[laughter] >> we will be writing of these witnesses on xi jinping and he came in the valentine 2012,2013 i followed quite a list ycharismatic leader so wanted o give you a chance to talk about xi jinping and his role in the current state of u.s. china relations and international and more broadly but one point a jamaican work for them wanted to addressil because i think it wil be of great interest to the audience is that under xi jinping, the chinese communist decided that china had more in common with russia than with the united states and i want you to help us understand why that is and how does it relate to xi jinping's leadership and the impact that xi jinping have the direction chinese policy then because were focusing on the u.s. try to relations, foreign security policy and might add that you described it xi jinping is wonderful marxist nationalist.m >> it is a term used and advance and i was trying to simplify this how i x see xi jinping, and ideological worldview come here it w is a marxist nationalism te fiber to impact that one stage further he will be when you look at xi j

how i see xi jinping's ideological worldview. it is as a marxist nationalist if i was to unpack that one stage further would be. when i look at shea on the economy, i see a marxist shift to the left. away from student enterprises. so towards state enterprises away from the private sector and in the direction of a greater equalitarian distribution of wealth. i see she is leninist on the party moving again politics to the left. training the the political space available for individuals or ngos or even the professional apparatus of the chinese state in favor of the central leninist discipline of a part of the chinese communist party. but i also see in the legitimacy stakes. xi jinping moving chinese nationalism to the right. that is a much more assertive chinese foreign and security policy. much more seeking to advance china's national interest internationally and and deep appeals to nationalist sentiment in a way in which he's predecessors by and large did much less of so when i use the term marxist nationalism, i don't use it. cas

takes aim at xi jinping promising to influence china's behavior by shaping the world around. haidi:haidi: a risk on mood on wall street. shery: broadcom steals one of the biggest tech deals in history with the acquisition of vmware. u.s. futures under pressure after the s&p 500 extended gains. we have solid retail earnings and falling mortgage rates boosting sentiment. dollar general forecasting better performance later this year. we have two stocks soaring. what a relief from last week when we had walmart and target. treasuries mixed. the dollar consolidating around april lows. we continue to hold onto a little bit of gains. u.s. fuel stockpiles tightened so that helped prices. it's what was happening around chinese earnings boosting the broader market. the golden dragon index gaining more than 7%. the biggest day in over two weeks. alibaba gained 15%, the biggest day in over two months given that the revenue and profit also beat estimates. a similar picture for baidu. haidi: could this be the turnaround for chinese tech? when it comes to the start of australian trading, the

rebuking xi jinping as a leader. and, a on whether covid or growth is a top priority, as industrial profits at that level for the first time since 2020. rishaad: geopolitics is the alpha for markets. renewed tension, china, taiwan. let's look at that with the backdrop of eastern europe as well. advancing equities. were looking at that and more. david: yes. taiwan leading gains. hong kong, we will look more deeply in to that in a few moments. 3%. weakness in the currency. that being said, some of the themes this week, weaker dollar, long dated treasuries have rolled over, and we are on track for a third week of yields falling. that opens up a window of risk appetite. the question is, time and time again, is this a rally within the bear market? yvonne: have we reached? the bottom is it in the price? we keep asking the same questions. you have alibaba, baidu, the top two tech giants, talking about the beats when it comes to sales, but there are caveats to earnings. alibaba dropped their forecast. they decided we will no

chatter intensifying about china president xi jinping's future.e may step down amid strict lockdowns and an economic slump. we have the senior policy analyst from longview global it almost seems even unthinkable that this would be chatter on social media, but here we are. how do you sort of grade this rumor? >> well, i think we have to accept that the anger is real, that this content is deep, certainly among the citizens of china, particularly in shanghai, and even, melissa, among some of the rank and file party members of the chinese communist party however, i think we have to slow down, because we have seen no signs that the elite members of the chinese communist party are in any way looking to replace xi jinping. and i certainly don't think a stepdown if that were to happen would be happening any time before the party congress in the fall but i will say, melissa, that xi jinping has been enshrined in the party documents as the core. so when i hear some of these statements about stepping down, what's important for the viewers to understand is th

