>> xi's answer? don't try to be too american. >> even though china has emulated america, china is still after all a socialist country. >> whatever economic reforms they engage in, you cannot allow political liberalization to accompany it. >> and he would point to the soviet example as a sign that that's the risk we face. >> and that means the party must be seen as strong, clean, and legitimate. it's ironic because no one has suffered more under communism than xi jinping himself. to understand it, we have to go back to tell the dramatic story of xi's childhood. it begins in the 1960s. the chaos of the cultural revolution. chairman mao wants to reassert his control over the communist party. he accused it of being too liberal. he called for young people to rebel against the elite of their own party. >> basically turned chinese life upside-down. all of the most powerful people found themselves suddenly attacked and criticized, often by some of the least powerful people. and xi jinping was right at the ce

certainly not xi.lking about president xi of china, that is not who is talking about. >> not at all. this is one of the most laughable things i've heard so far in a year of biden presidency. their friends in the media are always going to go to bed for them and this is another example this is what happens in russia and china where the media is controlled by the state, controlled by the powers he and the influence that run the government. so they fought them off again. a five payroll tax cut in the build back better bill for the media. this is absurd, nobody's buying it, everybody's laughing at claims like this. everyone knows it is not true. >> laura: congressman banks, we really appreciate seeing you. a transgender swimmer at the university of pennsylvania has just smashed another record. how long will we continue to allow this joke to continue. the founder of save women's sports reacts. and right on cue matt walsh book exposes the transgender indoctrination of our kids and what is now the number four

when putin gave xi the neck less,, xi went home and made one for putin. the axis has shifted from an axis of convenience to an axis of collusion. the leaders have done everything they can do from the top down. they have a separate internet they used to propagandize their views, control opposition. they have the right to punish and kill their own citizens. they have a common threat against the united states and areas where their interests intersect, and of course they do the joint military exercises, which have a lot of people nervous. even the top-down has limitations. neither side has altered policy in areas where they differ. recently china came out the nord stream 2 pipeline being implemented in europe. russia came out in favor -- none of that cost anything to either of them. joint military activity seems to be as much for psychological impact as for real cooperation. it is dangerous to dismiss it. both are highly capable. it is also dangerous to exaggerate. they have different emphases. the chinese do not want to antagonize europe but there happy to d

xi tells them when to jump and how high.se companies doing business over there, xi controls them completely, it is all about money, can't take it with you. >> great to see. speaking of china, one of the great atrocities, the latest variant of the virus appears to be week begging the question should we let the strain overtake the delta variant? since none of the control freaks in charge actually won the pandemic to end they are refusing to consider it. >> you are talking about something really dangerous, you're talking about let a lot of people get infected to see if you can protect them, something almost all infectious disease people with any knowledge of infectious disease would not say that is a good idea. >> something that spreads fast, not a mutation -- another mutation may come. of 19 shocking the pfizer ceo doesn't want to put the end, jointly is the school of medicine professor and epidemiologist. what do you make of this? yes, it is a week variant but no, we don't want it to spread. >> of the week variant and wrong a

he compared xi to a magician conjuring chairman mao's spirit. >> badiucao: xi jinping has tried to portrayself as another mao zedong, another red sun of china. he wants to achieve what mao has achieved. he wants to be celebrated as this godlike figure, like mao enjoyed in his time. >> wertheim: it was by accident that badiucao became a leading critic of the chinese communist party. in 2007, he was a law student in his hometown of shanghai, watching a film online, when the movie abruptly switched to footage someone had secretly embedded depicting the 1989 student protests in tiananmen square. ( protests ) >> badiucao: and that is actually the very first time i know this exists. >> wertheim: so, wait-- so you're in law school? you're in your 20s. >> badiucao: i am. >> wertheim: and the first time you're hearing about the tiananmen square massacre-- this worldwide news-- and the first time you're hearing about it is when randomly it's in a documentary you happen to see? >> badiucao: yeah. thanks to some, you know, clever dissident who made this happen. >> wertheim: your parents hadn't told yo

