xi jinping is not interested anymore in hiding his strength and biding his time. >> xi sought a new relationshipls. his modernized military now often wins war games against the united states over taiwan. >> tensions rising again this afternoon. >> and in the south china sea -- >> they built airfields, ports, deployed weapons there. >> china has been building up entire islands that house military hardware. >> china claims virtually all of it. >> expanding its reach along with its ambitiouses. >> china is working not quite to fight a war with the u.s. in the region. >> but in order for his station to truly be a super power, xi wants china to lead not only with its military mite -- >> china is becoming a tech superpower. >> dubbed china's google. >> the world's largest and fastest growing. >> but also with its scientific and technological innovations. >> a lot of technology leaders and political leaders in the west have been shocked by the pace of china's advances in technology. >> in the age of ai, data is the new oil. so, china is the new saudi arabia. >> former google ceo erick schmidt that chin

to some extent, that will force, or president xi jinping will force, or president xi jinping will usee down. they are using this to solidify and reinforce his grip on power. i think it is pretty strong already. dmu turn on surcharge for foreign nhs workers. we do not know what made him do that. he was question on the spacer keir starmer on pmqs. —— question on this by sir keir starmer. we can presume it is pressure from opposition, backbenchers and his own party who are not happy about it. this is a completely unjust surcharge, asking nhs workers to pay twice, to pay a surcharge for a service in which they are working in such hard, awful conditions, saving lives, is completely glacially unjust. but i think now that they come and has you turned on that, we need to look at why anybody‘s pain that surcharge. no migraine should be paying twice to be using the nhs stop —— no migrant. the nhs was for people who reside in the uk, not for people who reside in the uk, not for people with a particular colour passport. everybody should access to health in this country, it is one of the most basi

the party central committee with comrade xi jinping at its core rallied the chinese people and led them in surmounting difficulties and accomplishing the year's main targets and tasks, thus laying the crucial foundation needed to reach the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. [applause] the economy remained stable overall. gdp reached 99.1 trillion yuan, 6.1% increase over the previous year. around 13.52 million new urban jobs were added, and the surveyed unemployment rate was below 5.3%. by 2.9%.prices rose a basic equilibrium was maintained in the balance of payments. the economic structure continued to improve, and the development priorities of regions are better aligned. total retail sales of consumer goods exceeded 40 trillion yuan, and consumption continued to serve as the main engine driving growth. advanced manufacturing and modern services registered rapid growth. grain output was kept above 650 million metric tons. for the first time, permanent 60% ofesidents exceeded the population, progress was made in implementing major development strategies fo

general secretary xi jinping, putting the health and safety of our people before everything else, has personally taken charge and planned our response. under the leadership of the party central committee, the central leading group for covid-19 response has made timely decisions and plans; the central guidance group has provided effective guidance and supervision; the state council inter-departmental task force has coordinated the response efforts; all local authorities and all government departments have fulfilled their respective duties, and people from every walk of life have given their full support. together, we have waged an all-out people's war against the virus. our medical workers have fought with courage. our servicemen and women have shouldered heavy responsibilities. our scientists and researchers have joined forces in order to find a cure. our community workers, policemen and women, officials working at the primary level, media personnel, and volunteers have stood fast at their posts. our deliverymen and women, our -- our deliverymen and women, our sanitation workers, and

another era donald trump went to divorce and hailed his relations with his chinese counterpart xi jinping you very much our relationship with china right now has probably never been better we went through a very rough patch but it's never ever been better my relationship with president xi is an extraordinary one he's for china and for the u.s. but other than that we love each other. trump was buoyant tough to so i mean what was being called a phase one trade deal with china easing tensions have made a long running trade war to trump himself it started even as the covert $1000.00 outbreaks prating february trip was still flattering xi jinping running for very hard labor where that out of character for which president he. would drop devoutly about the coronavirus there were really hard. i think they're doing a very professional job but soon the outbreak hit the united states with full force new york became one of the worst hot spots in the world and the trumpet ministration came under massive fire for failing in its response. at the same time evidence was mounting that china hadn't been ope