that is prudent and xi jinping. -- putin and xi jinping. my father told me many times how they had tried so hard in the 1930's to tell people about stalin and how they could have avoided the slaughter that occurred in europe but nobody listened. we wrote the book in the hope that people will listen to who they really are and how they regard to human life and to alert people to the weapons they actually have, which are bioweapon's and creative diseases. these pose as most of the -- as much of a threat to all of us as nuclear weapons. those are the three primary reasons we wrote the book. host: in the book you talk about laboratory one. can you tell us where that is and why stalin established it? guest: it was created in 1921 by stalin to execute poisonings. it was really the first by war lab. went on to kill in a pavlova, the short story writer maxim gorky, the ambassador and many other people we reference in the book. guest: stalin killed perhaps 20 million and people would disappear, but there people who can't simply disappear. they are to

will the rhetoric from xi jinping and his cadres be enough to support sentiment around china's economy, given there is announced week this as a result -- pronounced weakness as a result of these lockdowns. it's worth reiterating, let's not forget about the read across to europe, a major export market for china. demand for luxury goods in autos is going to be depressed. let's take a look cross asset. 50 basis point is baked in for wednesday. the commentary from jay powell as you are aggressive -- as to how aggressive they want to go will be in focus. and investors looking at a fourth rate hike. features a stateside looking at remaking some of the losses friday. but only by .6%. the japanese yen comfortably below the 1.30 level. we have heard from the bank of japan saying we are continuing our easing. pressure on the yen continues, down .4%. part of that is king dollar. further strength in the greenback, implications for every asset from gold to emerging markets which we continue to read across. copper futures, in line with what we are seeing from china. president xi jinping saying we ar

but what xi jinping and communist china watch are a actions, and unfortunately, the actions just areacking up any words. china is still closing the gap with us militarily, they're gaining diplomatic ground by opening potential port access in western pacific states where joe biden and his administration have been caught asleep at the switch, and they're still stealing our intellectual property and not living up to their trade obligation. we need to take the firmer action not simply talk tough. maria: so what are they going to do, senator? i'm told that there is a serious debate right now within the white house, the globalists are saying remove these tariffs on china, and joe biden is trying to make us believe that if he removes the tariffs on china, that's going to impact inflation rather than undoing some of his own policy that has brought us to 40-year highs. are you expecting this administration to drop the tariffs on china? >> well, i think there's a lot of division inside the administration right now. on the one hand, they understandably don't want to be seen as weak on china sin

the premier and president xi jinping seem to be at loggerheads. premier lee desperate to get the economy back on its feet and what that means for officials at the local level as they tried to implement policies. the read across from what happened in the u.s. when it comes to retail. macy's looking strong, dollar tree as well but gap warning and lowering its forecast. the picture around the consumer and the health of retail in the u.s. is a little murky. in terms of what things are shaping up for in the u.k. and the rest of europe, you have that digest of what happened with chancellor rishi sunak yesterday, announcements of the windfall tax on oil and gas providers. the spanish ibex currently up 0.5%. the german dax up 0.4%, the italian ftse getting 0.4% as well. let's see how things are playing out across asset. we will bring your attention to what's happening in crypto. s&p futures flat, range bound after decent gains that we saw yesterday. it could be the first week where you see a gain for the s&p 500. the u.s. 10 year, not a lot of movement in

that's true, but xi jinping - pretty pointed stop.'ve spoken to each other, they've spoken to each other, they've spoken to each other, they've spoken on taiwan multiple times. the prc is aware of how biden presents himself in conferences, is prone to make more poignant statements than he thought to what needs to. this isn't the first time president biden has made such a statement, a few months ago a similar strongly worded statement towards taiwan which the white house quickly reacted and said, "this is not a change in policy." and even though president biden's wording was strong, it's not a change in policy. if there was a change in policy, there would be a clear rollout. you a change in policy, there would be a clear rollout.— be a clear rollout. you very much indeed. _ monkeypox is a viral illness which is normally found only in africa. it's a disease which can be passed from animals to humans — also on occasions from humans to humans. and now it is spreading among a number of countries in north america and europe, with more than

