i mean china is important but china is not that important also and we have to remember that. together in the wake of the tsunami so what the set of issues that we see that all countries are talking about are essentially public goods the provision of public goods provision of backseats if you get up to date issue and so security issues and so on so there is a lack of the provision of these public goods and i think it's that it's a good thing that beautiful country landed stand limitations and have decided to work together yes it's true you know they have sort of dance floor are a sort of drop the last several times in the past but i think now will turn level of convergence between these 4 countries or among these 4 countries on multiple issues is now sustained and sustainable what do you make of the fact that a joint statement was quite blunt when it came to the issue of maritime security. it spelled out that it's collaborating collaboration including in maritime security is to meet challenges to the rules based maritime order in the east and south china seas what's the messag

in hong kong still reject china's claims in the south china sea while way is still on the u.s. communications chopping block last week biden met with leaders in the 1st quad meeting with heads of government from india australia and japan but not china and this week he sent his 2 top officials the secretary of state and the secretary of defense or the carrot and the stick to visit several countries in asia but again not china there will be a meeting with chinese officials later in alaska but the message is clear biden is building a grand contain china coalition so how is china taking all this in and will this track be effective today we're talking to deborah layer who was involved in the accession of china to the world trade organization 20 years ago and was one of the founders of the us china strategic economic dialogue and today she's the c.e.o. of bass alina a consultancy on china in the middle east based here in washington she is also executive director of the paulson in situ and randy shriver who served in the trumpet ministration as assistant secretary of defense for indo-

accusations a cyber attacks by china spreading disinformation about china's covert 19 aphids and the 2018 foreign interference laws targeting china in the absence of evidence it's a bit ironic every time anyone suggests that there should be chinese within china they complying with your want to do fear with chinese internet it's the 14 points people talk about as coercive as an act of bullying what's wrong i can see what's wrong that is actually a kind of like a free candid exchange of all of us i think we did a little less holes for talk about being bullied by china we have interests to defend protect and we are doing it i believe but we need to be smarter in other places. covert travel restrictions have confined raby to a stray year for the past year normally based in beijing he's on the board of china controlled this trading company un called. it also being here. to china banda strain in cold following the straining government school for an investigation into covert 19 in april last year now ships are sitting off ports in china likely in cool piece and i will try to occur cold. mor

crackdown in hong kong still reject china's claims in the south china sea while way is still on the u.s. communications chopping block last week biden met with leaders in the 1st quad meeting with heads of government from india australia and japan but not china and this week he sent his 2 top officials the secretary of state and the secretary of defense or the care and the stick to visit several countries in asia but again not china there will be a meeting with chinese officials later in alaska but the message is clear biden is building a grand contain china coalition so how is trying to taking all this in and will this track be effective today we're talking to deborah layer who was involved in the accession of china to the world trade organization 20 years ago and was one of the founders of the us china strategic economic dialogue and today she's the c.e.o. of bassa lina a consultancy on china in the middle east based here in washington she is also executive director of the paulson is that you and randy shriver who served in the trumpet ministration as assistant secretary of defense fo

united states certainly sees this alliance to stop the growing influence of china if not contain china it is not dissimilar to the nato organization which was started $947.00 to stop the increasing influence of military threat that was coming from the soviet union as the world battles the covert 19 pandemic that originated in china the group also announcing on friday a new initiative to manufacture and produce u.s. vaccines in india financed by japan and the united states and supported by australia the quad committed to delivering up to 1000000000 doses to i.c. on the indo-pacific and beyond by the end of 2022 climate change is the other big challenge the group must confront how to push global nations to live up to the commitments made in the paris climate agreement overall china emits almost double the c o 2 of the united states but per capita the us takes the lead china responded to the meeting of the quad saying exchanges between governments should be to create understanding not target 3rd parties the meeting of the quad comes just days before the u.s. secretary of state and nationa

between china and iran it's a cheap political shift you i agree with. with the. my colleague from iran. they're looking east how long that will happen i don't know but the reality is that the money is moving east oil energy is being used in asia far greater levels united states is in essence pretty much. himself supplying as long as the price of oil is above $45.00 and they can use fracking europe is another matter they're somewhere in between but yes this does give iran breathing room hopefully will not be an excuse to continue with nuclear capabilities that is not good for anybody but there has to be a very clear and open stance on this thing the fact it's the worst kept secret in the world that israel has nukes. and is willing to use in the case that they are overrun so i mean at this point it really if there is going to be a do nuclear station if i around china us are going to start cooperating along with russia or in europe there has to be some absolute clarity here and stop with this kind of narrative that you know you're doing this in their prime respondin