acceptable a bit more tolerant just a few months into xi jinping is time in office there was another of those moments where you saw america's stumbling just as china moved ahead. for a time in autumn 2013 the us didn't even have a functioning government american politics had become so divided the congress couldn't agree on how to fund basic services they simply shot. down american political system was breaking under intense polarization the fallout from a decade of war and financial crisis. around the same time she chimping was in jakarta where he announced china's most ambitious project ever he called it one built one road evocatively named after the historic silk trading route. built and wrote was a monumental plan to connect the infrastructure china's rest of asia and beyond just europe and africa the message look at what we've built in china it's bringing it in. the project let loose hundreds of billions of dollars worth of chinese investment particularly into bella ping countries it was especially attractive to governments with patchy records on governments and human rights with

think it will be very interesting to ask how xi jinping will respond to it.anti—china party. so there is no likelihood that xi jinping will not respond forcefully however taiwan has not changed its position whereas xijinping has not changed its position whereas xi jinping has and can make a decision on whether to be more accommodated or simply stay hardline and threaten and marginalised taiwan internationally. let's get some of the day's other news. two men wanted on suspicion of helping the former nissan boss escape from japan have been arrested in the united states. carlos ghosn fled while on bail awaiting trial after being charged with under—reporting his income and misusing company funds. he has denied any wrongdoing. cameroon‘s president, paul biya has addressed the nation for the first time since coronavirus was detected in the country on sixth march. mr biya urged people in cameroon to remain calm, trust the government and join the fight against the disease, in a broadcast on state tv. san francisco has opened its first official camp for homeless peopl

china attorney who has reaction from beijing while state media here in china are painting president xi jinping in opposition to donald trump that donald trump is really out for america while she jinping is out for the world as is a leader in trying to restore global order at least that's the image on state media there they've hailed president xi jinping as a speech at the world health assembly online yesterday as a as quote a triumph as a bold move saying that president xi jinping welcomes an international review because trying to simply has nothing to hide. and the us president has revealed he's been taking a regular dose of the anti-malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine to prevent coronavirus government health experts warned last month of its potential fatal side effects ties between china and australia are under strain after beijing imposed tyree of cent to spend on australian agricultural products it's being seen as a retaliation for australia's push for a global investigation into the origins of coal that 19. human rights group bet solemnize accusing israel of a campaign of violence against pa

in fact it's not just one incursion tribbles mentioning the 2014 incursion when president xi jinping arrived in new delhi he came with this encroachments now we have several incursions that happened in the northern iraq region at least 4 stand offs as of today between chinese and indian troops because the chinese have entered after 3 kilometers beyond the line of control so we have constant patience at several points and therefore the escalating all of these different constant patience will require. the political leadership both in beijing and in new delhi to be able to engage and such matters are and given given the pressure that president xi faces you know he's playing the nationalist card at on you doesn't want to be seen as weak he has upped the ante with the v. several of its neighbors including countries in southeast asia where examples ramming and sinking m.s.m. is fishing boat. and right now of the friendly neighbor of of china that was one example of several in recent weeks where china had left that pandemic to assert itself but what is happening along the china and europe f

even before xi jinping.ut continuing from his presidency, china has had a stable unpredictable relationship with the united states and president trump has pulled out the rug from under xi jinping on that score. the chinese are questioning whether or not it is possible to have a stable relationship with the united states going forward. there are some people in china who are saying this may be impossible and when it comes to core interests, and hong kong is one of those, taiwan is. attach much not weight to u.s. statement and policies going forward. it just has to do with what serves china own interests. scarlet: so it disregards whatever the u.s. has to say about these core interests. what people get wrong the most when it comes to china intent with taiwan? i ask this because one country to systems president trump announced as one country, one system is something china has been trying to pitch to taiwan with limited success, of course. there has been a lot of statements over the course of this week with the n

from of global outreach president xi jinping. is is a speech at the governing body of the world health organization. xi, as you heard in that soundbite, calling for greater international cooperation in fighting the pandemic. any importantly, saying vaccine developed in china would become a global public good. china currently has five vaccine candidates already in human trials and they expect more candidates moving into the trial basis in the next few weeks and months. providesaid china would $2 billion over two years to support the fight against the virus. drawing a distinction to the trump administration which is choosing -- china has come under pressure not just from the u.s. but also the eu and australia over the initial handling of the outbreak. it's relatively aggressive response some would say to any criticism. it still has resisted pressure for an investigation. we heard from officials yesterday saying the timing is not yet right. certainly in terms of his response, xi jinping trying to show they are ready to cooperate with

