being born in beijing enabled him to do this. a ten-minute drive from ho's home, in the direction of tiananmen square is a 23-year-old apartment building between the second and third ring roads. this is where ho's other properties are located. his parents live in one apartment, while he rents out the other to a relative. these apartments were offered to his parents by the government, when they were forced to relocate due to urban development. his parents' old home was a stand-alone house within the second ring road. in socialist china, all housing was originally controlled by the state. and, as it still owns the land, real estate transaction become time-limited leases rather than permanent ownership. ho's properties are both 80 square meters in size, and even though they are old, their central location will push their prices up. ho obtained rights to use these apartments in 2003. as the market economy developed, such rights were sold to tenants at affordable rates. ho and his father used their savings to purchase these two apartm

however, the reality was beijing intended to vet political candidates beforehand. occupy central, in 2014, on october 1st, the people's republic of china's national day. many secondary school children participated. joshua wong was the leader. the occupation of central was in five days' time. the tension was high. both pro-democracy and pro-chinese supporters began to gather together. students begin to climb over the railings of the civic square in front of the central hong kong government office. they pour into the prohibited square. the actions of one person have caused a ripple effect. students occupy the streets all night long. upon hearing about the incident, tai arrives only to be greeted with booing. this provokes the students. tai had not envisioned this outpouring of emotion when he made his original plan to occupy central. the so-called umbrella revolution attracted citizens, regardless of political beliefs, to the scene. but, in the end, nothing was achieved. and the raised fists of the students became self-inflicted wounds. the year after the umbrella re

made to move. >>> welcome back to beijing. there's been so much talk about the paris agreement, so much debate about the science behind it. where did it come from, and when? the answer may very well surprise you. ♪ >> back in the summer of 1988, ronald reagan decided the time had come to tackle climate change once and for all. the problem, is he saw it, was having to listen to scientists insist that the globe was warming. the international panel on climate change came into existence to consider whether humanity was responsible for climate change, if so, by how much, and how much could be done about it. those scientists would hammer out a report and countries would be given recommendations to follow. while the white house hoped it would be tied up for years, it didn't count on the process actually working, which it did two years later when the group issued its first comprehensive report. it clearly linked global warming to human activity. that report paved the way for 25 years of negotiations, culminating in the paris agreeme

rank in beijing? >> his decision was a personal decision. and if you allill give me the grace as i go through my book here, we know that he spoke to staff ere. give me a second. we appreciate his years of dedicated service to the state ment. and for anything more on that i have to refer you to mr. rank. >> are you angry that your career, after nearly 30 years, ended the way it did? >> oh, no. not at all. i remember, i was thinking on the way out, what i felt was just a sense of gratitude. gratitude to the people i worked with, gratitude to the american people who trusted me to represent them for a long time. i didn't expect it to end that way, but to leave on my own terms, it's a real privilege. no, i'm just very grateful. >> of course it's important to note that this administration hasn't just pulled out of one international agreement. across the board, there's a clear push to reduce environmental protections. the newly-appointed head of the epa has a history of arguing that the agency should be eliminated. funding for research in this area

do you consider for relations with beijing to been undertaken whatsoever, or even going to the beijing olympics. that seems to be an undertaken whatsoever. is the vatican wavering in the relationship with taiwan or how are they working now? >> right now of course vatican does maintain -- relationship with taiwan only. so there's one key difference between china and the vatican. that is how to order the bishop and the archbishop. so that's the kind of question but i don't see in the near future both sides a walk out of kind of solution. so i don't see lesser changes between the vatican and taiwan,, yes. >> i agree on that one. >> other questions? >> i'm from dallas, texas. i am really interested in what director just expressed. so i would like to know your background and what is this global taiwan institute? [laughing] i mean, i'm really, can you tell us just a little bit? >> sure. i'm happy to plug my organization here. thank you very much for the question. [laughing] so the global taiwan institute is new think tank those establishment september 2016. we have an office near dupont circ

communist party congress in beijing. is live coverage on c-span. bloc >>ou're like the pied piper of chintaiwan analysts. >> all right. okay. everyone.afternoon, welcome to the global taiwan institute. i'mame is russell hsiao, the executive director here at gti. 501(c)(3) think-tank dedicated to taiwan policy research and analysis. themission is to enhance u.s. taiwan relationship through public education. we undertake several major include a weekly publication called the global where weth brief, invite experts to contribute timely articles. we also have a seminar series that you are a participating in today where we invite practitioners as well as scholars to focus on current developments related to policy affect the u.s.-taiwan relationship. coming up very shortly we will hosting our inaugural annual symposium on september 14th and this is going to be our flagship event. turnoutpecting a large of people within government as think-tankdemia and experts who are interested in taiwan. the purpose of thennual tesblh is relationship.e and sof you're no

