you mentioned that xi jinping was coming, well, the conversation actually came down to the fact that china would like the russians to be there, and this is obviously a consequence of lavov's talks with xi jinping already there, because lavrov flew there, on the eve. how do you rate it, now it's special. importance to china and to xi jinping in the current conditions, because both scholz, and biden and macron, they show a desire to convince xi jinping that his word counts for a lot, including for putin, well , if we don't have time at all was, i would say so, the word sidzhenpin is absolutely worthless for putin, sidzhen absolutely... does not affect putin's position in any way, moreover, i can say that in this pair the leading role is played by putin, not xijinpin, it is putin can impose that other position on xi jinping, this is the first, second, and president joseph biden and chancellor scholz in dialogue with xi jinping resolved their issues, that is, the united states of america and germany. today, germany is china's number one partner in terms of gross figures in europe. the nu

biden with xi jinping, xi jinping spoke in putin's clichés.a very dangerous thing, it indicates that there is simultaneous tension and intensification of actions on the russian-ukrainian level front, in israel, and an attack directly from the territory of iran on israel, and there it has been going on since october 23 of last year, the iran-israel war, but now the attack is being conducted from... the territory of iran, and in the end it is necessary to understand that the missiles to reach iran was sometimes flown through the territory of four states. can you imagine, once planes with civilians were shot down, which flew into the territory of a foreign state. now 300 objects are flying over the territory of iraq, syria, lebanon, saudi arabia, because they were firing not only from the territory of iran, but also from yemen. and it becomes as if a common phenomenon. then you should not be surprised at what can develop further. from here it is obvious that we are not only talking about ukraine, we are talking about the critical situation that e

maria: why doesn't he hold xi jinping accountable? subsidized products, i said it many times, john ratcliffe told me china's strategy is very simple, rob, replicate, replace, that's what they're doing in the ev area, isn't it. >> you talked about intellectual property theft and replicate, they copy what we have, try to make it better and replace with deeply subsidized products. maria: tell me what's going on with tesla. >.>. >> there's a china ev car maker that's putting out a car that looks like a porsche. it's competing against tesla. tesla dropped 8% on the markets. maria: that's why tesla stock plummeted. that's the strategy, rob, replicate, replace. come up with something that's an american made company that has the intellectual property that they can steal, replicate it and then ultimately replace it. >> there's a deeper concern about the chinese evs as well. and that is that these evs have a tremendous amount of information gathering equipment and i think there's concern here in america that information can be gathered and in t

can you talk about xi jinping and how china views those leaders? guest: president trump believes an intimate relationship between him and the chinese leader will help facilitate progress on his priorities. president biden believes in the power of personal relationships but is less certain that public praise of xi jinping will deliver progress on american priorities. president biden is outspoken and direct and candid in his articulation of oppression she should be -- president xi jinping's system. president xi jinping is absent being called a thug, but he is a cold-blooded calculator and i doubt that he has a clear preference between one candidate or the other in the upcoming election. host: let's look at what former president trump said in a fox news interview in for very putting the idea of increasing tariffs on chinese exports. [video clip] >> your critics are saying you are going to start another trade war. >> look, china came in and they were going to destroy our still industry. >> you're talking about 60% tariffs on chinese terrace. >> i would

this call between president biden and xi jinping? when you ut the biden and xi jinping?ng? when you put the two readouts, one i biden and xi jinping? when you put the two readouts, one from washington and one from beijing, you would think they are a different call. i spoke for about 90 minutes but while the us side has emphasised china's support for russia during the invasion of ukraine, and author issues in the south china sea, on the chinese side, what they are emphasising is what they are emphasising is what they are emphasising is what they call the insurmountable redline in us— china relations, coming as no surprise to anyone, and that is taiwan. they emphasise they should be no push by the biden administration or any other officials within the united states to push for taiwanese independence. beijing believes the self—governing island is its own territory and will see that as a complete redline. interestingly, from my point of view when i read the statement, high up in he is baiting's concern that the us may place further restrictions on its technology and trade an

paul: as haidi mentioned we have chinese president xi jinping paying on his way to europe.t been there for five years. what achievements is he seeking on this trip? rebecca: this is a really interesting one. that kicks off may 5 and we are going to see him going to france, hungary, and serbia. and even that selection of countries is quite interesting here. his first trip to the european union in five years. france, some really interesting color details coming out from what we are going to expect from that trip. but for president xi jinping, emmanuel macron poses a figure that is perhaps more receptive to his messaging. we know that micron is planning to invite president xi jinping to his grandmother's house in the pyrenees. it is a very reciprocal, personal gesture that in some ways matches the invitation xi jinping extended to macron when he was last in beijing, inviting him to the governor's residence which is where xi jinping's father was posted. we are all seeing this personal touch coming in here. but it will be a challenge. these big issues over ev's is still raining.

