[speaking chinese] thank you very much. [applause] i would like to introduce my asian brothers and sisters on the board of supervisors, if you could come up and say a few words. supervisor eric mar, carmen chu, an hour newsstand first korean-american adviser, -- supervisor jane kim. >> one of the most happy experiences growing up as a chinese-american was always getting days lece red envelopes. usually, there is money in here, but i think that might be illegal, coming from mayor lee. it is an honor to serve with the three other asian-pacific islander members of the board

[speaking chinese] thank you very much. [applause] i would like to introduce my asian brothers and sisters on the board of supervisors, if you could come up and say a few words. supervisor eric mar, carmen chu, an hour newsstand first korean-american adviser, -- supervisor jane kim

as we know, chinese new year is the longest and most important celebration in the chinese calendar. it is a time for family reunion, a time to reaffirm the value of friendship. it is also a time to reflect on the past, while looking forward with renewed hope, to the fresh start of a new year. the year 2010 is very important to remember. last year, the relationship between china and the united states of america has achieved new progress. people to people contacts and exchanges between our two countries grow rapidly. last year, 3 million visited each other. 1 million from china, 2 million from the united states of america. we see our mutual friendship enhanced, our cooperation consolidated and expanded. especially, our bilateral trade reached a new record of $385.3 billion. 29.3% more than the previous year. that is 150 times more than 32 years ago, when china and america established diplomatic relations. and the state of california maintains its leading position in exports to china. in the fourth quarter of last year, california exported x 0.8 billion u.s. dollars to china, which is

[speaking chinese] thank you very much. [applause] i would like to introduce my asian brothers and sisters on the board of supervisors, if you could come up and say a few words. supervisor eric mar, carmen chu, an hour newsstand first korean-american adviser, -- supervisor jane kim. >> one of the most happy experiences growing up as a chinese-american was always getting days lece red envelopes. usually, there is money in here, but i think that might be illegal, coming from mayor lee.

[speaking chinese] thank you very much. [applause]

the chinese don't do that. dprk, pla modernization, intervention and genocide and no are other no-go zones. your second question about the emphasis on the united states during the project, you can blame that on our organizer. writers what this means for america. that is why in the last section of our paper we try to get to that last slide. it may be more a prop. ask this of to china and you could put a mattress -- a mattress with united states and see how they match up. on the ccp, read my last book on the chinese communist party. i spent five years working on the pollution and of theccp and argue that we were seeing an adaptive party that was pluralizing and moving in some encouraging directions, not multi-party democratic directions but in some more pluralistic directions. i would argue that we have seen in the last 18 months along with the chinese extra behavior and their increasingly draconian internal behavior, we have seen a stagnation of internal party reforms. the polarization of boys is that not equate

how come your parents aren't chinese?" they need to know what it means to be chinese to answer those questions. >> five, six, seven, eight. and one, two, three, four. >> i believe the girls, um they should learn chinese folk dance because their, their origin's from china and now they living in united states, so they are missing the chinese heritage in part of their life. so able to, learning chinese dance they will learn their heritage at the same time and they're learning their culturals and learning where they come from and what's special about chinese people. >> i think it's interesting to learn about your culture and your heritage and doing chinese dance, and it's fun too. >> every week the group gets together to practice. their traditional outfits and drums are red, because in chinese culture red means good luck. >> this dance is called a drum dance. it comes from the north part of china. >> chinese dancing dates back more than 5,000 years. and it demands some special talents. you need to have good rhythm to do chines

chinese troop train. there's a headline that was not supposed to be appearing showing that they were training. they're supposed to be doing this below the radar screen. there's homer lea when he was in china in 1911. he did believe he's going to have the chinese army. the u.s. government put a stop to the and told him it was against the law. he would face prosecution so he had to back off of that. he died in 1912. the three books i talked about very briefly, the person was a novel called the vermillion financial. it got pretty good reviews. the second book, a book about american defenses called "valor of ignorance." and a third book. the first book after is made into a film, a silent film. the second book had introduction written by two retired u.s. army generals. dedicated to secretary of former secretary of war. made a big impression in washington. and world war ii, general macarthur and his staff were well-versed with "valor of ignorance" which talk about defending the philippines and defending califor

