they all go to china. so there's this china special relationship thing. there's also the rhetorical requirement for putting china at a higher place because, after all, in -- if china ever collapsed and america would have a major problem dealing with that. so u.s. policy has always been during world war ii to keep china as one of the big four. so elevated the place. in reality because of logistical problems, because of strategic priority, as i say europe first, china second, it was pretty low. one very good indicator was our -- [inaudible] you. over 60% is commonwealth countries. somewhere among 25 went to soviet union. during the entire war, less than 2% went to china. so you see, china was very important, but in terms of material support was very small. that was very ironic. has lot to do with rivalry, policy, priorities, logistical difficulties. but overall it's national policy, very important. the time he of course doesn't work the chinese way because americans don't decide to go back to asia. >> how many chinese died during world war ii? >> the number

the ones who want to recognize china will abide by the one china policy. the economic doors that have taken china to a relatively small economy to the second largest in the world. and 3, primacy of the party with its 80 million members and 3000 outposts in the world. now you have xi jinping rising to power. he has been given the party mantle and soon the military and the presidency. before him will be new questions much different from the ones that deng xiaoping was responsible for acting upon. before xi jinping will be questions like, is china more repressive at home today than in earlier years. is china more nationalistic in its economic practices, but jiggly those among the enterprises? has china become more assertive internationally? i would argue east of these questions carried fairly profound rule of law implications. as xi jinping rises to take the top position in china and wrestles with new challenges and attempts to answer any questions, i would argue that many of them are based in basic rule of law doctorate -- doctrine. the most important steps

in the east china sea. and they're concerned the conflicting flames allowed to fester, it could unsettle the dynamic in the region. they want to see security policies and sophisticated diplomacy to calm the situation. u.s. leaders are worried of being drawn into a military confrontation because of their alliance with japan. >> our message to the new japanese government is the same assed to former japanese government, is that we want to see both japan and china avoid provocative acts. we want to see them talk to each other and work this through by dialogue. >> reporter: now japan is tied up in another territorial dispute with south korea. u.s. officials would like to see japanese put aside their differences in the islands in the sea of japan. american diplomats rely on partners in both countries to contain the threat of north korea. as we saw last week, north korea may well be on the way to gaining technology on long-range missile. president obama said the alliance serves as cornerstone in asia-pacific. reso

i have seen india and china when we went to china in 2004, maybe 2003, the period with an india and china was maybe $2 billion. it was a mango driven trade. today, i think this month the chinese prime minister promised to india we are going to talk 150 billion as the next horizon. this is without, without drawing on line issues but it is drawing on claims. so i think what asia is looking for is that we can have coalitions within each other without necessarily being get david to. now, it's a dangerous game but all games are dangerous, as kissinger made a lifetime career out of asia. but this is the way it is, and military power as a dominant element of strategy will not work. as a background element of strategy, yes. essential, important. it could have for the first time three years ago, there was a conference in which we discussed india and american cooperation in the pacific. never happened before. it doesn't mean that navies are going to march and conquer the items. but we are taking positions which are cooperative, which are dynamic, and which recognize that nations change, people chan

in the light of the former soviet union but china china china's different people don't know that but i'm not to pessimistic with thanks to opening so many foreigners go to china so many chinese that go abroad every year i think maybe seventy million chinese go abroad some sixty five million following those go to china that's good with that i mean the scale of people to people exchanging people i think outside world come gradually to understand better what's going on in china why do you think the west is always suspicious of china because we have a different systems sometimes they have a they are very suspicious about the chinese communist party. they tend to look at the chinese communist communist party in the light of the former soviet communist party this is that time that you know the ship was quite i mean common in the international arena relations sir thank you very much for this interview thank you . alan. thank. you. i mean i'm. i'm i'm i'm i'm. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you h

sea across the south china sea and the norse china sea as well where japan in north korea that's in their careers are involved as well but this is a big difference a big power play basically between the u.s. and china and india who wants to more or less control what goes on in the indian ocean we all know that in the future these three all have to move in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. pivoting announced by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with a militaristic kind of thing towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few weeks if they go for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually then it's a much better prospect for the u.s. and for the west in general ok alexander in. again you i mean you no need to is nato a force for good ok because it's looking to the pacific now. well i mean nato is reaching out to countries like australia and japan to intensify their cooperation but i'll give you an example of that you just mentioned a coun

