wang yi is getting | photo behind us. wang yi is getting a handshake from vladimir putin.se president xi - and if so, when? it looks like chinese president xi jinping i and if so, when? it looks like i chinese president xi jinping will be visiting _ chinese president xi jinping will be visiting moscow in the coming months but in _ visiting moscow in the coming months but in the _ visiting moscow in the coming months but in the past couple weeks, particularly after the incident, the chinese _ particularly after the incident, the chinese president has promised a trip to— chinese president has promised a trip to taiwan as well. i think increasingly, the chinese leaders sees _ increasingly, the chinese leaders sees an— increasingly, the chinese leaders sees an inevitable all—out strategic confrontation between china and the united _ confrontation between china and the united states. and if that is inevitable, china is going to garner as much— inevitable, china is going to garner as much potential allies as possible and try— as much potential allies as possible and try to _ as

the trip to russia by wang yi is days after the anniversary of moscow's invasion of ukraine.ing their talks mr. putin said relations between his country and china were reaching new milestone and called the chinese president xi jinping to visit. earlier wang yi met his russian counter box -- counterpart sergei lavrov and said the relationship between the two countries should not be influenced by other nations. >> i look forward to reachi new agreements. our consultations on strategic between our two countries. they played strengthening trust and cooperation in shifting international situation. >> much is made of the seating arrangement for president putin's meeting with wang yi. this is mr. putin's meeting with the french president emmanuel macron last february. the two leaders are so far away you wonder if they ca hear each other. this is today's meeting. the president scope. they are sitting so close they are within handshaking distance. this is seen as a symbolic move towards a valued russian ally. at the timing of the visit is days before the first anniversary of russia's

tom: what was wang yi's comments? what was the chinese take on these talks?ruce: the chinese accused the americans of hyping what they called the cold war mentality. wang yi said that the american response shooting down the balloon was as he put it, almost hysterical. china was not even willing to agree that this was even a meeting between the two officials per they just called it an informal contact. also notable, wang yi did make an appeal to the eu to the top european diplomat, josef burrell to improve ties between china and the europeans. china has sought for months now to try to drive a bit of a wedge between the u.s. and its european allies, most notably in trying to get the netherlands now to go along with u.s. sanctions on the chinese semiconductors. china is trying to stop the netherlands from restricting the export of semi conductor making equipment. the dutch ended up going along with the americans on that. the chinese though our still perhaps hoping they might be able to find some areas where they can peel the europeans a bit away from washington.

later today, wang yi will meet with lavrov, the foreign minister.are seeing seemingly a slight shift were on the one hand, china wants to lead the world order in opposition to the united states led world order, but then on the other, saying it can be a neutral broker. we are supposed to get the peace roadmap they will put out this friday. it's been met with a lot of skepticism. it is hard to say how there is any avenue for peace that would satisfy both russia and ukrainian territorial integrity. we also see reports from the wall street journal that xi jinping may go to moscow in april or may. i think their role in this whole conflict is evolving fairly rapidly. we have a lot more learned today and see whether xi will in fact come to moscow. manus: let's see what comes from that. oliver crook in warsaw tracking the present. joining me now is georgina wright, director of the european program at institut montaigne. thank you so much for being with me. here we are, two very powerful speeches. very potent in their symbolism. if i was to say to you which

the top foreign policy official wang yi has discussed the dispute with the us secretary of state anthonyponed a trip to beijing this weekend in response to the dispute. by the detection of a chinese surveillance balloon over the united states. the top foreign policy official wang yi has discussed the dispute with the us secretary of state anthony blinken, who postponed a trip to beijing this weekend in response to the dispute. china insists the balloon is a weather obervation airship that went off course, but washington says it's being used for spying. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. a surreal but increasingly serious international row. this speck in the sky could be spying on the us — the chinese balloon that's been hovering over the country for several days. china insists it's a platform to conduct weather—related research that's deviated from its route. beijing has apologised but the us state department says it stands by its assessment that the balloon is being used for surveillance, and defence officials now say there's a second balloon. we are seeing reports o