on this double issue on cities, is there is an overflow of bicycles in beijing, lyft in san francisco, and mapping the underground of new york city. all of that i had on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ >> we are here with bloomberg businessweek editor-in-chief megan murphy. let's talk about a story in japan. this is interesting because there is quite a bit of potential turnover and tension within the political structure in japan. >> shinzo abe, the prime minister of japan, is a man of personal fascination to me only because i think people still underestimate the scale of the challenges facing him economically and demographically. she has one of the biggest problems in japanese politics, which has traditionally been accusations of cronyism and corruption. >> it got a lot steeper. >> we can overemphasize how steep the economic challenge has been. he is famous for his three errors. he has reduced unemployment, but low deflation and persistently low inflation continues to hobble the japanese economy, which has demographics tremendously unfavorable in terms of its elderly population. it take

but that overestimates the capacity beijing has to do just that. beijing is limited. it's hard to understand this, but beijing is limited in north korea. >> it's also limited in the sense that it doesn't really want to change the status quo, why are they going to do the bidding of the united states. >> no, this is quite the point. is the united states' interest in north korea and china's interest in north korea is not the same. >> this assessment from the u.s. senator diane finestein she's talking about the threat post. listen to what she said. >> i make it as a clear and present danger to the united states. i've spent time on the intelligence at the bereavings and done as much reeding as i possibly could. and i'm convinced north korea has ever moved at the speed that this leader has to develop an icbm. >> if the united states is facing a clear and present danger there's no reason to doubt senator finestein, should united states be outsourcing this problem to china in the first place? >> no. and we tried that. we asked beijing to handle it and they demonstrated that t

anchor: so beijing sees itself as a mediator in the crisis. the big question is going and going to cooperate? clear. is not north korea has proven to be an unpredictable ally for beijing. i have this card team -- cartoon from the morning post. china is urging calm and kim ng-un isand -- kim jo call ancalm? better interpreter." when hundred 50,000 have signed protest against emmanuel macron's plans to give her an official title. she is often referred to as first lady. macron says he was to clarify his wife's role and break with what he calls a french hypocrisy, but critics say all politicians should be banned from employing their spouses or their family members. anchor: it has been very controversial in the past and friends as well. moving on to iran where some have come under fire for taking selfies with europe felt top diplomat. >> that is right. the unlikelyself source of attention. you can see her response -- surrounded by several male mp's. many have criticized the empty's condor-- the mp's, -- calling their behavior inappropriate. one adv

president trump i think was speaking to beijing. he's been working on xi jinping since the beginning of his administration. the chinese have not come through. but diplomacy is the ultimate step and i think i've been watching your program for the last 30 minutes. war is not imminent with north korea. there are further steps that we can take, a tough-minded diplomacy backed by a strong defense, getting china to use its influence against north korea. that's where the united states i think is heading here in this conflict. >> what does north korea want ultimately? you can't do a deal until you understand what their mow tetiv are. we know this guy's tested twice as many weapons as his dad did in six years than his dad did in 17 years. what ultimately does he want? >> i think most experts believe what he wants is to preserve his family's autocratic authoritarian tick that toauth r authoritarian dicta torie dicta. he looks at saddam hussein who gave up his chemical weapons and lost his regime. i think that's the ultimate goal of the north

the pathway to pyongyang, is through beijing. we have to be able to share this intelligence, make sure that the chinese concur that our assessment is correct, and now we have to have direct end treaties with the regime in pyongyang saying, look guys. this is as serious as it gets. you've got away with it a long time because we've had strategic patience. window is closing. you're now a potential big bow boy at the tabled and need to act like a big boy with restraints, et cetera. >> all military analysts expecting this to happen in the years to come. i think what is a big surprise, it's moving as quickly as it has. rick francona, let me read you the "washington post" saying that north korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, and then cites this defense intelligence agency report, and i'll read to you from the report. according to the "washington post." the ic intelligence community assesses north korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery to include deli

