it is a very difficult story for xi jinping. think if you go six months from now, he could very well be in the hot water people talk about. haidi: gordon, you have a leader in the u.s. looking at midterms and wanting wins out of that. and increased vulnerability in the chinese leader. what are the chances of having a policy misstep or and overstep in the way that this trade war plays out? gordon: i think it is virtually inevitable that both sides will overstep. from the u.s. perspective, there are critical issues. we talk about tariffs and trade worth, but really these tariffs are meant to be a remedy for the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars in u.s. intellectual property each year. something has to be done. if it is not tariffs it can be something even more drastic. from the u.s. point of view, we feel we have our backs against the wall. from china's point of view, the threat against apple shows desperation on the part of xi jinping so it is not a good story for china. mistakes the room for -- there's not much room for i

, we should give thanks not to allah but xi jinping.a, people are told to study the thoughts of the president. the president is almost deified now. how does that count as oppression? this talk about what the chinese government's motives are. can you a nswer government's motives are. can you answer that question? the chinese government is using east turkestan, uighur lives as a laboratory for total surveillance, brutal repression and if we are not careful, and i'm saying this to the chinese citizens in other parts of china. similar methods in tibet. and the new sheriff in town who is running the show. that's your explanation that won the last 18 months, things have become that much harder. he has brought the techniques he developed in tibet to his newjob in your province. the chinese government as pilot programmes. they start enforcing it in other. tibet and east turkestan has been a kind of playground for the pilot programme. you use the phrase east turkestan and i'm talking about xinjiang. there is a basic difference here for you and s

the ambitious project was launched by chinese president xi jinping during a visit to kazakhstan in two thousand and thirteen. rhenish only arc of what things are being. going joshing. father and. son jaguar corps well known qayyum trunks in the marsh. jerusha such whole gentle chinky that trisha softly yen for the voyage and me that. the new silk road planned by xi jinping runs for ten thousand kilometers on road and on rail it crosses western china kazakhstan russia and will run all the way to europe it's a huge construction site. but what are china's true intentions behind this mega project . in my opinion this project will change the development of the economy and society but it will definitely have long term geopolitical implications to. the new silk road crosses central asia the russian sphere of influence. the near putin than the xi jinping regularly affirmed their geo strategic alliance but this new chinese project could have a massive impact on the relationship between the two countries and in the long term it could do the same to the power balance in the whole of eurasia. grou

a physical resemblance the most popular meme photograph of all is one which pairs a picture of xi jinping and then president barack obama with another picture of winnie the pooh and his good mate tigger winnie the pooh has in many ways become a symbol and unlikely symbol of dissent that's because loucheux bo who won the nobel peace prize and of course died in hospital more than a year ago was pictured holding a mug with an image of winnie the pooh on it shortly before he died it was a final defiant stance by a man who had been a thorn in the side of china's government for so long now while it's fair to say that censorship under president xi jinping has been getting worse during the past few years you know as a journalist you encounter it every day here in china there has never the less been some pushback juror in the past few weeks just last week there was a protest by parents outside. by the health ministry here in beijing they believe the government is covering up the true extent of a vaccine scandal vaccines substandard vaccines that emerged were given to children for things like tetan

sunday and there christopher robin movie will not be released in china many say because leader xi jinping is prickly about comparisons between him and one of the lead characters china's censorship at the cartoon pair winning the pooh started last year with images blocked on social media and blogs turned brown as more from beijing. well winnie the pooh of course means different things to different people to many children around the world he's the adorable pudgy bear with a partial for honey but it seems here in china he has become an enemy of the state that's because a new film made by disney christopher robin in which winnie the pooh of course has a starring role will not now be shown in china no reason has been given china imports about forty foreign films a year and while that quota hasn't been reached yet no reason has been given as to why christopher robin will not now be shown in china now winnie the pooh's sort of got in the crosshairs of chinese censors more than a year ago that's when images started appearing online contrast ing winnie the pooh with president xi jinping there was

also said it was time for the party to reverse its decision to end two term limits for president xi jinping president xi at the moment of course arguably the most powerful chinese leader since chairman mao people in europe are being told to stay hydrated as a record breaking heat wave sweeps across the continent here in london many residents are buying bottles of water to keep cool but that's also led to a surge in plastic waste now the mayor said the cardinal wants to turn the tide on the british capital's plastic problem by bringing back water fountains catherine stansell reports. london may have been the city that pioneered the public drinking fountain but its popularity has dried up since this one was built in eight hundred fifty nine. only a handful of watch a fountain success to the capitol today as more people reach for bottled water to quench their thirst now with the growing threat of plastics to the environment london wants to bring a new generation of water fountain to the british public. earlier this year mayor sidique khan announced a pilot scheme of twenty water stations to be