all of china's xi jinping show great love, great concern for world values ​​and great eastern wisdom,e rescue of the defenders of mariupol. china knows the history of suffering. china knows the price of independence. china knows what the struggle of two worldviews is like when the opponent does not know about diplomacy about culture, when harmony is destroyed against the background of the achievements of humanism. wheat what does the destruction of people in mariupol look like today? ukraine, like china, has a common destiny, a common belt, a common path. we believe that china will not stand aside, that it will not remain silent ukraine shares the ideals of china's great initiative of the silk road in my opinion, so we ask the venerable siedenpinia to do everything to save world values ​​to save the defenders of mariupol thank you natalka became a rushnyak the father of a warrior marnyuk of the mariupol garrison good afternoon thank you to everyone who is here everyone who joined the rescue of our fighters and all those who bring the truth about mariupol to the world, my name is lisni

we got more policy shots in the arm from xi jinping. tech stocks rose in hong kong.be the second day following the epic rally on friday. we can see whether there are some lights on those tech stocks when xi jinping and other government officials essentially said they support the healthy development of an internet space. policymakers have been saying they want growth. and they want jobs. the spot companies like alibaba and tencent and others, we will be watching them for signs whether there is lasting momentum from this policy move. the pmi's became a day after xi jinping and the pull barrel it got shot in the arm, -- hewlett barrow -- politburo. people are not optimistic about the economy right now. >> our chief north asia correspondent with the latest on china. plenty more to come on daybreak asia. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> we are here at the conference , [indiscernible] montreal and the canadian market as well. talk about the recovery is a big back to the pre-pandemic norm. speaking of a return to normal, as nearly back to return to normal in terms of day today. >> i

. >> brennan: xi jinping is watching what is happening in ukraine and he is taking notes.hat do you think his lesson is so far? >> he and putin have had a common narrative about the decline of the west, we are paralyzed, we are polarized, we can't get anything done, the aligns was divided and lost its purpose and so on. boom. we totally underestimated the west. we underestimated the united states's willingness to take the lead again. we underestimated the willingness of the europeans to come together and the united states to put this coalition together, and we underestimated how fast and how severe the sanctions are that they could place. so maybe the west isn't as weak as we thought. >> brennan:. >> the second 11 is looking at the russian military performance, he has to ask himself, what if my equipment isn't any better than the russians? what if my troops aren't any better than the russians? maybe my military is not as good as they are telling me they are. the chinese have given the russians all kinds of rhetorical and political support, but they are doing very little co

i was with xi jinping with a translator -- we each had a translator. by the way, i turned all my notes over. [applause] he looked at me and said, can you define america for me? i said yes, i can. one word, and i mean it from the bottom of my heart. the one word that defines america better than any other country in the world -- possibilities. we never believe there's anything out of our reach if we set our mind to it, and we have never failed when we set our mind to it. if it is going to space or to the bottom of the ocean. this is the united states of america, forgot's sake -- for god's sake. i just told you about those computer chips they are going to start making in ohio. we invented those chips. to help power nasa going to the moon. they gave us a military edge in the cold war. we kept the chip industry alive, brought down the cost of making them, build a market, but then we stopped investing in ourselves. these chips are now predominately made overseas. we learned a hard lesson during the pandemic. 1/3 of core inflation we faced last year is becaus

it has been on xi jinping's agenda as an issue for a good while now and i wonder, were china to do somethingthe next two years as long as perhaps joe biden is still president, with the us intervene? because thatis with the us intervene? because that is a huge question that needs answering.— that is a huge question that needs answering. yes, and so one certainly _ needs answering. yes, and so one certainly cannot - needs answering. yes, and so one certainly cannot rule - needs answering. yes, and so one certainly cannot rule out. needs answering. yes, and so| one certainly cannot rule out a chinese invasion. i personally think a military heavy invasion at this point, after what we have seen in ukraine is very unlikely but you can't rule it out and the us would undoubtedly come to the defence of taiwan with its allies including japan because if it did not, if taiwan was lost, it would give the chinese leadership a new strategic advantage from which the united states and its allies would have a very, very hard time recovering. have a very, very hard time recovering-— have a very, very hard time

willam: do you believe one of the speech transcript directly implicates xi jinping? >> one of the most important minister of public securityina' 's from the 18. this is quite a record-breaking document. it basically says the central government things the reeducation camps are great. that reeducation is going wonderful in the region has to continue, but there is one problem. the problem is xi jinping himself knows the camps are overcrowded, they are overflowing, and therefore xi jinping himself, according to this speech has told the government look, xinjiang needs more please cards, larger camps. reeducation camps are expensive to run but beijing is going to help cover the costs. willam: i know you are protecting your source, but what can you tell us about receiving these documents? >> i received them through soci media. i was contacted anonymously. i looked at the material and it was unbelievable. i looked at it bit by bit, i communicated to the source, it was quite a credible interaction but at the end of the day, the files speak for themselves. i don't like to trus