public in their daily lives in china picking up a 2 week of people inching jiang while china by the western media amid the intensifying saunders' against china but not jumping to number one what do you say hey this is supposed to rely think china well what are you saying here that the great picture by the way but whenever we look at the chinese media training leaders and the people traders dancing all the time look at the pier you see people dancing we say to people have not seen my leg you know inform people get it right this is where this is how holding camp you know this is how the west according to china say is the way to people and these are the some of the people who are in canada australia and turkey these people have relatives in the camps who have lost their parents. even children to the camps they're searching for their relatives actually and they are given voices and these are media actually on the contrary trying i didn't give any voice any permission for them to speak to the relatives even make it one call so these other people portrayed and given the space under vested

accusations a cyber attacks by china spreading disinformation about china's covert 19 aphids and the 2018 foreign interference laws targeting china in the absence of evidence it's a bit ironic every time anyone suggests that there should be chinese within china they complying with your want to do fear with chinese internet it's the 14 points people talk about as as coercive as act of bullying what's wrong i can see what's wrong that is actually a kind of like a free candid exchange of all of us i think we belittle ourselves for talking about being bullied by china we have interest to the famed protect and we are doing it i believe but we need to be smarter in other places see. covert travel restrictions have confined raby to a stranger for the past year normally based in beijing he's on the board of china controlled this trading company un called. it also being heat oh. to china banda strain in cold following the straining government school for an investigation into covert 19 in april last year our ships are sitting off ports in china likely cause for ph peace and i will try to occur

crackdown in hong kong still reject china's claims in the south china sea while way is still on the u.s. communications chopping block last week biden met with leaders in the 1st quad meeting with heads of government from india australia and japan but not china and this week he sent his 2 top officials the secretary of state and the secretary of defense or the carrot and the stick to visit several countries in asia but again not china there will be a meeting with chinese officials later in alaska but the message is clear biden is building a grand contain china coalition so how is china taking all this in and will this track be effective today we're talking to deborah layer who was involved in the accession of china to the world trade organization 20 years ago and was one of the founders of the us china strategic economic dialogue and today she's the c.e.o. of basle ina a consultancy on china and the middle east based here in washington she is also executive director of the paulson institut and randy shriver who served in the trumpet ministration as assistant secretary of defense for

and china depending on your interest and especially also pain chinese if you are not anti china people assume you've been influenced. last year when she into all the chinese a strains fronted a senate inquiry to talk about increasing their communities engagement in politics they came under attack from a conservative government senator eric abetz. and i asked whether they are willing to unconditionally. the chinese communist party. so that was a shocking question from the senator and says that if you die i pledged loyalty therefore we can't trust that's basically the underlying assumption the question was asked to 3 chinese australians not the other papers who were. discussing exactly the same issue so you don't have to wonder why it was only tug 3 chinese strains. my feeling is that there is a lack of proportionality and context in this whole china threat. geoff raby is a former strain ambassador to china there's nothing wrong with having of the faults setting which is risk averse but that doesn't need to be. a point by which we attack. the legitimacy of the chinese communist party and

china or of the took the u.s. is the largest trading partner last year and birthday parties were in the middle of finalizing a comprehensive investment treaty now this was yet to be approved by the e.u. some member states had concerns precisely about china's human rights record and the e.u. says that they want this to start a dialogue with china but it's unlikely to do that china is likely to see this as a hostile act because china has always maintained that there are no human rights abuses taking place in john and it says what many consider to be reeducation camps well it calls lawyers for creation or training centers which they say are designed to improve the economic opportunities of the wages engine john a trader just toss sensitive is china to international pressure over human rights and is this round likely them to escalate even further do you think. we'll have to watch that closely the last time we saw this kind of concerted effort from europe was back in 1989 after the chenin square crackdown on pro-democr

and china depending on your insight and especially also pain chinese if you are not anti china people assume you influence. last year when she into all the chinese astray ins front of the senate inquiry to talk about increasing their communities engagement in politics they came under attack from a conservative government senator eric abetz. and i asked with why you are willing to unconditionally. the chinese communist party. so that was a shocking question from the senate and says that if you die i pledge loyalty therefore we can't trust that's basically the underlying assumption that the question was asked to 3 chinese australians not the other papers who were. discussing exactly the same issue so you don't have to wonder why it was only tug 3 chinese strains. my feeling is that there is a lack of proportionality and context in this whole china threat. geoff raby is a former straining ambassador to china there's nothing wrong with having of the faults setting which is risk averse but that doesn't need to be. a point by which we attack. the legitimacy of the chinese communist party an