xi jinping's direct speech. i always thought that it was a big country must behave like a great country, have the mind and responsibility of a great country. china and the united states should set an example and. behavior and take responsibility for world peace and promote global unity. i would really like comrade xi jinping to direct some of his diplomatic energy to his unofficial ally, the russian federation, which is waging an aggressive, opportunistic and unjust war, attacking us, ukraine. well, accordingly, sijin ping talks about what is big the country must behave. as a great country to have the mind and responsibility of a great country, but for some reason he is telling the us secretary of state and not putin, but anyway, another important signal, china and the united states must take responsibility for world peace, well we'll see , will the people's republic of china join, even as an observer, in a certain peace conference to be held in switzerland in june, well, but, but, but, china, so to speak, the m

in another case, as demonstrated by president biden's conversation with xi jinping, xi jinping spoke in putin clichés. this is a very dangerous thing, it indicates that at the same time... tension and intensification of actions on the russian-ukrainian front in israel and an attack directly from the territory of iran on israel, and there it has been going on since october 23 last year, the iran-israel war , but now the attack is being carried out from the territory of iran, and it is necessary to understand in the end what missiles to reach iran flew sometimes through the territory of four states, you imagine. once planes with civilians were shot down that flew into the territory of a foreign state, now 300 objects fly over the territory of iraq, syria, and lebanon. of saudi arabia, because they fired not only from the territory of iran, but also from yemen, and this is becoming a common phenomenon, then we should not be surprised at what can develop further, from here it is obvious that we are not only talking about ukraine, we are talking about a critical the situation that exists

i think xi jinping is part of that. every part of the country, to disrupt our upcoming elections. xi jinping has h tentacles on everything we do. the belt and a road initiative, he's building ports, airports, highways in third world countries, our hemisphere as well, trying to create influence and squeeze out taiwan. maria: it's ridiculous that the u.s. military, the pentagon would be buying drones from china. dgi drones, the pentagon and u.s. military are using drones in our military from china? >> this is yeah. >> i. th-- crazy. these are drones that come from china. most every municipality in america has bought them. they're mapping out our country and sending back this information to china unbe knowns to them in many cases. the federal aviation administration made it so difficult for american companies to build drones that we're buying them from china. we need to create companies and taiwan wants to do this, set up their own drone manufacturing. the u.s. would be a part of that and let's get american friendly drones

well, to hope that xi jinping or the chinese leadership as a whole, in good faith simply because theyalked to olaf scholz or any of the other western leaders, will make such a decision and tell putin to stop the war, for that... it should obviously not be done, but if you analyze how the events are developing around, conditionally speaking, the prospects for a peaceful settlement, let's call it that, around ukraine, then this activity, both european leaders and eastern leaders, not so long ago we heard about erdogan's plan , a peace initiative, which, by the way, was not. officially confirmed by him, all this may indicate that there is a very active backstage, so to speak, part of the negotiations between the event. with progress, and it is very complex, it is multifaceted, that is , there are economic aspects here, and actually scholz's visit was mainly devoted to economic issues, business restrictions, respectively, german in china, chinese in germany, but there are also cards on the table that is called security, and here i would focus on... because the west is in a position, you k

secretary blinken and china's president xi jinping?- president xi jinping?esident xi jinping? yeah, well, of course, we've - president xi jinping? yeah, | well, of course, we've been asking about this, is it going to happen? neither side said that it will. part of the reason i think it could happen is that he's already had his meeting today with wang yi. the secretary of state. what will he do for the rest of the day? something must be on the agenda and so, it's quite possible we could see a meeting between the us secretary of state and china's top leader xi jinping. that would be pretty significant stuff. stephen mcdonell therefore us in beijing, thank you. new york's top court has overturned the 2020 rape conviction of disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein, paving the way for a new trial. in what was a 4—3 ruling, the state's court of appeals found mr weinstein did not get a fair trial, saying the judge made a mistake by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the charges he faced. the accusations against mr weinstein bega

of state antony blinken met with the chinese president xi jinping in beijing friday as part of mr.'s second visit to china in 10 months amid a significant increase in dialogue between the two powers after recent tensions . the u.s. top diplomat says it there is progress in some areas, praising beijing for efforts to stop the supply of fentanyl reaching the u.s.. the two sides addressed areas where significant differences remained including china's claims over taiwan in the south china sea and china's support for pressure in its war on ukraine. mr. blinken sat down for an interview with the bbc and told us washington will act if beijing does not stop supplying russia with items used in its assault on ukraine. >> 70% of the machine tools pressure is getting are all coming from china. 90% of the microelectronics. we have been clear that it is doing two things. it is helping russia perpetuate aggression against ukraine. it is creating a growing threat to europe because of russian aggression. what i am hearing from europeans is deep concern about this. for china, if it wants better rela