past several years, two years, maybe this zero covid strategy has been met by the great leader, xi jinpingy correct and cannot be changed. authority at lower levels will lose theirjob... so you are saying this is a strategy that comes right from the top and that is why it is being adhered to so strictly, but i suppose the government would say it is working, the numbers have remained relatively low when it comes to deaths? it relatively low when it comes to deaths? . . , relatively low when it comes to deaths? , ., ., ., deaths? it caused a lot of deaths? it caused a lot of death from _ deaths? it caused a lot of death from other - deaths? it caused a lot of. death from other diseases, other illnesses, the lockdown, medical and hospital... they have massive universal tests for everyone, even every day, and then they pick up anyone who tests positive. and then they declare they have cleared up they declare they have cleared up the virus in society. that's not the case at all. we appreciate _ not the case at all. we appreciate you - not the case at all. we appreciate you coming on to talk to

secretary of state antony blinken has taken aim at chinese president xi jinping during a speech thataid out the administration's approach towards china. sec. blinken: rather than using its power to reinforce and revitalize the laws, agreements and principles, the institutions that enable the success, beijing is undermining them. under president xi, the ruling chinese communist party has become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad. dani: blinken went on to call beijing the most serious long-term challenge to the international order. he also said that washington will seek to influence china's behavior by shaping the world around it. we are joined by bruce einhorn. this is some pretty strong linkage. what do we make of it? bruce: you are right, it is strong language. there are no new policies, no new initiatives in this speech. this is more secretary of state blinken laying out the u.s. overall approach to china. among the harsh statements that made, he also accused china of pursuing asymmetric decoupling. he said china is seeking to make china less dependent on the world

and if with whom we had to negotiate, then with another person, xi jinping, it was precisely similar, people are different. seryoga, this is some monstrous unimaginable thing happening in the center of europe in the 21st century in the civilized world. however, from now on, a blank, insurmountable wall is being erected between russia and civilization for many years, maybe decades. i would dream that between russia and the civilization that you are talking about, but there would be a huge tall wall, so that there would be same-sex marriages behind this wall, which are covered by the church and theft of private property, which are considered sacred and violation of all the rules of international lies the revival of nazism. i would like it to stay there and it is for this that today there is a fight to keep us from this civilization. and now i want to return, as promised, to the beginning of your speech. we are absolutely convinced. that all the phrases that in this way russia restores some historical justice and protects the brothers of the slavs from the nazis are just a cover to satis

essentially xi jinping said, blind expansion of enterprises like alibaba and the like, financial fraud, corruption and at the very end, slowdown in growth. well, now that we have seen a priorities that xi jinping and others and the pboc talk about growth and growth and jobs. those are the priorities now. shery: does that mean perhaps we could see chinese assets being supported? andreea: this is shaping up as a contrarian view. as some investors are starting to dip their toes and look at a chinese stock. they are betting that the lockdowns, the restrictions once they are lifted, this is a market that is ripe for rebound. by all means, valuations are cheap. the csi 300 index is mired in a bear market and you also have promises of a stimulus from the government. look, that is notwithstanding the uncertainties of a zero covid policy. we are bracing for a set of numbers in beijing but chinese equities are thrown in the mix also. haidi: let's get to vonnie quinn with the first word headlines. >> thank you. sweden is set to apply for membership of nato. russia's invasion of ukraine has ended