and china last year china overtook the u.s. as the ears narges trading partner and the 2 parties at the end of 2020 finally agreed on the long discussed comprehensive investment treaty now that treaty is yet to be ratified by the e.u. precisely because some of the member states were raising questions about the human rights behavior by china now the e.u. has said that they want to start a dialogue with china but this is not going to be taken as a dialogue started by beijing this is probably going to be seen as a direct attack because they think has always denied that there were any human rights abuses taking place in john and what many have called reeducation camps beijing has maintained that these are simply vocational training centers designed to increase the economic opportunities of the weak minority and katrina just tell sensitive is china to international pressure over human rights abuses and is this relevant to them to escalate didn't further do that. that's a really interesting question the last time we saw the e.u. act

china. well be interesting to see what does come out of that meeting for the moment cynthia watson asia pacific analyst joining us from annapolis in the u.s. and madam thank you for sharing your views with us thank you thank you and again a reminder that we are waiting for for some kind of a statement possibly not a joint wonder from the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken who is in alaska to meet with the chinese foreign minister and state counselor why the that meeting are meant to be getting under way right now we'll bring you more developments and analysis as we get it out of alaska. there's also much else is still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour another defiant a day of protests in myanmar as the military accuses a top diplomat of treason and agger at vacs cheaters why the u.s. government is warning people against jumping the queue for covert 1000 vaccines and in sports the gemma will be here with the action is india look to keep their t 20 cricket series against england a light.

public in their daily lives up in china picking up a 2 week of people inching jiang while china by the western media amid the intensifying saunders' against china well not john but you know what do you say hey this is supposed to rely think china well what are you saying here that the great picture by the way but whenever we look at the chinese media training leaders and people are traders dancing all the time and look at the pier you see people dancing down these able have not seen my legs you know inform people we are and this is this is how holding camp you know this is how the west according to china sees the way the people and these are the some of the people who are in canada australia and turkey these people have relatives in the camps who have lost their parents. even children to the camps they're searching for their relatives actually and they are given voices and these are media actually on the contrary trying i didn't get any voice any permission for them to speak to the relatives even make it on call so these are the people portrayed and given space under vested media actua

and point fingers at china's handling of individual cases that is interference in china's judicial sovereignty we were ject that and will by no means accept such interference michael covert and michael spade or are suspected of endangering china's national security and china's judicial organs will handle the cases and guarantee their rights and interests more in this one with katrina a year in beijing. this is really the climax of what has been a long drawn out legal process michael coverage along with michael spade will they were both arrested in december 28th and it took 18 months for them to be charged with espionage formally and now it's been more than 800 days that they've both been detained with very little access to the outside world and as we heard earlier canada is extremely critical of the way these cases are being handled by china in addition to what they say is a lack of transparency they've also raised questions about the amount of access both have had to chinese lawyers before the trial both respectively on friday and on monday today for michael crawford now of course this case h

the swedish still had about 550 outlets in china enough that these companies china is the growth market right so it's a real threat to the business and so it has a real impact here as you say shane jiang is the man usually thorny issue because they have been. in the past but this one seems different and western brands face pressure at home to distance sam south boston from possible abuses in change and do you think this campaign by china will actually work what impact do you see it happening. well it's a very good question and we know that a lot of western brands in western countries have taken stances against racism against sexism and the like and they're quite willing to take political stances but they really done affect their bottom line now we have a case in china where if they do take political stances it's a big whack to their bottom line so that's the 1st thing is difficult at the companies in that respect the 2nd thing is the extent to which these current sort of the take downs against the brands in china how long but last fall and how long that the system for as you can see wit

crackdown in hong kong still reject china's claims in the south china sea while way is still on the u.s. communications chopping block last week biden met with leaders in the 1st quad meeting with heads of government from india australia and japan but not china and this week he sent his 2 top officials the secretary of state and the secretary of defense or the care and the stick to visit several countries in asia but again not china there will be a meeting with chinese officials later in alaska but the message is clear biden is building a grand contain china coalition so how is trying to taking all this in and will this track be effective today we're talking to deborah layer who was involved in the accession of china to the world trade organization 20 years ago and was one of the founders of the us china strategic economic dialogue and today she's the c.e.o. of basle ina a consultancy on china and the middle east based here in washington she is also executive director of the paulson in situ and randy shriver who served in the trumpet ministration as assistant secretary of defense for in