a physical resemblance the most popular meme photograph of all is one which pairs a picture of xi jinping and then president barack obama with another picture of winnie the pooh and his good mate tigger winnie the pooh has in many ways become a symbol an unlikely symbol of dissent that's because loucheux bo who won the nobel peace prize and of course died in hospital more than a year ago was pictured holding a mug with an image of winnie the pooh on it shortly before he died it was a final defiant stance by a man who had been a thorn in the side of china's government for so long now while it's fair to say that censorship under president xi jinping has been getting worse during the past few years you know as a journalist you encounter it every day here in china there has never the less been some pushback juror in the past few weeks just last week there was a protest by parents. by the health ministry here in beijing they believe the government is covering up the true extent of a vaccine scandal vaccines substandard vaccines that emerged were given to children for things like tetanus typhoi

-china trade problem that xi jinping doesn't have a lot of options.to look strong and he has to avoid any kind of indication that he is going to be caving to u.s. demands. that's very pomplet. so the question is going to -- important. so the question is how do you achieve a privet -- pivelt between china, which will demand win-win and quid pro quo for any deal against trump, which believes either you win or lose? ramy: there's the issue of nays and saving, that especially for xi jinping here. how do you think they would find this? back channels comes to mind but what would you recommend to donald trump? >> donald trump may not think he needs any recommendations of how to do this. i think that what really needs to happen, though, is that both sides need to look to try to find an off ramp and it needs to be an off ramp that satisfies enough of the objections that trump has raised, which include the trade deficit, which you mentioned at the top of this segment is not going to be going anywhere in terms of dropping probably and then you have this other is

also said it was time for the party to reverse its decision to end two term limits for president xi jinping president xi at the moment of course arguably the most powerful chinese leader since chairman mao all right lots more still ahead on al-jazeera and sport one of the world's biggest cricket stars could face jail as his trial begins in england and he will be here with. well again well less than hof of old plastic bottles used in the united kingdom get recycled the mayor of london has decided to try to tackle the issue by introducing fountains and refill stations around the capital catherine stansell reports. london may have been the city that pioneered the public drinking fountain but its popularity has dried up since this one was built in eight hundred fifty nine only a handful of water fountain success in the capital today as more people reach for bottled water to quench their thirst now with the growing threat of plastics to the environment london wants to bring a new generation of water fountain to the british public. earlier this year mayor sidique khan announced a pilot scheme of

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again while a new christopher robin movie will not be released in china many say because leader xi jinping is prickly about comparisons between him and one of the lead characters china's censorship of the cartoon bay winnie the pooh started last year with blocked images on social media and blogs brown as well from beijing. well winnie the pooh of course means different things to different people to many children around the world he's the adorable pudgy bear with a partial for honey but it seems here in china he has become an enemy of the state that's because a new film made by disney christopher robin in which winnie the pooh of course has a starring role will not now be shown in china no reason has been given china imports about forty foreign films a year and while that quota hasn't been reached yet no reason has been given as to why christopher robin will not now be shown in china now winnie the pooh's sort of got in the crosshairs of chinese censors more than a year ago that's when images started appearing online contrast ing winnie the pooh with president xi jinping there was apparentl

president xi jinping has certainly outlasted president donald trump.ce and see if things change at the midterms. in ten seconds, jean—claude juncker last week away from washington saying that we had managed to find their way through it, so maybe it is a face—to—face that will make a difference? perhaps. although what we saw from jean—claude juncker is jean—claude juncker gave a drop a win and back down on the tariffs. —— and donald trump back down on the tariffs. good to see you. thank you forjoining us on the business briefing. georgia green from london is a cordon bleu—trained cake maker who worked in cafes and baker's shops, looking for her big break. then it came, when the famous model cara delevingne bought one of her cakes and tagged her on instagram. she milked the publicity for all it was worth and launched a company which now sells cakes through harrods. we went to her kitchen, where she told us how she now uses instagram as the main force in her marketing. i got commissioned to make a cake for cara delevigne, the famous model, and my sister s