i listened to wang yi's speech. it was extraordinary in a way.e, too, wants to put the whole balloon incident behind them despite the rhetoric that was apparent in his speech? >> reporter: i mean, at least publicly, paula. china is being very resolute. it did nothing wrong. if you look at the statements in chinese state media over the last few hours, wang yi has described this meeting as informal and really has put the burd on the united states to repair what it sees as damage to its relationship. again, it maintains that this movement by the balloon, its swaying off course, was by accident and there was nothing nefarious about that. yet at the same time we are seeing, perhaps, some signals that there is room for diplomacy. for example, the state department spokesperson said that secretary blinken in his meeting did keep the door open to a possible conversation between president biden and chinese leader xi. so we are just going to have to see how this unfolds. but i think neither side wants this to be the big sticking point in a much broader disc

. >> yeah, china's top diplomat wang yi is in moscow.is scheduled to speak with sergey lavrov any moment now this according to news agency taas, and the kremlin has not ruled out a meeting between wang yi and putin. this is a chance to exchange views on the relationship and international hot spots which of course would include the war in ukraine. now on tuesday, wang yi met with the head of russia's security council. they discussed an opposition to the cold war mentality. they also discussed a desire to strengthen cooperation. they also discussed the situation in ukraine, though no specifics were given. this meeting, this visit and the entire relationship between china and russia is under immense international scrutiny. last weekend, the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken warned wang yi of consequences if china were to go forward and provide material support to russian for its invasion in ukraine, and china has fired back repeatedly and is accusing the u.s. of sab sabotage. i want to show this op-ed. it says the u.s. has been wearing

amy: so that was kind of top diplomat wang yi and russian president vladimir putin.nese president xi jinping is expected to visit moscow in the coming months. meanwhile, the biden administration is warning china against supplying russia with lethal military aid. saying doing so would be crossing the redline. joining us from baltimore, maryland, is ho-fung hung. he is a professor of political economy and sociology at johns hopkins university. his books include "clash of empires: from 'chimerica' to the 'new cold war'" and "the china boom: why china will not rule the world." professor, welcome back to democracy now! can you talk about the significance of, well, what has happened in the last year? and then you have the u.s. kerfuffle with china over the balloon, which has really intensified hostility. and finally, yet yesterday wang yi, the top diplomat, even with president putin and their message to the united states and the world. >> thank you for having me. it is something that everybody expected to happen, china is getting closer and closer to russia. when we look b

i told wang yi, my chinese counterpart, that that action was unacceptable and must never we also had an opportunity to talk about the russian aggression against ukraine. we're here in munich and many countries are focused as we are on that aggression, and one of the things that i shared with him was a growing concern on our part that china is considering providing lethal support to russia and its aggression against ukraine and i made clear as president biden has almost from day one with president xi that that would have serious consequences in our own relationship. finally, it was important for me to underscore the importance of having open lines of communication between us in continuing to engage in direct diplomacy. we have a responsibility to manage the relationship responsibly. i think the world expects that of us. it's also in our interest, and so that's also something i underscored in the meeting with wang yi this evening. >> i will say that wang yi has said of the chinese spy balloon the whole shootdown incident that it was absurd and hysterical and said, cold war mentality is

the stage for how this thing went down because it was just hours after beijing's top diplomat wang yiasically stood in a panel and accused the u.s. of being hysterical and absurd and said that the united states needs to repair the damage to the china relationship for using, in his words, excessive force against their balloon. so needless to say, there was no apology from the chinese side, no apology from secretary blinken on behalf of the u.s. for shooting down that balloon. he condemned the incursion. he stressed it must never happen again. then another warning for china about u.s. concerns that beijing may be considering providing what the u.s. calls lethal support for russia. not just sanctions, helping them get away with, you know, violating sanctions and bolstering their economy, which china is already doing by buying, you know, cheap oil from russia when its sanctioned or at least price capped around much of the world, but also there is concern that china might be considering taking that support even further, perhaps providing weapons, chinese weapons to russia for vladimir puti

i told him quite simply that was unacceptable and can never happen again. >> reporter: wang yi did not depart from his claim that the balloon was a civilian airship according to a senior official. >> andrea joins us from munich. andrea, no apology this is a very tense time between the u.s. and china. did today's meeting ease that tension at all? >> reporter: it's not clear yet. as you heard, blinken told chuck that he was clear and direct in those talks with the chinese diplomat and underscored also the importance of keeping open lines of communication and diplomacy, which is not happening, frankly, since the chinese balloon was shot down. jose. >> andrea mitchell in munich, thank you. there will be more of that interview with u.s. secretary of state antony blinken when he's one of the guests tomorrow on "meet the press. >>> and now to china and our first look at what u.s. officials say is the launch site of that spy balloon u.s. forces shot down off south carolina earlier this month it's a military zone on a tropical island off china's southern coast. janis mackey fraye traveled there

