xi jinping himself probably worries - think xi jinping himself probably worries and l think xi jinpingprobably has prettyi dark assumptions of what us intentions _ dark assumptions of what us intentions are _ dark assumptions of what us intentions are for— dark assumptions of what us intentions are for china. - intentions are for china. interesting. _ intentions are for china. interesting.— intentions are for china. interestina. . . , interesting. when china says that we have _ interesting. when china says that we have a _ interesting. when china says that we have a cold - interesting. when china says that we have a cold war- that we have a cold war mentality. _ that we have a cold war mentality, i— that we have a cold war mentality, i think- that we have a cold war mentality, i think they i that we have a cold war- mentality, i think they have mentality, ! think they have their— mentality, i think they have their own cold _ mentality, ! think they have their own cold war- mentality, i think they have| their own cold war mentality and they— their own cold war mentality and they believe

the five years of not being in europe -- president xi jinping._ president xi jinping. official reason given — president xi jinping. the official reason given is _ president xi jinping. the official reason given is it _ president xi jinping. the official reason given is it is _ president xi jinping. the official reason given is it is the - president xi jinping. the official reason given is it is the 60th i reason given is it is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of relations between france and the new china back in 1964, a very significant moment back then when charles de gaulle sorta broke the western front and up relations with communist china back then. the significance of that now is that as back then, the chinese were very happy with this notion that france would break ranks with the rest of the western world, that it would say that there was a third position, a third option, if you like, one of being in the west but also holding out a hand of friendship to the chinese. that's very much what the chinese. that's very much what the chinese would like to believ

is this a binary choice for xi jinping? - cold war. is this a binary i choice for xi jinping?ia here on this war? ., ., , ., g , war? no he does not. xijinping ist in: war? no he does not. xijinping is trying to _ war? no he does not. xijinping is trying to have _ war? no he does not. xijinping is trying to have his _ war? no he does not. xijinping is trying to have his cake - war? no he does not. xijinping is trying to have his cake and i is trying to have his cake and eat it — is trying to have his cake and eat it to _ is trying to have his cake and eat it to. what we saw before putin — eat it to. what we saw before putin came was xi jinping tour of europe _ putin came was xi jinping tour of europe and throughout the tour— of europe and throughout the tour he — of europe and throughout the tour he thought he would go to countries — tour he thought he would go to countries that would be more sympathetic to china or that he would — sympathetic to china or that he would he — sympathetic to china or that he would be able to make the chinese _ would be able to make the chinese ca

for the first time in 5 years, chinese leader xi jinping came to europe: france, serbia, hungary. why did he choose these countries? we are talking about this on the bbc live from london. i am yevgenia shedlovska. in all three european capitals, xi jinping is greeted with honors, a red kelim is unrolled in front of him. in france, which was his first stop, xi jinping spent two days visiting emmanuel macron. after the reception in paris, they had a private meeting. the leaders of the countries went to the mountains near the border with spain, there macron v as a child, he went to visit his grandmother, in belgrade today, president oleksandr vucchich met sijinpin, and the next stop of the chinese leader will be. but let's look in detail at what the results of all these meetings could be, and let's start with france. i will say right away that china is primarily interested in trade. prevent a trade war with the eu over chinese electric cars. trade was one of the priorities of the talks for xi jinping, but apart from that, there was talk of russia's war against ukraine in paris, as we

and that is music to xi jinping's ears. what xi jinping wants to do is divide the eu from the u.s.ot want to face an alliance of washington and brussels, let alone all the other european capitals. so it's greatly to china's advantage to courage macron in the idea that europe needs to be strategic and autonomous. and that means from thunited states. that is what he is trying to bring about. christian: isabel hilton speaking to me earlier. day two of that summit taking place tomorrow. we're focusing tonight on events in the middle east, a fast-moving situation with news that hamas has accepted the terms of a cease-fire deal, but prime minister netanyahu saying in the last few minutes that the war cabinet has decided to continue its operations in rafah to pressure hamas into releasing hostages and will not be accepting cease-fire. these are the live pictures in rafah. a little more subdued than the earlier celebrations we saw. in the last few minutes we have been hearing more targeted airstrikes in rafah. quite a busy day in terms of the military picture in rafah. announcer: funding f

there he is with the chinese president xi jinping greeting various other dignitaries. the russian president will have talks with xi and will visit if other areas while he is in china as well. that welcome ceremony just taking place at the moment. let's get back to our guest, just in terms of what you are saying around expectations for rate cuts, inflation is well, have another chart that shows super core inflation did in fact tick up a little, 4.9 percent. do we need to be a bit mindful here also that even though the fight against inflation might not be over yet, we've had a few false starts before. >> that's right, but we can look at the data from a different perspective, making it into services versus goods. the services side is a little more sticky, but goods inflation, for example the notorious used cars component, which skyrocketed during the pandemic, that is falling quite sharply. the good side of things is certainly better than services but the overall blend, we need to continue to watch this closely, but september think still makes sense for that first cut. pau