china town, according to the element in the general plan has china town as high need neighborhood. that mean with list open space per capita in america we have a big population of families with children and senior population with 90%. that means what we have is what we have. and also immigrant and low income community i think is understatement. if i continue to say how much open space we need and how much improvement we need. but i think the good thing about what's before us is we finally have the opportunity to turn policy into outcome. so i ask you to support that. i also want to commend the department. china town development center. really enjoy working with this department. we have a great relationship working with the community. the people. many more. appreciate the respect and sensitivity to the neighborhood. and work collaboratively with the neighborhoods. whether from open space or library to chinese rec center. obama says the best is yet to come. we are looking forward to improving in this part. thans. >> thank you. >> any other public comment on this item? being none publ

translator: looking at china's history, cultural traditions, and current conditions, china will never adopt a policy of dominance or expansionism. our prosperity will bring peace and will benefit the rest of the world. >> analysts say xi hopes to ease concerns that china's new leadership intends to adopt a hard-line stance on diplomacy. however, on the same day he told a senior military commander to prepare strong missile units for possible conflict. >>> lawmakers in the u.s. senate have offered japanese government officials reassurance on the senkaku island. they unanimously approved a key defense bill stating the u.s. is covered by the u.s./japan security treaty. the national defense authorization act sets the framework for the defense budget. the legislation was amended to state the u.s. acknowledges japan's administration of the islands. but it stresses that the american government takes no official position on the islands' sovereignty. the bill also reaffirms the u.s. commitment to japan under article v of the bilateral security treaty. the article says the american military will

and china. i believe that many of the problems we face in the world cannot be solved without the active collaboration of u.s. and china. and when the history books to say it was china and united states working together that solve these problems, instead of the history books and blaming the united states and china for failing to respond to things like climate change. having history books ignore the incredible contributions of china over thousands of years towards civilization, and just say, united states and china missed the opportunity and skirted up. -- screwed it up. >> we have two chinese immigrant families representing america. it is hard to imagine it in reverse from the chinese side. they're not an immigrant-based society. >> do they take it as an honor? >> yes. they also want to claim him. you know, as part of the greater china community. and then there is a bit of a disappointment, but it is an amazing moment in american history. >> i guess you want over there just before or after the bi

china sea is my backyard because one of my bases is hong kong in fact what's happening the south china sea is going to be solved in a mechanism between the association of the southeast asian countries stan countries and china the problem is the un they will last to have a collective bargaining discussion and that china wants a bilateral discussion i'm sure over the next few i wouldn't say months but perhaps over the next two years or so they will find a mechanism to discuss all the disputes it's basically about oil and gas it's always about energy so who's going to exploit water. so they're going to still has problems in the south china sea. no it's not i hope i'm right it's it's it's so odd to we we are getting from the political leadership from these southeast asian nations and also from the chinese as china doesn't want a confrontation with the south east southeast asia especially because most of these countries if not all of them their major trading partner is guess it china of course you would probably already know the reference currency all over southeast asia nowadays it's not t

sea across the south china sea and the norse china sea as well where japan in north korea that's in the careers are involved as well but this is a big it's. difference a big power play basically between the u.s. and china and india who wants to more or less control what goes on in the indian ocean we all know that in the future these three all have to live in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. be able to announce by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with the militaristic kind of speed with them towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few weeks east a goal for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually dennis' a much better prospects for the u.s. and for the west in general ok alexander you know we're getting i mean you know nato is nato a force for good ok because it's looking to the pacific now. well i mean nato is reaching out to countries like australia and japan to intensify their cooperation but i'll give you an example of that

and this comes of course with china's rising dominance in the international arena first of all china faces many social problems and the recent financial crisis has highlighted a lot of these for example the unemployment situation of course the official unemployment data does not capture migrant workers so really getting these migrant workers to be included in china's. growth and transform ation into a much more market consumption as economy is very important and the other problem facing china of course is environmental and you know china is of course addressing some of this these issues certainly from the new twelfth five year plan we can see a lot of emphasis is now put on green grace really addressing environmental issues now finally the very very major problem facing china which probably needs addressing really soon is reform in terms of constitutional reform having the right rules of law will benefit china in the longer term and without this i really don't think that china will sustain its current pace of growth for much longer than ten ten years or so. i'll be back in just under