president trump sees president xi jinping as an ally. he has gone so far as to call him a friend.n to china i think 11 times in 12 years. on no occasion has she raised the plight of the uighur. do you have any hope at all that the trump administration is going to act on your concerns? the trump administration have already acted. vice president mike pence raised the deteriorating uighur right situation in a speech, and the us ambassador un ambassador kelley currie has regularly been raising it. she testified a couple of weeks ago at the united states congress, highlighting the worsening uighur human rights situation. we know that president trump doesn't always do the same as his colleagues. he told fox news last year, "some people might call xijinping the king of china, he is a very powerful man, i happen to think he is a very good person." we have to separate what president trump says or views about the leader of china. the united states has a panel of experts in the united states government who work on china. so i don't know where president trump's mind is heading to when it come

also said it was time for the party to reverse its decision to end two term limits for president xi jinping president xi at the moment of course arguably the most powerful chinese leader since chairman mao. it watching. the program. is being pulled back. and coming up in sport the historic event and looking for a new way. of her. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places to get the. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. welcome back people in europe are being told to stay hydrated as a record breaking heat wave sweeps across the continent here in london many residents are buying bottles of water to keep cool but that's also led to a surge in plastic waste now the mayor wants to turn the tide on the capital's plastic problem by bringing back water fountains as for instance all reports. london may have been the city that pioneered the public drinking fountain but its popularity has dried up since this one was built in eight hundred fifty nine. only a handful of water fountains exist in the capital today as more people reach for bottled wat

there was not the economic adviser to president xi jinping. they have been received by low—level officials as well. the expectations are not particularly high. but further down the horizon, there is an eye on november when donald trump and president xi jinping art due to meet at bilateral summits and maybe, just maybe, they can reach some kind of resolution and announce an end to the trade war. “— and announce an end to the trade war. “ are and announce an end to the trade war. —— are due. as matt ryan said, ca rys are war. —— are due. as matt ryan said, carys are now in place. washington is leading to look at $200 billion worth of trade further with more tariffs. china is an expanding in its retaliation. here is a list of what will be affected today: ed brown to about 30 items. the first is fish meal for feed, manganese slack, produced by melting steel, almost a whole page on us vehicles will be hit with a 25% tariff, including golf carts and similar vehicles. e— perhaps more personal swipe against the president, they are. the expectations ar

people online who often compared the appearance of winnie the pooh to that of the chinese president xi jinping and in fact this is not something that started this you know this is something that has been around for quite a while and in fact it all started with this i mean here is so. big and on the other side you have winnie the pooh and his fred tigger there so since then means like this have been continuing to circulate online and also often used to criticize president xi jinping and even now when you use outlets are trying to report about this then they run into trouble in china for example the c. n.b.c. correspondent says when we just did the president xi versus winnie the pooh story our china based poll told us that suddenly our show blacked out on television there but. also have to be fair and say that the character of winnie the pooh has not been banned in china in fact if you're a fan you can buy something like a t. shirt with that character on it and there's no problem with that and what about social media users i mean how are they reacting online you know the banning of the plume. we

what we are seeing is the continuation of xi jinping's intolerance of religious expression. in particular targeting the uyghurs a majority muslim population in xi jinping robbins. we have seen increased surveillance on them check downs and their basic religious expression. what's important to notice it can happen to the muslims here it can happen to christians. we are seeing a lot of momentum like that with churches being torn down and communist party members asking them to take photos down of and put up photos of xi jinping. charles: i know this is something that's been bothering you. been talking about this. >> absolutely. as a pastor i take this to heart for those that are supporting socialism and communist views this as a clear indication that this is the reason why we need to support american values. even though there might he issues we disagree with from time to time we need to uphold america. if america does not stand up for liberty and freedom who will? charles: has this part of parcel of adopting socialism? does this come with the rejection of religion and do they w

is everyone happy with the xi jinping negotiation tactics?ing this overall view from the markets. you got 94 months. , 94producer of daybreak months of job growth in the united states of america, an unbroken trend. that is the backdrop to markets. there's specs of light coming through the clouds of gray when he came to the view of the world. u.s. stocks rallying for five straight weeks on the jobs numbers. europe set up very nicely. anna: let's look at the risk radar. there are some interesting things happening in the session. trade rhetoric from president trump and the chinese administration, suggesting they have what it takes to endear a protracted or prolonged trade war. yield, we0-year should be at 4% right now and we need to brace ourselves in case we go to 5%. the dollar against the canadian dollar, we saw the canadian dollar losing ground this morning on these -- this diplomatic standoff. it seems to be escalating quickly. it has to do with the rest of a women's rights activist. she is a canadian citizen. let's look at the growth rate.

