so xi jinping had something to to to go with. oh, for i mean, it has very popular among the people right up to this day. and in fact, even though the elite, the political elite, the intellectual elite, private business people, xi jinping is popular with them by any means but with lao, by sheng or the masses in china, they've he was just fine because he was cleaning up corruption and also his nationalist foreign appealed to them because they thought, yes, it's for china to stand up in the world. so i think we should maybe you are back to the beginning. and when you first went to china, i have to tell everybody that susan beat richard nixon to china. that's really quite a feat. us when you went and why it was that the prime minister then jo ann lin you met said well i wish susan shirk was president. the united states. well, that was a pretty exciting for someone 22 years old. i was a graduate student doing my dissertation research in hong kong because. of course, no americans could go to china. so in order to study what was happeni

>> host: on president xi. >> guest: very very interesting question.nk many people held same observation about him, that a he was being all-powerful. but i think the recent protests against covid lockdowns in china kind of changed that by a lot. it wasn'tec obvious to many observers w that beijing would abandon the zero covid lockdown policy basically overnight if after we had seen protests in special major cities in china. and i think now the chinese authorities are in a tough position, because if you look at what the chinese media are saying to the people, it's kind of hilarious because now they're saying that, you know, the lockdown was correct, but we kind of lifted it overnight, that was correct too. communist party's always correct. but it's not really defending the authority or legitimacy of xi jinping domestically, because people havein seen the protests where they chanted down with xi jinping, yelling that actually the worked. [laughter] at least giving them what they wanted, which is a lifting of lockdown. so i think the fact that the people

marcos told xi he wants to open a new chapter in regards to bilateral ties. the country signed 14 cooperation documents including one promoteling the bellton road initiative significant economic project for china. they agreed to create a new communication channel. >>> earlier, my colleague yamamoto miki talked with the bureau chief about what came out of the meeting. >> let's delve into the joint research development announcement. >> yes. >> why did marcos agree to resume negotiations, despite unresolved issues in the south china sea? >> securing energy sources is a pressing issue for the philippines. it owns only one gas deal in those waters. that generates about a quarter of the electricity in luzon island where more than half of the population lives. the gas supply is expected to run out in a few years, forcing the country to find new sources. that's on top of another major struggle for marcos' administration, surging energy costs due to russian invasion of ukraine. >> right. and joint development on oil and gas between manila and beijing is not a new idea

and it seems have found its mark with xi jinping. but would be a mistake to assume that if she fades from the scene you know you get different personalities in play. we don't think that that would radically alter china's long term trajectory as well as its policies. and in the tension between china and the us, which you see right now and some of it is generated by the us. right. there's been a hardening of u.s. attitudes. china. what would you make the same claim that this is really about something about, you know what, the u.s. interest is that leads to a more aggressive stance. could it be tied to personalities whether it be that of trump or somebody? so i think trump obviously helped blow the lid off of the policy of american engagement of china and really radically shifted a harder containment policy. but i think momentum towards that outcome had been building for years, even in the half of the obama administration, they had become exasperated by what felt was just a non cooperator actor and a lot of this just makes sense sort of

he is more from xi jinping -- here is more from xi jinping. >> with extraordinary effort, china has prevailedver and presented it challenges. it has not been an easy path. we have not entered a new piece of covid responds were tough to linda's remain. -- where tough challenges remain. yvonne: it has been weeks of silence from the president after they make this big event when it comes to covid zero. walk us through one of those key takeaways from his address, john. john: it's important that the president is alleging how difficult this experience has been for many here in china. also important that he acknowledge the difference in opinion. he did not address the protests, but he acknowledged some people thought the country should do or handle covid differently, but ultimately, the president saying, we will achieve victory in this process, trying to drum up support for the way that china is exiting covid, saying that with the country is doing is scientific and appropriate. so trying to accomplish two things -- acknowledging the pain, but also trying to instill confidence in the country getting t