with china and saying yes. we do want to trade with but on some points we're going to disagree which actually is an approach china will say take some of its partners as well where the review refers to china as britain's biggest systemic threat if you use russia as the country's biggest active threat in response to a new antiterrorism center will be built to counter the risk of chemical and biological attack the number of nuclear warheads the country could potentially stockpile will be increased by 40 percent and a new crisis command center built under downing street because britain really up to the task. because of it 19 pandemics cost the country watering amounts of money lives and livelihoods remain at risk to help the recovery the government's planning a green industrial revolution with ambitions to become the world leader in carbon capture but in the midst of current challenges it's difficult to see the review is anything but a wish list part of britain's breaks it rebranding. the start message from the gov

accusations a cyber attacks by china spreading disinformation about china's covert 19 aphids and the 2018 foreign interference laws targeting china in the absence of evidence it's a bit ironic every time anyone suggests that there should be chinese within china they complying with your want to do fear with chinese internal it's the 14 points people talk about as coercive as. bullying what's wrong i can see what's wrong that is actually a kind of like a free candid exchange of all of us i think we did a little assholes for talking about being bullied by china we have interest to the famed protect and we are doing it i believe but we need to be smarter in other places see. covert travel restrictions have confined raby to a stray year for the past year normally based in beijing he's on the board of china controlled australian company yeah. it's also been heat on. to china banda strain in cold following the straining government school for an investigation into covert 19 in april last year now ships are sitting off ports in china likely in cool piece and i will try to take her cold. more

china overtook the u.s. as it use largest trading partner last year and it is also being in the middle of finalizing a comprehensive investment trade agreement one that was hard won and discussed over many years it's yet to be ratified by the e.u. and that was the next step ahead so it really does through that into question and this is the 1st time we've seen this kind of sanction from the e.u. on china since 989 in those sanctions were imposed as a result of the chenin crackdown that happened in beijing now beijing says it reserves the right to to take further action if the e.u. does not stand down on their so we're yet to see what measures that might take it could mean an impact on trade or something along those lines and obviously we've also had that more recent charming in the end approval from new zealand and australia australia itself as a ready been the target of what some has some of called economic coercion from china taking a few actions condemning china for its handling of the current $1000.00 res

way that in china or in the u.s. have very different approaches to how to try to revive the day c.p.o. way where does all of this leave the nikkei dale. well it's sort of where it's been just ever since biden was elected there is still sort of 3 possibilities here to get back towards something there is what some people call a minus with a couple things but leave everything else out for now there's joining back into the chase if you want to the terms of the document and then there's a big deal that both the u.s. and u.s. allies and iran seems to want because they have all these grievances and all these other things they want but that's almost impossible to negotiation to negotiate and could take years and so the only smart happens right back to the g. c.p.o. way but there's 2 wrinkles there are 2 concerns one is the iranian elections which makes it very hard for ring to do anything until the elections are over and there's this window closing that you're he is worried about that it's at some point iranians behavior in

democratic communities relationship with the rising power of china. it would be fair to say this is to really done everything in its power not provoked. it's too soft conciliatory approach in diplomatic relations. it's clear that there have been you know very few concrete results from that approach so the question that i think the world has to face today as we see these 2 essentially hostages from canada going on trial a few days apart from each other is that if canada can't have a good relationship with china you know who can so what are we to make of china's behavior what what what is it trying to to achieve what's the mindset here. yeah i think you know. tend to take a more aggressive approach to countries that it considers middle powers countries like canada or australia. which it assumes that it can sort of. boss around and is quite surprised right when those middle powers don't simply a little bit. now you know the origin of the current tensions in canada china relations is really simply canada abiding by its extradition agreement with the unite

allies and partners in an effort to call a policy against china so better relations between china and us is not on the horizon in fact competitions like to to deepen and for iran of course has also been on a significant lead going to come that pressure from the u.s. and others especially on to trump initiation so if it both are looking for partners to strengthen the hand and void diplomatic and should isolation right at him in the final both countries the china and iran are subject to u.s. sanctions and also of course iran's nuclear program or the nuclear core remains unresolved do you foresee any challenges in the actual implementation of a projects when it comes to this agreement i mean the details projects like investments and feels like banking telecommunications ports row is. yes so i mean it's still too early to say given that we have a very very basic outline of the agreement but from an economic perspective and technological perspective it also makes sense for beijing and tear on so beijing is looking for ways to increase trade with non-western countries make foreign investmen