there's been demand storiologist the export side from countries around china that sell into china that have been recently good. so i think there's a reason to be hopeful that we're going to see an uptick here. longer term, no question, chinese consumers are going to be more favorably inclined to buy goods that are made in china. but i don't think we expect to see a very sharp shift on that right now in the next couple of months. >> susie: you don't think this is going to impact the companies that have a china strategy? we hear from so many companies like starbucks or marriott hotels who say china is going to be their biggest market long-term outside of the united states. do you think that they're on track to continue with that policy, despite the bumps along the way? >> yeah, i think the big story here is really going to be the urbanization story. i mean the expectation that the chinese government has is really amazing. they expect $300 million people are going to move from rural areas to urban areas within china over the next 20 years. if that happens the way the government expects it

and china, they played hard ball in china. anybody who has played hardball in china has not succeeded. like google. first amendment, you know, tiananmen square. what's the first amendment in china, i don't think it's free speech. >> i don't think so. >> interstate commerce is as powerful as anything. >> tear down a neighborhood at any moment. >> another $156 million shares eligible for social, the social network rallied after last month's expiration and shares up 25% since the middle of november. november 14th, we went into it thinking we'd get hurt. it ended up 12.6% that day, up 250. >> it did decline prior to that, in anticipation of the expiration. >> after a big run. it's got to digest. again, this is an interest per share situation. things are done at facebook that would justify the stock going higher. the short base was gigantic. do you sense a big run? >> i think the dynamic did change after the last quarter. and the discussion you talked about, we talked about it a great deal, what the trends really appeared to be in

-china cooperation. a negative scenario would be where the two countries start working at cross purposes with each other and cannot communicate, cannot resolve the problems that exist between them. that would be something we seriously have to be concerned about. >> donald, so, i mean, okay. there is all the talk and maybe mutual interest and cooperation and there's talk about china catching or surpassing the united states as a superpower in the world, whatever that means. when you look at what that's meant for the u.s., you have troops, military bases, tangled up in geo political stuff across the globe. what kind of superpower does china want to be? >> well, china does not in my opinion want to be the kind of superpower that we normally think of in a military and strategic sense when we use that term. actually, the report that just came out said that the u.s. would remain dominant as the leading power in 2030. it was not as if -- it is not if the chinese are seeking or will replace the united states. tha

east china sea. it's just one of a number of pressing concerns on the foreign policy front. nhk world brings us up to speed. >> reporter: chinese hit the streets in force in september, furious about their neighbors. they protested outside the japanese embassy, boycotted japanese goods, struck out at anything japanese. the root of their anger, the nationalization of islands in the east china sea. >> translator: the senkaku islands are japan's sovereign territory, this is a clear fact both historically and in light of international law. >> reporter: the japanese government bought the islands from a private owner. the thing is, china and taiwan claim them too. chinese leaders said nationalizing them is not acceptable. they've sent petrol ships into japanese waters around the islands, followed closely by japan coast guard crews. the new leadership declared china would build itself into a maritime power by safeguarding its interests. japan's next government will take up other disputes too. in august south

than china. partly because of relative wage levels, but also partly because of its proximity to the market and with energy and transport costs being what they are today, you're going to see a lot of change. and the u.s., like our industrialized economies, is going to have opportunities and it needs to prepare itself to exploit those opportunities. >> the ilo director general guy ryder talking to carolin. just a reminder, we spoke to pascal lamy who confirmed they've downgraded the world trade percent this year. that's had an impact on the volume of trade. it did ask him about what he thought the political situation in italy was going to develop and what impact. he said he thought and believed it would be contained, but then, of course, we might expect him to say that, as well. but he was speaking with mario monti earlier in the weekend, as well. on saturday he was with him. >> a diplomatic response, i would expect no less. great stuff from geneva. looking forward to having you back here tomorrow.