to do just that, president xi jinping appears to be reverting to an old playbook he had tried to getwhat does this mean for china's future and for the world? joining me now is lingling wei, the chief china correspondent for "the wall street journal." welcome. first, i've got to ask you, because you reported so well on this, what is your sense of why xi jinping so abruptly and dramatically ended the zero covid policy. because it happened just so much faster and so much more completely than anyone expected. >> sure, it's great to be here, fareed. that's a great question. the very abrupt and unprepared u-turn on a policy that had been in effect for three years was largely because the mere fact that it no longer worked. the virus infections were getting out of control. and on top of that, we have seen over the past months a very unprecedented way of protests breaking out all over china and urgent pleas from local governments basically telling xi jinping that, you know, local governments are running out of money, because all the requirements imposed on activities, et cetera. so all those

xi chen: thank you for having me.is surprising even to researchers for such a turn in zero covid. the whole society is underprepared, both physically and mentally. so now we see the two faces of china. one part of china you can see people celebrating the new year. and embracing the fresh air. on the other hand ec many people struggling. china definitely had more time to prepare. they were in this golden time to prepare but unfortunately, much of the preparation was much delayed. this zero covid policy itself may not be a huge issue but the adaptation, the lack of adaptation to the new variance is a key issue. david: what do you make of the path right now, ripping the band-aid off? there is not a perfect solution, but was that the idea or more optimal strategy as it exited that strategy? xi chen: i agree. there are too many unknowns. as you were mentioning, many variants of omicron coming up, 150 so far. we don't know how bad it can be and how transmissible it could be. and the new variant suggests that the flu season

a weakness has been exposed in the armor of chinese president xi jinping, said rudd.all out for china's political leadership. >> the bottom line, in terms of xi jinping, it is as follows. he is numeros numero uno, duo, y in the chinese political system. if you want any evidence of that, you look at the 20th party congress, where anyone who did not come from his group within the party was given an exit pass. instead, we've had four people elevated to the politburo who are virtually lifelong career supporters of xi jinping. his authority is great. however, this policy u-turn on zero covid, which was executed on december 7, will raise a whole series of questions in chinese political circles about the fallibility of xi jinping's political judgments. here -- therefore, that does create a dent in the armor for the long-term. >> i look at this, kevin rudd, turning into a pumpkin in march, part of the issue. we have an allied response in europe. we have an understanding of how to respond to cutin -- putin. i don't see a response against china. doesn't exist? -- does it exist?

zhou flew to davos, where he met with his friend chinese president xi jinping this time. they did not visit st. gregory himalayan. biden once boasted, joe even flew to ukraine where he met with the president of ukraine what our big uncle was doing in ukraine a week before trump's inauguration all the time joe was too busy working on his escape routes to his aides. all night hard. his things were packed, so it is not surprising that joe once opened his garage and saw there an intelligence briefing on iran, ukraine, great britain, which lay right under the bottom of his corvette. joe is not particularly i thought there is no safer place than his corvette, he is securely protected by a garage door, but no one seems to know. how these documents got there joe does not know his employees do not know, but joe's irresponsible attitude towards documents is not the biggest trouble. in this case. traces of hunter biden are everywhere. he told everyone that the house where john kept his secrets was his, he also said that he was paying $50,000 a month in rent. why does a fifty-year-ol

and for xi jinping himself, he's _ possible. and for xi jinping himself, he's put _ possible.ible. and for xi jinping | himself, he's put himself in possible. and for xi jinping - himself, he's put himself in this position where he is the de facto leader, just in such a strong, powerful position when it comes to china. but is there a potential that if the cases increase, with the deaths increase, he could be in a precarious position, or is thatjust given that a he will rule for the rest of his generation? i given that a he will rule for the rest of his generation?- rest of his generation? i think realistically _ rest of his generation? i think realistically he _ rest of his generation? i think realistically he is _ rest of his generation? i think realistically he is pretty - rest of his generation? i think realistically he is pretty safe. | realistically he is pretty safe. first of all at the party congress a few weeks ago in october he managed to replace pretty much all of the other top leaders, the top seven in the leadership, including himself, with people who he has pretty