i think xi jinping will offer a warning to the european warnings not to play.t is not going to be an easy conversation. >> you mentioned it is not an easy conversation. this visit will be the joined by the eu commission president. this comes after she had a talk about derisking from china and citing the economic leverage and geopolitical leverage. has this relationship changed in the last year or has that dynamic changed that the eu commission president was worried about? >> i think two things here. firstly, the things happened within europe with the supply chain security and resilience given covid and russian invasion of ukraine. things changed with the chinese economy which is to say the tension makes the economy upgrade. the chinese companies are not competitors with the europeans. that is why the structural challenge is there despite the words. >> how do you read the fact that the german chancellor said he had something previously scheduled? during his visit to china, he had a lot of tough talk for chinese leaders? >> for the german chancellor, he had a mee

very abstract peaceful position of china, but putin talks about flattery, expresses flattery to xi jinpinginese the peace plan and so on, yes, this is, i would say, an eastern tactic, he wants to... align himself with xi jinping, wants him to be his ally, the main goal is to keep china from participating in the global peace summit, and that russia, together with china, maximally reduce the number of participants in the global peace summit. why? because holding this summit, agreeing on a certain position, a joint position on the future of negotiations, strengthens ukraine's position. on the contrary, it breaks the tactics and strategy of russia, which wants to... force peace on its own terms, that's what it's all about now is a struggle, there is no talk of any negotiations right now, especially on russian terms, yes, and that is why putin’s task now is not to seize more territories there, no, he wants to force us to peace on his terms, and there the territorial issue is not the main one. thank you, mr. volodymyr, this is putin, he told the chinese xinhua news agency before the visit that t

with french president macron. we understand that xi jinping's visit to the european continent is ongoingr france, macron traveled to serbia and later to hungary. so, ihor lytvyn, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine to the people's republic of china in 99, 2001, is in touch with us. years, co-leader of the ukrainian-chinese business council. glory to ukraine, mr. ambassador, we congratulate you. glory to the hero, i congratulate you and our viewers. well, first of all we would like to ask you about the project. from what we heard both from the french president and from xi jinping, yes, regarding russian aggression against ukraine. we understand that a lot depends on the position of official beijing, in particular on the position of xi jinping, but the chinese are extremely fond of general diplomatic phrases. you have a word. yes, with this, china is very different, because it repeats and loves. repeat, that we did not create this conflict, as they call it, we are not a party to this conflict, but we are the very state that is trying to stop this conflict, stop the esca

ursula fonderlajen, who is generally tougher towards xi jinping than president macron, who very much wants to develop personal relations with the chinese leader, that is , new approaches will be sought, and after all, china, we will, as a collective measure with the help of our ... western partners, will encourage to the point that he would at least, if not stop, then greatly reduce cooperation with the russian federation, especially with regard to dual technologies. mr. yaroslav, well, we understand that in order to reach a certain compromise, both sides have to make certain concessions, yes, because without concessions , compromises do not exist in nature, and here it is important to understand what compromises china is ready to make, from its side , and on the other hand, what... compromises is europe ready to make, so in order to ensure peace on the european continent, how do you think they might look these concessions on both sides? concessions can be, i think, minimal at this stage, because we have already seen how in may of last year mr. macron came to beijing and to gongzhou

well as his political statements, he does not rule out, i mean the head of the communist party xi jinping, he does not rule out any military attempts to solve this issue, how do people in taiwan react to such statements and how are the authorities preparing for a potential such a threat? actually voted for the new president and this is already the third time, the third term, when a representative of this party actually becomes the president, i.e. the third such has not yet happened, i.e. usually after two terms the people get tired of a particular party and vote for another candidate, but now it is clear that... taiwanese people, they are satisfied with the government, that is, but all this also indicates that taiwanese people do not want any unification with mainland china . taiwan must certainly strengthen its defense industry. of course, just as the predecessor of the president started this initiative, they will, the current government will continue these... peace, because peace cannot come, for example, as in hong kong, it is not exactly peace as such. yes, we know that is the experie