the facility is the largest of its kind outside china. lynas plans to use it to produce about 22,000 tons a year of rare earths including neodymium. the substance is a key component of electric vehicle motors and other high-tech products. china dominates the rare earth market, and companies looking to diversify their supplies are keeping a close eye on developments at the plant in malaysia. and japan hopes to secure one-third of its annual supply from the facility when it reaches full capacity. start-up was delayed for more than a year amid protests by local residents and environmental groups. they're worried the plant's radioactive waste may contaminate the local environment. in a statement on friday, lynas said it would provide data to reassure people the plant is safe. and even so, residents are threatening to file a fresh lawsuit against the plant, which could, again, disrupt production. >>> one of thailand's most famous traditional celebrations wrapped up this week. the loy krathong festival was initially intended as a way for people

not only in the south china sea, but also in the east china sea. the vessels and patrol boats have been around the senkaku islands since september. >>> japan's coast guard officials are asking for budget increases to pay for personnel and equipment. they want to boost their presence in japanese waters. coast guard commandant takashi kitamura spoke about chinese government ships navigating around the senkaku islands and says the intrusions are likely to continue. >> translator: we haven't often requested additional patrol vessels for our fleet, but it's becoming necessary to add more ships and more personnel to staff them. >> he said the scope of the coast guard's mission has widened. he said the territorial rows are making more patrols a necessity. >>> the territorial issue is just one of many of japan's incoming administration is facing. liberal democrats also need to lay out energy policy. they want to keep nuclear reactors running, despite opposition following the fukushima accident. it has raised questions that the ldp could have on regulators.

they would lean towards china. trouble was, how to contact a regime whose very existence the united states denied. >> we came up with the idea that our ambassador in warsaw should walk up to the chinese ambassador at the next social event in which they were both present and ask for a meeting. and say we wanted to talk. >> this is like a spy thriller. >> absolutely. so there was a yugoslav fashion show. they were both there. our ambassador walked over to the chinese and our ambassador chased him down the hallway and finally cornered him long enough to say we wanted to talk. two weeks later, a chinese car flying a chinese flag arrived at our embassy and the ambassador saying, okay. i'm ready to talk. >> but the meetings met with little progress. in the summer of 1969 with lower bureaucratic channels broken down. kissinger and nixon devised a plan to go straight to the top, right to chairman mao. during a trip of pakistan, they asked president khan to arrange the china connection. >> nothing happened for six months, t

to manage threats from china and from north korea. the new defense minister has revealed plans to strengthen the self-defense forces. addressed about 600 senior officials from the defense ministry and the self-defense forces on his first day on the job. >> translator: our nation's security is under increasing threat. we need to review our capabilities both in quality and quantity. >> he pointed to the dispute over the senkaku islands in the east china sea. chinese planes have flown into and around japanese air space in the area and chinese ships have sailed into japanese waters. he said he's also concerned about north korea's nuclear and missile development programs. >>> newly released details showed myanmar canceled a visit of sdf vessels out of consideration of china. two ships were scheduled to visit on the way back from mine sweeping drills in the persian gulf. no japanese vessel has ever made a port visit to the country. myanmar was under military rule for almost 25 years. the nation has been strengthening ties with japan and wes

state-run china central television reported on xi's five-day trip. he laid flowers last saturday at the statue of the late leader. he said he'll push forward with reforms and with opening up china. xi appears to be following in dong's footsteps. the former leader visited the province 20 years ago and preached about accelerated reforms and more openness. >>> bankers are going through some troubled times these days. dirty money, bank rates manipulated, insider trading. ai joins us now from the business desk. ai. >> catherine, thanks. it seems bankers were a little too lax with their bankers. hsbc has agreed to pay a fine in the united states in connection with charges of money laundering. media reports say the fine will be the largest ever paid by a bank to u.s. authorities. hsbc admitted on tuesday its anti-money laundering measures had been inadequate. the bank agreed to pay the penalties to u.s. authorities including the justice department. the bank says it accepts responsibility for past mistakes and has beefed up its internal controls. in july, a

