happening in china. the two thousand communist party delegates climbing the stairs to the great hall of the people exude a newfound self-confidence. they believe they have the respect of the people again and now have little to fear from the existences of everyday political life in china . the nineteenth national congress of the communist party of china heralds its return to robust health after years of moral decline. it had been eaten up by corruption ideological disorientation and internal power struggles. until this man took the reins xi jinping. in just five years he has turned the party around with a combination of strategic aptitude and an iron fist. the usual we must support the party leadership in everything. the party is the leader in all aspects of national life all members must maintain their political integrity we need to strengthen the ability and determination of the party to draw up plans shaped policies and promote reforms to ensure that the party always takes the lead on coordinates the efforts of everyone involved. gee jim ping's most important instrument in securing hi

germany by state. dot com. click save is situated in china's far west on the border with central asia for centuries this mountain lake was a strategic transit point along the legendary silk road that ran between europe and the chinese empire. for the nomads living around the lake the opening of the new silk road is in some ways history repeating itself. trucks have replaced the caravans of the past on the newly built highway. the ambitious project was launched by chinese president xi jinping during a visit to kazakhstan in two thousand and thirteen. when the shit only arc of what seems to be easy. going joshing. father. comes out hawt. well known qayyum trunk in the film was. hong kong fair shot search hole general ching see that trisha it's all for you and . the voyage i mean that. the new silk road planned by xi jinping runs for ten thousand kilometers on road and on rail it crosses western china kazakhstan russia and will run all the way to europe it's a huge construction site. but what are china's true intentions behind this mega project. the minivan the idea in my opinion this projec

also this week a golden era that's how the u.k. and china want to see their partnership with those golden fruits may prove difficult to harvest with breaks it in the way plus. i'm wayne hay reporting from southern thailand where we'll tell you about an ambitious coast to coast project that could have a major impact on shipping and security. are some of the world's biggest technology names posted earnings over the past few days facebook apple amazon alphabets and microsoft produced quarterly revenues of around one hundred billion dollars altogether and that's likely to continue back in two thousand and thirteen the economist predicted a looming tech clash in twenty eight hundred internet giants are under the microscope over the way they do business new data privacy rules will go into effect in the e.u. in may germany is already investigating how facebook uses the data from millions of its users and the u.s. is looking at whether apple broke laws with software updates which slowed older i phones and congress is holding more hearings on the use of social media platforms to allegedly d

. and china. live coverage here on c-span 3. >> they have spent a lot of time in vietnam i believe in the '90s or earlier than that as journalists for eastern economic review. and they both speak perfect vietnamese. i hope they don't start speaking that here. so today's topic is to discuss vietnam's relations with both united states and china. because of the flare-up of the south china sea dispute in recent years there have been a lot of questions and a lot of skepticism about vietnam's alignment choices, external foreign policy choices. and china and vietnam apparently they're both governed by communist party and its one-party rule. although could you argue that the political reform in two countries have taken different speed. so we are also eager to hear from the experts how the vietnamese domestic politics evolution also affects their foreign policy choices between the united states and china and how do we understand the future of these two bilateral relations. that's enough talking from me. i'll invite dr. pun to share with us her perspective. thank you. >> okay. thank you. tha

% global tariff. posco in seoul gaining ground. could have the biggest impact on south korea, china, but the direct effect will be manageable due to small volumes. i would like to have a casio as well, gaining ground, the most after goldman sachs raised it from buy to neutral. it's an attractive opportunity. rishaad: let's get a little bit more the possibility or perhaps just a hint on some sort of detente on the korean peninsula p.m. stephen: north korea is -- and it's a. stephen: north korea is said to be in touch with the united .tates stood near ivanka, they do not appear to talk. the north did say ties should develop along with john chang's relationship with washington. that tpp trump thought is not a good idea for america, but the u.s. could return if better -- if a better deal is on the table. the allayed -- the remaining 11 members are expected to sign the deal in chile next week. there are no indications that new terms for the u.s. are under discussions. theael mccormick is to be next deputy minister. he will succeed barnaby joyce. the sex scandal that led to the joyce's re

