he's proteed half a dozen chinese leaders, but says xi jinping is the most oppressive. >> xi jinping began to be even more aggressive in suppression. they banned the univer professor from teaching about human rights, universal values,a you know, and he is trying to, yoknow, build up his own chinese dream, which is a total e.ntrol of peo >> schifrin: under xi, more than a million muslim uyghurs have been detained in cam.amps xi's china has created a network of more than 200 million surveillance cameras. and beijing posters on the streets of beijing warn the public to protect national secrets.at he party says is that this is for the strength of china, that if the party were to , the country would weak >> yeah, they are chaos. brainwashing the people that, party, there wouldaos.mmunist so what they are trying to say? if you have democracy, then there will be chaos? we believe in democracy, but they believe in suppression.ion. >> schifrin: inside mainland lingch few critics are w tothat language in public. zhang lifan is a historian who's made public appearances, bute says surveillance h

he's protested half a dozen chinese leaders, but says xi jinping is the most oppressive. >> xi jinping began to beven more aggressive in suppression. they banned the university professor from teaching about human rights, universal values, you know, and he is trying to, you know, build up his own chinese dream, which is a total control of people. >> schifrin: under xi, more than a million muslim uyghurs have been detained in camps. xi's china has created a network of more than 200 million surveillance cameras. wd beijing posters on the streets of beijin the public to protect national secrets. what the party says is that thir is for thegth of china,of that if the party were to weaken, the country would weaken and there would be chaos. >> yeah, they are always brainwashing the people that, you know, without a communist party, there would be chaos. so what they are trying to say? if y have democracy, then there will be chaos? we believe in democracy, butie theyve in suppression. >> schifrin: inse mainland china, few critics are willing to echo that language in public. zhang lifan is a hist

campaign was about -- xing xi jinping seer jinping's ear. that is the last thing on his mind. he cares about politics, military, and chinese culture. >> i would say, not that he does not care about the economy because he does have built into his great rejuvenation of the chinese nation, having china be on par with the united states and japan and germany, doubling chinese incomes by 2020. you asked about xi jinping as an economic reformer and if we take reform to mean opening up not just reform as change, he is clearly not an economic reformer. everything about xi jinping has been about reasserting the rule of the party into chinese society. in chinese enterprises or joint ventures, or you are talking about continuing to strengthen the role of state owned enterprises or applying the social credit system to companies, all of that is about enhancing the role and the ability of xi jinping and the chinese party to use companies as tools of the state. economic actors as political actors. points peoplekey should realize is xi jinping, despite the fact he was governor , he is understa

president xi jinping will speak later. here's a look from china -- of china's economic development. >> mao zedong declared the people's republic of china in 1949 after years of civil war. the 70 years since have seen the nation struggle through extreme poverty to become the world's second-largest economy, with a political reach far beyond its borders. latee late -- the mid to 70's, there was reform which kick started china's remarkable economic growth. that led to milestones including the acceptance into the wto. in 2016, the yuan joined the elite club of imf global reserve currency. the gdp today is about 90 times bigger than in 1978. the 21st century has been marked by an increasingly assertive china on the world stage, leveraging economic power, building alliances with the belt and road program. as it turned 70, it's dealing with the trade war, a slowing economy and unprecedented political protests in hong kong. president xi jinping has urged the communist party to brace for long-term struggles extending beyond the pr s

really is diminishing xi j jinping's reputation. i think when he first took power, at least he saw himself and, therefore, of course, the rest of the party also had to agree with the perspective that he would be the savior of the chinese communist party. and now we've seen not sort ofb fairly costly blunders and him having to sort of change course. so i think going forward, this is going to be interesting. it, perhaps, will change the way in which he makes decisions to make it a bit more democratic instead of just him making all the decisions. we don't know. that's an open question. there's some signs to suggest that maybe this is the case. in terms of the reform, a lot of it is -- as the blunders accumulate, the party increasingly shifts from, you know, wanting to sort of try new things to speed up growth, or to make the market more market oriented, to just risk management. this is something that andrew pointed out already. and, again, i was very -- also struck by this speech in the central party school where, was this the -- one o

jinping sayingi ahead of today's events? selina: we heard him give a brief speech to a banquet in beijing ahead of the parade today, saying hong kong and macau will look to develop together with the motherland interior. adding that tomorrow will be even better. she's in pain -- xi jinping has not said much on the protest of hong kong. the most verbose he has been about the protest. he is hailing for a future and better relations. he speaking after a weekend of violence in hong kong. we have ahead of this very important anniversary seen the censorship crackdown become much tighter in china as the government tries to control the narrative in hong kong. and wants to make sure on this very important day where they want to celebrate 70 years of rule that nothing in hong kong overshadows the military parade celebrations happening. shery: let's bring in tom mackenzie who is on the ground at tiananmen square area. tom, selina was telling us all of the challenges with hong kong protests going on. how big of a chance is this for the p