remember xi jinping made the same promise to president obama and trump any violated both of them.den opening the border which means the chinese fentanyl is coming across the impose no cost on china for fentanyl. this is been permitted by biden and the american people ought to be outraged, this is the one issue that should drive the american people to the polls on november 5 and say were no longer going to allow the chinese to kill americans because this is been permitted by the current president of the united states. maria: all of this in the face of the bad behavior from communist china what is america doing we keep sending cabinet officials to meet with her counterparts. janet yellen just back anthony palenque, trying to get the communication going between the u.s. and china. lloyd austin speaking to china's defense minister on tuesday claiming to reestablish top-level military communication for the country for 2022 this was austin's first time speaking to the defense minister who took over the role back in december. we have no evidence that received real communication between t

moreover, i can say that this couple has a leading role putin will play, not xi jinping.is putin who can impose this or that position on xi jinping. this is the first. second. and, president joseph biden and chancellor scholz in dialogue with xi jinping. resolved their issues, that is, the united states of america and germany. today, germany is china's number one partner in terms of gross figures in europe. the number two country is france. if we look at the composition of the delegation, more than three dozen representatives of large multinational corporations arrived in china together with scholz and national companies of germany, that is, in fact, this is the main content of this conversation, of course, in the course of this dialogue , it was necessary to repeat the component of the conversation that took place with joseph biden, which related to issues related to influence on moscow, influence on moscow, primarily problems of peace in ukraine, and on the basis of the un charter. i.e. withdrawal, liberation of territories, and complete withdrawal of troops and so on.

putin's aggression in ukraine -- xi jinping and china, he was sobered by what he saw.e expected the russian military was going to walk right over the ukrainians. he did not expect that the united states and our european allies were going to stand up in support of the ukrainians and did not expect that we would be able to impose economic costs on russia and absorb some economic costs ourselves and so i think as he looked at time one contingencies and a lot of his other ambitions that had an impact, the surest way to undo that impact is for us to be seen walking away from the york -- ukrainians right now. the short answer is there is a great deal at stake. >> if we don't help ukraine, if putin marches into ukraine, does he stop there or does he have ambitions beyond that? >> i don't think his ambitions would stop there and his ability to use what he calls hybrid warfare, a combination of conventional military threats and efforts to undermine, you know, countries either in nato or on his borders -- moldova, for example, faces a really important election. we have seen lots

all signs point to president xi jinping's directive at a meeting with the national academy of sciences to prepare for an invasion of taiwan by 2027. actions indicate their ability to meet the xi jinping's chosen deadline to unify taiwan with mainland china by force if directed. china considers taiwan its own part, so the past few years have been complaining about... china's aircraft and ships near the peninsula, so taiwan is forced to test its air defenses to presumably protect its territories. at the beginning of april, taiwan's ministry of defense recorded 30 aircraft of the chinese army around the island, some of which came dangerously close to the northern part, where the capital is located. by 6:00 a.m. local time today, 30 pla ​​and 91 pla aircraft were detected operating around taiwan. nutley for... from china's invasion of japan has decided to build shelters near taiwan, local media reported. the government has issued instructions for the construction of underground storage facilities on remote islands in okinawa prefecture in the event of a military crisis involving taiwan. at

bill: none of us should underestimate of xi jinping's china or the nature of competition. in the cold war between the united states and the soviet union, it was about ideology and military competition. with the people's republic of china today, especially under xi jinping, it is a wider computation extending and -- competition extending into cyberspace, outer space and the technology competition. it is the revolution that is changing the way that all of us live, work, flight, and compete. and the chinese leadership are determined to win that competition. that is the challenge before us. a lot of that challenge extends into east asia and i think that xi jinping is determined in his political lifetime to control taiwan. it does not mean he is planning tomorrow, next month, or next year but we have to take seriously that ambition. you are right. i think that president xi faces a lot of domestic challenges and economic recovery or growth rate which is not moving nearly as fast as he had hoped after covid. a lot of challenges inside his own country right now too. china, with al

if this can be done and the tension is building up here, taiwan will not resist, because from xi jinping's rhetoric in the conversation with biden, it is clear how china is starting to pressure, china has intensified its actions and pressure to the philippines for territorial claims, the situation between north and south korea is escalating, and in a conversation with joseph biden, xi jinping simply... rejected the arguments of the president of the united states of america regarding the situation and the rhetoric of the north korean dictator, regarding the completely senseless aggressive actions of the chinese military against the japanese military and the philippines in the south china sea and so on, that is, the tension is increasing. i am not even touching on the situation that the post-wagnerians are spreading in africa, it is there too extremely unpleasant, including for the united states of america and for european partners. mr. roman, i also wanted to ask you about the global peace summit that will be held in switzerland on june 16-17, xijin pin, who met with olaf scholz, said that