. between the relations of china and taiwan. from the hudson institute this is an hour and 20 minutes. a special welcome to those of you who are watching online into the viewers on c-span. i am seth cropsey. the senior fellow here at hudson. welcome to our conference on china's recent actions that aim to establish their own order in the taiwan strait. as you will hear in greater detail from our panel this morning china unilaterally changed the status quo in the first week of this year. the changes were made despite agreements between taiwan. and then again in 2015. these provided for mutual consultation to any change in aviation rates. this violation is part of a larger broader pattern of chinese provocation. for example the chinese aircraft carrier goes through the taiwan strait. one day after the aviation route changed since the taiwan president was inaugurated. they had circled taiwan nearly once a month. this is consistent with china's policy that seeks to enjoy the benefits of an international world order for the purpose of replacing that world order of one of their own making. for

by two thousand and thirty china intends have another eight main lines running from north to south as well and actually the cost is very competitive that's why more people this this past chinese new year has just traveled by high speed rail rather than the conventional rail but you compare that to like new york city which has been trying to build that subway line with the number two on for about seventy eighty years and it went like ten times over by and it was just like a mile long it was like hardly anything and it took years and so many layers of administrative you know like they went over the cross was a great article recently where they went over the cost of why it was so expensive to build in new york city and they had to have like three people who operated the elevator but there was no elevator and there there's no actual there was a elevator a lift but it was automatic so there was nobody at that actually needed to press any button but they had to have them by law in these three guys that were elevator attendants who just stood there all day making one hundred fifty thousan

pacific in china, taiwan, singapore -- throughout the whole region. >> what your conclusion after you do this research? >> my conclusion is that we are engaged in a war with china. , and thata cold war is certainly not a hot war, but this is a joslin pushing and shoving for the right to operate in what we consider international waters in places like the south china sea. >> when did you finish it? >> i finished the book -- writing it right after the election last year. >> election 2016? >> yes. >> who is the most interesting character you met? harris.al harry he is the commander of the pacific command. he is half japanese by birth, has tremendous insight into the whole culture out there. he is a perfect person for that job at this time. more than that, he has a real feel on the pulse out there of how far you need to go to stop the chinese without escalating into something that creates a war type environment. i remember once i asked admiral harris how he best describes himself and all the things he lose." said, "i hate to with that kind of mentality -- he has that look about him, that a

looking at the expansion of china's high speed rail network and from watching in the u.k. stay with us for the financial news in the black. oh hello again maxed as her hair was day zero. zero zero it's going to be some interesting. and i threw a mispronounced my second name her bet and it's actually her birthday my god but you know on the ride over to the studio this morning you mentioned that during the last vacation period in america which is thanksgiving the baby the great migration of america you know when everybody goes on holiday they go visit their family they have thanksgiving dinner they usually fly that actually went from twenty three percent took road trips like last year and twenty sixteen and then in two thousand and seventeen it was something like thirty nine percent and why did they take road trips instead of flying to their destination well they didn't want the hassle of the u.s. dilapidated airports and the t.s.a. you know the whole security apparatus which is now kind of defunct because nobody actually even talks about the war in terror anymore everybody's forgotten t

power clash between the u.s. and china in the pacific." >> michael fabey, your book -- i had to go to the middle of the book to figure out what it meant. michael: a crash back is when a navy warship does an emergency. full stop. it is one of the last things you want to do with any kind of ship like that. it happened when the uss cal pence today. two halt a crash. it was meant to represent that. also, in this term, crashback is. in our policy and arrow -- the western pacific too. there was a pendulum shift i want to show in the book. when you did the research in this book, where did you visit we go? michael: i went aboard a chinese worship. i was on heaps of american and australian warships. i went into singapore. throughout the whole region. >> what was your conclusion? michael: it is that we are engaged in a war of words with china, it is not a cold war, the old-fashioned cold war. it is certainly not a hot war. this is a jostling that is pushing and shoving for the right to operate in international waters. >> all of this research -- when did you finish it? >> i finished writing the

concept of global markets before the break. i think china is no different. it may have a higher level of in bedded margin, giving the inclination of investors to treat the market as more of a short-term pending venue -- punting venue. nonetheless, we are heading to chinese new year, so we see a squeeze in liquidity. that is a very seasonal phenomenon and it happens every year. uncertainty is adding a little fuel to the fire. haidi: steve, it is really interesting, whether the air at of the central bank is over -- era of the central bank is over. did not give us a great deal of confidence that the fed, the policymakers, are willing to react. we spoke exclusively to bill dudley. his comments about this being small potatoes was interesting, almost taunting the market. >> the implications for the economic outlook are marginal. it probably will not change our thinking. if it were to go much further and be more persistent, it could affect household and business spending behavior, and influence the economic outlook. so far, i would say this is small potatoes. haidi: that is bill dudley speak