on top of that xi jinping seems to move towards reification. he's out in 2022 so no one could hold into it but then when extended the term limits, that put all those things he said about taiwan in a different light. >> so you think you would be willing to do it? when the military is more modern than it is now? >> if they believe they have the capability to do and to think the future trends are not in their favor, historically china tends to use force in order to reverse trend. if they think things are getting worse for the overtime and, indeed, to quickly switch it so the position is better, then it would be willing to use force. china would prefer to coerce taiwan into an agreement. that is always number one, can use force against subject compel them to some of agreement? all that would come before a full scale invasion. we would have many indicators and warnings before that would happen, but in the end i think the chinese military is ultimately prepared to take taiwan by force and if the party thinks that the trend are worsening and this is t

and the fifth thing xi jinping took control of hong kong affairs. seeking to broaden beijing's powers, it's so-called comprehensive jurisdiction and hong kong and to roll back hong kongers high degree of autonomy, liberal freedoms and limited democracy by forcibly transforming hong kongers into a chinese communist city while maintaining a veneer of no changes. my next few observations will quickly touch upon the extradition law nexus to national security. senior chinese officials have described the battle, extradition battle as a battle of life and death and as a battle to defend hong kong. a decisive war defending one country two systems are jeopardizing it. since xi jinping came to power national security is now a mandatory obligation for people in the hong kong sar. this was never written in the original basic law. this has been done post fact toe since 2012. early in the extradition law saga senior chinese leaders have made extraordinary endorsements of the extradition law expressing their full support. this included two committee members, the h

new york china's president sends a powerful message to the opening of the 2nd biggest in the world xi jinping is signaling that. growth comes before. people in greenland are adopting to make the best. out of us but we start with this news just in the form ahead of down in a stone. has been found dead initial reports point to suicide police have been searching for since he left his home on monday he was part of the ongoing investigation into an alleged money laundering scheme investigators allege that funneled some 200000000000 euros in illicit funds through its tiny estonian branch during his tenure. to keep you updated on this developing story of course. but today many in germany and especially here in berlin are looking to china with envy because while the capital berlin here is still waiting for its new apple to become operational a full 13 years after construction is started an 8 years behind china's president xi jinping officially launched a glitzy new. 50 kilometers south of the capital beijing. shaped like a giant starfish beijing dossing international airport took just 4 years to buil

chinese president xi jinping trampled underfoot. instead mass demonstrations have dominated the countdown to the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china and these protesters are no mood to celebrate. with the world watching closely they want to capitalize on the attention and make them and ahead we should be a great day but we really can find a reason to start to bring we feel more sorry and sorrow for what do you have suffered i hope to make our country attention to understand more wides we are going to fight for this this thing is a good one to protest to have to show all hope we all lose who fight for freedom. so much the whole. allstars he's hit their mass on rest on cheese day they want to avoid a repeat of more scenes like this. images of angry young patients is threatening to pull focus from beijing celebrations and embarrass authorities police have made clear this weekend that un sanctioned rallies will not be tolerated by us there's only so much they can do to keep people off the streets instead that massively sc

chinese president xi jinping and. instead mass demonstrations have dominated the count. down to the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china these protesters are no mood to celebrate. with the world watching closely they want to capitalize on the attention and make them and ahead we should be a great day but we really can find a reason to start to bring we feel more sorry and sorrow for what do you have suffered i hope to make our country attention to understand more whites we are going to fight for this this spring is a good one to protest to to show them home we will lose. feet of where we will no matter how low. also artie's hit their mass on rest on cheese day they want to avoid a repeat of more scenes like this. images of angry young patients should threaten the full focus from beijing celebrations and embarrass authorities police have made clear this weekend that un sanctioned rallies will not be tolerated boss there's only so much they can do to keep people off the streets instead of massively scaled back the annual celebrations to prevent them from bein