. >> pottinger: i've always believed that the best interpreter of xi jinping is xi jinping himself. >? >> pottinger: what he said, in one of his most important speeches, he said, "we will see to it in this long struggle that capitalism dies out in the world," and that his vision of socialism prevails. >> keyu jin: china grew really lawlessly, chaotically, in the last 40 years. and that's all about to change. >> stahl: economist keyu jin splits her time between the u.k., where she teaches at the london school of economics, and beijing, where her father is president of one of china's largest state-owned banks. is xi jinping killing off capitalism in china? >> jin: president xi envisions what he calls a "modern, socialist economy" for china, a much more restricted capitalism. president xi is with the people. he is with the peasants, the middle class. and unlike his predecessors, he doesn't really care so much about what happens to elites. >> stahl: his attitude towards elites became clear about a year ago when he humbled jack ma, china's most famous billionaire. founder of alibaba, the c

these, the first olympics to be held under president xi. 2022, setting the stage for xi to rule for an term and likely beyond. >>> and one of china's most popular influencers have been busted for tax evasion and hit with a $210 million fine. the largest ever penalty imposed on a live stream according to choi these state media. the live streaming queen was also kicked off social media. before her account was taken down, wong posted she was deeply guilty, evading more than $100 million in taxes by falsely reporting her commission income. he helped hawk goods worth billions of yuan, and it's not clear if or when she will be back online. >>> still ahead, another potential blow for the beijing winter olympics. why many of the world's premiere hockey players may skip the february james. and how jennifer king continues to break down barriers in the coaching world. back in a moment. ho ho ho! not again. oh no. for the gifts you won't forget. the mercedes-benz winter event. get a credit toward your first month's payment on select models. ...so at at&t everyone gets our best deals. aren't others

stage for xi to rule for an unprecedented third term and likely beyond.d. thank you so much for that. and thank you for watching the past two hours. i'm kate bolduan. thank you for watching. ana cabrera continues after this. daring, or thoughtful. sensitive, or strong. progress isn't either or progress is everything. >>> hello, i'm ana cabrera in new york. we begin with breaking pandemic news, the fda last hour granting emergency information for pfizer's antiviral pill to treat covid-19. this is big, because this is the first pill of its kind that people can now take at home to treat covid-19 before they get sick enough to need hospital care. a gift, a potential game changer as the omicron variant

maria: -- to xi jinping. why do you think that is? >> because he's afraid of them.llions of dollars to his son -- more more so they have something on him. >> of course they do. they gave billions of dollars. i ask friends of yours, the biggest people there are in terms of wall street, can you go into china and walk away with a billion and a half dollars? these are people that you interview once a month, okay? the real, the real people on wall street, the smartest guys, the guys with the big companies that run the big companies, wall street firms. they said nobody does that. nobody. most sophisticated guy on wall street can't walk in and walk out in ten minutes with $1.5 billion. walked out -- and tens of millions of dollars. maria: why do you think our adversaries are doing all of this now? you've got a buildup of troops at the ukraine border -- >> none of this happened with me. you didn't have bombers flying over taiwan -- maria: why are they doing it now? >> you didn't is i have any threat of anything meaningfulness in ukraine. now, before that they took over a se

>> well, it's an interesting situation because xi jinping the chinese ruler would face extreme risk in an invasion of taiwan. if it goes badly, if taiwan doesn't fold rapidly, that could spend the end of xi's power rather abruptly. i have question for you. there's some report out that the chinese are working on machine brain technology out of research institutes, hopefully this is not an institute that received a grant from anthony fauci. but the british tabloid press has sort of shortened this to mind control technology. i'm curious what you make of the it apparently it was echoed by a u.s. official from the commerce

speaking of president xi, let me go back in time for everyone for aas second. let's talk about what president trump did. the very first meeting we had with president xi -- do you remember? it was in april of 2017. but at that very same meeting during dinner, president trump excused himself because there was a skiff, a littlee situation room and if you look it up you will see that was the same night that we ordered the air strike in syria during the meeting with president xi and mar-a-lago. if you want to compare the two, you are ordering an air strike on syria. you are going back up for dessert and coffee and you are holding press conference on what you just did to syria after they dropped chemical weapons. >> sean: by the way, i think i have and add to that story. i was told by a source -- i was told by a source after the event had happened that the president whispered to president xi, i just dashed by the way, just to make you aware, i just started bombing. and that was it. i just told him straight up. that had to be a pretty strong moment. president xi i'm s