ceos meeting with xi jinping,, ceo, schwartzman expected to go, fedex, qualcomm others, quick i wantues before you go that is the report yesterday seemed to put a rate cut in june in doubt what are your thoughts on the federal reserve and macrostory right here? >> have well, you know i have been watching your program earlier this morning, i want to make one comment to answer your question, but when joe biden says the economy is doing great jobs are great, this and that i think what there are missing i think what media is missing not necessarily you, the rest of them i think you know scenario inflation, the economy two different things, but inflation the price of milk up 40% in 3 1/2 years the price of soda up 45%, nahb home builders price of dwellings up 47% usually government numbers ever since increased money supply by 40% other covid what is happening, affected that poll 65% disapproval rate what american public is doing is central bank central bank treasury, fiscal policy of congress have taken inflation to new levels i think you know it i know it everyone that spends a dollar to

xi jinping things any gain for democracy is a loss for him.aiding russia's more on ukraine, and alex according to secretary blinken likely is interfering in our elections in the united states. we have been through this with vladimir putin before. we know who xi jinping would want in power, and that will be donald trump. donald trump is always fulsome in his praise of xijinping. he makes a hash of democracy in the united states, chose to discredit it, but also to the interests of xi jinping. discredit it, but also to the interests of xijinping. again thatis interests of xijinping. again that is peculiar because what xi jinping that is peculiar because what xijinping is doing is actually sacrificing good relationships with the united states and indeed along with europe for the sake of siding with vladimir putin, the sake of interfering in an american election. this in my view is not the way previous chinese leaders saw things, and it is a sign ofjust how insecure she feels. sign of 'ust how insecure she feels. ., ., sign of 'ust how insecure she

diplomatically, i think xi jinping's stance has not changed .n the trade relationship, we are in some type of moderation in how much china wants to be seen as propping up russia's economy. >> that moderation is interesting because we know that these engagements by germany, by the u.s. government at a time of vulnerability for china's economy, is there a sense that there is more willingness to compromise from beijing? >> this is a heightened sense that china needs foreign investors right now so both yellen and schultz have come with this very coordinated message that the companies do not feel fairly treated in china and this is something they are trying to take seriously. they need foreign investors and companies from these big economies to want to invest in china so i think, you know, they really are trying to put forward this very accommodative message that, you know, foreign companies are welcome here and they are more open so that means, you know, the big investment forum in china recently, you know, leaders were really kind of sending that m

still ahead, xi jinping warrants america's top diplomat against vicious competition. the implications with jim of inter-percent thick. elon musk meets with chinese premier during an unannounced visit. the main agenda next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> it is good to see. elon musk speaking during his unannounced speech in china. watching lg and samsung seeing upside. samsung ahead of the final numbers is up by 4/10 of 1% as we continue to get analysis on the significance of the trip, let's bring our chief north asian correspondent stephen engle in beijing. does this give us an indication where market priorities lie for elon musk? stephen: he was supposed to go to india, he canceled that because of the troubles and pressing needs at home. and also in china. we did not know he was going to make this visit. yesterday into beijing airport, this is physical stream. we do not know if he is on this one, you can connect the dots because he is in beijing. we have the video, he is the premier. he was the former party boss when elon musk and tesla set up their big factory in 2019. t

xi jinping humiliated blink enon friday when xi jinping allowed himself to be photographed saying when he was told that blinken was leaving that evening, xi jinping turned around and said good. you no, -- you know, so really blinken just needs to -- just needs to understand thats he's been humiliated, needs to stop it. the biden administration continues doing this because they believe it's important to have dialogue but they're just making the chinese more arrogant. so the biden administration has completely -- his policies that sound good to tier but they're making the -- to the ear but they're making the situation far worse than it needs to be. maria: instead of putting sanctions on china or of taking all those chinese companies off the u.s. exchanges which of course have individual investors investing and funding the expansion communist china, we hear there's a possibility of sanctions on the israel defense fighters which is just extraordinary to me so we haven't seen any pushback on any of the bad behavior from communist china, wrote they're trying to threaten the idf. i've got to

well, a somewhat curious statement from the head of the people's republic of china, comrade xi jinpingina and the united states, xi jinping spoke with secretary of state anthony blinken, and gave his reaction accordingly. china and the united states must take responsibility for world peace. straight "i have always believed that a big country should behave like a big country, have the mind and responsibility of a big country. china, the united states should set an example of such behavior and take responsibility for world peace and promote global unity. i would very much like to for comrade xi jinping to direct some of his diplomatic energy to his so-called unofficial ally, the russian federation, which conducts aggressive zagardnyka. an unjust war by attacking us, ukraine, and accordingly, sijin ping says that a big country should behave like a big country, have the mind and responsibility of a big country, but for some reason he tells the us secretary of state, not putin, but in any case another important signal, china and the united states should take…