it's ready for an investigation into its coronavirus handling once the outbreak is over president xi jinping promises billions to fight the pandemic. this is all just there on live from doha also coming up. the f.b.i. says it has evidence that the saudi officer who killed 3 people at a u.s. military base last year was in contact with al qaeda. france and germany propose a $542000000000.00 fund to finance the reader of the european union's economy. on the brink of collapse the mayor of brazil's largest city wants its health care system has reached 90 percent capacity. the country at the heart of the crowd of ours outbreak that's infected nearly $5000000.00 people around the world is defending its handling of the pandemic tried is now pledged billions of dollars to fight the virus president xi jinping made the announcement during an annual health conference run by the world health organization. china will provide $2000000000.00 over 2 years to help with the global covered $1000.00 response and to help with economic and social development in developing countries china will also work with the un

xi jinping wanted countries to accept arrivals from china.he world health organization helped him with his january 10th statement. you look at what xi jinping did and you could argue that after having seen the coronavirus cripple china, if xi jinping wanted to spread this disease to level the playing field he would have done exactly what in fact he did do and the w.h.o. helped him do that. this is a horrible crime, the w.h.o. was complacent, president trump was right to say we should defund the organization pending an investigation. jillian: you look at the number, 2.4 billion pieces of p pe that were inspected here between january 24th and february 29th from chinese national customs, that's where the number is coming from. gordon, when this started to become spreading, when this started spreading in the united states and people started to realize what was going on here, that was the biggest story of the moment was there was not enough ppe for the healthcare workers and those on the frontline to be able to do what they needed to do on a daily

speaking glowingly of xi jinping.t do that yesterday. it came after the white house released a report to congress from the national security agency. this report outlines a familiar criticisms we have heard from the u.s. government towards china in the past, intellectual property theft, economic protectionism, human rights abuses. it did not give any action of what the u.s. would do. one of our white house reporters who wrote the story was saying that it is a careful read citation of the real problem. it was clear after this document, president donald trump really upped that rhetoric with his tweet, pointing the finger more closely at xi jinping. anna: good morning. billenate also passing a that could see u.s. listed chinese companies delisted. how significant is this piece of legislation? >> pretty significant. the fact is, also, it was voted overwhelmingly, really a bipartisan vote on this bill. any company has to certify that they are not under control of a foreign government. that is why everybody is talking about

it seems xi jinping has consciously accepted the need for an investigation at some point. it will have to be led by the world health organization. shery: china trying to reign in the outbreak. more than 100 million people back under lockdown in china. tom. people in china under lockdown again after there was an infection have caught off transport. trade, buses, schools, universities, and thousands of have been put under quarantine. it is pretty powerful response from officials of the concerns more broadly about a second wave of infections and the economic cost it could have as china tries to get up to full capacity. there is a warning for other countries as they reopened their economies. in terms of one of the reasons we saw oil prices really consolidate overnight, this idea that demand in china is actually doing pretty well. what does it tell us about the broader recovery? almost back to levels seen before the virus. you are getting oil traders saying consumption has bounced back up to 30 million barrels a day, short of what they were consuming in may this time last year.

xi jinping said they would sign up for that at the right time. it would have to be led by the world health organization. on the same day that xi jinping was making these comments to assuage their critics, china was also slapping tariffs on australian barley and cultural goods, 18% tariffs. that is being seen by many as punishment for australian systems on a rigorous investigation. it seems they are playing two sides here, trying to look like they are the rational actor on the global stage but equally a reminder to australia to try to mind their place in this. tom, there are still fears of a second wave in china. is that becoming a reality now? there are pockets of infections. we saw 20 new cases both symptomatic and asymptomatic being confirmed by officials here, both in a province in the northeast of the country and province where it all started. there are about 100 million people in lockdown as officials there try to keep this cluster of infections under control. we see transport lanes close, buses and trains of stopped running, schools have be

president trump escalates his rhetoric against china, suggesting xi jinping is behind a disinformation and propaganda attack on the united states and europe. he says it all comes from the top. the series of tweets comes as president trump and republicans try to make china the villain. the senate has overwhelmingly approved legislation that could lead to chinese companies such as alibaba being barred from being listed on u.s. exchanges. joining us now is james athey, investment director, aberdeen asset management. good morning and thank you for coming on. how much do you worry about the ratcheting up of rhetoric between the u.s. and china? what does it mean for markets? toos: i try not to worry much, but it is a concern for market. s. we have a reemergence of tents narratives bilaterally between the u.s. and china, and more broadly between china and other countries. s atralia is applying tariff the border there. we may have seen after the phase one deal, that we could put these trade tensions behind us, but that is not the case. more broadly on a secular basis people have been expecting