xi jinping said this. regarding relations with russia. this is on friday. this is xi jinping quote.face of the difficult and far from unambiguous international decision we are ready to build up strategic cooperation with russia, provide each other with development opportunities and be global partners for the benefit of the peoples of our countries and in the interest of stability throughout this world. these two countries have grown much closer together in recent years. really since president biden became the president of the united states. how concerned should we all be about this? >> we just saw some great football last night. xi jinping and vladimir putin remind me of two guys on a team that was a big favor to win. they are in the huddle and they are looking at each other saying what went wrong? it's your fault. no, it's your fault. vladimir putin is trying to figure out how to save his reputation and life. xi jinping has been greeted finally with protests from his own people. it is not happened before. he really does not know how to react to it. he has taken back some of his cov

that seems to have found its mark with xi jinping. it's a mistake to assume that if she fades from the scene, you get different personalities at play. we don't think that would radically alter china's long term trajectory, as well as its policies. >> and the tension between china and the u.s., what do you see right now? >> some of it is generated by the u.s.. you have these u.s. attitudes towards china. is this really all about what the u.s. interest is? does it lead to a more aggressive stance, or is it time to personalities? whether it's about trump, or somebody else. >> i think trump obviously helped blow the lid off of the policy of american engagement with china, and really radically shifted towards a harder containment policy. but i think momentum towards that outcome had been building for years, even in the second half of the obama administration. they became exasperated by the noncooperation. and geopolitics 101, a very powerful country is going to look to the rise of a potential peer competitor. i think the america and china

i guess xi couldn't make it to the foothills of the himalayas. joe even flew out to ukraine to meet the ukrainian president. what was the big guy doing in ukraine the week before trump's inauguration while hunter was raking in 80 grand a month from working there? that's the million dollars question. so, since joe was too busy planning his get away, he had his aides scrambling late night to get him all packed up and out of there. so no wonder joe was surprised when he opened up the garage one day and saw intel briefings on ukraine, iran, great britain, lodged right beneath the corvette. joe didn't think twice. there's no place safer than his corvette. it's protected by a garage door. but no one seems to know how they got there joe stunt dise. the staffers don't know. does the binder know. >> i will refer to you the department of justice he would refer to you the department of justice jess jet the binder only referred us to the department of justice 20 other times. we took the binder's suggestion and emailed the department of justice for some answe

the passionate pursuer here is putin of xi.onship with russia and putin. china is a great country. putin and russia are declining power and xi would do best to break as far as he can from russia. if you read the transcript of that recent phone call between the two of them, it's clear that putin words about the relationship are a lot stronger than were positive than xi's. there's a good reason for that. >> edward: so in the last 30 second or so, why do you think then that the sanctions don't seem to be having an effect or at least not getting the russians to back off? >> i think that -- yeah, i think the sanctions are having an effect, although the russians are able to end end some of them are -- in regard to their oil sales because they are selling more to china and to india. but the real reason here is what started this war. putin's dream of recreating the russian empire. it was no need to invade ukraine. it's one of those cases where he clearly has shown how weak the russian military is. they can't win on the ground, so they'

putin in russia, president xi in the prc. there is a lot of speculation about, well, they are going to wait until 2027, they are not ready yet, attention paid to the wargames with the taiwan invasion scenario. i don't think the taiwanese are ready. we are trying to help them. taiwan is also not ukraine. it is not land bound. it is an island that is vulnerable to invasion from the sea. china continues to be more belligerent, threatening freedom of navigation in the south china sea and elsewhere. i think we are seeing all the signs that president xi is serious. i think the only thing that will stop him is if he judges the cost to be higher than the value of unifying with taiwan. that ought to get everyone's attention. hal: it is a good point to make in the sense that the strategy that the united states and other western countries have used to support ukraine probably will not work in taiwan. if you wait for the fighting to start and then flood the place with weapons and supplies, the geography is just so much more challenging w

xi jinping warns tough challenges remain in china's battle with the virus.y may have peaked in some major cities. plus, coming up short, tesla missed expectations despite offering rare incentives in the u.s. and china. are the recession warnings that seem to have captured the attention of the market today? gold at a june high after it failed for the entirety of 2022. oil is doing better, but it has really struggled to post any gains despite the fact that china is reopening. there is concern that demand won't be there if flights from china are being restricted, if covid means that supply chains will have issues. we are looking at an oil price that is just at $80 a barrel for imax crude. that is trading at a june high. really we are watching traders who want to bet that japan will tighten policy even further. faraj patel was just with us and he said that we will follow the straight and it will be one of the big movers of 2023 of the boj reverses course. when it comes to equities, japan is closed this morning. cash treasuries are closed as well. the real stando