america's top diplomat, antony blinken, has been meeting with the chinese president xi jinping in beijingtalks covered several areas of tension between the two countries. president xi told secretary blinken that china and the us should be partners rather than rivals. mr blinken for his part raised concerns over china's support for russia in its invasion of ukraine. he also raised what he described as china's unfair trade practices in a number of key industries that will drive the 21st century economy. solar panels, electric vehicles and the batteries that power them. china alone is producing more than 100% of global demand for these products, flooding markets, undermining competition, putting at risk livelihoods and businesses around the world. now, this is a movie that we've seen before, and we know how it ends, with american businesses shuttered and american jobs lost. president biden will not let this happen on his watch. let's speak now to our north america business correspondent, erin delmore. in the background to this meeting was a warning we heard from president biden recently that

and china's strategy for further economic expansion in the european union, as part of the tour, xi jinping plans to visit three countries: france, serbia and hungary. we are with france we can see certain improvements in relations, in particular, starting with last year's visit of emmanuel macron to beijing, there is indeed quite powerful economic and trade cooperation, which most likely xijin ping, which will be discussed, will take place during the meeting with... macron in paris between swizimpin and the french president, serbia is an important country in the context of arms supplies, because serbia buys chinese weapons and chinese equipment, while ceasing to buy russian equipment, russian technology, but hungary is currently considered as a trojan horse, as a certain gateway for china to europe. ms. alina, please stay in touch, because we will have to mention another high-profile american visit to china by a businessman. mask, but first i suggest you listen to what the significance of antony blitken's diplomatic mission to china is, reported bbc correspondent mcdonald. it is interestin

we know that xi jinping met with biden at the forum just before, well, almost before the new year, iteems in november, and apparently there they talked about russia and ukraine, and it is clear that the chinese have their own interests, there are no eternal enemies, china always has eternal interests so it was, and yet, can the united states of america encourage xi jinping to be more, let's say, more demanding of putin, because we see that china is influencing russia when the russians are starting to say, we will now get nuclear weapons, it seems to me that the chinese factor is almost the most important, it seems to me that it is even more important than the american one, maybe i am wrong, but the chinese are still restraining putin with these calls of his, that we will now... strike with tactical weapons, we will strike with strategic weapons we will get nuclear weapons, or am i mistaken, that the united states of america still lacks a little bit of arguments for, are you mistaken, after the november meeting in san francisco, which you are talking about, just a few days ago, a long,

china's fundamental position on the ukrainian issue is four obligations. proposed by president xi jinpinghopes for a quick ceasefire. china supports the convening of an international peace conference recognized by both russia and ukraine, where all parties will be able to participate on equal and fair terms to discuss all peace plans. that is, beijing wants, on equal terms, for russia to be in switzerland at this global summit after all, and about this the president of switzerland said at one time that only zelensky started... negotiations with the swiss regarding the holding of this summit, she spoke about the fact that it is necessary for the russians to be at this summit after all, is it possible to assume that china will be at this summit without this equality, as they say that there will be no equality of conditions when there is ukraine and russia, it is possible, maybe they will make some reservations there, maybe they will be present there for... one notch less, that is , there are nuances there, but i do not exclude that china will go there, the chinese position, it very simple,

situation surrounding the upcoming meeting. of french president emmanuel macron and chinese leader xi jinping, because in principle french foreign minister stéphane sejournay flew to china, and in the chinese capital, he said that the french are waiting for clear signals from beijing regarding the war in ukraine. let's listen to what stephane sejourne had to say. i would also like to express france's concern regarding north korea's supply of ballistic missiles to russia and the identical allegations against iran. this indicates a significant escalation of the conflict. the full sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine is at stake, as i said, the stability of the international order is also at risk. mr. igor, sijin pin is not flying to paris just for a visit, and it's been there for 60 years. there will be diplomatic relations between china, modern china, i mean france as well, and there will be, there will be some kind of celebration, but the fact itself, xi jinping is meeting with emmanuel macron, how persuasive macron can be in conversations and discussions with xi jinping, given th

as long as xi jinping says he will take taiwan by force, there's a real chance that our relationshipo what extent, though, is the us testing boundaries? we heard also from wang yi, saying the us needs to be careful not to step on china's red lines. we've seen this massive wave of sanctions, of technology export bans by the us. we know that there is increased presence by the us and allies, militarily, in the region. what is that doing to the relationship? is that increasing tensions? well, again, this is all china's aggression. china changes its lines, i mean, they literally change their lines on the map all the time to just take over more territory by map geography. it's ridiculous. they are threatening their neighbours, notjust taiwan, but the philippines. they've been very aggressive, risking filipino sailor lives with their actions in the south china sea, they are regularly risking the lives of the united states sailors and airmen during patrols in the region, so all of this aggression is coming from china. remember, america is not saying we want to take over any territory, we're