>> if i'm xi jinping i would think twice about the taiwan situation.ot that they don't believe in -- they will always -- it's not that china's vision of china -- taiwan is different, it's just that how the world has responded, how the world came together to respond in terms of russia, to respond against russia, right? that's the coalition that the biden administration was able to build. if i'm xi jinping i would think twice about it. >> do you have a sense of how far the united states would be willing to go when it gets involved militarily as president biden just promised to do in taiwan? >> i think for president biden it might be different with a different president. for this president i think he made it pretty clear this is, again, not the first time, sort of implying this. so i think for president biden, for this president -- this president if china were to attack taiwan, i think he means it when he said we will get involved militarily. >> dr. terry, great to have you here. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> more than 100 confirmed or suspected ca

xi jinping has hade it very clear that his ambition is to reabsorb taiwan into mainland china in a wayext few years over the horizon type threat at this moment. >> while president biden was meeting with world leaders, the defense minister of japan blasted china and russia for flying bombers near japan during the summit saying, quote, while the international community is responding to russia's aggression against ukraine, it is unacceptable that china take such action in concert with russia. it's a clear indication the security environment surrounding our country is becoming increasingly severe. that statement comes after rauch's foreign minister sergey lavrov said russia's ties with china are growing. what does this strengthening partnership between china and russia mean for the u.s.? >> you know, i think the bottom line is it is absolutely a kind of a two-front u.s. versus autocracy situation. remember, there was the beijing meeting between vladimir putin and xi jinping on the eve of putin's invasion of ukraine, and they released a 5,000-word manifesto that promises essentially an unli

in a meeting led by president xi jinping, the committee reaffirmed the commitment to the lockdown depended approach. it also said authorities are making progress for china's worst outbreak since the first in wuhan more than two years ago. germany says it's ready to help eastern european nations wean themselves off of russian energy sources. the largest economy is pushing ahead with plans to substitute russian oil and build up infrastructure to import lng. the pledge was made after discussing resource sharing with the prime minister of czechoslovakia. the covid-19 death toll climbed to over 15 million and its first two years. that's according to a new report from the who. it is about one in every 500 people globally. the figure is far higher than the official numbers, and includes deaths directly and indirectly caused by pandemic disruptions. data from individual governments put the number at just 6.2 million people. billionaire larry ellison is back with -- twitter. crypto exchange finance, brookfield, fidelity, and qatar holding have given new financing commitment, totaling more than $1 b

in recent days, president xi jinping has praised his country's zero covid efforts, vowing to fight anycritics. over the past two years, we've lived through china's military-like mobilization, rapidly building holts, mastering mass testing of tens of millions at one time. designing a sophisticated contact tracing system. essentially, sealing off their borders to the outside world. wanting to keep on the story, i've not left china since 2019, making this departure a long overdue homecoming visit. shanghai's airport, once one of the busiest in the world, is now a lonely experience. on the departures board, only two slated to leave on this day. on the floor, sleeping bags and trash where stranded travelers have camped out. they wait here for days or weeks for a flate out. outside on the tarmac, sanitation in place. ground crews spraying each other with disinfectant. boarding the near empty plane. it finally starts to feel real. the disorder, despair, the chaos, the anger, the exhaustion. all of it feel so distant now. with a sigh of relief in a bit of survivor's guilt, leaving behind a cou

. -- president xi jinping continues to pursue strict covid zero approach.ijing are punished over covid clusters that flared up. john, in the words of george soros, there are two global leaders making mind-boggling mistakes. putin on the war but xi jinping sticking to zero covid policy that cannot possibly be sustained. it looks as if they have stepped up home disinfections. is this a major escalation in the fight against covid? >> good morning. i think xi does not feel like he has many options in the situation. with questions about the effectiveness of china's vaccines, with the vaccination rate for the elderly at a low level, the leadership feels like if they do not lock things down, china is in store for a relatively high summer of deaths. they are paying an economic cost, doing as much is possible to try to soften the blow, but as far as we have seen to date, we have not seen the formula in terms of how to control covid and still have a growing. dani: we have seen the biggest weekly gain in two years. to what extent does the optimism fade when you have s

people will be watching closely this week following xi jinping's comments at the politburo meeting fridaysentially saying that they are going to be supporting the development of the internet space and the platform companies. and sources have been tamed that -- been saying that it looks as though the pressure on these companies is starting to abate as growth is becoming a major concern in china. before this crackdown and before the pandemic, who were the big drivers of growth and employment in china? these big platform companies like alibaba and tencent, and they have been absolutely battered because of the regulatory crackdown, whether it is on monopolistic behavior or other financial issues associated with ant group. that ipo was scrapped in the final moments before that ipo went to a year and a half ago. so, this is a developing story. right now a little heat has been taken out of the story essentially because the evidence point that this was not necessarily jack ma. haslinda: a person named ma. could not be more vague than that. stephen engle, thank you. here is vonnie quinn with the f