austerity here in china and the economy as you were saying of course is a key element of a president xi jinping the leadership but of course the leadership has also been accused of being sluggish in terms of the early dealing with the early stages of coronavirus and so on now we're seeing an economy which has gone from 6.8 percent expansion to nothing at all they're not as you say setting a g.d.p. figure where do you think the credibility of the government is at the moment with regard to the people of china itself. well that's an interesting question on the one hand many people across china are extremely grateful for the way the chinese government actually handled and clamp down and put in measures to prevent the spread of the corinna virus i think if you go into many smaller cities in the countryside which is the majority of time is $1400000000.00 population many of them will be full of praise for the chinese chinese government and how they handled that and acted quickly but at the same time he go into urban areas there are millions of people who've either had to take pay cuts or who have lost

if we end up in a cold war with china, xi jinping will be seen as responsible for that. decision to shut down hong kong and get rid of their autonomy and functionally end the one state, two systems ruled that they have lived under since 1997, is an immensely popular & mainland china, and has to be seen in the broader context of the u.s. relationship, and xi's own domestic interest. david: let's make you national security advisor for a moment. president trump only having a press conference at 2:00. what options would you lay in him? of he is not getting much help from democrats or republicans on the hill. ian: nobody would be telling trump to take it easy on china right now. in fact, given that he has larry kudlow and others continuing to cheer for the phase one trade deal, and xi jinping was a friend of president trump, who respected, if he didn't take tough action, he would be vulnerable to the other side to say that you are in the pocket of these authoritarian leaders. there is no way trump will be in that position. toxpect what he will do is sanction chinese officials

christopher: xi jinping. a new sort of chinese "new,"r -- when i say different from his predecessors. 1997, it90's and since has been far from open in china. on the whole, chinese leaders kept to their agreement on one country, two systems that hong kong could continue with autonomy and its own freedoms. what we have seen with xi jinping is the determination of the strength of the party above everything. he has been throwing china's weight around in a way that it is a danger for democracies around the world and he needs to be called out he is taking advantage of this coronavirus which has been more difficult to deal with the way it was covered up initially by secret communist officials. he is trying to take advantage of that not only in hong kong, but there are incursions of chinese troops into india. they have been throwing their weight around taiwan. they have been throwing their weight around in the south china sea despite the promises they made to president obama. this is down to xi jinping, who is terrif

the chinese, xi jinping is facing a lot of domestic irritation, both with the fact it was mishandlede beginning and also that the americans are getting aggressive towards china and following the worst recession that china is going to be experiencing in decades, they really don't want to fight with the americans. so i'm increasingly hearing people inside china saying xi jinping is not at all a layup for a third term in 2022. insecurity domestically for both leaders and a lot of finger pointing, a lot of nationalism, that's a real problem. >> and you lay out why. i also liked -- you tweeted last night, we'll put this up, the u.s. has serious and legitimate arguments to blame china for the initial cover-up of covid-19. claims that it originated in a wuhan lab undermines u.s. credibility and coordination with allies. that's such a key point as you look at there are questions that need to be raised and we do need to better understand what happened in the early days here. but to your point, perhaps, the way the president and secretary of state pompeo are going about it right now may not be

what you've seen of how china has handled coronavirus do you say does that tell us anything about xi jinping means leadership a new style of leadership. well there are some aspects of the way that china handled this coronavirus as i said at the outset that are just quite typical of the chinese communist party that we've seen before there is obviously a lack of transparency but i do think in this particular instance with siege and paying and in charge we we see some of the problems that existed prior to the siege and pins will that are now magnified a lot of fear. telling the top got bad news so when this virus broke out and they were obviously health workers that were infected indeed we saw in an e-mail that taiwan sent to the w.h.o. on december 31st indicating because they were in touch with medical authorities in mainland china and said that there had been reports of 7 health workers that had been infected so that really does suggest of course human to human transmission but that was. it covered up and we don't know exactly when sujan paying was actually notified of what was going on on th