to manage threats from china and from north korea. the new defense minister has revealed plans to strengthen the self-defense forces. he addressed about 600 senior officials from the defense ministry and the self-defense forces on his first day on the job. >> translator: our nation's security is under increasing threat. we need to review our capabilities both in quality and quantity. >> he pointed to the dispute over the senkaku islands in the east china sea. chinese planes have flown into and around japanese air space in the area and chinese ships have sailed into japanese waters. he said he's also concerned about north korea's nuclear and missile development programs. >>> newly released details showed myanmar canceled a visit of sdf vessels out of consideration of china. two ships were scheduled to visit on the way back from mine sweeping drills in the persian gulf. no japanese vessel has ever made a port visit to the country. myanmar was under military rule for almost 25 years. the nation has been strengthening ties with japan and

sea across the south china sea and the norse china sea as well where japan in north korea that's in the careers are involved as well but this is a big it's. difference a big power play basically between the u.s. and china and india who wants to more or less control what goes on in the indian ocean we all know that in the future these three all have to live in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. pivoting announced by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with a militaristic kind of beaverton towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few years east a goal for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually then it's a much better prospects for the u.s. and for the west in general ok alexander you know began the i mean you know nato is nato a force for good ok because it's looking to the pacific now. well i mean nato is reaching out to countries like australia and japan to intensify their cooperation but i'll give you an example of that you just me

>> china is an important partner, and we should continue to engage china. however, at the same time, we would like to see them abide by international laws and norms and rules. i think we should continue to send that message to china. >>> a chinese government think tank reports the disputed islands and related anti-japan protests topped internet posts in the country this year. it says a growing gap in wealth is behind the vandalism and looting during the protests. the chinese academy of social sciences released a report about online forums examine chinese social networking site wavo. researchers say some 177 million posts were made about the islands and protests over them, the second most popular topic was the london olympics with less than half the posts. the report highlights some of the arrested demonstrators didn't know where the islands were. it says that frustration over china's growing wealth gap was behind the nationalistic claims. they change the country's society from one in which the weak live in desperation. >>> south koreans are getting ready to

labor costs in china are soaring. breaking into china's market wasn't easy. >> translator: high quality isn't enough. chinese customers especially won't buy buns just because they taste good. they have to look handmade as well. >> reporter: bread makers in china are particular about the pleats on their stuffed products. the shape is formed by hand by twisting an pinching the top of the dough. the manufacturers developed a device that can make several pleats at one. the metallic fingers are designed to mimic hand movements. each panel is gently curved. this allows the machine to gather up the dough to make the characteristic pleats. >> translator: we create machines that can reliably perform the same task as a skilled worker. we're working on more difficult challenges using cutting edge technologies. >> reporter: the machine's developers have big dreams. they want to be provide handmade products to consumers around the world. >>> for the people who run japan's amusement arcade life is fast from fun and games. some oper

it was the 30th anniversary of china's current constitution. the petitioners were pushed into a bus and driven to a police facility. the chinese judiciary lacks independence under the communist one party rule. many chinese make direct appeals to central government offices and media organizations to complain about corrupt officials and forced evictions. in a ceremony to mark the anniversary, chinese communist party chief she jay ping said he would speed up the legal process. activists in china say tuesday's police action suggest the party is still trying to stifle creditism under shi's new leadership. social activists use the internet to out leaders for corruption and treating the under class urn fairly. the leaders see this as a threat to control and clamp down on some websites. persistent chinese are still finding ways to speak out. >> reporter: in china more than 500 million use the web. they have a broad internet community. >> translator: the stock prices and the foreign sites for financial information. >> translator: i simply cannot live wi

sea across the south china sea and the norse china sea as well where japan in north korea that's in the careers are involved as well but this is a big difference a big power play basically between the u.s. and china and india who wants to more or less control what goes on in an indian ocean we all know that in the future these three all have to live in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. pivoting announced by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with the militaristic kind of thing towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few weeks if they go for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually then it's a much better prospect for the u.s. and for the west in general ok alexander you know began the i mean you know nato is nato a force for good ok because it's looking to the pacific now over. well i mean nato is reaching out to countries like australia and japan to intensify their cooperation but i'll give you an example of that you just mentione