we might have reached peak xi jinping.ar enough and people are wanting to find issues to criticize him over. there are many issues. one of the most interesting is trump and u.s. relationships. xi jinping is not responsible for mr. trump's negotiating style but in politics that of the matter. many people are using that to blame xi jinping for messing up china's most important collateral relationship, perhaps imperiling parts of the economy would is slowing, and causing all sorts of other trouble for china around the world potentially. but trump is a company getting factor for xi jinping. haidi: [indiscernible] we have seen that playbook with korea, japan in the past. richard: it is not easy to control the u.s. or trump. china needs the u.s. as the u.s. needs china. they can't afford a fracture and they don't know how to handle trump. the big light went off in their head to her three weeks ago with the first batch of tariffs, and immediately trump announced the $200 billion target and that galvanized china, shocked them loin

the door of china's huge revenues but this does not mean that china wants to go under president xi jinping into the sunset has gotten even tighter the so any kind of censorship deal that google can strike with the governments now would be much worse than back in twenty ten and this is the real bind that operation in china puts on such companies how much can you criticize governments whose permission you need to operate in the markets. we're discussing another story that's on our radar this week with one of our producers johannah joe in yemen bombs continue to corner civilian lives dozens more were killed there this past thursday and c.n.n. recently produced a report that was a little bit different in that it looked into a couple of angles on the bombing of yemen the don't get much coverage what did that report actually c.n.n. was reporting on that airstrike on august ninth by the saudi led coalition the one that hit a school bus killing forty children apiece was different in two ways first c.n.n. senior international correspondent gear reported that a bomb had been supplied by the u.s. gov

like this have been continuing to circulate online and also often used to criticize our president xi jinping and even now when you use outlets are trying to report about this band they're running to trouble in china for example the c. and b. c. correspondents says when we just did the president xi versus winnie the pooh story our china based polk's told us that suddenly our show blacked out on the television there but. also have to be fair and say that the character which is of who has not been banned in china in fact if you're a fan you can buy something like a t. shirt with that character on it and that there is no problem with that and what about social media users i mean how are they reacting online you know the banning of the flu. well it's difficult for the ones that are in china because since last year even words like winnie the pooh are the image of that character are partly being censored on chinese social media so if there is one user for example on weight which is the chinese equivalent of a. witter he's complaining about is that he says i'm speechless what did i do why did you ta

people online who often compared the appearance of winnie the pooh to that of the chinese president xi jinping and in fact this is not something that started this year this is something that has been around for quite a while in fact it all started with this i mean here is so. unfair isn't. it on the other side you have winnie the pooh and his a fred tigger there so since that means like this have been continuing to circulate online also often used to criticize our president xi jinping and even now when you use outlets are trying to report about this band they are running to travel in china for example to see n.b.c. correspondent says when we just did the president she it varies as winnie the pooh story are china based polk's told us that suddenly our show blacked out on television there but. also have to be fair and say that the character which is of who has not been banned in china in fact if you're a fan you can buy something like a t. shirt with that character on it and there is no problem with that and what about social media users i mean how are they reacting online you know the banning o

has lost -- there's been an erosion of authority though he is still extremely powerful for xi jinping to get that authority back, he has to actually win the trade war, which means he will demonstrate more political will because he doesn't have the leverage. >> don't you have to define winning first? what would winning be for china? >> i think winning would be an elimination of all section 301 tariffs, under section 301 ability of 1974 had for intellectual property theft. he would like to see trump go away if he were to do that -- >> he wants to allow chinese companies to steal our and other intellectual property unfettered >> each year china steals somewhere in the neighborhood of hundreds of billions of dollars, and there's the forced taking, which is probably a violation of world trade organization obligations that china has you look at xi jinping over the last five years, he's closed off the chinese economy to foreigners he expects us to open ours this is unsustainable. >> how does this end >> i would love to be able to answer that. >> how about a best guest? >> it will go on for a