president xi is laughing as well at the cognitive mess that is joe biden. which brings us now to the third international crisis. iran is dangerously close to developing a nuclear weapon. surprise, surprise, their polite negotiations have fallen apart. now the administration is asking china and russia, america's two biggest foes to help out, pressure iran with us. he begs opec, china, and russia, okay, that would be the trifecta of joe biden foreign policy failure. and of course, the other option now been waived by joe biden, just accept the nuclear capable iran. nuclear weapons in the hands of the number one state sponsor of terror that had this sick twisted ideology of convert or die. here is an idea, maybe you can send, i do know, sent hunter. hunter biden, you can send him to china and russia and sort everything out. after all, he has been very successful racking and massive sums of cash without any relevant experience that we can find it all. of course, hunter was selling access to his father. we know that. meanwhile we have no idea who is shelling out

i think thanks to xi jinping pressure, xi jinping may grow to regret amount of threats and bomber and flights around taiwan the last year. if there is a very forceful u.s. response. where our military said we have to be on the island, do exercises with them. and that is considered a nuclear deployment there. it would be embarrassing, a huge setback are in xi jinping, his hawkish aggressive behavior results in a major push back from u.s. and allies, i would advise xi jinpingen to push the americans too far. mark: i want to ask you, is the biden administration forcing the tough trade deals that president trump put in place again china? >> no, they are not. the good news is president biden's replacement for bob lighthizer, shes had said in a press conference, long awaited pris conference this biden administration accepts the entire trump administration approach. the phase one. trade deal document is 95 pages long. it has enforcement mechanisms it was a huge success by president trump. but the biden team also pointed out that china is not meeting the quotas they promised. the way they did

xi jinping and vladimir putin reinforced at that point in a virtual summit on wednesday.pledged to cooperate on trade and security and to respect each other's interests. >> a virtual summit and show of solidarity, the president of china and russia spoke for more than an hour on wednesday, hailing their close ties. >> the world has entered unprecedented changes with the pandemic in the last century. china-russia relations have withstood the test. >> historical traditions of a mutual understanding have allowed us to take our relations to the next novel. reporter: trade between china and russia exceeded $115 billion this year, a new high. the leaders pledged to increase cooperation on energy. beijing already relies on moscow for much of its minerals and natural gas. plans are underway for nuclear power stations. they are coordinating on efforts to further space exploration and scientific innovation. chinese analysts say the relationship is stronger than it has ever been. >> the two countries support each other in their core interests. when it comes to china's core interests,

both putin and xi critical of the united states.nk you very much for being here. what do you expect out of the summit between putin and xi jinping? >> first of all, this is a nightmare scenario to see the countries continuing to collaborate more and more especially in the military domain and as you mentioned both countries opposed president biden's democracy summit. in fact, the chinese ambassador and the russian ambassador co-authored a piece together opposing the democracy summit. so china is the bigger brother in this relationship. russia is the younger brother always trying to collaborate more with china, china plays it cool. so any time that you see these two in the room having conversations, it's concerning and, again, in the context of their continued military cooperation, so who knows what's going to come out of it but the fact that they're demonstrating this increase in closeness, it's something that the united states has to keep an eye on. of course, it's hard enough dealing just with china, just with russia but the two of

i think there is a real concern about xi jinping moving from authoritarianism to totalitarianism. a lot of concern about human rights, understandably so, and even though the summit you saw between president biden and president she -- president xi a floor under things, they want to make sure we have guardrails and are talking about the most important issues and that things are going to get better and we will go back to business as usual. i think that's highly unlikely. emily: we saw the u.s. government say they won't send any official representation to the u.s. olympics and also the controversy around the tennis star who accused a communist party official of sexual assault, who has disappeared. the women's tennis association based in the united states has suspended all games in china. where is this going? anja: on the human rights front, i'm quite worried. the crackdown continues. it is kind of an amazing story because it was so public and so international, but people disappear in china with regular frequency. we don't hear about it. one of the senior editors of one of the big chin