but that overestimates the capacity beijing has to do just that. beijing is limited. it's hard to understand this, but beijing is limited in north korea. >> it's also limited in a sense that it doesn't really want to change the status quo there is nothing in it for them. so why are they going to do the bidding of the united states? >> no, this is quite the point is the united states interests in north korea and chinese interests in north korea are not the same. so we shouldn't expect that beijing would want to act in a way that would benefit our interest, potentially damaging their own. >> we have this aset. from the u.s. senator dianne feinstein. she was talking about the threat posed by north korea after the latest missile launch. here is what she said. >> i make it as a clear and present danger to the united states. i spent time on the intelligence at the briefings and done as much reading as i possibly could. and i'm convinced that north korea has never moved at the speed that this leader has to develop an icbm. >> if the united states is facing a clear and presen

how terrible it is in beijing. it speaks of how crowded it is. >> it is like mortal kombat every morning. in an attempt to free herself from a 50 minute commute, christina started to look at other options. in beijing especially, it is almost impossible not to notice the mountain of bikes that are piled up outside of every single subway station. all across chinese cities you have 3 million bicycles that are essentially dumped. there is no other way to put it. in front of the stations. it is an irony that to get into the subway you have to navigate around all of these bicycles which makes no sense. she decided, let me try this out. in doing so, started to explore the market there for bicycles. there are two main companies right now that are competing. one is called mo'bike. they can't compete on price. the price for a single ride is $.15. what they are competing on his availability and convenience. they hope you select there's. the company is just drop more and more bikes in the hopes you select there's. oliver: the

basically to gain some concessions from beijing. but you think's going to get in the way of that. >> i think that's right. rea things rt to be calm and productive and positive into this very important 19th national people's conference in mid october. this will cement president xi's next five year term. it's really going to build his power, so he's see things smoothly and calmly in the coming weeks. unfortunately, i fear lot of thing, most notably, north korea. >> we have some beefs with china over their trade practices. they don't typically welcome our prodh a degree of resip row calty that we would like. >> that's right and it's been true for a long time and it's something many administrations have had to face, but they face appro this.ith more of an even privately, diplomatically, maybe not so publicly. something that will rub beijing the wrong way. >> what do you think the odds are that we would end up in a trade war with china? >> i hope they're slim because it would be a disaster for both sides. actually more for the united sta

his hard-hitting stories eventually got him fired, so he continued his work as the beijing editor of china dialogue, an online international journal. [liu speaking chinese] fred: but after 10 years of reporting, he was feeling burned out. [liu speaking chinese] translator: i think that our environmental activists and those who work for public welfare need more powerful spiritual support. why? every day what we do may be good deeds which give us positive energy, but meanwhile what we are facing is the darkest side of the world. every day what we see is polluted air, polluted rivers, and the slaughter of wild animals. this kind of negative energy attacks us all the time. we've been working on environmental protection for a long time, but the situation in china is getting worse every day. where do we draw our strength from? fred: liu jianqiang is one of millions of chinese who are returning to buddhist, taoist, and confucian temples that were once condemned by the government. a little more than four decades ago during china's cultural revolution, many buddhist temples like this one in c

how terrible it is in beijing. it speaks of how crowded it is. >> it is like mortal kombat every morning. in an attempt to free herself from a 50 minute commute, christina started to look at other options. in beijing especially, it is almost impossible not to notice the mountain of bikes that are piled up outside of every single subway station. all across chinese cities you have 3 million bicycles that are essentially dumped. there is no other way to put it. in front of the stations. it is an irony that to get into the subway you have to navigate around all of these bicycles which makes no sense. she decided, let me try this out. in doing so, started to explore the market there for bicycles. there are two main companies right now that are competing. bike.s called mo' they can't compete on price. the price for a single ride is $.15. what they are competing on his availability and convenience. they hope you select there's. price there is incredible. $.15 a ride. explain how the app or the program works. for my refere

not repeatey will past mistakes of its rivals up to the beijing winter games. >> the u.s. and chinese markets have sales of about 300 million sports shoes. but there is so much room to grow. less capabley hit companies but i don't think it will be a problem for us because we have a comprehensive management system to prevent it. >> that includes distribution changes, more online sales and customization for the more discerning customer. 's e-commerce sales of a growing over 100% each year. we estimate online sales will account for 15% of total sales each year, and by 2020, e-commerce will contribute 25% to 40% of total sales. >> with increasing costs in china, traditional practices are changing. workers on this assembly line make about 15 pairs of shoes per day. upstairs, they make 80 with more automation. you can see the trend. fewer employees will be needed. >> intelligence manufacturing is unstoppable. it is a universal trend to replace human labor with automation. we will increase our investment in intelligent manufacturing in our factories and reduce human later. -- hum