did not want to go to brussels, but brussels came to xi jinping in paris and... the conversation betweenthe three ursula fondelein, president macron and siddharth was very hot, very hot emotional, and it continued in the corridors of the elysée palace, and it was noticed by journalists, how red and hot sidzenpin was. it is obvious that the inherent style of ursula funderlay, where she was able to press and show. all those violations that beijing allowed, supplying moscow with dual technologies, financing russia's military-industrial complex, and in principle both macron and ursula fonderlein stopped at the fact that the relationship between beijing and the liquid european market will depend on how much beijing will carry out further sanctions. pay attention, at this time, including in washington. the issue of preparation of a sanctions package in relation to china is defined. from my point of view, on the 16th-17th, all this will be announced in detail to the moscow führer, and the situation now looks like china has nowhere to go, it has to narrow its support for the kremlin, or another

this is a strategic move by xi jinping. later we will get export numbers from china, expected to pick up a little bit in april from the dismal numbers of march. it all plays into xi jinping's strategy of underpinning growth through exports if they cannot sell it at home and that is a political hot potato obviously in the u.s. and in particular europe and places like germany. haidi: our chief north asian correspondent stephen engle there. the international charm offensive continues for the chinese president and we see signs of work done by chinese diplomats with criticism recently from the u.s. and western allies approach to dealing with israel and the conflict in gaza. we heard from a top chinese diplomat, taking the microphone at the united nations last week, criticizing the supply of weapons to israel. by the united states. very interesting dynamic in terms of the attempts to try to capture -- i's, perhaps, some would say come on the international criticism the u.s. and its allies have faced over supporting israel. the pr

chinese president xi jinping is on a six-day tour of europe.ng the countries he visits are france, serbia and hungary. against the backdrop of tension over trade issues and european accusations against china in espionage, for the first visit to the old world in the last 5 years, xi jinping chose the countries with which beijing has the most friendly relations. the first country on the tour is france. president emmanuel macron makes statements from time to time. as for strategic autonomy, these words are sweet music to xi jinping. next, xi jinping visits serbia and hungary, which are much more receptive to chinese investment and chinese diplomacy than other european countries. china is trying to avoid a trade war with the european union over disputes over exports china's cheap electric cars, the production of which is subsidized by beijing. another problem is the restrictions for european companies on the chinese market. about imbalance. trade relations between the eu and china have been warned by european diplomats for a long time. it is in our

, but xi jinping continues to play his cunning game. he made some good deals with france, but that exclusively economic agreements. even some french media wrote after this meeting that sidneypin even got angry when president emmanuel macron together with the president of the european commission ursula fonderlein... tried somehow to persuade him to put as much pressure on russia as possible, but it didn't work out, further, then serbia and then hungary, this is precisely what he wanted the most, he wanted to go in order to probably quarrel first of all between the european union and the united states of america, showing that no, look, there are such people in europe, like viktor orban, or like aleksandr vučić, who also want peace talks, you know, one of the world's biggest buyers of luxury products from french brands, it's from food, drinks, clothes, jewelry, diamonds, it's in china, by the way , then you can just not some certain things, well , again, money that is beneficial to europe, which china is ready to pay for many things, techn

but xi jinping has found a friend in the hungarian prime minister. let's bring up these quotes.ry telling. they are obviously written by the various propaganda departments. xi jinping says, "we will strengthen cooperation in our development strategies, deepening ties in trade, finance and our economies." he also wrote an op-ed, "on the path of chinese development and modernization, we see hungary as a traveling companion." viktor orba¡n, prime minister of hungary, know this was clearly written by the chinese state organs because the word unswervingly is not necessarily used anywhere else in the world except within the propaganda departments of beijing. [laughter] this is a chinese readout of what viktor orba¡n told xi jinping essentially, "hungary does not identify with the rhetoric of so-called overcapacity or de-risking. hungary's determination to deepen corporations china is unswerving and will not be interfered by any force." that is where they are now. a strategic move by xi jinping to go to a very friendly e.u. member nation to get this investment. [laughter] haidi: who do

to hungary there, well they they said there, then xi jinping will already deal with expansionary goalsonly 10 documents are planned in hungary and about strengthening their cooperation, there will also be a stop in serbia, well, in my opinion, in a certain way, china is simply mastering its territories in europe already at that time a state when there will be no war in europe, that is, in ukraine. dear mr. arthur, well, on the other hand, we can see how... only technically, so to speak, technically, xijin ping played with the reasons why he did not go to the self-appointment procedure of putin's self-appointment to moscow, that is, we understand that chinese diplomacy is very old, very wise and so to speak, if they don't do something, but do something else, it means something, in any case, we understand that xi jinping and his protocol service could not but know when putin will be on his own to push crown, that's right, but still chose his schedule, and ignored the de facto presence at an important event for putin. yes, yes, with the sound just really sisim pinton did not arrive. the o