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secretary, i know you just met with your chinese counterpart, wang yi, who has publicly said the u.s. response to the spy balloon was absurd, hysterical, and an effort to divert attention away from domestic problems. was he that dismissive to you in private? >> marg ga ret, i don't want to characterize what he said. i will tell you what i said. i made very clear to him that china sending a surveillance balloon over the united states in violation of our sovereignty, in violation of international law, was unacceptable and must never happen again. we also had an opportunity to talk about russia's war of aggression sense ukraine and concerns that we have, that china is considering providing lethal support to russia in its efforts in ukraine. and i was able to share with him, as president biden has shared with president xi, the serious consequences that would have for our relationship. finally, it was important for me to underscore that we believe having lines of communication, engaging in direct diplomacy, is very important. >> does that mean their defense minister will pick up the next p

to repair the spy airship. >> sounds like to me wang yi was there to place blame on the united statesis was clear china violation of sovereign airship. when they didn't own up to that, didn't apologize for that, tells me they don't want to take responsibility. they will continue this aggressive behavior. >> reporter: nsc spokesperson john kishly says we have to have the conversations so the chinese don't misrepresent our actions. >> you have lines of communication that are open with china are important to keep open because at times like this, when the tensions are high, you want to be able to avoid miscalculation and misunderstanding. secretary blinken was able to deliver that strong message in munich. >> reporter: lawmakers on the select committee on china say the president looks weak. >> we know that they have been stealing our intellectual property for decades. we know they have been stealing your military secrets again for decades and nothing has happened to them. they are the greatest adversary and the greatest threat to our democracy. >> reporter: so the president says that chin

it was the meetings that were happening at the same time, between president putin and wang yi, the top diplomat for china, and also president putin's top advisers, that you the most concern. you combine that with u.s. officials talking about the fact that they had seen intelligence that china is now considering providing legal aid to ukraine, and you get the sense that for all the issues that the u.s. is going to have to grapple with in the coming weeks and months related to this war in maintaining what to this point has been an extraordinarily durable coalition of western democracies, it's the potential for china's involvement or increased involvement, particularly on the lethal aid side that is drawing the most concern -- sharp condemnations and a very aggressive effort to head that off as it's become very clear that, despite china's reticence to be deeply involved, the alliance between russia and china is only growing closer. of course, president putin signaled that xi jinping could be coming to moscow sometime soon. >> yeah, phil mattingly, i appreciate it. next, we go to moscow an

in terms of the east, china — russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov is meeting with wang yi today,n that?— thoughts on that? that was really quite _ thoughts on that? that was really quite interesting, - really quite interesting, especially in light of the view that the new york times had a piece that china's trying to distance... i don't see that all. in fact, distance... i don't see that all. infact, it distance... i don't see that all. in fact, it was interesting that wang yi was travelling around and being in munich and kind of talking to and telling jose borrell that they are not supplying arms to russia —. and in the same day, meeting whenjoe biden is in poland meeting with the russians — he met with sergei naroushkin, one of the most important people in the security apparatus and the clandestine services. so it does seem that the china—russia relationship, at least for now, is certainly going strong. and of course, we know that china has offered and already presented its peace plan. and so it does seem, perhaps, that china is looking to become a peacemaker — which, of course