will be able to push china. yes it is going to be going to be very very interesting clearly there are some issues that i think the chinese also want to work with the u.s. on climate change is one global issue whether whether the chinese will go much further than they went to paris further climate change talks at the end of the year there are other joint issues i think which were of security in the region and globally where both sides both being permanent members of the u.n. security council feel they should work together but again how far they'll go on the these issues aren't clear the americans for example are trying to find a way out of afghanistan and push peace talks there but the but the u.s. certainly has some red lines where it doesn't want to go with regard to afghanistan myanmar is an issue that's right at the top of the international agenda since the coup on the 1st of february in china doesn't hold the key but it certainly has an ability to put a great deal of pressure on the generals how far are they

and china china overtook the u.s. last year as the biggest trading partner of the e.u. and it took a few years it was finalized at the end of last year a comprehensive investment treaty between the 2 parties now this is yet to be ratified by the european union because some member states had reservations about china's human rights record although of the years says that this is supposed to start a dialogue with china it's unlikely to do so beijing has already interpreted this as very much a hostile signal because beijing maintains that human rights are not human rights violations are not taking place in that these are not reeducation camps but work ational training centers designed to improve the economic lives of those ancient junge. the european union has also impose sanctions on 11 individuals laying to the core in myanmar and the crackdown on protests the u.s. announced additional measures to punish generals for their roles in crushing dissent on mars military leadership has said it regrets the loss of life natasha but last war. hundreds of people protested in the coa

i mean china is important but china is not that important also and we have to remember that. together in the wake of the tsunami so what are the set of issues that we see that poor countries are talking about are eventually public goods the provision of public goods provision of backseat if you get a don't issue and so a security issue and so on so there is a lack of the provision of these public goods and i think it's that it's a good thing that beautiful country learn to stand limitations and have decided to work together yes it's true you know they have sort of dance floor are sort of dropped the last several times in the past but i think now will turn level of convergence between these 4 countries or among these 4 countries on multiple issues is now sustained and sustainable what do you make of the fact that a joint statement was quite blunt when it came to the issue of maritime security. it spelled out that it's collaborating collaboration including in maritime security is to meet challenges to the rules based maritime order in the east and south china seas what's the me

china holds its annual party congress are vying to resist a foreign interference in hong kong's affairs and laying out its economic goals. at i mean this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. 'd 6 the street battles between police and protesters in senegal they're demanding the release of an opposition leader they say is falsely accused of rape. pandemic pushes more and more people into poverty in brazil as a coronavirus curfew is announced in its 2nd biggest city. 3 powerful earthquakes in the south pacific can force people to move to higher ground and tsunami warnings have been downgraded. he said and china says it will guard against any wanted to farragut hong kong's affairs the threats come as its largest political meeting kicked off $3000.00 officials at the national people's congress led by president xi jinping the annual meeting sets out the government's plan for the next 5 years straight away to katrina you studied by force in beijing and katrina this is an important congress at this time around at a time of increasing history that he towards china. that's right nick it c

and china. probably reflects some differences in terms of preferred instruments in approach and of course south korea also is now sitting outside the quiet even though it is a robust democracy and so that also i think. raises questions. are going to be hashed out i think over time and then of course there's the fact that this whole trip was really framed focusing on china and south korea's main security preoccupation as the threat from north korea. and we saw the north koreans essentially voicing. the possibility that it's going to be very difficult to renew a dialogue on 2 nuclearization with north korea and so that is going to be a potential irritant it's it's an x. factor that actually could up and the entire china focus strategy that the by the administration has laid out well in that we've spoken a lot here today about areas of disagreement between the u.s. and china but i want to speak for a moment about areas of common interest i want to cite an article that you wrote just a few days back

foot of washington china's foreign ministry spokesperson john lee jen said china was invited and then promptly the u.s. open the meeting by starting with what he described as unfounded attacks on the chinese side he said it was impolite and the chinese officials had no choice but to fire back he also acknowledged the atmosphere in the room and said that it was dramatic and that there was a court smell of gunpowder in the air is what he said now i think the key thing to remember is one of the whole months of chinese president xi jinping has leadership here is really trying to come from a position of strength he has made this promise to the chinese people since he's been in power that china will no longer be looked down on by the west and i think this was a very much the point of strength that chinese officials wanted to convey during the opening statement that they made during this alaska encounter just as us were playing to their own audience china was playing to their is the 1400000000 population who are becoming increasingly nationalistic and it seems to have worked over the last fe