you will not get that if you try to orchestrate everything through beijing. beijing does that have the channel with pyongyang. we can open up that channel. that is what the administration should focus on doing. host: professor john delury joining us from seoul, south korea, and here in washington, patrick cronin from the center for a new american security. thank you to both of you for joining us. guest: thank you. host: in a moment here, we will continue with your calls and reaction to yesterday's violence in charlottesville, virginia. republicans,

how terrible it is in beijing. it speaks of how crowded it is. >> it is like mortal kombat every morning. in an attempt to free herself from a 50 minute commute, christina started to look at other options. in beijing especially, it is almost impossible not to notice the mountain of bikes that are piled up outside of every single subway station. all across chinese cities you have 3 million bicycles that are essentially dumped. there is no other way to put it. in front of the stations. it is an irony that to get into the subway you have to navigate around all of these bicycles which makes no sense. she decided, let me try this out. in doing so, started to explore the market there for bicycles. there are two main companies right now that are competing. one is called mo'bike. they can't compete on price. the price for a single ride is $.15. what they are competing on his availability and convenience. they hope you select there's. just drop more and more bikes in the hopes you select there's. oliver: the price there is

beijing calls for caution. the chinese foreign ministry urges the u.s. and north korea to deescalate tensions. ♪ >> we begin in europe. this is where concerns over contaminated eggs is growing. 15 countries have been hit, switzerland and hong kong impacted. millions of eggs have been pulled off the shelf. the eggs were first discovered in belgium, the netherlands, and germany. these three countries are getting blamed. hague, walkrom the us through what we know about this contamination scare. >> this started with a lowly poultry mite. it was one company in holland that has proven effective at treating it. 180 companies have hired this company. the reason it was so effective is because it was treating this with an insecticide that you might use for your cat or dog. it is banned for use in the food industry. that led to a series of arrests, at least three arrested here yesterday. it is an international scandal because their supplier was in belgium. this has escalated into a diplomatic spat as well. the belgian minister learning the netherlands, saying the

he said beijing had the confidence to defeat all invasions. the new york times reports on the ancient vase that's been confiscated from the metropolitan museum of art. the greek antiquity, which is over 2,000 years old, was removed following reports that it was looted by tomb raiders in the 1970s. the front page of le figaro looks at the dramatic return of chinese tourism to france. the paper says each tourist spends an average 200 euros per day, a third of which is devoted to shopping. now, have you heard the one about the priests who walked into a bar, only to be mistaken for being a bachelor party and asked to leave? well, a pub in the welsh city of cardiff has apologised after making that exact mistake. the seven trainee priests were asked to move on when staff assumed they were is fancy dress. but they did see the funny side and ended up getting a free round of drinks. the south korean red cross had proposed talks with the north to discuss trying to re—unite families separated during the korean war in the 1950s. it's something that has

he said beijing had the confidence to defeat all invasions. the new york times reports on the ancient vase that has been confiscated from the metropolitan museum of art. the greek antiquity, which is over 2,000 years old, was removed following reports that it was looted by tomb raiders in the 1970s. the front page of le figaro looks at the dramatic return of chinese tourism to france. the paper says each tourist spends an average 200 euros per day, a third of which is devoted to shopping. now, sharanjit, have you heard the one about the priests who walked into a bar, only to be mistaken for being a bachelor party and asked to leave? well, a pub in the welsh city of cardiff has apologised after making that exact mistake. the seven trainee priests were asked to move on when staff assumed they were in fancy dress. but they did see the funny side, and ended up getting a free round of drinks. the south korean red cross had proposed talks with the north to discuss trying to reunite families separated during the korean war in the 1950s. it is somethi

back in february beijing all eddie agree. aquel imports from koreaa. a huge blow for the country. core makes up about half of the dprk its total exports accounting for one point two billion dollars of revenue last year. chinese customs data showed coal imports from north korea fell by seventy five percent in the first six months of this year. with total imports from north korea down by thirteen percent. as for the latest band products china imported seventy four billion dollars worth of north korean iron ore in the first five months of the year. nearly equaling the figure for all of twenty sixteen. fish and seafood imports were up as well to forty seven billion dollars in june compared to thirteen billion the month before. despite china's attempts to distance itself from its neighbor. its total trade with north korea actually grew ten percent. that's due to a twenty nine percent spike in chinese exports to north korea. including oil consumer good. a tenuous link that remains between the isolated country on the outside world china argues cutting off trade completely with the north