sea across the south china sea and the norse china sea as well where japan in north korea that's in the careers are involved as well but this is a big difference a big power play basically between the u.s. and china and india who wants to more or less control what goes on in an indian ocean we all know that in the future these three all have to live in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. pivoting announced by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with the militaristic kind of thing towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few weeks if they go for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually dennis' a much better prospect for the u.s. and for the west in general ok alexander you know began the i mean you know nato is nato a force for good ok because it's looking to the pacific now over. well i mean nato is reaching out to countries like australia and japan to intensify their cooperation but i'll give you an example of that you just mentioned

sea across the south china sea and the norse china sea as well where japan in north korea that's in the careers are involved as well but this is a big difference a big power play basically between the u.s. and china and india who wants to more or less control what goes on in an indian ocean we all know that in the future these three all have to live in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. pivoting announced by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with the militaristic kind of thing towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few weeks if they go for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually dennis' a much better prospect for the u.s. and for the west in general ok alexander you know i began the i mean you know nato is nato a force for good ok because it's looking to the pacific now over. well i mean it was reaching out to countries like australia and japan to intensify their cooperation but i'll give you an example of that you just mentioned

east china sea. it's just one of a number of pressing concerns on the foreign policy front. nhk world brings us up to speed. >> reporter: chinese hit the streets in force in september, furious about their neighbors. they protested outside the japanese embassy, boycotted japanese goods, struck out at anything japanese. the root of their anger, the nationalization of islands in the east china sea. >> translator: the senkaku islands are japan's sovereign territory, this is a clear fact both historically and in light of international law. >> reporter: the japanese government bought the islands from a private owner. the thing is, china and taiwan claim them too. chinese leaders said nationalizing them is not acceptable. they've sent petrol ships into japanese waters around the islands, followed closely by japan coast guard crews. the new leadership declared china would build itself into a maritime power by safeguarding its interests. japan's next government will take up other disputes too. in august south

this is not -- in south china sea, china is trying to advance. with the philippines and vietnam and other countries. they claim the islands at least in south china sea. east china sea there is an issue with japan. and from japan, -- [inaudible] the taiwan, the philippines, this is called -- from the viewpoint of china. violence exists in the pacific. china openly express their strong interest in the maritime security and also the territory along those islands. so these china sea, this is not isolated when. this is a kind of china military strategy to advance. >> that's an important point. which are basically saying this is about power. and a powerful which china is going to become more powerful. they are powerful to write history. we write history. you are seeing lines challenge, and i remember talking to george soros once when, after he so go the back of england, wrote the bank of england and what he saw as a hedge fund manager as a chance to basically drive so hard against the line that fundamentally the institutional power on the bank of engla

they would lean towards china. trouble was, how to contact a regime whose very existence the united states denied. >> we came up with the idea that our ambassador in warsaw should walk up to the chinese ambassador at the next social event in which they were both present and ask for a meeting. and say we wanted to talk. >> this is like a spy thriller. >> absolutely. so there was a fashion show. our ambassador walked over to the chinese and our ambassador chased him down the hallway and finally cornered him long enough to say we wanted to talk. two weeks later, a chinese car flying a chinese flag arrived at our embassy and the ambassador said okay, i'm ready to talk. >> but the meetings led to little progress. in the summer of 1969 with lower bureaucratic channels broken down. kissinger and nixon devised a plan to go straight to the top, right to chairman mao. during a trip of pakistan, they asked yaya kahn to arrange the chinese connection. >> nothing happened for six months, then we got a message from the chinese v

they would lean toward china. trouble was how to contact a regime whose very existence the united states denied? >> we came up with the idea that our ambassador in warsaw should walk up to the chinese ambassador at the next social event in which they were both present and ask for a meeting and say we wanted to talk. >> this was like a spy thriller. >> absolutely. so thereof was a yugoslav fashion show and they were both there. our ambassador walked over to the chinese and our ambassador chased him down the hallway and finally cornered him long enough to say we wanted to talk. two weeks later a chinese car flying the chinese flag arrived at our embassy and brings the ambassador saying, okay, i'm ready to talk. >> but the meetings met with little progress. in the summer of 1969 with lower bureaucratic channels broken down kissinger and nixon devised a plan to go straight to the top, right to chairman mao. during a trip to pakistan they asked the president to arrange the china connection. >> nothing happened for six