first country in europe to take measures against covert 19 suspending flights to china and declaring a 6 month state of emergency on that march the night it also became the 1st to declare a national quarantine as hospitals in lombardy reach breaking point restrictions were lifted in may as new cases started going down but the virus regained strength so by october the 15th schools and universities were closed in companion on nov 4th the country was separated into colored zones red horridge and yellow with red marking the strictest level of lockdown nationwide curfew was then imposed again so on monday the number of covert related deaths past 100000 meanwhile the world health organization says there's no reason to stop using the astra zeneca vaccine thailand and bulgaria are the latest countries to delay its rollout on thursday denmark norway license suspended use of the job after several reported cases of blood clots including one death but the w.h.o. says it's not commonly concerned about the reports and in fact they see them as a positive side astra zeneca it is an excellent arm a v

accusations a cyber attacks by china spreading disinformation about china's covert 19 aphids and the 2018 foreign interference laws targeting china in the absence of evidence it's a bit ironic every time anyone suggests that there should be chinese within china they complying with your want to do fear with chinese internal it's the 14 points people talk about as coercive as an act of bullying what's wrong i can see what's wrong that is actually a kind of like a free candid exchange of all of us i think we did a little assholes for talking about being bullied by china we have interest to the famed protect and we are doing it i believe but we need to be smarter in other places. covert travel restrictions have confined raby to a straight year for the past year normally based in beijing he's on the board of china controlled australian company yeah. it's also been heat on. to china banda strain in cold following the straining government school for an investigation into covert 19 in april last year now ships are sitting off ports in china likely cool piece and i will try to take her cold.

accusations a cyber attacks by china spreading disinformation about china's covert 19 aphids and the 2018 foreign interference laws targeting china in the absence of evidence it's a bit ironic every time anyone suggests that there should be chinese within china they complying with your want to do fear with chinese internet it's the 14 points people talk about as coercive as bullying what's wrong i can see what's wrong that is actually a kind of like a free candid exchange of all of us i think we did a little ourselves for talking about being bullied by china we have interest to the famed protect and we are doing it i believe but we need to be smarter in other places see. covert travel restrictions have confined raby to a stranger for the past year normally based in beijing he's on the board of china controlled australian company yeah. it's also been heat on. to china banda strain in cold following the straining government school for an investigation into covert 19 april last year ships are sitting off ports in china likely cool piece and i will try to take her cold. more than 50 ship

china relations. is this a frank exchange of views or is this the beginning of an even worse spat between the u.s. and china that's not clear that'll depend what's going on now behind closed doors but there were very tough words you heard there from the secretary of state of the u.s. criticism of china and criticism of what china describes as its own internal affairs then the chinese side hit back saying there are different forms of democracy the u.s. has a form of democracy china has its own form of democracy they also made the case that the u.s. cannot lecture anyone on human rights they refer to the u.s. policy in recent decades of regime change they said that when china gets criticized for human rights what about human rights here in the united states where they say african-americans are being slaughtered by the chinese also said you don't welcome guests because of course chinese the chinese delegation is a guest of the u.s. here in alaska by introducing sanctions and that's because the u.s. sanct

sweeney still had about 550 outlets in china enough that these companies china is the growth market so it's a real threat to their business and so it has a real impact we know that a lot of western brands in western countries have taken stances against racism against sexism and the like and they quite willing to take political stances but they're really done affect their bottom line now we have a case in china where if they do take political stances it's a big whack to their bottom line so that's the 1st thing is difficult for the companies in that respect the 2nd thing is the extent to which these current sort of the takedowns against the brands in china how long they last for and how long they persist for as you can see with the power of the state the communist party and its pressure on its traditions they can take your brand offline in 2 seconds and that's what's happened i wonder whether it might be a short shop at a point this time but it could last longer in the future u.k. based delivery company delivery is due to be listed on the london stock exchange in just a few weeks time b

in canada has brought together some other countries diplomats in china and points fingers at china's handling of individual cases that is interference in china's judicial sovereignty we reject that and will by no means accept such interference michael khobragade michael spade or are suspected of endangering china's national security and china's judicial organs will handle the cases and guarantee their rights and interests. i've thought of beijing of 0 as katrina you as the forests contribute it's happening behind closed doors given how tight lipped china has been about the whole process will can you tell us about this trial well it's been a very long drawn out legal process for both michael cover and michael speight will we've had very little information from the chinese government the ratan they've said that this is because these 2 cases are related to issues of national security but we know the birth of them were arrested in december 2818 months later they were formally charged with espionage and providing intelligence to outside sources now canada as we heard earlier has been high