it was the meetings happening at the same time between president putin and wang yi, the top diplomat for china. you combine that with u.s. officials talking about the fact they've seen intelligence china is now considering providing lethal aid to ukraine and you get the sense for all the issues the u.s. is going to have to grapple with in the coming weeks and months related to this war in maintaining what to this point has been an extraordinary durable coalition of western democracy, it's the potential for china's involvement or increased involvement particularly on the lethal aid side that is drawing the most concern, sharp condemnations and a very aggressive effort to head that off as it has become very clear that despite china's reticence to get deeply involved the alliance between russia and china is only growing closer. of course president putin signaled that xi jinping could be coming to moscow some time soon. >> next now we go to moscow and cnn's fred pleitgen. what came out of the meeting today between putin and beijing? >> reporter: putin certainly signaled that the relation

and according to official readout of that call from the chinese side, they're saying that wang yi toldh sides should maintain steadiness and with timely communication, they could avoid misjudgment in terms of this balloon affair, but that beijing would not accept any groundless conjecture or hype regarding the balloons. also, in a separate statement from the chinese foreign ministry, they said that some politicians and media in the us have hyped up this as a means of attacking and smearing china. so you can see, even as china is trying to reassure the us that the balloons have accidentally floated into us airspace, they're still trying to take a strong stand, i guess maintain some face either way. a lot of work is going to have to be done to rebuild the trust that would be required for anthony blinken to set another date to come to beijing to have these talks, which, as i say, are supposed to be designed to ease tensions between the world's superpowers. let's get more on this, then. joining us live now is isabel hilton, who is the founder of china dialogue and visiting professor at the

officials were not happy at all with wang yi speech today. so there had been a plan to have a meeting that could've been delayed, or setback. or they might have to renegotiate the terms. the last thing they want is to meet with wang yi and have him stiff them. >> right. >> and reject a phone call. the feeling has been, according to u.s. officials, that president xi may not have known about the spy balloon, or the timing of the spy balloon. surely he knew about this military program it's planned once a year, it's budgeted, it's part of their defense budget. but you know, the army, excuse me the pla and china obviously doesn't has this -- we have spy balloons, they house by balloons, but the fact that they came into our airspace was what was so aggressive. they were not of your stating, it's not overreacting. they're trying to i think give president xi a way out. they're saying we know you did know about, this we know this isn't, oh let's guessing back on track. >> okay, andrea missile, thank you so much for expertise as always. in minutes ever

lincoln is considering a one-on-one meeting with wang yi. although it is hard to see anything particularly positive emerging from that, the very fact that a meeting takes place, if it does go through, would certainly be positive and help some of the furor we have seen behind us. u.s. has been outspoken about the global scope of the chinese surveillance program, talking to allies in the u.k. and canada, for example. and canada is saying it will not fund projects affiliated to the chinese military. and of course, the u.k. launching that security review of its surveillance of airspace. if we do see more of this global push, a multilateral effort to respond to china in that way, that could make beijing more defensive, as it goes into what could be this potential meeting towards the end of this week. manus: rebecca, thank you very much. let's see if the meeting actually happens. coming up, the inflation data matched expectations and split the bond market. small comfort for investors. we'll talk through the higher for longer mantra. on bloomberg.

that line i think it is important that we make clear as i did this evening in my meeting with wang yis is of deep concern to us. i made clear the importance of not crossing that line and the fact it would have serious consequences in our relationship something that we do not need on top of the balloon incident that china's engaged in >>> the u.s. has formally accused russia of committing crimes against humanity in ukraine. vice president kamala harris said there was no doubt and warned that those who carried out the attacks will be held to account. it is expected to further isolate the kremlin and could urge international courts to take action. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says his counter part president emmanuel macron is wasting time trying to establish dialogue with russia changing attitudes is impossible and it was the kremlin's decision to isolate itself macron saw no alternative to bring vladimir putin to the negotiating table. >>> the eu could pull billions to the supply to ukraine they will make a final decision next month as supplies on the ground dwindle hungarian

when he was -- wang yi was in russia yesterday.e said that their relationship is rocksolid and also promote mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas and that comes ahead of the lavrov meeting today. so this piece roadmap that might come out friday, so china is interesting in that it is aligned with russia in substantial ways but also standing in operation -- opposition to the u.s. order but seemingly wanting to come to the table as a neutral broker in the situation in ukraine. it is hard to see what that avenue is that x x -- respects ukrainian territorial integrity and russia's demands, but there is a wall street journal reporting overnight that xi jinping may be preparing to visit moscow later this year. anna: thank you. oliver crook with the latest political themes. let's get a bloomberg business flash with laura wright. laura: microsoft says there will be no deal to buy activision blizzard unless it calls with -- comes with call of duty. microsoft may need to sell the title for the takeover to go ahead. the software giant's