had on the chinese auto industry. in the early 1990's when they finally signed on and agree that in 2001 they'll become virtually full members, they saw themselves as having a very small window in which they could develop a domestic car industry and plenty of other industries and if they developed that in time, before w.t.o. kicked in, they would actually be able to compete against the big boys when they arrived -- when they weren't fettered by all of the protectionist measures that were in place, so china saw themselves as having a very small window, first to develop a domestic car industry and move up the value chain away from just, again, making stuffed animals, as well as beginning to own the brands that would compete against american, japanese and german brands internationally. >> charlie: wal-mart buys $20 billion of goods annually from china? >> sounds about right. >> charlie: if they develop the domestic demand, the consumer demand with a rising middle class, will it also produce markets for american manufactu

chinese. the way you look is just slightly different. i did feel oddly at home. when i was in beijing, i was not scared to go out by myself. it did not bother me to go out and know that i did not speak the language very well. i knew enough to get from here or there or get a better price at the market. but my chinese is very limited. i felt very comfortable. there is something liberating about being in a place where all of a sudden you look like everybody else, because that never happens. >> here is a little bit from your documentary. >> dozens of chinese restaurants line the streets here. there is a market for fast chinese food in china. and the market is enormous. >> it is going to be a very large brand. >> the question is whether he can translate into locations here. a big factor is whether the chinese consumer will accept chinese food made by an american company. does it help or hurt that you are an american company trying to sell chinese fast-food in china? >> people give us credibility. >

dollars ok sizable investment on the parts of the chinese in libya now if you look at the instability that has been caused by the situation in libya and across north africa according to beijing's minister of ministry of commerce the chinese the turnover from these chinese investments in north africa has dropped almost fifteen percent in the first two months of this year so destabilization. is hampering chinese influence and economic investment how is it that if there is this tension this potential cold war why isn't it a fact that china hasn't been more outspoken about what's been going on in libya for example it did have the chance along with russia to veto the u.n. decision to impose a no fly zone and carry out aerial bombardments now if china felt its worst interests risk that why hasn't it spoken or indeed indeed vetoed that sanction. sure look i think this is a very good question and now you can look at it two ways ok initially from a chinese point of view the original u.n. resolution as vague as it was asking for a no fly zone now if the chinese initially thought they took it on

the chinese food chain with nearly 18,000 employees. and yes, he sells more than 65 million pounds of orange chicken every year. but he swears the key ingredient to this chicken isn't a sauce or a spice but -- >> i think the biggest thing about panda is the people that cares about what they do. >> reporter: you sell a lot of food. >> yes. >> reporter: what's more important here, food or caring? >> caring. >> reporter: but you can't eat caring. >> you certainly can. >> reporter: chong calls all this the panda way. it's really a four point action plan that he demands of all his employees. healthy lifestyle. that's why he took me hiking. continuous learning. developing others. and acknowledging others. >> we discovered life differently. who knows what the positive results are? when you do life certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed. >> and our guiding values -- >> reporter: if it all sounds a little touchy-feely, like a giant self-help group, that's because it's exactly what it is. chong is something o

chinese buffet leader refutation of yours you were. making some good work and. some fastest growing economy and. in the history of the world. all right so mark your calendar for twenty sixteen because that's when the i.m.f. predicts the world's fastest growing economy will surpass the united states so is the free market calling. as wednesday april twenty seventh four pm in washington d.c. and christine friends out there watching our team. well our top story today musical chairs and multiple changes in terms of who has some of the country's most powerful institutions. president barack obama is expected to announce the major changes this week he's known for quite some time that secretary of defense robert gates will be leaving turns out his replacement the most likely the leon panetta currently the director of the central intelligence agency now in terms of who will fill his position look like general david petraeus the top american commander in afghanistan is the man for the job so what do we make of this shake up i'm joined now by investigative journalist wayne

currency because their manufacturing has stagnated well chinese imports of sort there's a there's a bit this week by the new brazilian president dilma rousseff to china and on the back of that both sides big deal so the sale for brazil injects to. china and the chinese manufacturer is talking about a big investment back into brazil so talking shops can lead to deals and for russia to. kind of look for interests of the developing world as g twenty seeks the reshape of the global finance system. yes within limits so as you say they're quite a diverse group of got different interests but i think that what they can do is they can coordinate positions they can understand where they're coming from and they can put unified positions to the g seven and to the us which will make them more effective in achieving their objectives which countries like china they organize and well if this is one of those economic policy names every likes to play why not mexico what about indonesia. and i think there's a long list of economies that are large and growing far and going through the process is of urb