the agency of bias against him. the reality of life in china's xinjiang province. our reporterfinds out what it's like to live under a huge security operation. china is building a total surveillance state, it's a place where saying, doing or even thinking the wrong thing can get you locked up in an internment camp. also in the programme: scientists say they've developed a early warning test for alzheimer's, but with no cure, should people be told if they're at risk of the disease? and making history, nigeria's bobsleigh team become the country's first athletes to qualify for the winter olympics. life from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news —— live. it was back newsday. glad you could join us. it's 8:00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7:00 in the evening in washington, where the seat of the us government is buzzing with anticipation about the controversial memo about the fbi. it's understood the report, which is thought to claim the agency effectively spied on one of donald trump's staff during the presidential campaign, will be made public on fri

--"crashback: the power clash between the u.s. and china in the pacific." >> michael fabey, your book -- i had to go to the middle of the book to figure out what it meant. is when a crash back navy warship does an emergency. --.. it is one of the last things you want to do with any kind of ship like that. happened when the uss cal pence today. two halt a crash. it was meant to represent that. crashbackhis term, is. -- thepolicy and arrow western pacific two. oo. >> where did you go to catch up on what was going on? aboard a chinese worship. i was on heaps of american and australian warships. i went into singapore. throughout the whole region. >> what was your conclusion? we are: it is that engaged in a war of words with china, it is not a cold war, the old-fashioned cold war. this is a jostling that is for theand shoving right to operate in international waters. >> all of this research -- when did you finish it? writing the book right after the election last year. >> the election in 2016? >> yes. but who was the most interesting character you met? harry harris.al he is the commander of the

-span's q&a. next, the look at relations between china and taiwan. this is just under an hour and half. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen. to those oflcome you who are watching online and to viewers on c-span. i am seth cropsey. a senior fellow here at hudson. welcome to our conference on china's recent actions that aim to establish their own order in the taiwan strait. as you will hear in greater detail from our panel this morning, china unilaterally changed the status quo of aviation routes in the taiwan week of thee first share. changes were made despite agreements between taiwan and china that were reached in 2008 in 2015.and again consultationd any change in aviation routes. is part of an larger, brighter pattern of chinese revocation in the region. -- broader pattern of chinese revocation in the region. china had a ship go our --.during chinese jets have circled taiwan nearly wants per month. the is consistent with chinese policy that seeks to enjoy the benefits of an international world order for the purpose of replacing out world order with one of their own making. for examp

power clash between the u.s. and china in the pacific." book: michael fabey, your #, i had to go to the middle of the book to figure out what it means. what does it mean? michael: a crashback is when a navy warship does an emergency . stop. it is one of the last things you want to do with any kind of ship like that. it happened when the uss cal ful stopped. also in this term it is about stop in our policy in the western pacific. this book amou did witty to physically go to catch up on what was going on? michael: i went aboard a chinese worship. i was on heaps of american and australian warships. i was on australian shores. i was in the west pacific. i went into singapore. throughout the whole region. what was your conclusion after you did the research? michael: it is that we are engaged in a war of words with china, it is not a cold war, the fashioned cold war without the soviet union. this is a jostling that is pushing and shoving for the right to operate in what we consider to be international waters in the south china sea. brian: all of this research -- when did you finish it? mi

over a that's arriving almost daily. could he rule for life? china's xi jinping might continue as president indefinitely — under changes proposed by the communist party. live from our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it is newsday. glad you could join us. it's 8am in singapore midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where the us has given a cool response to a reported offer of talks from north korea. the us state department says any talks would have to lead to the end of the regime's nuclear programme. south korea claimed pyongyang had signalled its willingness to hold talks with the us, after a meeting between a north korean general and south korea's president before the closing ceremony of the winter olympics. laura bicker now reports from pyeongyang on a games in which politics played as much of a role as the sporting action. this is the confidence side of south korea. but much of the drama was political. entering this arena is the us president's daughter ivanka trump. but no warm reception for the north korean generals sitting behind her. there was