i mean china is important but china is not that important also and we have to remember that. together in the wake of the tsunami so what the set of issues that we see that all countries are talking about are essentially public goods the provision of public goods provision of backseat if you get to take issue and social security issues and so on so there is a lack of the provision of these public goods and i think it's that it's a good thing that beautiful country lander stand limitations and have decided to work together yes it's true you know they have sort of dance floor are a sort of drop the last several times in the past but i think now will turn level of convergence between these 4 countries or among these 4 countries on multiple issues is now sustained and sustainable what do you make of the fact that a joint statement was quite blunt when it came to the issue of maritime security. it spelled out that it's collaborating collaboration including in maritime security is to meet challenges to the rules based maritime order in the east and south china seas what's the messag

crackdown in hong kong still reject china's claims in the south china sea while way is still on the u.s. communications chopping block last week biden met with leaders in the 1st quad meeting with heads of government from india australia and japan but not china and this week he sent his 2 top officials the secretary of state and the secretary of defense or the carrot and the stick to visit several countries in asia but again not china there will be a meeting with chinese officials later in alaska but the message is clear biden is building a grand contain china coalition so how is china taking all this in and will this track be effective today we're talking to deborah layer who was involved in the accession of china to the world trade organization 20 years ago and was one of the founders of the us china strategic economic dialogue and today she's the c.e.o. of bass alina a consultancy on china and the middle east based here in washington she is also executive director of the paulson institut and randy shriver who served in the trumpet ministration as assistant secretary of defense for in

meaning that china would have needed feed as well to import and feed the animals so china become a huge importer for example corn imports will be on anybody expected and that serling to kind of a situation where we had cooling and you had china and us having an agreement called phase one on the ridge china was going to buy a lot of agricultural commodities from us so it's really a i would say it's not one single factor but there were a few things that came together in a very short period of time and all together they have really had quite a quite a obert push to towards prices of all agricultural commodities so how much of that i don't have that is an indian how much of that premium in food prices is then down to speculation and also fears a inflation driving up those commodity prices this is a this is very difficult to answer if i may say because as speculated you know let's say this huge amounts are made at every level from farmers level perhaps all the way than to the consumer you tend to store more if you think prices will go up in the future now depending on where you are in the va

between china and iran it's a cheap political shift you i agree with. with her. my colleague from iran. they're looking east how long that will happen i don't know but the reality is that the money is moving east oil energy is being used in asia far greater levels united states is in essence pretty much. you know self supplying as long as the price of oil is above $45.00 and they can use fracking europe is another matter they're somewhere in between but yes this does give a iran breathing room hopefully will not be an excuse to continue with nuclear capabilities that is not good for anybody but there has to be a very clear and open stance on this thing the fact it's the worst kept secret in the world that israel has nukes. and is willing to use in the case that they are overrun so i mean at this point it really if there is going to be a do nuclear station if i around china us are going to start cooperating along with russia or in europe there has to be some absolute clarity here and stop with this kind of narrative that you know you're doing this and their prime

and point fingers at china's handling of individual cases that is interference in china's judicial sovereignty we reject that and will by no means accept such interference michael kovar again michael spade or are suspected of in danger in china's national security and china's judicial organs will handle the cases and guarantee their rights and interests. a british mission to show how space junk can be removed from the earth's orbit has blasted into space on board of russian rocket the soyuz rockets cargo includes the newly developed else of the satellite that captures they breed and another satellite which will act as a dummy piece of space junk now if the experiment is successful that it's hoped to run it as a commercial salvage venture where than 2 and a half 1000 this use the satellites are still in orbit representing billions of dollars worth of scrap that's also a hazard to other space missions we're expecting about $10000.00 satellites or more to be launched in the next decade so that's a huge growth in the amount of traffic and congestion that we're expecting scene space which. it's goi

and china. probably reflects some differences in terms of preferred instruments in approach and of course south korea also is now sitting outside the quiet even though it is a robust democracy and so that also i think. raises questions. are going to be hashed out i think over time and then of course there is the fact that this whole trip was really framed focusing on china and south korea's main security preoccupation as the threat from north korea. and we saw the north koreans essentially voicing. the possibility that it's going to be very difficult to renew a dialogue on 2 nuclearization with north korea and so that is going to be a potential irritant it's it's an x. factor that actually could up and the entire china focus to show you that the by the administration has laid out well in that we've spoken a lot here today about areas of disagreement between the u.s. and china but i want to speak for a moment about areas of common interest i want to cite an article that you wrote just a few days