president xi has gone after the most powerful and profitable businesses.nt the chinese etf internet down 45%. he is cracking down on teens, young adults, how often they can play videogames. he declared they won't be quote, lying flat. i'm reading where they're pushing back. what is going on there? >> well, charles, first, thanks for having me. i think when we look, when i look at china, i look at it through the lens of one year forward. the most important date when we're analyzing china is october 2022 when president xi is up for his unprecedented third term which he is likely to be reappointed too and i think a lot of the regulatory actions that we're seeing today are in the lead-up to that. the one that you're specifically pointing to i think is the idea of common prosperity or wealth redistribution where the chinese authorities are trying to regain control of the economy and regain their power via the economy and try the next -- we know another round of stimulus is coming in china in 2022 leading up to the appoint men of xi. in the past we had these sti

and finally, i think xi jinping understandably, he's got this new push about common prosperity.ied that some of the internet billionaires have earned too much money and it's affecting the chinese system so you suddenly see chinese tech companies giving billions to charity. i think those are the three reasons you're seeing the decoupling. emily: does it all, then, super charge this race to decoupling and what does it mean for u.s.-china relations after that? are we in the middle of a giant cold war, to use a very dramatic term? anja: i'm not sure i would call it a cold war but it is quite serious and i'm always struck by the difference between how american business people see china which i think is still cautiously optimistic and what my friends in the biden administration and those focused on national security see and they see a much darker picture, emily. i think there is a real concern about xi jinping moving from authoritarianism to totalitarianism. there's a lot of concern about human rights -- understandably so. and even though the summit you saw between president biden and

eric: russian president vladimir putin and chinese president xi jinping take a closer look at growinged global orbit. ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, now introducing ensure complete! with 30 grams of protein. eric: among heightened tension with the united states russian president the lamb hooton, mister xi accusing the west of interfering in internal affairs of china and russia calling on beijing and moscow to safeguard security interests, inhaling a new model of cooperation, traveling to beijing earlier next year to meet with his chinese counterpart and attend the opening ceremony. let's bring in cliff may. this new entente, is the symbolism or are we talking about a new stage of cooperation? >> a new stage of cooperation, a flourishing relationship. what do they happen, and most important of all they want to diminish the united states, they both want to end what has been the american lead liberal rules-based international order and replace it with an ill liberal internationa

xi jinping has promised one billion doses of the covid-19 chinese made vaccine to the continent.iously, a welcome donation, but it comes in the context of the world health organization promising covax, that africa would be looked after, yet western countries did nothing, did very little. we have reported for 18 months they have done something but not enough for mutations to appear. china, again, helping out as much as it can. where do you stand on this? do you see this as a medical bribery of any waste, shape, or form? >> it is an extension of geopolitics. tthe russian alliance and the transatlantic alliance. i think there was a little bit from the united states to blame china as a source of covid-19. it has worked sit -- worked its way into the hearts and minds of the developing world. this means to pay attention to the soft power aspects of china. he has done excellently, despite the propaganda shared in the human rights violations. it will go a very long way, the west has largely not been as grateful and especially europe. the united states has been trying, but first, it is gr

>> it was an honor to meet with president xi, incredibly progressive.or some kind of forceful invasion of some kind. they are having to scramble their air force every day to respond to chinese incursions into the air space. the chinese are doing that on purpose to try to wear out the air force. they're doing other aggressive actions to try to wear down the people of taiwan. when i was there, i found their resolve to be very strong. they want the united states' help in keeping that status quo in place. >> for folks at home who don't know this is a thriving democracy, a thriving economy, it also happens to make a good 85% of the semiconductors in everything we carry around in our pockets. do you believe the u.s. is doing enough both economically, but in terms of armed sales and other military support, to deter a chinese invasion? >> you used the right word. we have to deter them. we don't want to have this conflict. but folks in taiwan are preparing themselves to defend themselves and we certainly have our military in place in the pacific region to respon