gary marcuse on how cultural traditions intersect with economic growth in cambodia and china. coming up on "earth focus." kalyanee: as an immigrant, as a refugee, you know, from cambodia, my family and i, you know, fled cambodia when i was four years old. and what i realized was what happening in areng valley was that the people were also being threatened by the same kind of displacement and uprootedness. and what i've seen with the chong people is that they live a very beautiful le, completely connected to nature, and i was inspired to make this film to help people understand, you know, how important that connection is. [baby fusses] kalyanee: so the chong people have been living in areng valley, you know, for over 600 years. and we went back to cambodia to film and i discovered, you know, two of the most amazing people i've ever met in my life. and what i discovered was that they are probably one of the most rooted and grounded people i've ever met, and the reason is because of their connection to the land. you know, they feel so grateful for nature because everything they have comes

building across china saying the peasants will never be able to afford it but apparently according to the data from this past year that they peasants are affording it so it is actually becoming viable and people are using it because their incomes are going up because we've outsourced all our jobs there right maybe they'll build the stuff on the railway system right here at the cars the report well don't go away stay right there a little break when we come back we're actually going to go to china using the magic of television and talk with someone in china say right there. most money for the sport the least you know because in most of the snow more than one of them something. beautiful yes good news person talking to push. him over the i'm close to them is my feel to my gym i do you know on the on the grounds of the star in your focused. surfing demeanor will some day in cinemas along with the sport of the p.b.s. dog to the us vs the us little league. book of citizenship and tell him would someone please feel free to chose to go full steam as a policeman yes just impossible for most of the

and spend a trillion dollars here china is also mercantile a state just like germany and they have to include all these people america where abandon those people out in the rust belt out in the middle of america's like. let fend for yourself dude but i mean the u.k. is kind of similar right the whole northern area that country they keep discussing should we build a railway to the north you know twenty years the people from manchester and birmingham and sheffield should we include them into our economy in london and yet for twenty years i've been having this debate and there's still this division going on. the chinese are saying you know what you know we're going to grow the economy by actually making it inclusive economy and building infrastructure appropriately yes so they're basically they're they're bringing in the west and a lot of naysayers and the western world the western economy the likes of you know the. academia economists from new york have always liked their plan for high speed rail but they've been building across china saying the peasants will never be able to afford it

a high-rise, one of china's senior environmental reporters is becoming a buddhist. [doorbell rings] liu jianqiang: hi. fred: hi. liu: fred? hi. fred: good to meet you. liu: nice to see you. fred: likewise. liu jianqiang is an investigative journalist. his first story about the environment was an exposÉ about illegal dam construction on the upper yangtze river. it made national headlines. his hard-hitting stories eventually got him fired, so he continued his work as the beijing editor of china dialogue, an online international journal. [liu speaking chinese] fred: but afafter 10 yeaears of reporting, he was feeling burned out. [liu speaking chinese] translator: i think that our environmental activists and those who work for public welfare need more powerful spiritual supporort. why? every day what we do mayy be good d deeds which gigive us positive energy,y, but meanwhihe what we are facing is the darkest side of the world. every day what we see is polluted air, polluted rivers, and the slaughter of wild animals. this kind of negegative energy attacks us a all the time. we've been

stick around because when we return we'll take a firsthand look at how china is expanding its influence and investment below the equator plus we'll take a look at how one tweet caused a billion dollar loss in a stock as we go to break the u.s. energy information agency report a larger draw on oil reserves that has dissipated and the price of crude oil has risen as a result here other numbers at the closing bell. tell us time is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill fiddlesticks mission to do it look like you know. this isn't my cup of tea is going up to the study hall maybe you know john you tell nobody should be the only palestinians who gets the most hopeful is to some counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision know when to do this. i know it is unfair advantage to have this lady in the muscle that you had i'm going to compete in the doesn't seem to do more in the middle sauce don't put this off. with make this manufacture come sentenced to public will. when the ruling class is pr

america so i'm going to compare this to china where they also they don't have these grand announcements of infrastructure plans and hope that in twenty years that might come true maybe the private funds will come from somewhere they just do it and it's quite remarkable because bullet trains are transforming the world's biggest migration millions of chinese cram on to train to make the annual pilgrimage home for the lunar new year holiday as a crowded and often uncomfortable experience that is rapidly being transformed by the country's push into the world of high speed rail china already has the globe's longest bullet train network but it is plowing three point five trillion un or five hundred fifty six billion dollars into expanding its railway system by eighteen percent over the next two years to one hundred fifty thousand kilometers or more than ninety three thousand miles underground thousand miles of the two years that's amazing those chinese people are ready to rock n roll the twenty first century high speed trains home of grandma's house is just two hours for the whatever they are