and pains for a while and there is what do what do you see what have you learned from the ways xi jinping has rules a communist policy over coronavirus. you see from again from a european perspective very often for example people think about us china relations as a kind of great you know great power vitally whereas in fact it's a systemic rivalry and yeah i would like to echo a point that bonnie just made. and for us you know to engage with mainland china and a commis party of all is not a value neutral you know proposition and in mind view our europe really needs to act very fast now to defend its own values make up its mind whether it wants to side with an arguably imperfect but still democratic united states or an increasingly totalitarian china and if you may allow me to make one more point you know i have many conversations here with european quote unquote progressives who refrain from critiquing the r.t. which i think is politically an ethically moral imperative but you know what i've learned is that they do so for fear of being lumped together with the trump administration and so t

says epidemic prevention and control systems muste strengthened. >> schifrin: in february xi jinpingounced new biosafety rules. the pro-communist party tabloid global times wrote that labs faced "chronic inadequate management issues," though denied this had anything to do with covid-19. but at the wuhan institute of virology, at the center of many u.s. accusations, deputy director yuan zhiming wrote a paper about china's lab security last year that admits"" mo laboratories lack specialized biosafety managers and engineers, this makes it difficult to identify and mitigate potential safety hazards." the u.s. argues the chinese government must allow chinese scientists to voice those concerns, as a matter of life and death. as deputy national security advisor matt pottinger put it, quoting a famous chinese writer in mandarin. >> ( translated ): those with the fortitude to seek and speak the truth in china today may take comfort, however, in something lu xun wrote: lies written in ink can never disguise facts written in blood. >> schifrin: for xi jinping, today's meeting is designed to pr

he's talked about the chinese, but emphasized his good relationship with xi jinping.his just shows that things are getting worse and worse between the two countries, and you wonder where this is going to go, whether or not this marks the end of the phase one trade deal. even if they are not going to live up to it, is it basically over now? there are all kinds of geopolitical consequences that may be entering here. alix: right, and that brings in taiwan. we have heard from certain .eaders on certain topics we have heard some pushback on huawei, but nothing from the top. how much of that do you think is because of the npc tomorrow, the national people's congress? damian: i think we know we are going to see more stimulus out of china. look has there for and the -- has their finger on the pulse as well. they know what it takes. they know that fiscal policies aimed at supporting the economy are absolutely necessary. they have been pretty hands-off. they really haven't stimulated to the extent we expect. this could be the beginning of more, especially on the back of this ne

so i, attributed to sort of a consolidation of power, xi jinping. >> schifrin: but it goes both ways. trump administration ended peter daszak's grant to work with chinese scientists. collaboration is eroding, as the two countries, increaseies, confrontation. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: scientists say antibody testing may eventually be a key tool in the fight against the coronavirus. there was encouraging news on that front this week: researchers said that antibodies found in a patient who had sars 17 years ago were able to neutralize covid-19. still, many questions remain about the effectiveness of antibody testing, and what a positive test means for immunity. john yang has the story. >> yang: around the world, an increasing demand for antibody tests, as people try to find out if they've been exposed to the coronavirus. patrick easley was tested in chicago. >> my thinking was if i got the antibody test and it came back positive, that means that i'd already had covid. and it had already gotten in my system and that i should be a- okay-ish >> yang: in west texa

baucus: it is important to kong -- i was at a summit between president obama and president xi jinping and i was struck in 2014 with how strongly xi jinping was upset with potential american interference in hong kong. it bothered him more than any other subject during that summit. taiwan,ng kong, it is it is to bet. those are strong issues with china. they will do whatever it takes to maintain as much control over those areas as they possibly can. if china feels more emboldened by taking this action, which clearly does violate the basic laws of hong kong or emboldened because the united states has withdrawn so much from dpp, -- does not have quite the same power and influence worldwide as it may have had several years ago, and xi jinping had see that. this action is quite ominous because there's not much united states can do. opinions.ly national i do not think that will have much effect. add to that, it will drive a wedge between taiwan and china. taiwan is sympathetic to hong kong. the more taiwan is sympathetic to hong kong, the more that will upset china and create tension between