tom: bloomberg senior editor bill faries on the latest with that visit by wang yi to moscow.omberg also reporting that support within russia the conflict -- for the conflict is actually pretty solid. let's get the business flash now. >> a washington post report says meta is preparing for thousands of job cuts beyond be 13% of its work or spired in november. separately, bloomberg has learned italy is investigating the facebook parent for an alleged 870 million euros in unpaid vat. meta says it disagrees with the idea that providing access to online platforms should attract the tax. nvidia shares have jumped in the u.s. late trade. suggesting is pushed into artificial intelligence processes is helping offset sluggish demand for pc chips. the company has moved from a focus on graphics processors into a strong position in the growing market for ai hardware. intel has slashed its dividend by two thirds to the lowest level in 16 years. the world's biggest maker of computer processors since the decision will create long-term. it forecast one of the worst quarters in its history as a

thain russia-china relations are reaching new milestones during a meeting with chinese diplomat wang yithe kremlin and this comes as the wall street journal reports that chinese president xi jinping can meet with putin in moscow soon. fred pleitgen, he's in moscow with more. fred, what does this say about china's potential role supporting russia in ukraine? >> well, i think it certainly shows how important china is to russia, just to have china meet with china's top diplomat and underscore how important those relations are and also say that xi jinping will come to moscow to meet with vladimir putin and those two leaders have had very, very close relations over the years that have only grown tighter, really as the u.s. has been putting more pressure on russia also because of russia's campaign there in ukraine, but i think this once again underscores just how important especially for the russians the relations with china are and at the same time you have a lot of issues between china and the united states. obviously, not only because of that balloon that was shot down and also because the

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for military supplies, reaffirming his commitment to relations with beijing in a meeting with wang yiping just as we planned. everything is moving forward, developing and we're reaching new milestones. >> reporter: china has brushed off the u.s. concerns that beijing might be contemplating supplying arms to the kremlin's war effort, taking a swipe at the biden administration. >> translator: we would like to emphasize once again that the comprehensive strategic partnership between russia and china has never been directed against a third party and certainly not subject to interference and provocation by any third party. >> reporter: while beijing says it wants a political solution, vladimir putin is drumming up support for his military operation trying hard to keep the russian population motivated for a battle he deems existential. fred pleitgen, cnn, moscow. >>> and chaos on the streets of the occupied west bank. deadly violence between israelis and palestinians escalating. military forces killed at least 11 palestinians during a raid wednesday and injured almost 500 others. elliott go

now putin, when he was speaking to wang yi, he talked about how important the relations are and they become new benchmarks and he talked about how close he is with xi jinping. and he also said that he would welcome xi jinping here in the moscow in the not too distant future. what has been happening if the run-up to this is tension between the united states and china with the u.s. voicing concern that they believe that china might be contemplating sending military aid lethal aid to russia to use in the ukraine war. it seemed as though the chinese top diplomat was talking about that. he said that relations between china and russia were in a good place and would not be subject to interference from outside parties, he said, wolf. >> you know, it is interesting, fred, that despite the reality on the battlefield in ukraine, is putin trying to present a victorious image? >> reporter: he's trying to present one of perseverance and one of victory in the end. i think what he's trying to do and tried to do today is show that russia is not going to back down and he was trying to rally the nation

/china his statement came as china's top diplomat wang yi met with putin and his foreign minister, sergeyavrov, in moscow. kritenbrink also strongly criticized china for its moves in the international arena. they want to play a role in ending the war. the u.s. official said while china behaves in public as a supporter of peace, it has been supporting what he described as russia's brutal military invasion and is gradually getting close to offering military assistance to russia. >>> britain's armed force minister says russia and ukraine have mounted spring offenses to try to break the deadlock. james heapy spoke to nhk tuesday, describing russia's attack as pretty ineffective. >> in man places, they're being resisted all together. more importantly, they're not really over places for of much strategic importance to ukraine. >> haeappey said momentum is building for support of ukraine, pointing to the recent commitments at the munich security conference. he said the international community should focus on getting ukraine successfully onto the offensive within the next month or two. >> when uk