shery: china's top government warning against criticizing xi jinping over the zero covid policy.phen engle is in hong kong. zero-tolerance for the questioning of zero covid. >> they are trying to stem the undermining of their policy. he seeks the third term this august at the conference. it's perhaps make or break on the zero covid policy and they are sticking to it arise -- amid rising criticism. shanghai is into its sixth week of a shut down. they had 34 cases of intercommunity transmission of covid. the requirements for a neighborhood to relax its lockdown is zero community transmission for three consecutive days. there is mounting criticism and frustration. beijing is in limbo. they're not and technical lockdown, but the restrictions are severely moved. we have all seen where the pmi and both figures and consumption tracking numbers, we can see that the economy is taking a hit. the standing committee, that's the all-powerful body of the government chaired by xi jinping put out a statement thursday night essentially saying that -- calling on the nation to fight against any spe

chinese president xi jinping's zero covid policy has sparked discontent at home and criticism from abroadena wang shows us how the heavy-handed approach sparked a bash lash in one of the world's largest cities. >> reporter: clouds of disinfectant sprayed over every surface. this is what's happening to the homes of people who test positive for covid in shanghai. the metropolis has been under the world's strictest lockdown for more than a month. but the rules are only getting more extreme. before, only positive covid cases and close contacts were sent to quarantine facilities like these. thousands of beds crammed together, or just camping on the floor. but now entire apartment blocs are being forced out of their homes over just one positive covid case, sent to prison-like facilities like these. this video shows shanghai residents arguing with police officers who showed up to take them to quarantine after someone on their floor tested positive. the officer says while spraying disinfectant, quote, it's not that you can do whatever you want, unless you are in america. this is china. don't ask

but covid containment is now a political campaign launched by xi jinping leaving them with little ors why we see them doubling down on the increasing enforcement of measures in shanghai and here in beijing as well. >> well, stephen, thank you. steven live for us in beijing. >>> i'm john here in cnn. >>> after the break, an alabama fugitive back in custody. and we have details on what he was planning before he was caught. ” more. - wooo. - wooo.. wooooo!!!!! woohooooo!!!! w-o-o-o-o-o... yeah, feel the savings. pricelinine. every trip i is a big deal. ♪ you inspired the lexus es to be, well... more you. so thank you. we hope you like your work. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ fanduel and draftkings, two out of state corporations making big promises to californians. what's the real math behind their ballot measure for online sports betting? 90% of profits go to the out of state corporations permanently. only eight and a half cents is left for the homeless. and in virginia, arizona, and other states, fanduel and draftkings use loopholes to pay far less than was promised. sound familiar? it

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. >>> shanghai is further tightening its lockdown measures after xi jinping pledged to double down onovid policy after a new rule shanghai residents living near individuals who test positive for covid-19 will be sent to a government quarantine center. will ripley is joining us live and hard for many of us to imagine the restrictions getting even tighter there. >> right, because in the western world when citizens started to revolt against these draconian lockdowns that were this place, people were out protesting, they were angry, and the same thing happening in china. people are protesting with their social media posts, sharing outrage and anger and frustration, whether that they can't get access to medical supplies or food or terrified that they will be sent to a government quarantine facility just because somebody in their building on the same floor of them tested positive. and we have a video from shanghai showing police standing in front of the door of an apartment telling residents that they will have to go for five days in to a government guarantee because someone on the same flo

. >> president xi jinping can afford to back >>> the country's taliban rulers have ordered women to cover their faces when they go out in public. the ministry for the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice said women must wear a hijab and it also caution women leaving home without security. >> they're returning to their crude way of the past. our thoughts are with the women of afghanistan who are now facing the hardest restrictions. >> u.n. ambassador ant know gutierrez tweeted. i once again urge the taliban to keep their promises to afghan women and girls. >>> european council president michel, he made a comment while visiting the atom he a panoramic visual presentation of how the bombing instantly devastated the city in 1945. michel's visit he to, he told reporters we have rules on arms control and we must protect them and strengthen them to secure peace and >>> it is time now for world weather. our meteorologist sayaka mori has the although the rainy season hasn't started for the main islands of japan, we are seeing days of rainy weather for parts of central and western japan. he