from south outside our country is chinese communist party under the leadership of xi jinping, they want us to live differently in america, that is not how they run the she inside, they want america to live like them. >> i think secretary pompeo was one of the leading voices of calling out this threat that is the chinese communist party. it is the conflict of the century. it is not won in a yearo ro or two or three it requires acknowledgment. >> the threat to country our way of life, liberty and things we hold dear, they come from beijing and communist party of china, which is lead by now de dictator for life. >> what you are doing your them back at home, it seems far away, chinese communist party is inside the gates, they are here today, they are working in our schools. in our universities systems. we just saw they give 50 million dollars to the think tank that then vice president biden was running, they didn't give 50 million dollars to the penn-biden think tank because they liked penn or they wanted american students in penn to have a better life, to influence. to change the way that

xi, goodbye.vich , you can’t run away from chinese merchants, yes, it’s not about insults, i understand, these are new trade routes. new living blood is the development of the city, so work hard. find these bastards. where to walk to inspect, the city of chinese sloboda is on the other side? so i looked, i understand what to look for robbers on the screen. yes, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, but i beg you, you really try hard. and more about nikifora. petrovich plakhov you are about the theft from the mine. i'm already busy finding the thief much earlier than those who killed the chinese. only now, it seems to me, this is not an accidental robbery. here's how to explain, you see, this is still only guesswork, but it seems to me that there are those among our merchants who do not like the chinese, perhaps the proof for any of this is already completely bad.

i think xi jinping means what he says. i think we have to be careful not to mirror image, not to fall into the same traps as we did with vladimir putin. eco xi jinping has made clear he's going to make china clear and preparations are under way. what is important is what a mitchell said, deterrence. i think we're underinvested in defense in the united states. china has become increasingly aggressive not only from an economic and financial perspective, but physically with its military. and what's really disturbing is i think xi jinping is preparing the chinese people for war. in some of his speeches he said for us to restore china to national greatness it's going to take some sacrifices. i think we have so take it very seriously and act to extend really our power. we talk a lot about relying on our allying and then maybe if we take a step back, the allies will do more. i think actually the opposite is the case. if americans do just a little more, many of our allies will follow suit and bolster their defense capabilities and

we haven't talked about china but i promise xi promise xi jins watching closely to see if the west loses heart overtime. every world lever he was thinking about attacking something in america's interestt is wondering if we are honest and sincere. and second, the long-standing set of rules that when you have aggression in europe it ends badly if the united states does not provide the tools and support. it ends badly not only for europeans but for americans as well. the third one is market driven, we can all see what impacts there have been on supply chains , kansas farmers had a good year. in 2023, they will struggle to put crops in the field because of the cost of fertilizer. this is driven by the second greatest sweep all in the territory that is being fought over in ukraine. i can think of a handful of i can think of a handful of other reasons but it matters to every family in america that we support ukraine in their efforts. zeenat: are those compelling arguments for people in your party like marjorie taylor greene who advocated for not spending money? who advocated for not spending m

i wonder how they will play out given the new relationship marcos and xi are hoping to build.he marcos family is long-running. very cordial relationship with china. i recall seeing videos of them singing various chinese songs and so on. nowadays, of course, a lot of southeast asian countries, philippines included an malaysia as well, we are not the best of economic shapes. unfortunately the united states and many other western countries are not in a position, or unwilling to invest and trademark with us. in fact -- trade more with us. in fact, the united states calling on its invest -- existing investors overseas to relocate back to the united states. that, it put us in very difficult position. on the one hand a number of southeast asian countries, would welcome some of this u.s. freedom of navigation over some parts of south china sea. on the other hand, that would antagonize china. the united states is not investing more in the region. these countries we need to pivot to china in terms of trade and investment. laura: very interesting relationship to keep an eye on indeed. th

xi jinping warns tough challenges remain in china's battle against the virus, but infections may have paid in some major cities. plus, coming up short. tesla's quarterly deliveries miss expectations despite offering rare incentives in the u.s. and china. let's take a look at the figures after a bit of gains across european markets. futures pointing to losses of .4%, pushing back against the positivity of yesterday. backs futures pointing lower .3%. here is the open, we are waiting for that to come through across the indexes. the market now starting to price when it comes to the ecb another 150 basis points, or 2.5% -- 2% i should say. comments as well from michael burry of psion capital suggesting he thinks inflation is peaking at the middle of next year. again, the china data, so consequential in terms of where we get to in terms of the pollution of the economy. the data suggesting cities on the ground, shanghai and beijing activity is starting to pick up. the fourth quarter data suggesting contraction, but on a weekly basis, in terms of transport that is starting to pick up in major