i think that perhaps xi jinping really doesn't understand that.e doesn't understand how important this issue is to the west the susan in your book, overreach, and which i think the subtitle is how china derailed. >> it's peaceful rise. >> you outline, it seems to be very persuasively that xi jinping's foreign policy has been a break with chinese foreign policy and has been unsuccessful. >> it's caused all this antagonism in japan and india and australia and in europe, have you seen any sense of course correction or when you go to china, do people talk about how maybe this wasn't the right path? >> well, people certainly people in the elite are critical of xi jinping's foreign policy along with his domestic policies. and since the lock down, the covid lockdown and the demonstrations that led to its sudden murmur first of all, there is a surprising amount of dissatisfaction in china at the elite level and at the, at least the middle-class mass level and i don't really know where all of that is going to lead, but i know that xi jinping must be very w

president xi jinping visits the continent.tech has been a particular grind in brussels amid accusations of overcapacity. our guest has some data on that relationship in particular. we know the e.u. is investing in solar and wind equipment from china. give us the sense of the level of dependency at this point for the e.u. on chinese technology. >> when it comes to clean technologies, the e.u. has become almost 100% dependent on chinese supply chains for the solar sector. for evey's and batteries, initially the you was fairly self-sufficient, that as the market grew more dependent, if you look at 2023, by rallying in the ev market, the eu was dependent about 46% on imports and just over half of it was imports from china. for ev batteries, this was a bit higher, dependence was around 56% in china's share of that dependence was about 86%. that's out of the sectors, the pendants is relatively limited. there are concerns that as european manufacturers have struggle, it has open opportunities for chinese any factors to enter europe.

what really xi jinping meant, and how far the united states would go to discourage the people's republic of china from supporting russia. but china did not give everything to russia at once, right? in his peace plan, especially in the first point, regarding ukraine, the main emphasis on preserving territorial integrity reflects china's own interests in taiwan, so russia's invasion of ukraine has put china in a difficult diplomatic position. china together with russia, or xi jinping together with putin, they want cooperate to undermine the so-called rules-based international order established and supported by the united states, but xinjin pin does not want to... in any way condone the undermining of ukraine's territorial integrity. by the way, in order to maneuver in this difficult situation, china was careful to avoid openly violating the sanctions of the big seven. was forced to publicly warn china against giving russia any military aid it might need. unlike iran and north korea, china does not became an open supplier of ballistic missiles or drones, i haven't seen reports of china supp

putin is discussing the so-called ukrainian crisis with xi jinping in beijing. will american warnings about the inadmissibility of military aid to the kremlin affect the chinese government? the first fan outages this year. hourly electricity supply schedules have been introduced in several regions of ukraine. energy, has ukraine drawn conclusions from last year's russian attacks on energy? glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhii rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health, and first of all i congratulate vyshyvanka day. for the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. let's talk about putin's visit to sydzenpinny and their conversation about the future of ukraine, the meeting of the ukraine-nato council, as well as viel's blackout in ukraine, and another topic that is quite important is the future mobilization, as well as those who are currently trying to book and release from mobilization we will talk about all this in the next hour.

maria: equally as important trump was a wildcard in xi jinping did not know what to expect that was a's a bit of a wild man he host xi jinping to mar-a-lago for dinner they're having dinner this is this second leader that trump invited in if it was australia actually and xi jinping in the having chocolate cake for dessert and chocolate cake trump's drops the news to 13 strikes to syria. again we don't know what to expect from the sky and that kept china contain. >> it kept everyone abandoned the level of uncertainty in the chinese party that is banning our actual chips meanwhile america refuses to be on the same chinese ships that we know are compromised and undermined our national security. maria: it's good to get your insights, thank you. a quick break, president biden snapping at the press yesterday while avoiding a pertinent question, wait until you see how he responded, one western state to see gas prices rose again to the federal agency crackdown on a mission, you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪ if your business needs a new applicat

let's shift to china because president xi jinping has secure his support for his pushback against u.syou -- e.u. claims of overcapacity. stephen engle, hungary has always or traditionally had quite a fractious relationship with others in the e.u. so how important is this for china's ambitions in the region? stephen: it comes at a time of rising trade friction, if you will, with brussels. ursula von der leyen has been very outspoken against chinese overcapacity issues and the potential dumping of ev's and other green products in the european market and again, there's this investigation into potential dumping and subsidies by the chinese government. and the like. and they could be, and the chinese makers i have talked to said they fully expect some sort of tariffs regime on ev's. xi jinping sees a great opportunity with a country like hungary which already has battery supply chains. the south koreans are in there. the chinese are in there. they are building this supply chain into southern europe. excuse me, southern germany, where there's automobile factories in slovakia as well. look,