maybe general secretary xi is worried about just that.eing too capitalistic, being too many people successful without the help of the government. so if anyone thinks that general secretary xi would not dare sacrifice economic growth in the pursuit of power, think again. emerging market funds, with a lot of exposure in china, ought to think about rebalancing. pension funds that are overexposed to the chinese market are risking wiping out the retirement savings of american workers, just like we've seen so far $1 trillion less value in chinese stocks because of his, general secretary xi's policies. my advice then to american business is that coal mine is is not a safe bet. surely not the safe bet that many american businessmen thought it was. so a little bit of advice -- anyone investing in china ought to go in with open eyes and a big tolerance for risk as long as general secretary xi goes down this line of accumulating political power and not caring about destroying what private sector is left there. i yield the floor and suggest the absen

the house and in the senate democrats and republicans have very serious concerns about what president xi is doing to the weeingars. the next day he called me and said i talked to the president and he said the uighurs like being in those camps. that's what the president said. that's what autocrats say. we have a bill in the house. it's the mcgovern bill. a stronger bill than the -- it's a bill that we could have freestanding or bill in the act that is part of the foreign affairs committee. mr. meeks -- gregory meeks' bill, kendrick, we are all very sad about losing carrie meek this week, i referenced her son. chairman meeks' bill and the house.

yesterday, xi jinping has been more cheerful. he has a different ideology, and antidemocratic ideology. it is a more successful system than the russian system has to offer now. but, they are united in their response to the liberal democratic world and yesterday was a deep powerful response to say, yes, we understand that this is an ideological competition and we are ideologically aligned in this competition. david: a brief follow-up, michael. do you think we are making them nervous by stressing democracy? michael: they would be nervous whether you stress it or not. that is a great question. i am writing a book now about lessons from the cold war for how to deal with china and russia. i think there is a really important lesson. david, you and i could sit here at stanford in the faculty lounge and say, it would be better if we were just more realpolitik about what we will do abroad and not talk about democracy and just forget about it. i want to be clear that we need to manage this ideological contest and -- in ways we did not mana

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but i watch biden sitting with xi .ne look like biden really knew that was going on, he made a terrible mistake. you know the mistake i'm talking about. i don't like saying it. but what he said, was so bad, he was sitting with xi, you have someone at top of his game and someone to was never really at the top of the game. certainly is not at top of his game, and our country is in trouble. ♪i want to break free♪ (vo) ready to break free? let's get away to a place where we can finally be free. ♪i've got to break free♪ (vo) plan your getaway with norwegian. sail safe, feel free. [ sneeze ] are you ok? oh, it's just a cold. if you have high blood pressure, a cold is not just a cold. unlike other cold medicines, coricidin provides powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure be there for life's best moments with coricidin. now in sugar free liquid. >> welcome to fox news live, i am jon scott, new restrictions for foreign travelers entering will u.s. kick in tomorrow, requiring international visitor to show proof t

. >> imagined the, bret, you had a deal between president xi and putin each would move on taiwan and ukraine simultaneously and what with the u.s. military do? to follow up what chris said, i think with the u.s. is trying to do and you heard general mark milley today tried to use mark milley as the one to say don't underestimate us, because we pull out of afghanistan, don't think we will use all options on the table. what they haven't done then what they need to do is that they need to move into what's known as the nuclear option in terms of sanctions. take them out of the swiss banking system, cut them off from financing in the secondary market. of sanction the oligarchs, putin's cronies. the question is with the message delivered by antony blinken? >> bret: you mention are run briefly, seems like the talks are falling apart and a lot of people wasn't going to happen to begin with but the administration one of the talks again but iran is not bending. >> part of the problem is the situation has changed so dramatically since donald trump pulled out of the iran agreement. arounds up to

but i watch biden sitting with xi .done look like biden really knew that was going on, he made a terrible mistake. you know the mistake i'm talking about. i don't like saying it. but what he said, was so bad, he was sitting with xi, you have someone at top of his game and someone to was never really at the top of the game. certainly is not at top of his game, and our country is in trouble. this is the greatest idea you'll ever hear. okay, it's an app that compares hundreds of travel sites for hotels and cars and vacation rentals like kayak does for flights. so it's kayak. yeah, like kayak. why don't you just call it kayak. i'm calling it... canoe. compare hundreds of travel sites for thousands of trips. kayak. search one and done. >> web to fox news live. restrictions for foreign travelers entering the u.s. kick in tomorrow. they are enforced as omicron variant spreads to a third of the nation, health officials say that omicron may not be as dangerous at delta strain, dr. anthony fauci said that biden administration mig