. after the break seventy two hours of the dregs of maize return from china we ask oxford university fellow pretty good john why did the u.k. prime minister fail to fully endorse the nine hundred billion dollars built in the road initiative all the more going overboard to have going underground. everybody i'm stephen. hollywood guy you know suspects every proud american first of all interests george washington and r.v. to suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru where she's a little bit different i'm not. going to find i know no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the good have some fun every day americans call it quits the start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. despite its title and history deceive us union has dominated international sport however this is nothing about the long lives of those champions from the feeling. of you know. when on the children number like this that. the warm will be there with the board maybe just remember two three brothers this guy who is for the order of europe of what the irish was

global trade around the world including the role of china. and today we look forward to a deeper dive of trade in the asia-pacific. the hashtag for today's event is global trade. shawn is the world trade editor for the financial times and previously served as the financial times world news editor. he's covered trade and globalization for the ft from posts around the world. but more importantly for today his late father was osstraustra and his mother stills lives just outside sydney. when i asked him to do this event he said he was more than willing to moderate if i was willing to discuss the discussion between two aussies about cricket. >> thanks very much, ken. and yeah, i think i said a full hours worth of chatting about cricket and then we get into the rugby and maybe we can talk about the super bowl later. thank you so much for having me. it's an honor to be here as an australian. joe hockey is australia's ambassador to the united states. he also for those of us who have followed australian politics, is someone who is well-known as a former minister in different portfolios in

president — they discuss trade, the environment and north korea. the reality of life in china's xinjiang province — our reporter finds out what it's like to live under a huge security operation. china is building a total surveillance state. it is a place where saying, doing, or even thinking the wrong thing can get you locked up in an internment camp. american actor robert wagner is declared a "person of interest" in an investigation into the death of his wife. and making history — nigeria's bobsleigh team become the country's first athletes to qualify for the winter olympics. hello. britain's prime minister is on the third and final day of her visit to china, and her officials are trumpeting the nearly $13 million worth of deals they expect to be signed during the trip. theresa may has agreed a joint trade and investment review with china. it's the first step to what she says will be an ambitious trade deal post—brexit — although the recently—lea ked civil service forecasts on brexit suggest a china trade deal would be of only limited benefit to the uk's gdp. president xi jinp

tough with china. slapping tariffs of 106% on imported aluminum foil. beijing has hinted at a response. li na the markets in the u.s. tumbled today in reaction to the fed chairman jay powell's testimony today. but if you look at several pieces of data, indicators and a buy signal relative to other markets in the u.s.. g #btv 672 which shows you the breadth of the market. still of s&p70% stocks are trading above their 200 day moving average. if you look over into europe, for instance, where you and i talked to a lot of investors, there is a lot of value in europe. only 59% of stocks on the euro, the stoxx 600 index are trading above their 200 day moving average. , itn that smaller breath goes to show the european markets or others outside the u.s. still have a bit of work to do before they flash a buy signal. yvonne: a great chart there. given the turbulence we did see in february, we're seeing more of a bounce back and the like the u.s. compared to europe and asia. the breadth of the market in china not a strong. a good technical signal to buy more, perhaps. the treasury yield

crisis? as china hits back at us plans for more import tariffs a high—level un meeting looks for a way forward. taking care of the future. singapore braces itself for tax rises to look after its aeging population. and on the markets: china and hong kong are closed, celebrating a brand—new year. in japan and australia you can see they are headed much higher. is the world's trading system in crisis? since president trump entered the oval office the world's biggest economy — the united states — has been reshaping its trading relationship with the rest of the world. over the weekend china threatened to retaliate if the us went ahead with proposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. so a high level un—led meeting in geneva is looking at the way ahead. in many parts of the world the importance of multilateral trade deals can be seen in the number of people they've lifted out of poverty. the world bank says the number of people living in extreme poverty has halved since 1990 because of free trade. but president trump has been wringing the changes. he pulled out of the trans—

we return we'll take a firsthand look at how china is expanding its influence and investment below the equator plus we'll take a look at how one tweet caused a billion dollar loss in a stock as we go to break the u.s. energy information agency report a larger draw on oil reserves that has dissipated and the price of crude oil has risen as a result here other numbers at the closing bell. a little blog selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle but still. the new socks present tell you that will be gossip and tabloid was filed in court today. on the market and doesn't tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along the border will want. the united states is going to look very deep into mystic prizes challenge to a miracle supreme will see the north from the outside noise from russia not from china but from the inside all sides what you see now all around russia and this. over russia. is psychological or understandable of times to find sound by the outside the united states who is resp