but during that meeting from lavrov, we heard interesting words from wang yi, he doubled down on the china-russia relationship. he said, quote, no matter how the international political landscape changes, china is willing to maintain and up hold the good government of our new type of major power relations with russia. and of course that relationship under major scrutiny. last week secretary of state antony blinken warned wang yi of consequences should china go forward and supply materials to russia for its ongoing conflict in ukraine. china is not cdoing that. but china and russia have been edging closer on multiple fronts, economic, political and military as well. in fact joint military drills between russia and china are taking place this week. and we are keeping an eye on the "wall street journal" report that the chinese leader xi jinping is planning to visit moscow for a summit with vladimir putin, that meeting to take place in either april or may. back to you. >> we'll follow that indeed. kristie lu stout, thank you. >>> and we're now learning that russia carried out an intercon

yi jen yun, all the detainees, along with their vehicles , were taken to vladivostok in the meantime,he border guards dealt with lyudmila kim and the citizens of a foreign state, employees of the far eastern customs administration carefully examined the contents of the buses. and the skin of the tiger 48 bags with derivatives of the tiger and the himalayan bear. yes, there were paws, mostly. these were the paws of a himalayan bear, more than 100 pieces. here the idea of ​​​​smuggling was to bring it all to the khanka lake on ice, leave the winter period of time by car there it took several days to ensure that the experts were not identified, and here is their official conclusion. amur tiger, but 220 individuals, white-breasted and brown bears 879 paws 306 claws three gallbladders of a tree you far eastern frog 33.8 kg and 18 kg of dried fat of red deer and sika deer 127 tails and 60 genitals we were waiting for it in the adjacent territory, we will return to the inspection the violators' cars were found with an unregistered saiga carbine and several dozen fairly large amber stones. fi

the senior chinese diplomat met with russian president putin in a meeting with wang yi.china relations are developing evaluated and said that relations between beijing and moscow are important for stabilizing the international situation, and also announced the plan for the visit of the president of china with musk , emphasizing the development of bilateral relations . weapons from china have expressed their concern to russia. the war of words between russian and western officials on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the ukraine war has escalated. one day after putin said that russia will not be defeated in ukraine, the west also emphasized the support of the us president who traveled to eastern europe and said in poland it will not give up and will meet ukraine's armament needs until victory is achieved, as the european union's foreign policy said, the europeans will speed up arms assistance to ukraine. according to this information, nato secretary general will not allow russia to win the war. in earthquake-prone areas, buildings should not be more than three storie

aye yi yi. >> if we could have it back.mpletely dishonest, you're going to get it, this debt bill and spending cuts will be in that bill. they're going to be discretionary cuts. there will be spending caps, charles. there will be sequestration penalties. it is like a continuing resolution. this is not the time to go after the large entitlements. nobody wants to go -- senator scott ambiguous about that before. he probably would love to have it back but, what joe biden did in the state of the union, and he is doing it here in florida, he did it in wisconsin yesterday, is distracting people from the fact that he is trying to get a clean debt bill and will do anything and say anything not to reduce spending. charles: right. >> which is, you know, almost five trillion dollars of new debt was created under his administration, pushed by the democrats. it is the principle cause of the inflation and folks know that. if you look at polls, everybody knows that. because they're very dissatisfied with biden on the economy and many other

to calmly and professionally resolve issues and the rest of all accusations of espionage keith and yi called slander. also on the sidelines of the conference in munich discussed the terms of the peace agreement a tripartite meeting was held between yerevan and baku on the eve of the prime minister of armenia, the president of azerbaijan, and the us secretary of state, as ilham aliyev said a few days ago, yerevan sent its initiatives on a peace treaty. in baku, they have already begun to study them, the president of azerbaijan officially proposed to create a checkpoint on the border between the countries and on the borders between the lachin region and armenia, nikol pashinyan, in turn. he reiterated that the lachin corridor that links yerevan and stepanakert is one of the stumbling blocks be out of azerbaijan's control, however , the parties assured that they were striving for a peace agreement simultaneously with the plenary meetings in munich, there were protest actions. on the streets of the bavarian capital, thousands of demonstrators came out. they urged forum participants to sto