putin is standing in support of xi jinping.at he's looking forward to being at the games and meeting with xi jinping face to face. >> all right. important meeting with the u.s. at the top of the agenda. thank you so much, selina. nice to see you. >>> well, the antarctica so-called doomsday glacier could be in critical danger. the glacier is about the size of florida. it's huge. it's dumping roughly 50 billion tons of ice into the ocean when it melts each year. now, scientists say recent satellite images show warming ocean currents could shatter a critical ice shelf that holds this glacier together. within the next five years, the result, sea levels rising by several feet, triggering irreversible climate changes. that's comforting. >>> all right, on sunday some children with autism are finding hope in an unexpected source, cannabis. but for hope comes at a great risk for their parents. join dr. sanjay gupta for a new cnn special report, "weed 6 marijuana and autism." 8:00 p.m. sunday only on cnn. and there isn't one definition o

xi jinping has not left the country in two years.omic initiative to joe biden in the pandemic and the way in which china has responded to the pandemic by virtually closing its border and having one of the strictest quarantine systems in the world has severed a lot of people exchanges. fewer people are traveling to china. fewer students are attracted to china and that is having a negative result for china's cultural influence in the world and region. it suggested for china and the political system that still spends more effort and more money on power than it does on its expenditure. kathleen: i would like to get a couple other points in here so i want to get quicker answers and questions. you are talking about asia's deepening security dilemmas presenting a significant risk and you say partners are enhancing their collective initiatives. the u.s. military is concerned about china's growing military power. we know the u.s. has backed away from any trade agreement that could have brought geopolitical forces together. in a nutshell, what

no wonder they want to tiptoe around xi jinping. they're all being paid by xi jinping. >> yes. united states. in other words, to help china destroy our society. so until we can figure out how to deal with beijing, we cannot be trading. we cannot be investing. we cannot have these technical cooperation agreements because we can't have people in our government on wall street, in corporate boards, who are promoting chinese totalitarianism over of american freedom and that is exactly what's happening, maria. maria: and the ccp made it very clear that taiwan is part of china. look what the nfl did. the nfl is raising eyebrows because they showed a map as part of a new announcement that labels taiwan as being part of mainland china. it comes as the white house is under fire for reportedly censoring taiwan during the recent summit for democracy, gordon. so here you have all of these institutions including the nfl rolling over for the ccp, even though taiwan continues to say it's independent and does not want to be acquired by china. >> yes. and the official american position on taiwan

it's gotten worse under president xi. we have all worked together on that in a bipartisan way, house and senate, over the years. so we will have the strongest possible uighur bill. many. reporter: one of the things that senator rubio has said is that the reason why the house is not -- has not voted on that uighur forced labor prevention act is because john kerry has lobbied you and others not to act on it so it doesn't complicate his economy mat change negotiation was china s that true? ms. pelosi: no. it is not true. if you want to repeat the charges of the republicans, that's up to you. but that is completely not true. as i said, for over 30 years i have been considered the most disliked, they use stronger language that that, person in china. because of my assault on their human rights violations. that's absolutely positively not true. you asked the question. so they won their case. reporter: once again we are at a deadline for funding the government. there is a deadline to raise the debt ceiling. what kind of a message

know, they had these talks a couple of weeks ago, a virtual summit between joe biden and president xito ease tensions and the fact that the talks lasted for more than three hours was seen as a good sign, but i don't think that anyone believes there is any real thaw between washington and beijing happening right now, there are still huge different is over human rights, both in hong kong and with the uyghur muslims, they raised issues, tensions in the south china sea as well as the taiwan strait, and indeed after those talks president xi warned that any encouragement of independence, taiwan's independence, would be playing with fire. i see us relations with china kind of evolving. in the spring, you had two senior biden officials describe their approach to china as moving from one of engagement into one of competition, they seem to be moving back towards engagement i think to put up what the national security adviser jake sullivan calls guard rails to make sure that there's no miscommunication that would cause any, you know, unnecessary conflict. so, they seem to be trying to engage mor