. ruggiero: the problem begins very simply with demand. narrator: and china drives the demand for ivory. knights: china now is estimated to be 70% of the world's ivory market. there is a tradition of ivory carving, but also, of course, the massive growth of the chinese economy. narrator: around 300 million people make up china's middle class today. that's more than the population of the united states, and they are looking to spend their money on luxury goods. ivory has particular appeal because of its long history in china. it has been carved there for more than 2,000 years, expressing many core chinese cultural and traditional values. knights: i think in some cases, people are speculating that ivory is almost like a currency that they can invest in for e future. alie: you walk through beijing and in some of the stores you see ivory mantelpiece, exquisite carvings going for like 50,000 u.s. dollars, 60,000 u.s. dollars. knights: but in addition to that, you have things like chopsticks, bangles that people wear, small carved items. all these things are made from ivory, and unfortun

in global trade around the world including the role of china and today we look into a deeper dive into trade with the asia pacific. the hash tag for today's event is global trade and we hope people will use that. eel leave it the ambassador to sean don. he is the world trade editor for the financial times and previously served as financial times -- as the financial times world news editor. he's covered trade for posts around the world and more importantly for today his late father was australian and his father still lives just outside of sydney. when i asked him to do this event and he said he'd be more than willing to moderate if i was able to tolerate discussions between two aussies about cricket. with that i'll turn the microphone over to sean to do a brief introduction of the ambassador. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, ken. and i think i said i full hour's worth of chatting about krcrick and then rugby. it's an honor to be here as an australian. he is the australian ambassador to the united states and for also those of us who has followed australian politics is someone wh

west asks russia to put pressure on damascus. china's president xijinping could serve indefinitely, under changes to the constitution put forward by the ruling communist party. also this hour: a k—pop extravaganza brings the winter olympics in pyeongchang to an end. there was show of unity between north and south korea at the closing ceremony, and the north says it will meet the us for talks. manchester city errand pep guardiola his first trophy in england. my guest this week is sirjohn schuster, broadcaster and man of the arts, whose own story is also a portrait of modern britain. good evening. the shadow brexit secretary has confirmed that labour wants the uk to remain in a customs union with the eu after brexit. sir keir starmer told the bbc‘s andrew marr show that a new treaty, replicating the existing customs arrangement, would be best for the economy and would respect the referendum result. the prime minister is committed to leaving both the single market and the customs union, she's expected to outline the government's position in more detail this week. our political cor

the united states here in china the companies the trade on the shen zone and shanghai indexes are largely domestic companies now we haven't seen the dramatic falls that we saw in two thousand and fifteen when the markets crashed by between five and seven percent that cause the government to intervene on those occasions we did see some panic on this occasion as yet we're seeing no panic and i think there are other reasons for that overall the fundamentals of the chinese economy appear according to many economists you speak to to be pretty good at the moment and there is a sort of feeling that maybe g.d.p. is actually a little bit higher than the government thought it would be and we'll get a a clear idea of course of what china's g.d.p. is going to be in the year ahead when china's parliament the national people's congress meets in a few weeks time and chinese leaders will be hoping that this volatility we're seeing on the u.s. markets and other overseas markets is something that is temporary the markets obviously go up and they go down what does it mean for the real economy how ta

ties with the u.s. and china. also hear about the trump administration's foreign policy in the asia-pacific region from the stimson center here in washington d.c., this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> i work on the program here and today we have the president president -- from social sciences to be here to share with us her perspective, china's good on the relation. and we have the washington southeast asia and they have spent a lot of time earlier than not as journalists but the economics review. i do not so today's topic is but of the united states and china because the a flareup of the south tennessee, and there have been a lot of questions and questions about the alignment choices in foreign policy choices and they are a governing party and they reform into a country and so we will hear from the experts how the vietnamese domestic politics also affect their foreign policy choices between the united states and china and how do we understand the future of these two. that is enough talking for me. i will invite the doctor to share with us her perspective. thank yo