and chinese economy use currency as their basis but using purchasing power parity the i.m.f. says that the chinese economy will grow seven point eight trillion dollars over the next five years the u.s. economy on the other hand will only grow three point six trillion with leading to the lowest world economic output by the united states in its history just seventeen point seven percent and semi-colon m a say twenty six he is a conservative estimate in real more realistic terms and it passes a little bit sooner than that but that's only five years and i think this is huge implications and that it's those new liberal policies such as deregulation in tax breaks for big corporations that have created a huge wealth gap in the u.s. and held american development back. when. probably posed. to the maximum extent. the average is and they say that china's rise flies in the face of fukuyama spirity china is definitely a refutation of the idea that you were brought economics has world works i mean here is an economy where the state controls not only the banking system but most of our corp

that's why they're on the short list of chinese companies that foreigners might recognise. other players have raised their profiles by making big ticket acquisitions - like lenovo which bought ibm's think pad and now geely which recently purchased volvo. >>spencer: there's a logic to that, that seems to be: can we appropriate marketing sophistication; or can we appropriate an existing relationship with consumers in another market. >>reporter: but as the best connected chinese brands develop and expand internationally they will lose a protective umbrella that has served them well: the power to often stifle online criticism. in china, a whole industry has developed to erase unflattering comments. but the culture is very different on the otherside of the great firewall. the head of branding at one of india's leading corporations, infosys, says scrutiny is now unrelenting. brands that cover-up or don't keep their word, do so at their peril. >>jha, you remember that sting song: every breath you take, every move you make, every smile you fake, i'llbe watching you - every company

actually now the chinese talk about their internal market. so of course they are interested in the export market keeping, in fact that oversees markets that are open to their goods. they are a also buying off vast tracks of land in latin america, in africa to secure natural resources. they do, before chinese corporations start to buy out other companies, for example, europe, there's tremendous opportunities in a vast internal market in china. and i wasn't around in the late 19th century in america but i suspect that some of the conversations that people have in the land grants, etcetera and they change the transformation of the american economy at that time is similar to today. >> charlie: one of the interesting things to watch is this investment in america in terms of corporations and that kind of thing. okay. so here's the financial times. so what is this. tell me what the financial time is. >> it is a snapshot of the world every day, the interception of priisms and finance globally. business politics finance and economics. this is the cruc

this bears on the whole question of the chinese conventionality. who are the chinese? where does it had sodality reside? different policy issues and different policy places and so forth. -- where does intentionality come from? secondly, this paper breezes of fascinating question to me. -- this paper raises a fascinating question to me. as americans we think all good things come from democracy, but in fact, as you look at the range of views, if they're all going to be given more expression in chinese society, in fact what comes out in your paper is actually the top leaders seem to be the moderator is frequently in this situation. if leadership becomes more salient in society less salient, you have to wonder where chinese policy is headed. finally, i say this as someone who was an independent guy. i think it raises the cost of conflict, and therefore, i would have reduced the probability of at least a symptom -- system disrupted conflict. in fact, i am beginning to wonder if increasing interdependence does not breed resentment and conflict. there are these big questions

chinese. the way you look is just slightly different. i did feel oddly at home. when i was in beijing, i was not scared to go out by myself. it did not bother me to go out and know that i did not speak the language very well. i knew enough to get from here or there or get a better price at the market. but my chinese is very limited. i felt very comfortable. there is something liberating about being in a place where all of a sudden you look like everybody else, because that never happens. >> here is a little bit from your documentary. >> dozens of chinese restaurants line the streets here. there is a market for fast chinese food in china. and the market is enormous. >> it is going to be a very large brand. potentially larger than kfc. >> the question is whether he can translate into locations here. a big factor is whether the chinese consumer will accept chinese food made by an american company. does it help or hurt that you are an american company trying to sell chinese fast-food in china? >>

and respond in chinese. a lot of residents were not using it. of the 10,000 graffiti calls, very few were coming from chinatown residences for that reason. they were not knowledgeable about accessing 311. i want to make sure the media here and those of you hear from chinatown know you can use 311. it has the language capability of talking with you and making sure your reports and complaints are heard. in addition to that, in the months leading up to this conference, i had the opportunity to sit down and talk with the chinese chamber of commerce, chinese hospital, the asian contractors association, the chinatown portsmouth square rgarage, a number of business institutions, and they all felt the strong victimization of being the helpless victim of these samples. guess what? in these discussions, it was very easy to hear the helplessness people have about this program. we talked with them about the conference and about how enlightened folks in san francisco will know how to follow the pledge that fred has so de