had met to discuss the case and this was the result president xi jinping it seems has been playing an active role in the fallout of the scandal which appears to be widening now this all began back in july when it was revealed that the chunk chunk biotechnology company had been falsifying production records it produced vaccines which were then given to children these are vaccines which are not dangerous they simply ineffective in effect useless so now you have thousands upon thousands of parents in china still not sure still not convinced they can trust the industry which provides vaccines for their children there really is a trust deficit in this area at the moment and a lot of anger in the streets when you speak to people about the scandal they say how can we trust our vaccine industry and of course foreign vaccines simply aren't available in china so people here in china have no option but to use the locally produced ones now we know also that some five hundred thousand ineffective vaccines were produced that's double the figure the government gave a month ago and that one hundred e

on monday night and of course dr mahathir becomes one of the oldest leaders that president xi jinping has met. lisa successfully completed a three year emergency the country's still in debt can now only borrow exclusively for global financial markets the government has balance its budget and raise tax revenues to help pay off its huge debt but the economy is nonetheless far from stable. reports. correct productions is a stall out among greek companies at the beginning of the crisis the bulk of its business disappeared as the advertising industry collapsed it cut its costs and found overseas clients and managed to keep all of its seventeen workers on payroll but even this innovative business cannot thrive as greece rejoins the world economy at the station is. absurd who would call it the state is now. owes the fifty percent i mean with the station you need to give half of the money to taxes we will lose the opportunity to expand maybe we need to do this in a very slow. slow perhaps as many as half of greek businesses have been closed by the crisis those that survive have shouldered the

chris: how far is president trump prepare to go in his standoff with china and if chinese president xi jinping doesn't blink or back down, how long could this go on? >> i think as larry was in, don't underestimate president trump's resolve. for decades, china has been the principal malefactor trying to use a free trade aspiration. most of the rest the world has to pursue mercantilist goals. it steals intellectual property. >>chris: how far you prepare to take this? >> far enough to get china to change its behaviorand they need to understand that. >>chris: if they don't ?>> i think the pressure will continue and the president has made that very clear.

so-called one built one road project and that is the most important project of all to president xi jinping right now right andrew brown live for us in beijing adrian thank you but because he is an economist at the vienna institute for international economic studies he joins us now from vienna we appreciate your time so much so the landscape now compared to what it was pre two thousand and fifteen before this agreement is different this time it is clear that china seems to be lining up with the ron russia is even the e.u. is saying let's not do this so how does that indicate to you that things might play out a little different this time because iran is not as isolated as it was before. well to my understanding. in two thousand and twelve when the sanctions the sanctions were intensified and it was the coalition of countries china russia european union many other countries and us and it was very effective and since then or much before that the iranian economy somehow diversified its trade linkages and investment linkages to more ease to china to india more recently to russia so iran's trade

what do you take out of that, about xi jinping receiving criticism at home. >> xi jinping has a lot ofnot being reported as much as you would expect. there is a lot of criticism in the open. this is unprecedented. was we're seeing -- we don't know what's going on because it's an extremely opaque system. the point is, xi jinping is in stress. >> the criticism is unprecedented? >> it's more than we've ever seen of xi jinping. it's sort of natural. he took control of the economy. as the general secretary of the communist party, he didn't have the economics portfolio. he took it over from the premier. now things are going badly. so of course he owns it. >.dagen: i want to add one thi. the wall street journal editorial page writes about this very thing. be careful claiming victory in this trade fight over china. the chinese economy is slowing. chinese stocks have lost about a fifth of their value since january. maria: and the wan. don't forget about that. dagen: it was because of chinese policies. they were trying to deleverage that started two years ago because of the rapid buildup of corp

the think it is central to china and xi jinping.f the rise of china and reality of the size of china's economy, and the reality of the size of china's trade. clearly we are not going to build a garden in our backyard. we are interested in building beautiful gardens with beautiful flowers that will be enjoyed by all the nations in this world. yvonne: that report on the belt and road initiative from our chief correspondent stephen engle. stay tuned for our special four part belt and road series. we take a look at what's becoming -- what's becoming of president xi jinping's policy. we navigate opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls of the plan to dominate global trade. catch that at 7:00 p.m. tonight, or 9:00 p.m. in sydney on friday. ramy: let's get you back to live pictures of donald trump speaking at dansville indiana at a make america great again rally. earlier, just in the past 30 minutes or so, he was saying that a nafta deal with canada could happen, or some kind of new trading relationship. with that said, he also added that i