so i think xi jinping in beijing is seeing an opportunity that people in taiwan don't want war, theyon't want conflict. we are still leaning towards the dpp, that there is cracked, and opening for soft power to work and that's what i think xi jinping is trying to leverage. haidi: as much as appealing to the taiwanese people, it is also an outward projection given the timing of this meeting, given as we see the u.s. and japan meeting at the moment? stephen: absolutely. , again, xi jinping and his comments at the great hall of the people, as he shook hands with the former president, essentially said, "external interference cannot stop the historical trend of national reunification." "external interference," in not so veiled job at the united states against the backdrop of increasing tension, if you will, over the whole taiwan issue. in the past year or two years since nancy pelosi visited a here and a half ago, there have been ramped up efforts by beijing either militarily, economically as well as diplomatically to further isolate taiwan because of the rising bifurcation, if you want t

because effects.the chip names -- president xi jinping and president biden have held phone talks. eal details on the phone talks and what indeed was discussed. china's official news agency reporting that president xi has spoken with president biden of late. we know in that context is the fact that the u.s. has been limiting sales of u.s. chips to china, worried about the up occasion of technology in china. has that worried or in any way changed your opinion on how much to go into these names that are exposed to china, nvidia being one of them? erika: those u.s. companies that sell equipment to make chips have also been banned from selling their most advanced equipment into china. i think at the end of the day what that does is it forces semiconductor companies to look for locations outside of taiwan, outside of china to build. what we have seen is an unprecedented demand of government support to build more semiconductor plans. that's a great tailwind for equipment for years and years to come. on top of that the semiconductor chips themselves are becoming more semiconductor equipmen

does and how it responds because xi jinping is often consistently warning against getting inv involvedthe right information and accurate information from the chinese officials on the economy there. obviously they have a massive property problem. fitch downgraded the outlook on china's credit rating keeping their sovereign debt but lowering the outlook from stable to negative china's finance minister said it's disappointed by fitch's decision claimant and failed to take into account beijing's moves to improve the quality and efficiency of its government spending. i always laugh when china responds to things about america's pushback and it picks up things of the u.s. is doing everyone's focus on government spending in the u.s. so the answer is about government spending i feel like it's constant mocking. your reaction. >> first of all is good that they downgraded the outlook for china but they are late moody's did this in december and essentially the market is not understanding about the situation in china. we don't know the total country debt to gdp ratio but it's not as people report. i

new productive force is what xi jinping wants to unleash, so they are in a pickle taking janet yellen'sg because again, they have marching orders from xi jinping to get this capacity in new productive forces. the new three if you will. haslinda: thank you for the insight, stephen engle. not everyone agrees with janet yellen. bloomberg opinion columnist david thinks her viewpoint is a protectionist disaster that could muddy done that zero omissions. yellen's complaints go against 200 years of economics, what is the problem? >> this is one of the most well attested arguments, doctrine of competitive advantage. janet yellen did an interview with the wall street journal where she said standard textbook economics would say if a country is selling you cheap goods you should buy them and send your thank you notes. i do not agree with that anymore is a paraphrase of what she said. this is a well attested lesson, a standard thing. look at tesla 10 years ago when they announced their first gigafactory and said they would produce in one year more batteries than the world produce the year before or

_ all of the undertakings of xi jinping have been again violated, there _ jinping have been again violatede been again violated, there is a genocide taking place in china, _ there is a genocide taking place in china, the — there is a genocide taking place in china, the building of a surveillance state, so the west has to be _ surveillance state, so the west has to be clear — surveillance state, so the west has to be clear eyed. this is an autocratic— to be clear eyed. this is an autocratic and increasingly totalitarian government that has no democratic checks on its power. it is showing — democratic checks on its power. it is showing aggression in the south of china _ is showing aggression in the south of china sea and says that it has de facto _ of china sea and says that it has de facto ownership over taiwan and is menacing — facto ownership over taiwan and is menacing that as well which is very important — menacing that as well which is very important for silicon chips. so, yes, _ important for silicon chips. so, yes, we — important for silicon chips. so, yes, we have to cooperate where

can you talk about xi jinping and how china views those leaders?uest: president trump believes an intimate relationship between him and the chinese leader will help facilitate progress on his priorities. president biden believes in the power of personal relationships but is less certain that public praise of xi jinping will deliver progress on american priorities. president biden is outspoken and direct and candid in his articulation of oppression she should be -- president xi jinping's system. president xi jinping is absent being called a thug, but he is a cold-blooded calculator and i doubt that he has a clear preference between one candidate or the other in the upcoming election. host: let's look at what former president trump said in a fox news interview in for very putting the idea of increasing tariffs on chinese exports. [video clip] >> your critics are saying you are going to start another trade war. >> look, china came in and they were going to destroy our still industry. >> you're talking about 60% tariffs on chinese terrace. >> i would s