it comes as china's top diplomat, wang yi, is paying a visit to moscow.erlying intelligence the u.s. has that would prompt this sort of warning or explanation as to why the u.s. is being so public in its thoughts on beijing. this is not a new concern for the u.s. given the close personal ties between the leaders of china and russia. now, officially wang yi has said that china's position on ukraine is one of promoing peace tangs. it was nearly a year ago that vladimir putin came to beijing with xi jinping and a 5,000 word manifesto declared a partnership with no limits. at the same time, relations with the u.s. have deteriorated to the point where there's no communication. there are no meetings happening, even on issues like climate change. defense officials here have stopped answering the u.s. military hotline. at the same time ties between china and russia have grown closer and deeper on trade, particularly energy as well as joint military drills. china is getting on with diplomatic business. last week hosting the president of iran, and there's a state v

in the case of chairman yi, they actually worked as part of the spy apparatus.now, some intrepid journalist needs to go to jim clapper and these other 50 intelligence experts and ask them, does this not have a hallmark of a chinese intelligence operation? maria: yeah. >> and i think if they ghei you an honest answer, the answer would be yes. maria: we're also looking at a picture of the diamond that was given to hunter biden by one of those men. peter, a 3.5-carat diamond, is that money laundering? >> yeah. i mean, that's one of the things that this grand jury's looking at. they're looking at money laundering, they're looking at political corruption. but i think really the intelligence component of this, a lot of the people defending the biden family are saying, well, show us the crime, show us the crime. which, of course, is a ridiculous standard. the question is, is the family compromised? and you're talking about the flow of money, tens of millions of dollars to this family. there's no discernible service. they have still not explained what they actually got

so, we'll wait to see who -- who wang yi will meet with, whether he'll meet with president putin. so far, no pictures of his visit here. it's difficult to tell. i think the russians will want it to be seen. it's difficult to tell exactly how far the chinese will want that visit to be seen. but angry words on both sides in the past few days, including from the vice president accuing russia of crimes against humanity. the russians pushing back against that. this week, this anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine, we are seeing really less diplomacy and more fury. >> keir simmons on the ground in moscow. as you speak about those new warnings, the united states has said to china, basically, that there will be significant consequences if it does pursue the provision of lethal weapons, of lethal force and aid to the russians. while you were speaking, we got a note, i received this in my inbox from the white house. a statement from president biden on his visit to kyiv, ukraine. i want to read it to you as quickly as i can. i hope in the moments ahead we'll have new pictures on the gr

putin met with wang yi relations he assessed russia and china as developing and said that relations betweenjing and moscow are important for stabilizing the international situation. he also announced the plan for the visit of the president of china with musk and emphasized the development of bilateral relations. the meeting was held after that. western officials have expressed concern about the possibility of sending weapons from china to russia. the war of words between russian officials and western countries on the eve of the one -year anniversary of the ukraine war escalated a day after putin said that russia will not be defeated in ukraine. ekran emphasized and the american president who traveled to eastern europe poland said that it will not surrender and will meet ukraine's weapons needs until victory is achieved. the same head of the european union's foreign policy also said that the europeans will speed up arms assistance to ukraine. the nato secretary general also said that this alliance will not allow russia to win the war. the president of turkey said that in earthquake-prone are

. >> and christina, on a separate issue in munich china's top diplomat wang yi called the u.s.hootdown of its balloon, quote, absurd and hysterical. what do we know about the meeting he had with u.s. secretary of state antony blinken? >> reporter: right. this was the first face-to-face meeting since those incidents. a senior state department official tells cbs news the secretary was frank and direct immediately bringing up what the u.s. says was a violation of american airspace by that chinese spy balloon. blinken gave an interview to cbs's margaret brennan. >> so one of the things i'm hearing here in munich is real concern about the surveillance balloon program. i suspect the fact that it's been exposed by us is going to have to cause china to take another look at this. >> and that full interview will air tomorrow on "face the nation." adriana? >> we'll be christina ruffini, thank you. >>> the biden administration is facing backlash tonight over its handling of the massive train derailment in east palestine, ohio. fema officials arrived at the site today more than two weeks af