in the light of the former soviet union but china china china's different people don't know that but i'm not to pessimistic with thanks to opening so many foreigners go to china so many chinese that go abroad every year i think maybe seventy million chinese go abroad some sixty five million following those go to china that's good with that i mean the scale of people to people exchange of people i think outside world come gradually to understand better what's going on in china why do you think the west is always suspicious of china because we have a different systems sometimes they have to they are very suspicious about the chinese communist party. they tend to look at the chinese communist communist party you know like that with the former soviet communist party. beckham that you know it's quite i mean common in the international relations sir thank you very much for this interview thank you. choose your language. of choice maker with oh if you're going to chill some of the . treatments that the consent yet you. choose to give to us that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact y

south china sea and the norse china sea as well where japan in north korea that's in their careers are involved as well but this is a big difference a big power play basically between the u.s. and china and india who wants to more or less control what goes on in an indian ocean we all know that in the future these three all have to live in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. pivoting announced by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with the militaristic kind of thing towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few weeks if they go for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually then it's a much better prospect for the u.s. and for the west in general ok alexander you know. again you i mean you no need to is nato a force for good ok because it's looking to the pacific now. well i mean nato is reaching out to countries like australia and japan to intensify their cooperation but i'll give you an example of that you just mentioned a country where i

they would lean towards china. trouble was, how to contact a regime whose very existence the united states denied. >> we came up with the idea that our ambassador in warsaw should walk up to the chinese ambassador at the next social event in which they were both present and ask for a meeting. and say we wanted to talk. >> this is like a spy thriller. >> absolutely. so there was a ewing slauvg fashion show. yugoslav fashion show. our ambassador walked over to the chinese and our ambassador chased him down the hallway and finally cornered him long enough to say we wanted to talk. two weeks later, a chinese car flying a chinese flag arrived at our embassy and the ambassador saying, okay. i'm ready to talk. >> but the meetings led to little progress. in the summer of 1969 with lower bureaucratic channels broken down. kissinger and nixon devised a plan to go straight to the top, right to chairman mao. during a trip of pakistan, they president yaya kahn to range the chinese connection. >> nothing happened for six months,

china sea is my backyard because one of my bases is hong kong in fact what's happening the south china sea is going to be solved in a mechanism between the association of the southeast asian countries stan countries and china the problem is the un they will love to have a collective bargaining discussion in the china wants a bilateral discussion i'm sure over the next few i wouldn't say months but perhaps over the next two years or so they will find a mechanism to discuss all the disputes it's basically about oil and gas it's always about energy so who's going to exploit water. so they're going to feel it has problems in the china sea. no it's not i hope i'm right it's it's it's so odd to we we are getting from the political leadership from these southeast asian nations and also from the chinese as china doesn't want a confrontation with the south east southeast asia especially because most of these countries if not all of them their major trading partner is guess it china of course you would probably already know. reference currency all over southeast asia nowadays it's not the us dol

talk about china. it's usually. focusing on economic growth of china really overlooking how differently the chinese view the world altogether. put aside the economy some even say that china doesn't have an ideology and you are a person who has lived there most of his life have spent several years consulting chinese decision makers to use realize that this is a kind of i have an ideology today the ideology is money that is the sole ideology i'd say from top to bottom that's what people are thinking that's what's on people's minds you have a system of hyper growth and the growth mentality has been also connected to the success mentality people in china judge their success they judge somebody by what brands they wear how many cars they have what the brand of the car is and and so you know you have a situation where i talk about you know it's the growth conundrum describe it is the beijing traffic i mean you once upon a time had people riding bicycles to get around town really easily but now you have so ma

my relation to china -- i went with a professor who went to china. the press said -- what are you doing? >> i said i am writing a book. "china, yesterday, today, and tomorrow." but i did go over there. [laughter] there are about 600 of them and they speak english. it is like talking to a group in texas. there is no problem in understanding how the system works. exactly what they said. how do we get from here to there? to which my response is, i do not know. that is a problem for you to solve, i cannot do it. what is it that they seem to be interested in? it is so obvious. do you think this rule of law has been given on day one and suddenly it was followed? of course not. do not think democracy will solve them. it is both your friend and your enemies. hamilton and madison right the document. it is a very good document. ask any of us on the courts, we would be in agreement on the basic things. the basic framework is it creates institutions of democracy. people can decide for themselves what kinds of community they want it is a special kind of democracy