next hour or so have the china open, we will look at how the asian pacific market continues to digest. a quick check and where we are when china opens up. have a look at my charts here for you the index futures, we are looking at 850 a.m. here. see the west end china traded here. we are up about two and a half percent. if that is any indicator of how the open will look, it will pop up here on the index. that will get up and running in about 25 minutes from now. haidi: chinese investors coming back to a trading environment world that looks a lot better than when they left it. chinese newter the year holiday. trying to play catch-up in terms of those lows we saw supported hong kong and the midst of that selloff trade a pretty bereft day when it comes to asia, plenty of time and attention for investors to focus on this as they really saw indications of the central bank that was increasingly confident also a pickup when it comes to tightening the rent tight. it's take a look ahead. we have china looking at the bottom of this our bridge southeast asia, coming online. we had a session where

communist china in about seventy two hours or so but has she done enough to ingratiate herself with the superpower of the twenty first century because despite local media referring to aunty may many have been left wondering whether the u.k. has reached its stated goal of becoming china's best partner in the west joining me now is oxford university fellow dr chris could turn out chris thanks for going back on have we done enough. to be back have we done enough history so many done enough i guess it depends what her objectives are and i think that you know when it comes to china so often there's divided constituencies there's one group who feel strongly that yes china is the superpower of the twenty first century and so we need to do everything we can to access open up markets for goods products services and people and then there are other people who look more soberly at. that is the key to creating with who. i mean. the challenge and this is why it's you know it's a difficult tightrope for tree some may and i think pretty much every western politician to walk is on the one hand the sheer

north korea, russia, iran and china and nuclear liberation. former deputy secretary of state richard armitage joined. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> our meeting will come to order. the senate armed services committee meets this morning to receive testimony on global challenges in the united, in national security strategies to meet those threats. it's my honor to welcome our distinguished witnesses, former sectors of state henry kissinger and george shultz, and the former deputy secretary of state richard on the taj. your careers of service have been unbelievable, been great. we are so honored to have you folks here. i want to begin by reading a brief welcome from our chairman mccain who regrets that is unable to be here for today's hearing, and encoding him now. he says, with the rising global challenges and increasingly complex and competitive strategic environment, america needs the leadership, wisdom and experience that only statesmen of this stature can provide. this committee and this nation thank you for your service and we are

the program. china's rapid progress. and the time has passed since the. long time. hello there receives a very heavy downpours over the northern parts of australia recently it's been over the northern parts of the northern territory's and also over the northern parts of queensland as well here some places have been reporting staggering amounts of rain this place a three hundred and fifty three millimeters of rain that is easily enough to give us a problem with some flooding more showers are expected over the next few days and again some of these are likely to be very heavy further south and it's a very different story altogether here we've got an area of high pressure in charge and it's fine and it's also a very hot so force in adelaide the temperatures will be rising i think we might get as high as thirty eight during the day on wednesday for perth so we do have more in the way of showery weather that's making its way across us over towards new zealand and the thunderstorms in the north america away but the area of wet weather in the south is pushing its way northward and as i

i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: britain's theresa may is in china to forge new partnerships, ahead of britain's exit from the european union. the fbi says it has grave concerns over the accuracy of what is expected to be a critical memo that could soon be released by the white house. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: the bbc‘s former china editor carrie gracie tells british mps of her anger at the way the bbc has treated some of the women it employs. i was so distraught by what had happened. anyway... then i thought, no, i have to fight. and i am sorry it is taking this long, and i am sorry we are in this position, yes. and goodbye to vaping. singapore bans e—cigarettes. it is 8:00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 8:00am in beijing, where the british prime minister, on her visit to china, has forecast a golden era in trade relations. theresa may says she has won assurance that beijing will further open up its markets to the uk, but has also been forced to insist that she is not a quitter, following days of criticism of her leadership

white house fundamentally, on this whole gun debate, is what distinguishes us as a nation. china or some other place had a problem with the way their government operated, they would push back. .hey would say things actually, in another foreign area, you might be sent to jail. what happens in america is you get an invitation to the white house for an honest dialogue. that is what makes america great and that is what we need to support. moving towards the midterms. president trump mentioned in his speech that there is a possibility that republicans could get clobbered in november. many of your colleagues are choosing not to run again, or hats out of fear that they would soon be in the minority. you think that is the reason we are seeing a historic number of republicans step down? >> i think this is going to be a fine year for republicans. we just have to go out and campaign hard. this year, we need to do what we told the voters we would do. sarah,ss, other than mark and i tell our colleagues all the time. if the press is not saying something bad about you, you are probably not doing a