, i.e. it all went to a plus or a minus, it is about our ukrainian interests, that is, xi jinping toldll, what about the pale-faced dog, stop the aggression, because tsigel-tsil, ailulyu, yes, we have a large economy, or vice versa, he said , well, my friend, my lord, come on, let's give you carte blanche and we'll open some or the other, i don't know... empty usuri paths so that we can bring you additional weapons and equipment. so, mr. ambassador, you have the floor. i think it's about... trying to continue this kind of competition after all are imagined, that is, in the form of war as a means of confrontation from the west, on the one hand, on the other hand, we have such a situation, whether the west will withstand our, well, we mean chinese, russian, so efforts not to stop... our economic cooperation, but also not to add fuel to the fire, as they say, because if we take purely economic indicators, how much does russia trade with china and vice versa, 240 billion last year, how much does china trade with western countries, the united states and europe, 1 billion, 1 trillion. 600 bi

xi jinping was talking about that. that they are looking.he way to resolve the conflict is going to have some sort of negotiations or some sort of a conference on that. but in which every side will be presented. so it -- every side would agree to be present. as long as he is talking about this, heat is on the side of peace. in the meantime, vladimir putin is advancing precisely because china is not blocking any potential moves forward for the russian side. china is essentially complicit -- a complicit actor on putin's side in this relationship. and in relations to the war in ukraine. caitriona: when it comes to the western resistance to putin in that war in ukraine, we see today that nato is of the view that it is getting closer to a point where it will have to send nato forces to ukraine to train the troops the, as has been requested by the ukrainian military. would that represent a serious escalation of the proceedings there? nina: putin will certainly look at it this way. we know, and it has been already said numerous times, not necessari

regarding the fact that xi jinping is trying, will try to maneuver between europe and russia, it is also turnover of almost 300 million billion dollars china and europe, there 900 for 900 far, but china. the acquirer also benefits from ukraine's war with russia, he simultaneously wants russia to weaken, but not lose, and for the west to win, so mr. volodymyr is right, their geopolitical interests absolutely coincide in order to have fewer people present at the swiss peace summit, however, i will assure you now that china will restrain, for example, some african countries. where he has influence so that they don't go there, they can come themselves, of course not uncle si himself, someone from his textbook, yes, for example, there is from the ministry of foreign affairs, and in this way they will play along, if only the west and russia, and for russia it is very important that there are fewer leaders in quantity and quality, so that, if there were, then it is not the first leaders were, indeed, so that putin would say that the summit does not represent the interests of all humanity, becau

still ahead, chinese president xi jinping continues his european visit. we will be telling you what top to the agenda during his meeting with french president emmanuel macron, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ when you own a small business every second counts. 120 seconds to add the finishing touches. 900 seconds to arrange the displays. if you're short on time for marketing constant contact's powerful tools can help. you can automate email and sms messages so customers get the right message at the right time. save time marketing with constant contact. because all it takes is 30 seconds to make someone's day. get started today at constantcontact.com. helping the small stand tall. annabelle: chinese president xi jinping has held talks with his french counterpart, calling on emmanuel macron to help fend off what he calls a new cold war. for more let's bring in our asia government correspondent rebecca choong wilkins. when you have the eu as a bloc increasingly aligning with the u.s. and this risk of security and trade tensions as well, how likely is france going t

xi jinping, well, that's why xi jinping singled them out precisely from european countries, because theythere, yes, mr. viktor, what do you think, is this a mantra about the chinese peace plan, or is it just, well, putin as usual he lies, and lying for him is in principle a normal state for him, as a politician and as a person who governs russia, whether they will still talk about something and it is obvious. , which, by the way, has a very large turnover between china and europe, in particular with germany, there is something like 320 billion dollars a year, well , that is, these are huge numbers, will xijin pin tell putin something about what they think there in europe about russia's war against ukraine. if we talk about putin, his plan, then in general, the main method of putin's management - it's a lie that is, everything that putin tells her in this case about peace, about his intentions, and about how he supports china's plans, is a lie, regarding the fact that xi jinping will try to maneuver between europe and russia, too true, because almost 300 million billion dollars turnover o

there were smiles, handshakes and warm words from xi jinping and warm words from xi jinping and vladimiro deepen relations. this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of china—russia diplomatic relations and both agreed to combat what they say are destructive and hostile us policies. the us is urging china to stop supporting russia's war in ukraine, saying it cannot seek to improve ties with the west and continue to support moscow, but there's been little sign mr xi has heeded those words and trade between china and russia has surged since the invasion. the kremlin leader said he appreciated china's objective and flexible position on the conflict. our china correspondent has more on those