haidi: thank you so much for that, tom mackenzie in beijing. going to india, they have approved a 2 million schaller -- $2 million share buyback. -- we have a reporter. is this buyback, isn't going to help? -- is it going to help? rosalind: i think it could shore up that infrastructure, but it is closing 9.6 -- 9.5 cents lower. the first share buyback for this company, but they agreed to buy back as many as 1300 million shares. this was a 25% premium to friday's close and more info analysts had been expecting. move, there were cointreau speakers. speakers. they have a cache file of more than $6 billion at the end of june, and investors are asking to get a hold of some of that cash. betty: he said he cannot take it anymore. he is leaving. there was the all-out war between the board and the founder. rosalind: he under his tenure which started in 2014, the rose 21%.shares revenue gained 25%. he wanted to transform and update the company to transition to internet and database computing. looking at 6905, you can see infosys has outperformed many oth

thank you, emily feng from beijing. the question for investors, this is one of the biggest trading relationships of the world look at apple, the u.s. multinationals depend on china as a growth market, thinking starbucks, nike, consumer companies, big commodity companies. u.s. consumers bank on china because it keeps the cost of their goods lower. >> the trump administration would say we're already in a trade war. they have already been taking advantage of us. this is his constant theme the question is what can he do about it given the geopolitical concerns and the fact that the diplomatic concerns of dealing with north korea. >>> up next, more on the trump agenda including tax talk. >>> as we head to break, here's today's national weather forecast from nbc's bill karins. >>> good morning to you. this historic heat wave is underway in the pacific northwest. it's only going to get hotter over the next two days we should beat the all-time record high temperature today in oregon tomorrow we'll threaten that all-time record

his hard-hitting stories eventually got him fired, so he continued his work as the beijing editor of china dialogue, an online international journal. [liu speaking chinese] fred: but t after 10 y years of reporting, he was feeling burned out.. [liu speaking chinese] translator: i think that our environmental activists and those who work for public welfare need more powerfulul spiritual supppport. why? every day what we do mamay be gooood deeds which h give us positive energrgy, but meanwnwhe what we are facing is thee darkest side of the world. every day what we see is polluted air, polluted rivers, and the slaughter of wild animals. this kind of n negative energy attacks usus all the time. we've been working on environmental protection for a long time, but the situation in china is getting worse every day. where do w we draw our strtrengh from? fred: liu jianqiang is one of mimillions of chininese who are returning to buddhist, taoist, and confucian temples that were once condemned by the government. a little more than four decades ago duriring china's cultltural rerevolution, many

eunice yoon is live in beijing, but let's start with tracie potts with the latest from president trump. she's in washington. >> reporter: good morning. so the president says maybe his tough talk against pyongyang wasn't tough enough. president trump saying this is not a dare, but a statement. really doubling down on some of his heated comments against north korea and the possibility that they might now shoot missiles very close to the u.s. territory of guam. he's more of what the president said warning north korea to back off. >> let's see what he does with guam he does something in guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before, what will happen in north korea. >> when you say that, what do you mean >> you'll see. you'll see, and he'll see. >> reporter: the president did clarify he wants to de-nuke the world, he's not looking for a nuclear conflict here. frankly the b 1 bombers off guam that the u.s. would send possibly to north korea do not have that capablibiliabilitcapae missiles that north korea looks to send to guam. those missiles could hit within 14 minutes

beijing has hit back at the prime minister for beijing has hit back at the prime ministerfor her beijing has hit back at the prime minister for her comments, saying she should first ensure the country is fully incrementing sanctions. china has also blamed the us for escalating tensions and has heavily criticise the joint military exercises being conducted by american and south korean troops. transltion: china stands opposed to any chaos or war on the peninsula. enhancing war on the peninsula will not help towards achieving the goal of the militarisation or regional stability. on tuesday, south korea also released video of its own missiles, a response to north korea's test. both sides are caught up in a cycle of aggression. while north korea is high on the agenda, theresa may is also hoping to discuss a post—brexit trade deal, on herfirst trip to japan as prime minister. she's described japan as a like—minded nation, and a natural trading partner — though the country has been forthright in expressing concerns about the impact of britain's departure from the eu on its uk—based firm