and threats of the enemies, the president, in continuation of his plans , attended the historic dong yi mosque and had a close meeting with a group of muslims in beijing and offered the maghrib prayer to the congregation in this place . which has made us the meaning of them, for this reason, in continuation of their intensive work programs in beijing , he had an exclusive conversation with one of the prominent networks of this country . in the evening, he also met with economists and iranians living in the country, among other work plans of mr. khadim jafari is a boss in beijing don't send a reporter for sed and sima, but the president's trip to china has ended and mr. raisi and the accompanying delegation will leave beijing for tehran in a few hours, and we will talk to the reporter of sed and sima news agency in this city about the latest plans and visits of the president for us. tell me that he apparently had a meeting with economic activists and chinese businessmen. in the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful, i am at the service of you and all the viewers. i would li

know, america's policing and what's happening now, and he's posed in the story as the big hero-- ay yied lights and police cars. the front-page cover was, "finally, we're winning the war on crime. here's why." - rudy was his boss. there was plenty of credit to go around, except that there wasn't. - well, that was the end for him. i mean, he was fired, i think, within a number of months. i don't think he lasted 90 days after that cover came out. - i just met with the mayor, mayor giuliani, this morning and have given to him my letter of resignation as the police commissioner for the city of new york. - it happened yesterday. he resigned. now, we're moving on. and i've said everything i wanna say about it. - mr. mayor, what about the police department? - this department is in terrific shape. - the person who was the architect of this new approach was now gone, and the people who inherited the machinery thought they understood it. but it wasn't clear that they did. this was gonna be rudy's department. and the good work that the department was doing was gonna be something that rudy took cr

i spent a lot of time with wong yi and his colleague, the state counselor.t's not about the meeting, it's about what it is we deliver. we should never mistake words, gatherings, good feeling, cocktail parties for actual deeds that respond to the threats the chinese communist party is posing, and this balloon is really a symptom the of the biden administration's policies with respect to the china that they have not confronted in a way that is serious and that would cause xi jinping -- wong yi is just an actor, an act of xi jinping concern we haven't confronted the system in a way that will convince them fly a slow-moving balloon over the united states for five days, it's just not something we're going to permit to happen. a meeting, i suppose, is fine, but if it's just to shake hands and say, gosh, we're going to find ways to cooperate, this is the language of the biden administration, that would be an enormous mistake. neil: do you think it borders on groveling though? they were the ones who had this spy balloon, and it was goarchg r going over the u.s. they

>> reporter: wang yi is china's top diplomat and he was there with president putin on camera in the beginning. it was interesting to watch. i think western capitals and in washington they'll be looking closely at what was said. it was notable that president putin in that -- in that early comments was repeating that president xi of china will come to russia, even though a date hasn't yet set. this has been talked about for some months now. they say they're in the early stages of discussing it, of planning it, but he wanted to make sure that everybody knew that that was going to happen, including china's top diplomat sitting opposite him and wang yi went on to talk about the solid relationship between china and russia, and also said something interesting, i thought, he said that from crisis comes opportunity. and people will look at that closely i think and ask whether china is thinking it can gain some opportunity from the crisis over ukraine, whether it is a message to president putin to say you need to look toward how to shift your position a little bit, how can we make this a positive thing

. >> wang yi, the top diplomat ma is in moscow.re's a report that president xi is going to make a trip to moscow. let me ask you about president zelenskyy's appeal for fighter jets arguing -- of course, the white house is arguing the f-16 is too complicated. takes too much pilot training certainly would not be in place for this current offensive by russia which is misnamed the spring offensive that's already under way. but do you think that the fighter jets should be supplied as zelenskyy is arguing, or is the administration correct? >> i think we're at a stage where, frankly, everything should be on the table and being considerate. i mean, i recognize the issue of training, the issue of maintenance, et cetera. and all of that has to be taken into consideration. you know, we're in it for the long haul. and at this moment in time it is very important that ukraine maintain the initiative in this war. russia's losing. russia's losing. even though they're trying to put on an offensive, they're not gaining ground. and it's clear that uk

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