. >> reporter: president xi jinping's new year's video featured medical workers and even a recovering covid patient. in it he admitted china's coronavirus surge had become fierce and fast. china national health commission has so far confirmed just under 80,000 covid deaths, but that's only patients who died in hospitals. western analysts think it's a wild understatement. of the health analytics firm airfinity. >> we expect the number of deaths will peak in around one week ahead and it'll reach the 1 million mark. >> reporter: we may never know for sure especially as chinese doctors are under pressure not to list covid on death certificates. this week millions of people have been traveling back to their villages and towns for the lunar new year. analysts had warned they'd kick off a second covid wave in rural areas. the cbs team headed more than 1,000 miles from beijing to provincial yunan to check. shooting surrepitiously as covid's a sensitive subject they found the virus had already arrived. the covid ward was full. and when a woman explained her mother tested positive, a man nearby

he's not line with xi jinping's nationalism.hat there's really no policing in terms of china's bad behavior? yes, you're talking about tiktok, you're talking about surveillance of americans and across the world, police stations in new york. i mean, you know, it's only gotten worse in the last few years, hasn't it? >> well, certainly i give the administration some credit certainly what they're doing with semiconductors and the exports controls that we're putting in place there but there's a whole other issues of technologies in the united states that we're investing in and we need the same kind of export controls and this has been on janet yellen's desk for some time and they're not making any movement on this, likely because she's trying to get consensus, that's going to be difficult to do. somebody's got to make a decision here to bring into balance national security and economic growth. and i think that's the issue that she's clearly facing here. it's supposed to be a president's executive order but it hasn't materialized and

so xi has got some very difficult decisions to make and he abandoned the zero covid policy because itay abandon some of his economic policies an put more reforms in place give tech companies again a little bit more freedom as he recognizes that he needs more economic growth sustained by the economy itself. >> and quick final comment, as we've seen crude, commodities, those prices bid up on this idea of china coming back in and having a lot more demand do you think that has gotten ahead of itself? >> i am. i'm less worried about the impact of commodities than other folks. it is -- there is some revenge travel for sure, worried about the jet fuel market to a degree but beyond that, i don't see a huge impact from it. >> it is like steven roach said, your comments remind me of his when he said he's more worried about china than he has been in 25 years of being an observer there. we'll leave it there now john and fred. >>> and it is not just tech seeing layoffs toymakers are now cutting jobs tyler mathisen and i will discuss that on power lunch. you could catch us on the other side of this

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does not give xi jinping any h heartburn to lie to john kerry. there are a lot of greedy companies making a lot of money working alongside chinese communist party today, whether it is hollywood or our technology companies, or even financial institutions, they are working in china in ways that are detrimental to people of united states i think that biden administration is allowing them to do that, in ways they have to know hurt ordinary americans. >> you know mr. secretary, maybe i'm getting too old, i remember a day when corporations were patriotic, a day when athletes would leave their positions on a team to join the u.s. military. today they trash the country. they make a fortune with our enemy, china whether it is sneakers or jerseys, same with corporations like apple and coca-cola and others. mark: ra after the break, michael pillsbury with the danger to china brings to the u.s. we'll be right back. cole hauser is an award winning actor who has starred in good will hunting too fast, too furious and the current hit show yellowstone. beyond his