i want to go to beijing now. will ripley who's been to north korea more than a dozen time joins us now. north korea, will, you well know, keepi ing up the war of words with the united states. the state-run north korean central news agency saying this, "trump is driving the situation on the korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war making outcries as the u.s. will not rule out a war against the dprk." the democratic people's republic of korea. what more is north korea saying about this standoff? they're issues more statements. >>. >> reporter: one of two statements north korea put out this morning, wolf. that phrase, "pushing to the brink of nuclear war" is something we hear quite aoften from north korea. we hear our phrases, threatening to turn the u.s. into the stage of a nuclear war if they sense a pre-emptive attack was coming and also calling the united states nuclear war fanatics. all of that language may sound frightening for people listening in the united states, if you put it in context that is the k

speech on the 90th anniversary of the people's liberation army at a celebration in beijing. this is about an hour. [speaking japanese] >> translator: comrades, now i declare the opening of the conference in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the towning of the people's -- of the founding of the people's liberation army. [applause] [speaking japanese] >> translator: now please stand up, everyone. we will sing the national anthem together. ♪ ♪

jinping spoke at a ceremony in beijing commemorating the 90th anniversary of china's people's liberation army. he talked about efforts to modernize the army, and what it would take to build a world-class military. courtesy of global china television network, this is about one hour. li keqiang: comrades, now i declare the opening of the conference in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's liberation army. [applause] please stand up, everyone. we will sing the national anthem together. ♪

it's a long way from this milking parlour to the breakfast table in beijing. europe complains of chinese import barriers. it sells only half as much to china as china sells here. and europe worries that beijing's learned the art of divide and rule, to force a path through europe for its new silk road. shall we have jam first or clotted cream first? what's the right answer? there's no right or wrong. lessons in the british tradition of afternoon tea from a chinese citizen. the lovely sweet jam. .. tingting plans to take her pitch from an essex tearoom to china. a communist state perhaps, but one with a healthy appetite for the rituals of the british ruling class. herjam is with berries straight from the tiptree farm. china's consumers getting choosy about food quality. a huge market but hard to stand out. i think we're still at the beginning of thejourney. we are starting small by introducing new things, and a few things... i mean, the chinese are a curious country, 01’ cui’ious consumers — they always surprise us. i have never seen so much jam! it is, a

administration is reportedly planning to take against one of our biggest trading partners we're live in beijing with that story. >>> check out what's happening with the futures we are seeing positivity, if you will 46 points for the dow. nasdaq up by 0.75% apple a big part of that story "worldwide exchange" will be right back adership is instincti. they're experts in things you haven't heard of - researchers of technologies that one day, you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team.

talks inthe six-party beijing. back then, the thought was we will only give you high-level talks with washington if you come forward and engage with us. changed?dynamic is the u.s. more willing to talk to pyongyang than it was 10 years ago? >> i think that willingness is the same. the big issue is there is a strong belief in the u.s. government that the north koreans are not that serious about it. i think the collapse of the deal in 2012 sent a real signal to the americans, the north koreans started backtracking within a month, and that convinced the obama administration to walk away. that is what the donald trump people are saying to. to be some kind of concession by the north koreans, otherwise we are stuck in a stalemate. >> you have to understand the ultimate in game for korea. realwe understood the endgame, reunification, movement of forces out of south korea? >> it is simply the survival of north korea. i am skeptical that north korea could reunify the pencil on its own terms. i think it would be a huge leap

support coming more tense as well beijing has been angered by an american destroyer sailing close to a chinese island in the disputed south china sea well the washington thinks it's done nothing wrong. the u.s. destroyer his actions have violated chinese and international rules as well as severely homed china's sovereignty and security china will bring up the issue with the u.s. side the united states does these operations the freedom of navigation operations all around the world this is nothing new we've done it before we'll continue to do it steadily for provocative it's clearly an area that china wants to exercise. control over to some degree or at least have keep or at least keep other military powers out of the region but in light of other things going on the the real pressure on china to act tougher on north korea by the trump administration i think this will be seen is as another a more aggressive stance of the trumpet ministration and it will heighten tensions it further as you've just heard the latest incident in straining already tense relations between the u.s. and china a