in terms of 24 hours ago, president trump for the first time really escalating this, suggesting xi jinping himself was responsible for what president trump was saying was a disinformation campaign against europe and the u.s. prompt escalating this as well as lawmakers in the united states. -- trump escalating this as well as lawmakers in the united states. shery: so what should we expect in the economic blueprint for 2020z? tom: the focus is on the gdp target. deficitbined with the target will give us a clear as to how much stimulus we should expect from policymakers hear from the national people's congress, as they try to put a flaw under an economy that shrink 6.8% of the first quarter. the deficit target of 2019 was 3%. it is suggested that if you get ,nything below 3.5% this year it will be a disappointment. the other area we should look at is extremely important for china, the job situation. b.n.p. paribas saying as many as 100 30 million people may have lost their jobs or been furloughed as a -- 130 million people may have lost their jobs or been furloughed as a result of the coronav

if we listen to xi jinping, at the beginning of this assembly at also at -- the statements coming out of the ministry of foreign affairs, seems like beijing is on board thatthis new resolution has been proposed d by austrtra. -- it promotes cooperation. why are they on board with this comparar to the ininitial propol from a australia w which demandn inquiry y into the origins of te virus? first, it doesn't t make specifications about the origin of the virus, just tasks for a comprehensive, independent and -- independent i inquiry into te pandemic response. are askining for an inquiry that will be led by an independent committee within the committee that belongs toto the world health ororganization. it works well withth beijing. the speech does show how beijing is on a defensnsive position, having to justify having to counter axtxt position, narrative that says china's response left a lot to be desired. >> the taiwan n issue will not e discussed, specificalally whethr or not to give the island the statusus at the who. the island has been excluded sincnce 201717, why was thiss ququestio

took part in a in a media conference on friday morning and he said it was clear that president xi jinping no longer cared about what the rest of the world thinks and that hong kong and china were now on the road to confrontation once more let's be clear that you know while you know it is a it has been reported that it's china's parliament that is proposing this legislation this is come from president xi jinping i think last year when he saw the central liaison office here in hong kong having it's it's it's sort of symbol on the door destroyer. when he saw the chinese flag being desecrated on in t.v. news report that for him i think was the final straw and this new law is is designed not so much to restrict protests but also to deal with these acts of secession and separatism when people take part in marches here in hong kong sami often often they do so holding posters calling for an independent hong kong an independent tibet if that happens in the future people doing that could find themselves facing a long jail sentence or a dream brown there from hong kong thanks for that now also comin

it's been under attack specifically from many countries but especially the us and president xi jinping moved in many were any in his way to ass washing of those concerns from from different leaders around the world thank you for that katrina you live forests there in beijing. for taiwan meanwhile has criticized the world health organization for excluding it from its annual assembly foreign minister joseph who accuses w.h.o. of yielding to pressure from the chinese government beijing considers taiwan a breakaway province and as long objected to its participation in international organizations as a sovereign state taiwan has reported just 440 cases of coffee 1000 but says the w.h.o. hasn't provided huge the help it needs. woman the ministry of foreign affairs expresses deep regret that the world health organization secretariat has yielded to pressure from the chinese government and continues to disregard the right to health for the 23000000 people of taiwan. the people of taiwan are poor the to freeze behavior of the chinese government which claims to care for their health and welfare wh

i think xi jinping was trying to blend calls for an investigation.ually don't think it's going to work. >> bill: how come? >> because the truth eventually will. beijing is very powerful, which is no decision-making body for the world health organization, and it could very well block calls for a real investigation, which 116 countries, including the u.s., are making. the truth always emerges. it leaks out. chinese people are going to be talking about a pure chinese officials. also, we can see a lot and confer a lot from what has actually occurred, so i think china knows that it is going to be trouble, and as president trump said a couple days ago, this is going to look ugly. >> bill: let's see if the money goes out, first of all. keep an eye on that. we also learned today that scientist from the world health organization made two visits to wuhan. if that is true, is that significant? >> this is a statement made by china itself, that the w.h.o. did not ask for a visit to the wuhan institute. we know what the team is dead because there are reports. esse