xi jinping reiterated his point in paris that the legitimate security concerns of all parties in thewould have to be respected and that is anathema to the ukrainians and europeans who see russia as the aggressor in this war. they don't see the security concerns of the russians as being legitimate. it seems to jar with the reality of what we have seen in the diplomacy leading up to this. chinese diplomats have been traveling to europe for months. they have been pushing for in order to attend peace talks in switzerland, they told e.u. officials they wanted the west to stop shipping weapons to ukraine. that is not going to happen. we see an increase in that. i would hasten to say i might be wrong but those rumors seem far-fetched. >> president macron has welcomed a chinese commitment in inverted commas to abstain from selling weapons to russia and control of the export of dual usage equipment. there is a big difference between a commitment and following through on the. -- on it. i wonder if that does reflect a cooling of the relationship between beijing and moscow which has also been di

it is a start of the official state visit of xi jinping in paris, the first in five years, and he willand the european commissioner. we will bring you any developments as soon as we get them. israel's military says it has begun ordering palestinian civilians to leave parts of rafah in southern gaza, ahead of a planned operation in the city. in this video by the israeli defense forces, it says about 100,000 people are being directed to head towards tent cities in nearby khan younis and al mawasi — but stressed it was a �*limited and temporary evacuation�*. israel�*s prime minister has said that, despite concerns about the fate of palestinians who have taken refuge in rafah, an assault on the hamas fighters there is crucial for the success of the war.

i know it's hard for mn like xi jinping to govern a country at the end of an economic boom.t are some of the key takeaways? >> yes, this great reporting by our reporters, they expose a wide variety of people, everyone from stockbrokers to window washers. what we are seeing is people are feeling less secure about their futures. this is a new reality for many chinese that they have never felt before. obviously, what you have said, this is unparalleled in that we are seeing president xi jinping rule post-boom. it's obvious. it is evident china has been an economic miracle of big huge gains that now are over. so how do you govern post-boom? for people on the ground, even though you could say your income gains are actually fairly healthy by worldwide standards, tell that to a chinese family on the ground. they are not feeling optimistic about the future. haslinda: you are talking about on the ground. is it stirring discontent? what are we seeing on the ground? >> that's right. one of the stories that resonated with me is the story of a businessman who sells contracts to factories

xi jinping has arrived today in paris for a two—day visit we will get the low down on what was discussedd houston, we have ironed out the problems. the boeing starliner, is being fuelled and prepared for blast off, its first manned mission to the space station. good evening. hamas leaders have said they have agreed to a ceasefire proposal, put forward by egypt and qatar. the news sparked celebration in gaza, but it may be premature. the israelis are saying tonight the deal is not acceptable because they had agreed with the americans as far back as february a deal that has now been softened. what we know about this proposal is that it sets out a three—stage process each lasting 42 days. the first would lead to the release of 33 hostages, in return for palestinian prisoners, and a partial israeli withdrawal. the second would lead to the release of all other living hostages, there are thought to be 128 still alive. and the third phase would see a return of the bodies. the israeli defence minister said this morning that the decision to expand the assault on rafah had been taken because hamas

we do have xi jinping in paris for a two day visit.ou are a french bank and you vaulted up the table in 2023 to number eight in the mna space. i mentioned the venture that you were part of. is this a sweet spot for you right now given the geopolitics as well? brian: geopolitics is complicated for sure. we can go back to that diversification point. whether they are hearing in china, brought her a share, or around the world, they are looking for bnp to be a more meaningful counterpart. they would like to see or like to have stronger relations with a european provider and we are really happy to fill that role and we are going to be looking for opportunities such as this space to do that more. it is a big focus for us. stephen: thanks for having us here. thanks for opening your doors and we are going to be talking to a lot of your guests. hundred 50 plus different guests coming here. we will send it back to you as we kick off our coverage of the conference here in hong kong by bnp paribas. >> we will have much more from steve from the bnp

we'll xi jinping see this tour as a success? are you hearing me?uccess? are you hearing me?— jinping see this tour as a success? are you hearing me? am i speaking? you are live — are you hearing me? am i speaking? you are live on _ are you hearing me? am i speaking? you are live on air. _ are you hearing me? am i speaking? you are live on air. hello, _ are you hearing me? am i speaking? you are live on air. hello, i'm - you are live on air. hello, i'm sor . you are live on air. hello, i'm sorry- i _ you are live on air. hello, i'm sorry- i will — you are live on air. hello, i'm sorry. i will welcome - you are live on air. hello, i'm sorry. i will welcome you - you are live on air. hello, i'm i sorry. i will welcome you again, thank you _ sorry. i will welcome you again, thank you for— sorry. i will welcome you again, thank you forjoining _ sorry. i will welcome you again, thank you forjoining us. - sorry. i will welcome you again, thank you forjoining us. will. thank you forjoining us. will beijing see this tour as a triumph, do you think? i beijin