you can't afford to have a more aggressive china and a more aggressive xi jinping. do you have to maintain the status quo? what is the actual threat, you think, that china does become more aggressive and moves on the region like taiwan? >> yeah. if you're going to make an argument that you have to be nice to xi jinping all of the time otherwise his behavior will be worse and that could be true and that's a friend of china to try to placate him and it won't last and this would be my warning to the market. your report stated this very well. secretary yellen is very respected in china. she's also going to turn 78 this year and if president biden turns 78 she will not be the secretary of the treasury. we will lose the people of her age that will lose u.s.-china cooperation and we'll get younger people who see xi jinping as aggressive so perhaps this is the right thing to do for the next six months and it will not work in 2025 because we will not have another secretary yellen to make these visits and try to calm everyone down. >> is that what you mean, you don't see anyo

the president talked today with chinese xi jinping over the phone. their first conversation since last november. white house correspondent peter doocy has that part of the story tonight. >> tiktok came up today, yes. >> that's the headline from today's hour and 45 minute biden xi chat their first since november. >> he made it clear to president xi this was not about a ban of the application but rather our interest in divesture. >> the biden campaign remains on tiktok as the biden white house mention to sign a house passed bill that limits it if the democrat controlled senate ever brings it for a vote. >> we have said we support that bill. we welcome that bill. >> leaders also talked about fentanyl, artificial intelligence, and ukraine with biden asking xi to stop backing russia's defense industrial base. >> we're starting to act like vaso, sort of pleading with china to do the right thing or act responsibly. >> at home ba biden assailing trump threat to democracy. r.f.k. jr. thinks that's backwards. >> listen, i can make the argument that president b

annabelle: that was karen lee and sticking with china president xi jinping has ordered the biggest reopen station of their military since 2015. it will affect cyber warfare. for more, let's bring in john lu who joins us in hong kong. how much is this about preparing china for modern warfare? >> that is a big part of it. if you look at what they have done, they have elevated the importance of aeronautics and cyber, both areas where there is intense competition with the u.s.. i think that is probably the driving force. there is another factor as we have seen a big turnover in the defense arena and the defense minister was removed and the head of the strategic support force being removed, that person is not been seen a while so there are some political things underneath this as well. we have antony blinken headed to china. paul: the latest in a long procession of u.s. officials to head over to china. will this be a diplomatic tightrope? >> on one hand he is making the trip because of the meeting between president xi and biden in san francisco and they will continue what has come out of the m

and participating in xi jinping's hideous spectacle is even worse.mmitting crimes against humanity, he's authorized multi-decade program of genocide and he's killed americans with covid and fentanyl and he's planning a war against us. so american business executives shouldn't be doing this. and the biggest villain of all is tim cook who has been leading the cheer for china and trying to make sure that not only apple is protected but also that other companies stay in china. so really what we've got is a situation where he's just devoid of any morality, any humanity, americans should be extremely concerned and they should be demanding that apple get rid of him. maria: well, let me move on and ask you about these national security threats that are obviously front and center. satellite images reportedly show that china built a mock-up of the key area of taiwan's capital city, where the presidential office and other government buildings are located. it's out in the desert at a military training site. a taiwanese defense analyst posting the satellite image

passing the supplemental that would give approval to xi jinping. i'm glad when it mattered the most, finally, finally, finally, both parties came together to do the right thing for security. i thank president biden for his leadership, i thank leader jeffries and speaker johnson. i think chair murray and vice chair collins. and particular thanks to my caucus. we have the most unity. we stick together. that gave us strength. we air our differences and tried to come together. i would like to give a leader mcconnell again. a lot of negative comments within his own party, he knew the right thing to do and he stuck with it. so when it matters most, america summons the strength to overcome the pole of partisanship. under the watchful eye of history the senate stood tall. questions? yes? reporter: [indiscernible. ] >> time was of the essence. the white house -- look, the white house needed aid and it was a lot of aid. they are doing everything they can to make sure humanitarian aid gets to the people. i have a lot of confidence. we've had an amazing three

trip planned includes meetings with chinese officials shanghai beijing not clear if meeting with xi jinpingu.s. is prepared to act, if china does not end its support for russia's mill, word gotton i am not sure what he means by "we're prepared to act" do you? what is the act? because i have a high likelihood china is not going to stop supporter of russia what do you think. >> they have got alliance really is close to the heart of the foreign policies moscow and became talking about chinese companies invitationed aide to russia but remember, these companies acting at direction of the communist party, at the direction of the jooek we should not -- companies -- but you the should the be swinging regime itself that is the party that is directing bad acts we are trying to stop, you know, right now whole trip is i think a disaster, we trends propaganda already before bl got on plane saying the americans need us so there are they are spending secretary of state to our magnificent capital, this is just making the chinese much more arrogant making them behavior even worse. maria: um-hmm gordon you a