going into beijing, i was in great shape. i had won a lot of races. it was just about thinking, dealing with it the same as moscow. going into the heat in the 5000 metres, i slightly twitched my hamstring and nearly went down. i could feel it in the final. i had to smoothly stride it up and come away with two wins was pretty good. this is where it all goes down, used to go down? this is where i would come every day, pretty much, spending a lot of life here. so when reggie comes he is like mummy. you were competing at an early age? i was probably about this big. yes. i started when i was ten, a little older. these are some of the girls who train with toni now. hello. how is it going? it is good to see you. i have missed you. of course. how long did you guys work together? it in years. 18 years. do i have to call you dame? yes, please. thank you. toni minichiello has worked asjess‘ coach throughout his whole career. guiding her progress from promising schoolkids sprinted to multi event champion. jess is expecting her second child. herfirst, reggie, wa

here's the story from beijing. >> reporter: the chinese government is taking a tough position. the commerce ministry reacted to the trump directive by saying the u.s. should strictly observe trade promises and not become a destroyer of multilateralism. the ministry warned the u.s. it should act cautiously on the trade investigation and said beijing would absolutely take measures to defend its rights if the u.s. harms bilateral ties. the chinese state media has been threatening retaliation. today, the state-run news agency said that the probe would have lose-lose prospects, calling it a unilateralist baring of fangs that would hurt both countries. the question now is how seriously the u.s. should be taking this tougher tone. analysts tell me it's hard to tell, particularly because it is a political season in china. china is heading into a party congress and is expected to see a leadership shuffle in two to three months. everyone is expecting president ping to consolidate and centralize power and the way government has been responding and reacting to outside forces has been with

0ur correspondent looked around the chinese city of beijing. but what about ball sharing? the company behind this venture planned to make 20 million footballs and basketball is available for hire across china. —— basketballs. that is very unique, exercising on a treadmill in the middle of the street. that is the sharing economy in china. that is it for this edition of asia business report. thank you so much for investing your time with us. i'm rico hizon in singapore. sport today is coming up next. theresa may has been accused of watering down plans to tackle excessive executive pay. from nextjune, britain's biggest firms will have to reveal how much more their chief executives are paid compared with the average worker. but critics have called the government's attempt to make boardrooms more transparent and accountable feeble, and not as radical as originally planned. here is our business editor simonjack. a leadership and an election pitch, to a party and a public that had lost faith in big business. we all know that, in recent years, the reputation of business as a w

let us talk about beijing, a cashless society. the fact that everybody can do it, it is obviously grown substantially as “— it is obviously grown substantially as —— substantially as one of the great tech sector is going forward. the biggest problem china has got is death. the banks are frighteningly ove rle nt death. the banks are frighteningly overlent against property. what a love about the chinese, but there is a problem, the government will paper it's over. they have the money to do that. when you have mobile plastic... you don't think you are spending? that is why they are keen for us to do it. you spend. we have seen for us to do it. you spend. we have seen it with mark carney and others, they are concerned about debt levels. 0n they are concerned about debt levels. on that note. a sad note. no, just a wise note, a cautionary tale. lovely to see you both. have a really good day indeed. don't spend too much. hello, good morning, and welcome to august. but, if you were hoping the new month would bring a new type of we

while washington is looking squarely at beijing. >> right. beijing is saying not in my back yard. all right. alexandra field, thank you very much. >>> vice president mike pence overseas in georgia this morning reassuring baltic leaders of u.s. support and delivering a warning to the kremlin. and now the process is underway, evicting hundreds of personnel from u.s. diplomatic properties in russia after retaliatory measures following american sanctions. cnn's claire sebastian following developments. she's live for us in moscow this morning. good morning to you, claire. no comment from the president on the russian retaliation. he's also not signed the sanctions bill. what's the latest there? >> reporter: good morning, dave. another strong tirade against russia from the vice president, mike pence, this morning in georgia on russia's southern border. a former soviet state that nine years ago this month talked about a wall with russia. the vice president speaking in estonia on russia's western bored, saying the u.s. stands with georgia against russian aggression. he reaffirmed that pres

you went to beijing, you brought all five kids. >> yes. >> seth: how did they like beijing? >> i mean well beijing -- china is amazing. i mean, it's so incredible and i was lucky enough to bring my kids. we went to the great wall. we went to the forbidden city. we, you know rode in a rickshaw. and when we were leaving i turned to my 5-year-old and i said, "what was your favorite part of china?" and he said, "i like the time we the truck with the pigs on it." [ laughter ] because at one point we were stuck in traffic and this truck pulled up with pigs in cages. that was his favorite part. [ laughter ] after the 15-hour flight, and i remember seeing those pigs in the truck and noticing that they seemed very happy, but i realized they were just looking at me and my five kids and going, "well, at least i'm not that loser." [ laughter ] you know? >> seth: your kids were sort of instant celebrities in beijing. explain. >> well, we, in china, you know, i'm not -- i might look chinese, but i'm not. [ light laughter ] and my children are pale and blond like me. and so they stuck out.