if you are xi jinping, you are looking at this and saying, this three-day war has been going on for more than a couple of months now. maybe that will happen if i invade taiwan. who knows how good my army and navy are since they have never been in combat. he is also seeing the very sharp and increasing sanctions, and he must be aware of vulnerability of the chinese economy. on the other hand, he also saw that president biden said essentially on day one, we are not getting directly involved because of the other side there is an repair power. . so he is thinking to himself, ah. so if i can get into taiwan fast , which includes mistake, he couldn't take kyiv, i can take taipei fast. so the critical factor here is a very centrally, what people make of the reliability of the united states. that is what ties all these things together. to give one other example, the abraham accords. there is an enormous amount of credit that goes to president trump trump administration for the abraham accords. but in the minds of the arab countries will continue to yield the abraham accords today, one of the rea

i mean xi jinping is a very, very smart man.formance and promise when you have never tried it before. is that big, am i really confident, you know, the nazis couldn't cross 21 miles of the english charges 160 miles in the taiwan strait. that's not nearly as obvious that you can get across. other things they can do frankly. they can declare a missile test zones. they could declare that they have naval exercises. they could do a lot of things to cripple taiwan and cut off commercial shipping. that would not shock me if they tried that game and we would end up having to escort ships to get into taiwan. but, i think for them to directly attack taiwan is a high risk and the failure of the russians to perform i think has made it a higher risk because xi jinping doesn't know how his military will perform the first time they go into combat. we have a pretty good idea because our people have been engaged for so long in the real operations that we are pretty confident at least for the moment that we can defeat the chinese that we have. to

. >>> chinese leader xi jinping gave a speech doubling down on the zero covid policy. there is some degree of lockdown that is affecting nearly 200 million residents across the country. the financial hub of shanghai has been battling an outbreak of covid infections. it has been under a citywide lockdown since the end of march. cases have been rising in the capital of beijing which has seen mass testing in recent days. will, what is behind this? is beijing sensing the discontent over this policy? >> reporter: they may be sensing it but they're certainly not responding in the way that western countries did when their populations were fed up with lockdowns and being forced to stay in their homes for weeks and months on end. in beijing, they don't have a shanghai style lockdown yet but there are certainly growing fears that could happen. even though total number of cases is still extraordinarily low by almost any international standard. you're talking about just over 2,000 active cases in the city of about 20 million people. those 2,000 cases are enough for beijing to clos

this and you get tired of hearing me say this for the last two years, i was at the tibetan plateau xi jinping and i traveled with him and more time than any other world leader hass in china and he said coming is talking about america's power and i said mr. president it's never been the good bet to bet against the american people. no one hasto ever won betting against the american people and by the way can you define america for me and it was me and him and it translator. i turned all my notes over to the state department. it matters. what happened was he said you need to find -- and this is the's truth. it's been quoted a thousand times now. one word, possibilities. we are the only nation in the world the only nation in the world that has come out of every crisis stronger than when we went and it, every single time regardless of what it was. no other nation has done that. it's one of the reasons why in some places where called the americans. we know we can do anything. we know this nation leads the world. we stand up for freedom and we are the united states of america and when we are united t

and yet despite that criticism, xi jinping uses language that reminds some as the cultural revolutionaying things like if chai doesn't advance, they will fall back and saying that everyone needs to be tested and quarantined and treated if they are suspected to having any sort of connection to covid. let me read and you portion of what president xi said about anyone who has a die ssenting view. he said all levels of government must adhere to the policy and fight any words or acts distorting or doubting china's covid control policy. so if you read between the lines, it means the secret police could be after folks who dare to speak out against this crushing restriction imposed on them. again, you are talking about almost 200 million people in china for cases that would be considered low almost anywhere else in the world. >> the numbers are extraordinary. will, thank you very much for bringing us that. >>> capitals across europe are watching the ukraine war with deep worry about their own security of course. finland isn't waiting to see if russian aggressions threaten its territory. it is