but i want to go back to xi jinping and europe.s there on a very critical m mission to allow china to continue to flood europe with cheap goods. we're trying to resist that. europe is certainly trying to. how important is that market to china and to their rebounding economy? because their economy is not in good shape. >> no. their economy is not growing at the 5.3% pace that they claim for q1. it's growing maybe half percent, maybe 1% at most. the problem is, they've got to rescue their economy with exports. united states has made it brett t at this clear had -- pretty clear that we're increasing tariffs so that makes europe more important, also makes the global south more important but we've got to also recall in european ports they're storing tens of thousands of chinese evs on their lots and that means that the europeans are worried that the chinese will decimate the european car industry. we should be worried about the same thing. elon musk said the chinese will take over the global car industry unless we start to erect barrier

, probably every time, it is possible to go to xi jinping, today is not possible yet, okay, i will callmorrow, okay, okay, hello, but it is possible until, when in a month... they don't count, they don't count, says putin, well, well, putin has finally counted up to these days, he flies to xi jinping, happy, satisfied, in the meantime, he already, already, he already gave an interview to this, the chinese people, ugh, here we go again began to say that he advocates for peace, for negotiations with ukraine, only to take into account the russian ones interests, and their interests are known to be to seize as much ukrainian land and people as possible, then he came to them and said the tractor is digging holes in the field. well, it's not like a tractor, as soon as some t-90 is knocked out, maksym nesvitalok is already with us, mr. maksym, congratulations, congratulations, sir. maxim, here is tomorrow's visit, the chinese press is already writing that putin is talking about peace, what does this mean for us, how should we interpret it? you know, i would probably start with the way you talk

, a certain part of powerful public signals, and antony blinkin de facto warned xi jinping that it isble to pretend that china does not help russia, because he de- in fact provides it with everything necessary for waging war against ukraine. well. in addition to weapons and personnel, this is how they help the russians, and blinkin warned the chinese, asked them not to do this. yes, in response, xi jinping began to talk about how he believes that the united states and china, they are all great states must be responsible and respect the territorial integrity, sovereignty of other states, and so on and so forth. what did xijin ping really mean and how far would the united states be willing to go to... to discourage the people's republic of china from supporting russia, but china did not give everything to russia at once, however, in its peace plan, especially in the first point with regard to ukraine, the main emphasis on maintaining territorial integrity reflects china's own interests in taiwan, so the invasion russia in ukraine has put china in a difficult diplomatic position. china t

let me remind you that the russian dictator arrived in china at the invitation of xi jinping. he will stay there for two days. the parties will hold negotiations on ukraine, asia, and energy. and trade, this is the dictator's first trip abroad since his alleged re-election in march. the head of the government slovakia's robert fico underwent an operation, the deputy prime minister announced. according to him , there is currently no threat to fitzo's life. let me remind you that yesterday the head of state and the head of the government received gunshot wounds during an external meeting of the cabinet of ministers. the prime minister went outside to meet the people, and at that moment shots rang out, he was taken to the hospital. by helicopter according to preliminary data, the attacker was detained. he turned out to be a 71-year-old man. he allegedly fired with a short-barreled rifle due to disagreement with the policy of the state leadership. on hourly blackout schedules were introduced throughout ukraine. the volume of restrictions is distributed evenly among all regions. th

this little tour that xi jinping _ this sector. this little tour that xi jinping is _ this sector.purpose of it first of all? of it? what's the purpose of it first of all?— first of all? let's put it into context- — first of all? let's put it into context. xi _ first of all? let's put it into context. xi hasn't - first of all? let's put it into context. xi hasn't been - first of all? let's put it into context. xi hasn't been to l context. xi hasn�*t been to france in five years. an incredibly important trip for him. looking at the selection of countries here — you have france, serbia, hungary, all three of them i would say in their own way, some more than others, would position themselves as sort of independent from the us i think. especially france under macron. and i think this is a term that chinese sort of, the foreign ministry often makes around strategic autotomy. what they want ultimatesly to have an independent eu that purviews its own —— pursues its own policy. a separate poll from the us and other countries. i think that would be one of the key goals for this trip. i�*ere

