi is somebody who is strong and essentially capable to handle this. but the reality is, kate, this has gone from a local government issue all the way up to the central government now. initially just the local government seen as covering things up and not doing a good job and the central government came in at first to clean up their mess. but when the central government took command and president xi said he personally is handling the deployment and coordination of all of this, now he's the one who essentially everything stops at. so it puts a lot of pressure on him and he's trying to ease things, domestdomestically, i

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chinese resident xi jinping said over the weekend -- president xi jinping said the coronavirus was at he said the virus control remains at a critical stage. let's bring in a research fellow. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. paul: you have written a scathing critique of how china has handled this crisis. >> i am critical of the way the party state handled the crisis at the outset. i think it is important to note there are not many systems that an outbreakell with of this nature. we see korea and japan have many systems. in china's case, at the beginning in particular, the priority on controlling information, unofficially sanctioned narrative, did prevent many whistleblowers from being able to raise the alarm for weeks if not most a month before we saw national emergency measures put in place. paul: we saw the who praising china and set a new standard for outbreak response. were they misled, or was that a good ascription? -- description? >> the who wants to be able to preserve their access into china and to send officials in at the same time as being able to be real