shery: how about offices in beijing and shanghai? they are not doing as well as in hong kong, why is that? guy: there are more supply constraints in hong kong. the office market here has been very strong. you can see that in our results. we are excited about this decentralization theme, which you have seen in london and new york, and starting to see it strongly in hong kong. it is really going to be a good beneficiary of that decentralization. tty was talking about soaring property prices in hong kong. we are seeing chinese authorities clamp down on prices in mainland china. are you expecting more of those measures? what are your expectations for the market? guy: our expectations are that stability is good. in china they are trying to make the market more stable and that is a good thing. we are not in the residential market in china but focused on the retail market, which is going great for us at the moment. shanghai will be our fifth major investment. that is retail-led. we are extremely excited about how that is going right now. be

going into beijing, i was in great shape. i had won a lot of races. it was just about thinking, dealing with it the same as moscow. going into the heat in the 5000 metres, i slightly twitched my hamstring and nearly went down. i could feel it in the final. i had to smoothly stride it up and come away with two wins was pretty good. this is where it all goes down, used to go down? this is where i would come every day, pretty much, spending a lot of life here. so when reggie comes he is like mummy. you were competing at an early age? i was probably about this big. yes. i started when i was ten, a little older. these are some of the girls who train with toni now. hello. how is it going? it is good to see you. i have missed you. of course. how long did you guys work together? 18 years. do i have to call you dame? yes, please. thank you. toni minichiello has worked asjess' coach throughout her whole career. guiding her progress from promising schoolkids sprinted to multi event champion. jess is expecting her second child. herfirst, reggie, was born two year

you went to beijing, you brought all five kids. >> yes. >> seth: how did they like beijing? >> i mean well beijing -- china is amazing. i mean, it's so incredible and i was lucky enough to bring my kids. we went to the great wall. we went to the forbidden city. we, you know rode in a rickshaw. and when we were leaving i turned to my 5-year-old and i said, "what was your favorite part of china?" and he said, "i like the time we the truck with the pigs on it." [ laughter ] because at one point we were stuck in traffic and this truck pulled up with pigs in cages. that was his favorite part. [ laughter ] after the 15-hour flight, and i remember seeing those pigs in the truck and noticing that they seemed very happy, but i realized they were just looking at me and my five kids and going, "well, at least i'm not that loser." [ laughter ] you know? >> seth: your kids were sort of instant celebrities in beijing. explain. i'm not -- i might look chinese, but i'm not. [ light laughter ] and my children are pale and blond like me. and so they stuck out. and the chinese were very nice.

going into beijing, i was in great shape. i had won a lot of races. it was just about thinking, dealing with it the same as moscow. going into the heat in the 5,000 metres, i slightly twitched my hamstring and nearly went down. i could feel it in the final. i had to smoothly stride it up and come away with two wins was pretty good. this is where it all goes down, used to go down? this is where i would come every day, pretty much, spending a lot of life here. so when reggie comes he is like, mummy! you were competing at an early age? i was probably about this big. yes. i started when i was ten, a little older. these are some of the girls who train with toni now. hello. how is it going? it is good to see you. i have missed you. of course. how long did you guys work together? 18 years. do i have to call you dame? yes, please. thank you. toni minichiello has worked asjess‘s coach throughout her whole career. guiding her progress from promising schoolkid sprinter to multi event champion. jess is expecting her second child. herfirst, reggie, was born two

naval destroyer selling close to a chinese island in the disputed south china sea beijing alleges that the deployment violated international laws and sovereignty and security the u.s. navy destroyer was carrying out a so-called freedom of navigation operation the third one conducted during donald trump's presidency the u.s. says that there's nothing provoked even this. thirty percent of the world's trade goes through the south china sea and the rule such as been in place has been one that is orderly open architecture that's why you know freedom of navigation operations or at least provocative things that you can conceive of. ok i can speak now sue tom brokaw he's professor of law and government over during the university could see itself given the tensions in the region right now just how dangerous or provocative do you consider this operation well i think it is provocative i'm not sure that it's illegal but i think it's definitely provocative clearly an area that china wants to exercise. control over to some degree or at least have. or at least keep other military powers out of the re