on january 21st, china's leader, xi jinping, asked w.h.o.' hold back information about a human to human transmission and to delay a pandemic warning." republican senator tom cotton, one of the earliest critics of beijing's handling of the pandemic, weighed in on fox news yesterday. >> there is no question that xi jinping and senior officials in the chinese communist party were freshenin pressuring the w. the w.h.o. has some real answers to provide the world about why they bowed to chinese pressure throughout december and january and turned what could have been a local health emergency in wuhan into a global pandemic. >> melissa: meanwhile, "the new york times" reports the fbi and the dhs are preparing a warning that china's most skilled hackers and spies are working to steal u.s. research on coronavirus vaccine and treatments. charlie, i will start with you. it is in this report in the german newspaper intelligence that this phone call happened on january 21st. if you look back to that day, the morning's headlines were, "cdc details first u.s

let's also keep in mind if xi jinping gets into a fight with president trump, xi jinping is still thereg forward. we'll see about trump after november. >> right, china does not, china's leaders don't have to worry about elections which is why laws like this matter. ian bremmer, so good to have you on. we wish you a special memorial day. >> you, too. see you soon. >>> the milkman is making a comeback during these uncertain times. >> the phones started ringing for people looking for home delivery service. >> blast from the past, we'll have the story, next. ♪ here's what we want everyone to do. count all the hugs you haven't given. all the hands you haven't held. all the dinners you didn't share with friends. the trips you haven't taken. keep track of them. each one means one less person vulnerable, one less person exposed, and one step closer to a healthier community. so for now, keep your distance. but don't lose count. we'll have some catching up to do. >>> brazil's president greeting crowds at a rally without wearing a mask as his country experiences explosive growth in cases and death

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that's exactly right as you heard from president xi jinping china's back is kind of against the wall at the moment as the deaths from the corner virus mount worldwide so do calls for an independent inquiry into what has exactly happened with this epidemic in china and chinese leaders including xi jinping a very much aware that china's international image has taken quite a beating over this and he's trying to emphasize that china has been an active player in the world community the positive sides of how it handled the virus that china worked quickly to close its borders to look down the communities worst affected in china that it's working with the world health organization working with other countries to send mosques and other p.p. in respirators and ventilators and also that it's working with other scientists as you heard to develop a vaccine to fight the current virus but of course this is very much been the propaganda positive side of this of this message china has been for the past few months really tried to deflect criticism over its handling of the outbreak especially defending

his placating of president xi jinping. his parroting of chinese propaganda on things like the pro-democracy protests. he referred to them as riots last summer. really, a chinese propaganda point. he is trying to rewrite history and look tough on china because he's been so criticized for his coronavirus response here, at home, he's been trying to scapegoat china and, again, rewrite his own personal narrative. so he has a political imperative to be tough on china, not to mention the geopolitical one, so far as china is really forging ahead with degrading the one country, two systems, framework. and feeling more emboldened more generally. and the economic reality that doing something serious, like revoking hong kong's special status, would have economic implications at a time when he is really trying to point to economic recovery as a key campaign talking point. >> yeah. it's one thing to criticize china on twitter. it's another thing to actually do it. i mean, during the obama administration, you were part of options discuss

president xi jinping defends china's handling of the coronavirus pandemic promising billions to fight said and cooperation with the w.h.o. on an inquiry off to its areva. hello there i missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a decision on one of israel's most controversial cases a jewish settler is found guilty of a racially motivated off an attack that killed 3 palestinians. forces allied with the libyan government in tripoli say they've seized control of a major air base for more north. and india extends its coronavirus uptown for a 4th time bringing even more misery to migrant workers trying to head home. now the country aware the deadly coronavirus faster matched is defending its handling of the pandemic china's president says beijing supports an inquiry but only once the virus is brought under control at the world health organizations annual meeting she didn't bring also pledged money to help the covert 1000 response . china will provide $2000000000.00 over 2 years to help with the global covert 19 response and to help with economic and social de

meredith: we don't see any alternative to xi jinping at this point.ven though there has been criticism about the way china has handled the pandemic, we do think there is relative political stability in beijing. delivering forn the chinese people. that largely explains the focus on employment and poverty alleviation even in this challenging environment, rather than trying to make some kind of targeted growth number two direct the localities and investments. xi jinping has to deliver domestically in a very challenging environment at the same time that you have a more assertive chinese external policy that is not necessarily winning china friends despite its diplomacy efforts. i am a little curious about that. when you look at the pressure they've been putting on hong kong and taiwan, i guess this sort of made sense pre-covid-19, but given the economic out turn -- downturn, the fact that they seem to be putting more emphasis on those issues seems a little out of sync. i'm wondering how they square the circle. meredith: the work report on the one hand rei