a secret trial is under way in china for a canadian citizen accused of espionage consular access has been denied on national security grounds. he's been arbitrarily detained and now we see that the court process to the south is not transparent. hello i'm daryn jordan this is not a 0 a live from doha also coming up homes up rooted in thousands move to higher ground the worst floods in the heart a sentry battle australia's new south wales. demonstrations at dawn protesters in myanmar trying vainly to avoid more bloodshed at the hands of the military. and more freedom of movement japan live say coronavirus state of emergency ahead of the tokyo olympics but it comes with a warning. a secret trial is under way in china of a former diplomat from canada whose detention has stoked tensions between the 2 countries senior canadian and u.s. diplomats turned up outside court to show solidarity for michael covering who is accused of espionage he was arrested in december 28th seen soon after canada detained a while executive men one job another canadian michael spadeful has been held in china on s

goes back to china anyway so get used to it. exactly in many senses you can just see that this is simply just accelerate in china's plans many of the commentators we spoke to say well they were looking at the protests that were happening in 29000 they were infuriated by the storming of the legislative council they were very embarrassed by this because the communist party is always trying to present this image of order but at the same time they weren't. they were kind of seeing this as an excuse really to just put forward these changes that they were always going to implement to make hong kong resemble any other mainland province take it one step closer to being in line with mainland china we've seen many people of course angry about this we've had gone condemnation from the u.s. condemnation from the e.u. condemnation from chris patten the former governor of hong kong but beijing has repeated its sons time and time again this is an internal affair of china and that the international community soon essentially butt out and allow

sanction for individuals in china and a government body whereas china issued sanctions on 10 individuals all members of the e.u. parliament as well as for organizations including human rights and democracy foundation now this is definitely going to have on the cations on the relationship between the block and china last year china overtook the us as a bloc largest trading partner and after some years of negotiation the 2 parties actually came to finally an agreement on this comprehensive investment treaty now some members of the e.u. still raise questions about that treaty it's yet to be ratified and they were concerned about china's human rights behavior now the years says that it wants to sort of dialogue with china through these sanctions but it's highly unlikely that china is going to take it that way they're going to see this as a hostile act because china has maintained that there are no human rights abuses taking place and in what many have called reeducation camps beijing says they're vocational training centers meant to help improve the economic opportunities of the weak a minor

and claims of forced labor in china's cotton fields beijing warns western retailers not to mix business with politics. and it was a death that marked a turning point in race relations in america and ignited mass protests across the world now the main suspects charged in the killing of george floyd has gone on trial in minneapolis 10 months after the black man lost his life while being held down by police officers the case is being broadcast live and is likely to have far reaching consequences across the u.s. prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how white policeman derrick showman knelt on floyd's neck while he and his fellow officers ignored floyd saying i can't breathe at least 27 times. the jury was shown the full video of the event but sherman's defense says he was simply following police procedure and that floyd's drug use contributed to his death. in his own days live in minneapolis force gave the prosecution defense laid out their cases in spite of they have to say. that's right no they really did lay out their cases and that's the point of the opening statements it's a little af

still ahead here on al-jazeera china's national people's congress has wrapped up we'll tell you about some of the new laws passed and what it could mean for hong kong. struggling to survive why business isn't bob way say the easing of coronavirus restrictions may do less prone to help them recover. how i once again say more very heavy rain into central and southern parts of the philippines not a cloud showing up here some very wet weather too into indonesia 75 millimeters of rain in jakarta in the past 24 hours the average for the month of march is around $100.00 millimeters so a lot of rainfall here a lot of wet weather there across parts of indonesia and a lot of wet weather there as you can see just coming into central areas of the philippines fight in try meanwhile across much of india china so some settle weather here pleasant sunshine bangkok getting up to 35 degrees celsius so my conditions as we go on through saturday notice the wet weather will continue across much of the philippines started to see some showers just coming into luzon good scattering the showers across malaysi

needs to work with china at the same time as confronting china and other issues james bays you will of course be monitoring all developments from that summit for the moment there james bays our diplomatic editor live for us from anchorage thank you. well a little earlier u.s. secretary of state and didn't blink in the u.s. defense secretary met with leaders in south korea they've reaffirmed their shared goal of a denuclearized that north korea drive has more from seoul. this mission to north east asia ended as it had begun with the u.s. directly accusing china of aggressive behavior in the region but the u.s. and south korea also confirmed beijing's importance in the denuclearization of north korea but china has a real interest in helping to deal with this house has an obligation under the u.n. security council resolutions the u.s. and try to open a dialogue with north korea ahead of this trip but without success north korea has officially confirmed it had received those requests but didn't respond it's 1st vice foreign minister and he saying there can be no dialogue until the u.s. sto