and the big question then becomes what is china's intention? (instrumental music) >> in a national call to arms defense secretary leon panetta warned the threat of a significant cyber attack against america is already here. >> the collective result of these kinds of attacks could be a cyber pearl harbor. >> what are the threats american's face in this century? with the attacks of september 11th, the u.s. has had to completely rethink how it defends its citizens. the enemy no longer a national armies but rather determined individuals. >> there are not going to be a lot of countries that are gonna be stupid enough to put tank armies out in the desert against us anymore to allow us to annihilate them. what the lessons of history of the last twenty years or so certainly teach us is that if you're fight us, you can have greater success by using terrorist tactics, by employing suicide bombers, i.e.d.'s, those kinds of attacks. >> that was probably the biggest impact on national security. we have non-nation state actors that can cause harm to the unit

translator: looking at china's history, cultural traditions and current conditions, china will never adopt a policy of dominance or expansionism. our prosperity will bring peace and will benefit the rest of the world. >> analysts say xi hopes to ease concerns that china's new leadership intends to adopt a more hardline stance on diplomacy. however, on the same day, he told a senior military commander to strengthen missile units for possible conflict. xi has pledged to tackle corruption among party officials. he and the rest of the new leadership are reportedly planning to overhaul the structure of government. government sources say the leaders plan to cut one in three ministries from 27 to 18. they're planning to do away with the railway ministry and transfer its function to the communications ministry. critics say poor oversight led to the crash last year of a high-speed train. 40 people were killed. and the former head of the railways ministry was dismissed in a bribery scandal. officials in the agriculture ministry will take over the responsibilities of the water resources ministr

there's been demand storiologist the export side from countries around china that sell into china that have been recently good. so i think there's a reason to be hopeful that we're going to see an uptick here. longer term, no question, chinese consumers are going to be more favorably inclined to buy goods that are made in china. but i don't think we expect to see a very sharp shift on that right now in the next couple of months. >> susie: you don't think this is going to impact the companies that have a china strategy? we hear from so many companies like starbucks or marriott hotels who say china is going to be their biggest market long-term outside of the united states. do you think that they're on track to continue with that policy, despite the bumps along the way? >> yeah, i think the big story here is really going to be the urbanization story. i mean the expectation that the chinese government has is really azing. they expect $300 million people are going to move from rural areas to urban areas within china over the next 20 years. if that happens the way the government expects it's

china is also increasing military presence in the south china sea to boost its claim to ma maritime interest in the area. it is intended to solidify its defense on the islands and shoals. nhk world, manila. >> some asean nations are taking a hard stance but sources have revealed that myanmar canceled what would have been the first port call by the self-defense force vessels. myanmar wanted to prevent a strong reaction from china. informed sources say two japanese mine sweepers were due to stop at myanmar's largest city but it was called off at myanmar's request. relations between japan and china remain tense. japan owns the islands, both china and taiwan claim them. myanmar has made other moves out of the consideration for china despite the criticism from the west in november. police in the country cracked down on demonstrations against a copper mine operated by a chinese firm and a firm linked to the military. over 70 protesters were injured and forged close relations with china during the military rule when western countries imposed economic sanctions on the country in the past two decades

china is also increasing military presence in the south china sea to boost its claim to maritime interest in the area. it is intended to solidify its defense on the islands and shoals. nhk world, manila. >> some asean nations are taking a hard stance but sources have revealed that myanmar canceled what would have been the first port call by the self-defense force vessels. myanmar wanted to prevent a strong reaction from china. informed sources say two japanese mine sweepers were due to stop at myanmar's largest city but it was called off at myanmar's request. relations between japan and china remain tense. japan owns the islands, both china and taiwan claim them. myanmar has made other moves out of the consideration for china despite the criticism from the west in november. police in the country cracked down on demonstrations against a copper mine operated by a chinese firm and a firm linked to the military. over 70 protesters were injured and forged close relations with china during the military rule when western countries imposed economic sanctions on the country in the past two decades