xi's team are an opportunity, he believes, all in line for 2025.artment of defense has responded saying these comments are not representative of the department's view on china, but you know, congressman , you're on the house arms services committee. do you think the general is on to something potentially? >> there's no doubt, and you know, ashley, remember when we were kids? you hope for the best and prepare for the worst? and we want that kind of, we want to ensure that china understands that there's, we have to pus put this in place, saying we're committed to the defense of taiwan not only because of 23 million people's liberty is at stake but taiwan is responsible for 65% of all the semiconductor production in the world and if china were ever to take it over it could hold the world economy hostage for two or three years. china has shown when xi-jinping has consolidated his power and shown he's bent on world hegemon y, and we are the only country that can stop that. ashley: and very quickly, congressman, is china being looking at the west's respo

the xi and biden meeting was important. we have real differences on the national security front and with respect to taiwan and human rights and issues like that. at the same time, there is no way you can have china and the united states not deal with global challenges with this relationship we have to figure out a way to deal with the climate challenge and health challenges and economic commerce where it makes sense. i think we have an opportunity we have a new team under xi jinping. we will see how that team resets policies after the march congress in beijing. the burden is really on china to demonstrate to the rest of the world, not just to the united states, that it wants to abide by rules that are established in the international system >> how does the gridlock in the u.s. congress complicate things? >> gridlock is a choice. we can avoid that. the polarization in our country is a problem it is preventing smart policies with immigration we have to deal with the debt ceiling crisis and permitting and production in the uni

>> yes xi jinping goes to moscow which has been announced this'll be the 40th in person chat betweeneaders of china and russia. i think the congressman is certainly bright. we see china preparing for war. i do not know what is inside xi jinping's mind of course we know he's engaged to only the largest military buildup since the second world war but he's trying to sanction prove his regime highness and mobilizing chinese civilians for war. we have a pentagon 11 oval office has no sense of urgency. >> absolutely something to more than wary of. gordon chen thank you so much for joining us and happy new year. rebecca actually appreciated. >> thanks molly. >> we will be right back. >> alright we have have running in 2023 here in the united states. now look at new year's celebrations all across the world. we have trey live in jerusalem with this. >> molly, good afternoon from large gathering to traditional ceremonies, two brilliant displays of fireworks it was certainly a night to remember. australia won the first to ring in the new year with nearly 1 million people celebrating outside the

xi is at maximum power >> good to be with you, tom.always good to be kicking this off with you. there is no question that both for china as the second-largest largest economy in the world but also with xi jinping having so much power and using it in ways that are capricious and are not in any way to transparent. the global economy has never experienced anything like that, the level of uncertainty in the persona of one human being. we've seen it with the decision to do a complete 180 degree with the pandemic and zero covid we have seen it with a trillion dollars because is decided he was going to squeeze it. that level as china reopens their economy this year with no level of data we used to get 5, 10 years ago from the chinese is an in mostly concerning issue. tom: this goes to your colleague , literally years ago don't under estimate has power have we seen the maximum? do we see himweaken off the covid disaster? >> we see china weaken a little bit on the global stage. now that they have seen the united states and nato and ukraine, the

and the chinese have refused to condemn putin's actions, xi and putin have a close relationship. military support to russia they're buffering the impact of sanctions by supporting the russian economy. pedram ja xi jinping said he intends to take control of taiwan, an island they never controlled but claimed as their own for 70 years and more than 70 years the chinese military has been training. they say they would like to do it peacefully if possible but there's no interest in taiwan to simply be reabsorbed by china which is what xi jinping said needs to happen and he wants it to happen while in control. so the taiwanese are increasing military conscription to a year. but there's a lot that needs to happen for what analysts say is inevitable, which is a chinese invasion of taiwan. >> thank you for being here. to watch you in russia, ukravukraine and asia. >> you guys are both reporters, you've been to ukraine and see you in asia hopefully soon. >> thank you so much. >>> so the former house speaker, nancy pelosi, opening up about her husband's health after the october attack at th