managing it during the beijing winter olympics is seen as top priority, especially around president xi jingping president xi is expected to be in a tightly controlled bubble and the interaction with foreign guests also going to be very tightly controlled so even though the u.s. deciding that they're not going to send diplomats here is seen as a snub, at least symbolically, it's also seen as a potential relief for china though, frank, there is obviously some sensitivity about the way it's portrayed domestically in fact, the term winter olympics boycott has been completely blocked on the chinese internet. >> one thing, i think olympics have some political aspect to them historically, i don't think the u.s. is totally out of bounds, i don't think most people would think the u.s. is out of bounds by injecting some politics into it word is this morning that other countries this morning are at least considering boycotts >> reporter: there are some rumblings from the uk as well as germany they could also decide to boycott or just not send some ministers. the new zealanders are also not going

. >>> now the leaders of russia and china, vladimir putin and xi jinping are meeting on a video call before holding talks. they say the two will be discussing, quote, aggressive u.s. and nato rhetoric. mr. putin spoke tuesday with french president emanuel macron about guarantees on nato expansion in the east. this followed biden's meeting with zelensky. and russia's buildup along the border. fred pleitgen is in berlin with the talks we were telling you about. cyril vanier is in france. fred, let me start with you. xi jinping, vladimir putin meeting virtually, and i believe this is their second meeting which really just shows, fred, this solidarity between beijing and moscow. what has come out of this meeting so far? >> reporter: the solidarity between beijing and moscow and certainly also the personal relationships between vladimir putin and xi jinping, both of them are saying that they are not only obviously colleagues, but they also consider each other to be friends. they consider themselves to be friends, and it's something vladimir putin has said in the past. so, certainly you ca

maria: and yet joe biden had four calls with xi jinping this year. not once did joe biden raise the issue of the origins of can covid-19. we all know what has taken place here, that this virus that has killed 700,000 people in america, millions more across the world, originated in wuhan, china. we don't know the details, if it was intentional or wasn't intentional. you've got companies like apple doing a $275 billion deal with the ccp where apple promises the ccp it's going to train its people to make iphones just so that apple can get a good deal and can get a regulatory framework. ray dalio comparing what happened in china where they disappeared jack ma, disappeared this tennis star, and he says, oh, that's like a strict parent. >> yes. this isn't like a strict parent, this is like communist leaders we know whether that's stalin or mao, we know these kinds of dictators and what they mean for freedom around the world and american prosperity, and we have to confront it. our business leaders can't engage in this kind of moral relativism. this is a gov

president biden met virtually with president xi jinping, united states security for the end of pacific office and you adopt the end of pacific strategy. it is my pleasure today to welcome the two chairs of the second u.s. dialogue and china in washington d.c. wendy sherman is the u.s. deputy terry of state, her state department includes serving secretary of state of paris from 2011 -- 2015. she was director of the senate republican leadership and senior fellow at the harvard center for science and international affairs. secretary-general of the european external service prior to this position is the extent of career diplomatic services and european commission from 2013 -- 16 serving as representative to european unit. february to december 2020 as a secretary assistant for economic global affairs. today they are with each other in person, i am sorry i can't be with you. i joined virtually but they will follow that by a moderated discussion. we are very much on the record today so please send your questions via e-mail. on twitter, # u.s. europe. at this time we have about 20, 25, but the

now we have xi jinping in particular and nixon recognized china but now are on the opposite poll of what we are doing now. i'm just wondering and i know i have already sina question here on the dollar itself. this is a footnote jeffrey as you know dollar bond issuance in dollar yield has gone up to radically in the last two years. it somehow seems to increase. well over 75% of commercial transactions in the world are denominations now but is there an alternative and i wonder what your thoughts are there. baskets of currency is quick how do you view this of the backdrop in which we set in place after this meeting in 1971? >> great question but i left something out which i think we should just interject. when you asked me about the similarities and the differences i should have talked about inflation because in 1971 inflation was rising and the inflation stems in good part from the vietnam war and president johnson -- and so when nixon became the president inflation was beginning to be a real problem. and nixon held a very strong view that in the trade-off between inflation and employment