things in shanghai took a rather ominous turn after the country's supreme court leader president xi jinping made clear last week he was not only sticking to a strict covid policy and in his words to resolutely fight with any doubts, distortion or rejection of this policy and that's exactly what has happened since, especially in shanghai where we're seeing officials increasingly adopting military campaign-style tactics to not just contain covid, but also, of course, prove their loyalty to xi jinping. that's why we're seeing a growing number of shanghai residents being resealed into their homes after the authorities actually eased off lockdown restrictions for a few days in districts without positive cases. that's also why we are seeing a growing number of residents including the elderly and those who are sick with other illnesses being forcibly removed from their homes and sent to hastily built quarantine camps with horrific conditions and that includes not only positive cases, but in many cases people living on the same floor or in the entire building. so all of that obviously very unnervin

and they're at a loss for that, too, but it's become political and it's from president xi jinping thatporter: feels weird. feels really strange. honestly. it's -- i'm still processing it. i lack words. but feels ultimately good, i'm grate. . >> glad you're here safe and healthy. great work there. >> reporter: thanks, don. >>> and thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. hand in hand, h very mh so you should really be focucusg on both, and definitely at the same t time. sensodyne sensitivity & gugum gives us a dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. by brushing with sensodyne sensitivity & gum at home, it's giving you the relief that you need and the control that you need to take care of your oral health. and it creates a healthier environment. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. if you have this... consider adding this. an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare. medicare supplement plans help by paying some of what medicare doesn't... and let you see y doctor. any spec

if you are xi jinping, you are saying this three day war has been going on for more than a couple of months now. would that happen if i invade taiwan? he is also seeing the very sharp and increasing sanctions and he must be aware of the vulnerability of the chinese economy. on the other hand, he also saw president biden who said essentially on day one -- on the others there is a nuclear power. he would say to himself, if i can get into taiwan fast, putin's mistake, he couldn't take kyiv, i could take taipei fast. i think the critical factor here is very centrally, what people make of the reliability of the united states. that is what ties all these things together. one other example, i think there is enormous amount of credit that goes to president trump in the trump administration for the abraham accords. but in the minds of the arab countries who are continuing to build the abraham accords today, one of the reasons they are doing that is there is a more reliable ally against iran than the united states. all of these things i think will bring back the question of, the judgment that

he tended to have that same soft spot for other strong men, whether it was putin or xi jinping.s. in some ways i think as i write with regard to our china policy, and i think the administration was successful in consolidating an american consensus, if you will, that china is a strategic adversary, but his willingness to engage xi jinping and treat him as a friend in some ways undermined that. >> in your book, you say trump and aides were suggesting ideas such as shooting american protestors in the nation's capitol, using the military to stay in power, bombing america's neighbor cerin mexico, and dipp al baghdadi's head in pig's blood. what do you say to critics who say the time to share those stories was before the 2020 election so the american people could make an informed choice, not now when you're trying to sell books? >> well, look, it's a great question and an issue i struggled with through a good part of my tenure. i write about this in the opening pages, should i stay or should i go? my view was, at the end of the day, given i had the chance to continue advancing good in

xi jinping is learning from those mistakes. and according to u.s.oing to be much better at it. in other words, he's going to be quicker and more brutal and more devastating and make sure that he gets that capital city before they have a chance to rally the international community to defend them. and he's going to know what our economic playbook is and he's going to fight the information war better than putin did. what that should tell us in view of u.s. officials i talk to, we should learn from the ukraine war as well when we think about how to defend taiwan. we should give them things they're going to need to fight a's ukraine-style uinsurgency ad invasion. all those things are being poured into ukraine which makes it really hard for the taiwanese to get their hands on them. >> do you think, josh, these historic sanctions against russia will give president xi pause? i mean, is that something that could be a potential deterrent from an invasion of taiwan? >> well, it's definitely causing him to think about how to insulate china from that type of san

he insisted washington does not want a new conflict, but he said under president xi jinping, the communist- chinese party is becoming more oppressive abroad. territorial pursuits in the south china sea and accusing beijing of sting with russia and the invasion of ukraine. >> we do not seek to block them as a major power, stop china or any other country for that matter from growing their economy and advancing the interest of their people. we will defend and strengthen the international law, agreements, principles, that maintain these securities, protect the rights of sovereign nations, and make it possible for all countries including united states and china to coexist and cooperate. china is the only country with the intent to reshape the international order and increasingly the economic, double medic, military, technological power to do it. beijing's vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world's progress over the last 75 years. >> they denounced the remarks is typical disinformation denigrating beijing. >> the international order and interna