and chinese economy use currency as their basis but using purchasing power parity the i.m.f. says that the chinese economy will grow seven point eight trillion dollars over the next five years the u.s. economy on the other hand will only grow three point six trillion this leading to the lowest world economic output by the united states in its history just seventeen point seven percent and some economists say twenty six t. is a conservative estimate real more realistic term china will pass as a little bit sooner than that but that's only five years and i think this is huge implications and that it's those new liberal policies such as deregulation and tax breaks for big corporations that have created a huge wealth gap in the u.s. and held american development back. to the backs of. the average is and they see that china's rise flies in the face of fukuyama skeery china's definitely a refutation of the idea of. says what works for me here is an economy where the state controls and then we have a banking system. most of the word corporations the control investments which is you k

the chinese, asian children have been overlooked. we say that they're doing well and fine due to their academic performance, but we fail them in their social needs and forget that there are some that stray and become involved in dangerous activities. the students say that they need someone young that can relate to them, a mentor that can speak their language and understand their cultural nuances. their ineffective communication between home and school as many families do not speak english and i'm asking, board, if you can please consider hiring student support personnel to address their needs. thank you and they taught me a few words in chinese. [speaking chinese] thank you and shout out to kim for coming out to visit our schools and our communities and for listening. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. ok. we got through public comment. thank you. cleared out the board room but we got through public comment. item k is the advisory committee report and appointment supervisory committee. are there any board members making appoint

test for example in fact we detected the two previous chinese tests that failed so we know about this it's extremely difficult to hide this space tests they're one of the most observable weapons tests you can possibly imagine. everything indicates that china's anti-satellite test was intended to make the world aware of the united states intention to dominate his face by doing so this china also showed the united states that any orbiting weapon can be shot down. we wouldn't really want to see in the future and the surrounded by. of weapons which will make many kinds even more vulnerable than the situation today. at the united nations china with many other nations has since the 1980's and trying to expand a nine hundred sixty seven outer space treaty. presently the treaty prohibits placing nuclear weapons in space but doesn't prohibit conventional weapons. each year this design and it initiative is rejected by the united states. it is a hundred and sixty two one hundred seventy one united states is the only nation actually voted against this were isolated on this issue. while we john is

by the chinese that you know in this announcement by the i.m.f. came out of this twenty sixteen day i think a lot of people were pretty skeptical even people who know that today will eventually come that china you know will surpass the u.s. they were saying you know this is decades if not you know fifty years away what do you say to those people who really think that it's much longer than twenty sixteen . no it's infected so if you look at the numbers and the i.m.f. it's crazy because the i.m.f. after the released the week where they said no so we put the numbers it's going to be later oh no in fact. you want to really mean beat you so undervalue that it could happen even before two thousand and sixteen so what we're seeing is there too curbs you know per relative decline of the american empire absolutely irrelevant better to surpassing of china for the american economy right because it's a morning clues if as much as we disagree with the political system china the. less control the internal migration their job so far it's really anybody if your b

lu. >> [speaking chinese] >> good morning. i am a board member of the community tenants' association. we are the largest community- based grassroots tennis group in san francisco, over 1000 members. all of our members are low- income renters. one-third of our membership resides currently in sro units. we have over 60 members present today as they recalled earlier, and are here to express concern about the bedbug epidemic and the rise of the infestation and need for a more streamlined and foresman regarding the issue. we also think the board of supervisors and city government for the opportunity to speak on behalf of bedbugs and hope that we have your support on better enforcement process and streamlined and forth the procedures. thank you. >> [speaking chinese] >> good afternoon. i am the president of the resident improvement association. we are an organization established by members of the chinatown housing project. we of more than 400 households in the development. most are low income modeling goal, immigrant families and se