she also noted that xi jinping played an important role in the de-escalation of russia's irresponsible nuclear threats. and she says she's confident president xi will continue to do so amid ongoing russian nuclear threats. according to her, the meeting discussed china's commitment not to provide any assistance with lethal weapons to russia. these are the results announced by the head of the european commission, ursula fonderlien after meeting with... chinese leader xi jinping and french president emmanuel macron. yes, and the news from sumy oblast, that is, they are already summarizing the strikes, in particular, the air strike on the energy infrastructure of sumy oblast. now i will quote the sumy regional military administration. therefore, the enemy carried out an airstrike on the energy facilities of the sumy oblast. relevant services are working on the spot, restoration work is underway, the regional military administration of the sumy region is clarifying the consequences. calls for calm, yes well, let me remind you that today the russian troops attacked the territory of ukraine w

the way , not only the lithuanians are talking about this, china is also talking about it, and xi jinping has repeatedly expressed that nuclear weapons should not be used in the world, because if there is only one precedent, when the russian federation... gets a tactical nuclear weapon and tries to use it against some ee country, that would mean pandora's box will just open and everyone will realize that eh weapons of deterrence, nuclear weapons can turn into weapons of attack, and this is dangerous for the whole world, and especially for china, because they understand that in this situation they can also get a lot of conflicts around the er... actually the people's republic of china and xi jinping constantly convinces putin that it is not necessary to do this, against the background of this, the lithuanians are saying that you in ukraine have nothing to fear, we are ready to send you the military and for now with a training mission, the prime minister stated this in a comment to the financial times minister lithuania's ingrid Šimonite, she says that if they didn't just think about us. if

haslinda: that was during chinese president xi jinping's visit to europe.et's bring in rebecca in hong kong. beyond the symbolism, what are some of the key takeaways from that trilateral meeting they had? >> it was probably -- probably had the most potential to be awkward. we've seen the e.u. increasingly move in lockstep with the u.s. when it comes to introducing prose into other forms of the so-called three new drivers of growth, those cleantech areas. investigating beijing's state subsidies into supporting those industries, that you you has been very vocal, and china was very forthright in that meeting. point blank saying china does not create an overcapacity problem. china urged they continue not to trust or target any third party, and china should work directly with eu, and they should not be dependent are dictated by any third party to. so little bit of fantastic pushback between the influence that china sees the u.s. having on eu policy. haslinda: xi jinping also calling on macron to help fend off a new cold war. take a listen. >> regarding the confl

what does a successful trip look like for xi jinping?for china, the main priority is to figure out a way to put more space between eu policy and u.s. policy. we have seen the eu moving and lockstep with the u.s. when it comes to expanding this litany of investigations and probes into state 70's -- state subsidies. it has spread to a range of other cleantech industries and is a major sticking point from beijing's point of view, because of course, part of their plan for economic recovery is the so-called new three growth drivers, which include solar panels send electric vehicles, so it is a major issue for beijing and will be one of the top priorities if not the top priority or president xi jinping as he sits down to negotiate with emmanuel macron. paul: some of these issues have the weft of intractability. france adopting policies that effectively exclude chinese made ev's from the market. how do you get around this problem without starting an era of trade reprisals? >> worse scenario here is the eu launches into some full trade war situa

in san francisco, xi jinping personally promised and did such a total, let's say, control over exportat is, this problem has stopped, which means that it is possible in china, so we will insist that the control of dual-purpose goods is also strengthened, otherwise there will be sanctions. we will also follow this, and finally, i want to ask you how you would assess the level of relations between ukraine and china, whether kyiv works sufficiently, actually with... in the chinese direction, this is a very painful question, i just returned from beijing, the ukrainian presence there is critically not enough, we have a ukrainian diaspora, there are representatives of the diplomatic corps, but this is simply not enough compared to the russian presence, with the russian presence, and all layers of society are really permeated, poisoned by such russian propaganda presence, this is business, and politics, and social networks, and academia, that is, here... a lot of work and it is necessary to develop scientific diplomacy, and public diplomacy, and cultural diplomacy, but this requires resource

well, during the conversation , xi jinping said that he has met with putin more than 40 times, which is twice as many as with any other world leader. in particular, putin visited beijing before the full-scale invasion, when they signed a declaration of friendship without borders. well, it is interesting that before how to meet with putin this time... pin traveled to europe, met, in particular, with french president macron and talked about the war in ukraine. so, how did the current meeting between the chinese and russian leaders take place? the bbc's beijing correspondent steve mcdonald is following the visit. this trip gives putin moral support. he is isolated in the international arena, he cannot go to many countries, for fear that he will be arrested and sent to the international criminal court. here he received a magnificent reception and has. an ordinary international leader, and not international exile, is holding meetings with xijin ping, and i will read some of their quotes. putin said that our cooperation in world affairs is one of the main stabilizing factors in the interna