president biden spoke with china's president xi jinping for an hour and 45 minutes. the white house calling it candid and constructive. among the topics, tiktok, with president biden reiterating concerns over the app's ties to china. lester? >> all right, gabe, thank you. >>> in baltimore, we're seeing the first underwater images of the bridge disaster that happened a week ago today, showing how dangerous it will be to remove the wreckage. here's senior correspondent tom costello. >> reporter: the u.s. navy's 3d sonar images provide the first view yet of the francis scott key bridge now resting on the muddy bottom of the patapsco river. >> what we're seeing in the water is that the wreckage has been completely collapsed. some use the term pancaked. >> reporter: 3d provides the best visuals of the razor-sharp metal the dive teams will face as they start cutting the bridge into smaller pieces to be lifted out of the water. the water itself so cloudy and dark, divers can only see a foot or two in front of them. shining an underwater light only reflects back like a snows

( ♪ ) mugs. ♪ bmo ♪ biden discussed over the phone with chinese president xi jinping today, the whiteoday's talks as a check in the first conversation between the two world leaders since they met here in the bay area last november. fox news rebecca castor has more now on that call. for the first time since their high stakes meeting in november, president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping are checking in. speaking on the phone tuesday morning, we believe that there is no substitute for regular communication at the leader level to effectively manage this complex and often tense bilateral relationship, the leaders continued discussions on artificial intelligence and counternarcotics cooperation, with biden also pressing xi to maintain peace with taiwan and criticizing china's trade with russia during its war with ukraine. >> not much is going to come out of it, primarily because she doesn't have any respect for what we do. >> the call comes as the two nations work to reestablish regular dialog, despite biden recently referring to xi as a dictator and china's ongoing clashes with

. >> tik tok did come up was raised on a call with president xi jinping it is important.e services so operating in the united states put at risk americans personal information and broader national security. he's been very clear about that including manipulation. >> tik tok is the tip of the iceberg. the report shows chinese hardware is infiltrating corporate networks in the number of chinese internet connected devices in the u.s. surged by 41% in the past year. the chinese government could coerce manufacturers to spy on american businesses and users on these systems but china is brushing off concerns, the chinese government spokesperson saying after the phone call, the u.s. is adamant on containing china's high-tech development depriving china of legitimate right to development. china is not going to sit back and watch so clearly china stop trying to play nice and sweet talk their way out of band. >> thank you so much for that report. joining me now from house foreign affairs congressman dan weezer, it's great to have you. a report we got coming as the president joe biden

this is the president that held a meeting with china's president xi jinping. less than robust and a public service message and voter haves a right and need to know about the extent of the president's cognitive decline. the third hour of varney starts now. stuart: ben domenech is joining me now. how can this president do another four year s? what say you? >> stuart, this is very important. i think it's the president clearly showed in this event someone out of sorts and not able to not given as a self-incriminate for have -- script and minor and straightforward president in the past history should be able to make this type of event, something they do when they're rolling out of bed and just capable of form ago sentence and he's not capable of doing that and he shows the wear opportunistic his age in a way that not all politicians do. there's politicians older than him still serving in the senate who are perfectly capable of putting two words together. but unfortunately we really do have to reckon with this as a significant problem for the united states. it's not

when we think back to the response of xi jinping to the last trip by blinken, he described to meetingvery good. he was quite optimistic or at least praise the developments the two sides intimate. while it is positive we do have these conversations between lincoln -- blinken and his various counterparts, the backdrop in the u.s. has made things more hawkish, we have seen warm intimate policies aimed at potentially curbing china, and it is hard to see the more optimistic, more positive response from xi jinping this time around if they do meet as expected. tom: thank you very much for breaking down the story around the u.s. and china. antony blinken meeting with his counterpart and potentially meeting with the chinese president later today. china's cleantech dominance is growing despite an all ensuring push from the west. our deep dive on the energy transition and those supply chains. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: china is manufacturing clean energy technology at a breakneck pace, driving down prices on everything from solar panels to lithium ion batteries. this is causing a he

make no mistake, the chinese commonest party, xi jinping could cup this up to monitor. this needs to be the number one agenda item with china. secretary blinken brought it up last year. they started a working committee on fentanyl to get to the bottom of it which is the chinese communist party's where blowing off the administration and a year later as blinken meets with chinese officials there's been no real progress. david: well, i believe we got stuck, video got stuck. there we go. finish your thought. having trouble with your audio. >> comical precursors to the united states. david: i just want to try, you are breaking up a little bit. the issue of iran. i encourage china to use its influence to discourage iran at its proxies from discouraging the conflict in the middle east. is that going to affect iran's behavior? >> no. what we've seen is the influence china has exerted in the middle east is to make sure their own ships have free passage. the houthis are the terrorist group doing a lot of these attacks against civilian and military ships in the red sea. the houthi