chinese policies on north korea, chinese policies on iran. chinese policies on policies on the north sea and the east china sea. in particular, some of us in government were struck by the fact that we know that there's a very robust debate going on within china about this whole concept of hiding your time, biding your capabilities. and what does this grand strategy mean for china and at the same time the debate is going on you see some particularly assertive behavior and just trying to understand that. the last point i'll make is on the policy implications. i thought they did a nice job of sketching out the policy implications. the key issue is how do you shape chinese behavior when you understand the spectrum of reviews. we have evidence to bear on some of this. over the last 30 years, there's several areas in which u.s. policy, i would argue, has had a defining influence on shaping chinese behavior. in particular, chinese behavior on international trade, chinese behavior on nonproliferation and then, of course, chinese approach toward multi

and chinese economy years currency as their basis but using purchasing power parity the i.m.f. says that the chinese economy will grow seven point eight trillion dollars over the next five years the us economy on the other hand will only grow three point six trillion this leading to the lowest world economic output by the united states in its history just seventeen point seven percent and some economists say twenty sixteen is a conservative estimate in real more realistic terms china passes a little bit sooner than that but that's only five years and i think this is huge implications and that it's those new liberal policies such as deregulation and tax breaks for big corporations that have created a huge wealth gap in the u.s. and held american development back. probably because you can't color it to the maximum. and they say that china's rise flies in the face of fukuyama spirity china is definitely a refutation of the idea that. says what works i mean here is an economy where the state controls and then all of a banking system but most of our corporations they control investm

there is a lot going on in front of chinese embassies worldwide. things like that helped to keep ai weiwei and all the literati, to keep them in the public perception worldwide, and that is what is important, to give them feeling that there is solidarity and that we do not forget them. that is the best we can do. massive pressure never works in beijing. they will not change their experience. -- their position. that is our experience from anyone who has to do with china, so i think that is the best we can do. >> was it wrong for the german government to mix culture and politics, and it backfire? >> no, i do not think so. culture and politics can work well together in foreign politics. it is so-called soft power. in the special case, i think many things have been done wrong. the whole exhibition of the enlightenment has been overcharged with expectations, political, diplomatic, business expectations, media expectations, and i think is very difficult on a location like this come on cnn.com to fill all of these expectations, and as soon as something go

by the chinese. and it's not just china that's accelerating towards anomic supremacy india see the growth of a new middle class there's appetite for spamming is growing with it our space reader reports from new delhi who need tell you all is living the dream age of twenty eight the former investment banker is now running a restaurant and bar in the heart of south delhi ten years ago if i were to take off opening a push from the father would have to. finance the find some opportunity in unless someone can carry on with it. but in the past ten years india has experienced enormous change and with it came a new set of hopes for the world's youngest population. market is huge the opportunity of huge we. can spend money tales bars located inside this small one of around six hundred magnum malls that have sprung up in india within the past decade and it is written by a good desire to get that good brand and there's a lot of money. so combine a desire and ability is going to get a big. today indians can get

can't, because they are limited by chinese nationalist. he said as long as you keep open that way he will place his bets on the americans. so i don't see absolute decline. now, what about relative power? china is doing well, and i think you can see that will continue likely to do well. goldman sachs is projected in china will pass the americans in overall economic size by 20207 and might even be earlier than that. it stands to reason if one country has a population of 1.3000000000 at growing 10% a year sooner or later the smaller population of 300 some billion will be a full-size economy. but a big mistake to go from the quality and size of gdp to economic equality. is essentially they will be equal in size but not in composition. and if you look at gdp per capita to better measure the composition of an economy, and the u.s. is going to stay way ahead. china probably won't equal the u.s. in gdp per capita in till well into the century. the other thing is that these projections about china being equal to the u.s. infant in the 2020's are on

. >> ( speaking chinese ) >> you move out of an area that seems familiar. there is this sense of a desolate place. it's kind of like moving into golgotha. this is a barren, hard, inhospitable, cold... and i don't mean that in temperature; i mean that in just a sense of heaviness about the place. >> narrator: in the afternoon, we got a radio call. the taiwanese climber's health had deteriorated. the sherpas were bringing him down, and they asked us to help. we climbed fast up the lhotse face, but by the time we reached him, chen was dead. the sherpas, superstitious about death on the mountain, wanted us to bring the body down. chen's close friend and team leader, makalu gau, had just arrived at camp four on the south col. >> ( speaking chinese ) >> narrator: sitting at base camp all these years later, i can still remember my reaction: how upset i was by his response, and his decision not to come down. >> ( speaking chinese ) >> narrator: only now, after hearing his story, do i know why he decided to go on, and how little i understood about what it was like t