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xi secured his third term, taiwan's presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer xi a reason. united states presidential elections in 2024 and will offer xi a distracted america. pentagon is running away from this guy as fast as it can. you think he's right. >> i think he's right. if you listen to xi, he's telling his military and china to prepare for war. he is talking about the decline of the united states and the west and talking about replacing us as the global superpower. now, we can debate whether it's 2025, 2027, the timeline, but also factored in there is america's economic decline when china believes our budget, our federal budget and our debt will be so heavy that we just can't afford to compete with them anymore and it is refreshing, john, to see a general telling his soldiers to prepare for the looming conflict. bottom line, i think we are in 1939. we do need to get on a wartime footing, and instead, we see so much of the pentagon worried about checking boxes on black, white, brown, race, gender, socioeconomic background rather than the standards it takes to defend

xi jinping is increasingly aggressive. we have to rearm ourselves and help taiwan he defend itself.s. preparing to send 30 tanks to ukraine, the pentagon claims it coulds takes months or years for the p tanks to arrive. the white house was grilled to the response to c chinese companies sending no items to russia. >> we have talked about this many times, that we will be very clear what it means to support russia's aggression against ukraine. maria: congressman, there are so many issues to discuss regarding china and the support for russia is one of them. i want to get your priorities. while we know there's been for example hundreds of billions of dollars in intellectual property theft, hurting american businesses, we know that there are the uighurs and slave labor underway, the provocations into taiwan and also coming so close to american military as well in the region. and then we hear all of the other parts of the story where this administration is so soft on china and joe biden and his family have taken in tens of millions of dollars from chinese officials. do you feel that that's

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but what does xi jinping? xi jinping think they could survive? and right now i worry the chinese think that their power has grown dramatically. every assessment of the balance of military power in the taiwan straits suggests that the balance has shifted dramatically in china's direction. the chinese leadership thinks that they're given too small of a role in the world stage relative to their economic growth over the past couple of decades. and so i, i think there is a risk for the chinese that overconfident and and and try something in taiwan i don't know that it's the most likely outcome over the next couple of years, but it's a lot more likely today than it was just a couple years ago. and so i think as a result, we've got to at least prepare for it and take it seriously because the days when the us could simply diffuse the china-taiwan crisis, like bill clinton did in 1996 by simply sailing an aircraft carrier through the taiwan straits, those days are over. the reality is that china's a really serious military competitor and the chinese it an

she was once a spearhead of xi jinping's hard-line approach.mments were echo by the national health commission. >> the number of hospitalized covid patients with severe symptoms peaked on january 5. after which it continued to decline. i 17th, the number dropped. we can see that all the peaks the past. shery: the biden administration is working with think european union to avoid subsidy rates on european vehicles. speaking at the world economic former -- 40, i also address u.s. ties with china. >> the expectations for everyone should be that president biden is committed to bring in a thoughtful, deliberate strategic and effective approach to the challenges that we have as well as the opportunities we have. shery: french unions are calling for further strikes on january 31 unless president macron backs down from a plan to raise the retirement age to 64. robles, schools and hospitals were disrupted on thursday. most high-speed trains were canceled. alec baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter over the colony 20 -- over the 2021 shoo

and offer xi a reason.ections no 2024 offer xi a distracted america and xi reason and opportunity all aligned for 2025. he told everyone in his command to comak sure your legal affairs are in order and visit legal services to make sure because we're going to be training hard and there's going to be risk. because he believes it's going to happen very similar to admiral davidson in 2021. came out and said he believes h china is going to take taiwan forcing us to take action. >> ainsley: biden said we would. the general wrote that in a memo to his officers on friday. of course it circulated. everyone was talking about this. department of defense is down playing. they say minute hand's comments. >> brian: you guys wept off the wall and talked about how both militaries line up. >> will: we did. pete went off the wall. united states has a military advantage over china but not in every way. >> ainsley: went through each of the pieces. >> will: their naval forces are being beefed up it. appears they are preparing f

i don't know they that xi jinping has the same outlook as lu what.d couldnn for decades, authoritarian state, may not like the decisions they make but when they make decisions they execute on them reasonable hey confidently. when they made the sudden, immediate pivot from zero covid to literally everyone gets covid, there was no plan. it wasn't like they made sure the hospitals had capacity you the, had that they had paxlovid in stock. instead, it was kind of okay, it's a new policy, we'll implement it. that's not the china the world economic forum is used to. maria: honestly, how irresponsible is this? i mean, look, you have those flights that landed when they first opened and allowed outward travel, you had the flights that landed in italy, half of those people had covid. they're just letting everybody travel so we're all going to get covid again? >> i assume a lot of those people have already gotten covid that are being exposed. the point is, we've been in the united states and in europe, we've had a much more permissive environment because we're