ron, let me ask you is this, is xi jinping going to be in charge of china for our lifetime,ike putin, president for life? >> i would strongly distinguish between putin and xi because china has a governing system. an ethos instead of institution, common, almost bureaucratic decision. russian, i an author tearon -- so even though you have two liters who appears as they've could i rule for life you have two different systems. xi can technically rule now -- they still -- not -- he abolished term limits adult there are term structures and in russia put has been president and prime minister and can decide which portfolio is more important. so i can imagine a scenario where xi jinping steps down either after one more term, let's say, because he has a number of rings -- >> in his second term now. >> he is, he could do one more, for example and that would be republican desendded bit a finite period and he has a set of people around him from which he can choose. >> does xi jinping for the chinese people, want a tariff agreement or trade agreement with the united states or reay not want one. i m

our constitution we should buy and buy our country's constitutional rights you're being told by xi jinping as you were in january unification is an inevitable requirement for the great rejuvenation of the chinese people he said taiwan should accept that it must and will be reunited with china whatever talks you've been having with china hasn't got them out of the vattel idea and how many people in taiwan want that the unification of under 3 percent there or about that i'm going to worry about what the rand paul thing about you don't know you've already got people up i think but don't worry about their threatening words why don't you stand up to those threatening words what we stand up to you whether we stand up to that but you know i have a cigarette remember iran must and world and i did with john have you not so much of me have you tried to take a lot of our constitution so have you tried to take a look of loss to show you are not what china is not saying our laws and in our constitution we want to peaceful relationship we want to unification. the people of the people don't that's in our

so, china didn't get here just because of xi jinping. it wasn't realised yesterday. it had gone through different generations of leaders, different generations of chinese... establishing china and working and chasing this dream. and that is something that i think all chinese people would agree is worth celebrating. john, you also have a long personal experience of china as a reporter for the new york times, in fact, an unpleasant experience when you are kicked out in the mid—80s. you were there in the ‘70s, you were there again in the ‘80s, you were back last year, what do you make of the trajectory? it's probably an appropriate moment to quote the premier of china during my first five years in china, who, whilst attending the celebrations in paris for the french revolution in 1989, 200 years after the french revolution, was asked what he made of the french revolution. he said, "it is too early tojudge." so i think the verdicts are not yet in. it is a story of light and dark. my own personal experience before i left, knowing very little of china, speaking very

a very difficult position doesn't it your veteran china expert suchi actually said that he said she jinping took away all the space for ambiguity and that puts us the kuomintang in a very difficult situation that difficulty being that your party is being told get on with this by china and you don't have a policy of standing up to it do you do have a policy. i declared that i claim that i want to unify china i want to unify under taiwan the last young chance for your 3000000 people what i was against the courage is made my partner see i don't see one percent as it's fantasy you have to remember the whole story not happen. in the world you have to understand the history in the world what's happening now unification separation. yes yes that's the process unification separation separation unification. that's a track of the history but there's one thing very important i also learned runs never mind the track of westerly track of mystery is just a word track of you know you just know it's the fact the question is what people want to know human nature is the vast majority of your population do me

our constitution we should buy and buy our country's constitutional rights you're being told by xi jinping as you were in january unification is an inevitable requirement for the great rejuvenation of the chinese people he said taiwan should accept that it must and will be reunited with china whatever talks you've been having with china hasn't got them out of the vat idea and how many people in taiwan want that the unification of under 3 percent to or about going to turn worrying about what the right thing but you don't know you've already got people up i think but don't worry about their threatening ver words why not just stand up to those threatening words what we stand up to you well it will stand up to that but in our research the reality man dr brown must and world heavy united with john have you got them out to me have you tried to take a lot of our constitution have you tried to take a look of loss this issue as long as what china is now saying are laws and in our constitution we won a peaceful relationship we want to unification. the people who go through the people don't that's in

our constitution we should buy and buy our country's constitutional rights you're being told by xi jinping as you were in january unification is an inevitable requirement for the great rejuvenation of the chinese people he said taiwan should accept that it must and will be reunited with china whatever talks you've been having with china hasn't got them out of that idea and how many people in taiwan want that the unification of under 3 percent there or about that i'm going to turn worry about what the rand paul thing about you don't know you've already got people up i think but don't worry about their threatening words you're going to stand up to those threatening words what we stand up to you won't we stand up to that but you know have a cigarette remember iran must and well ok and i did with china i mean so much of me have you tried to take a lot of our constitution so have you tried to take a look of loss this is showing our last word china saying our laws and in our constitution we want to peaceful relationship we want to unification. the people who go through the people don't cast in o

our constitution we should buy and buy our country's constitutional rights you're being told by xi jinping as you were in january unification is an inevitable requirement for the great rejuvenation of the chinese people he said taiwan should accept that it must and will be reunited with china whatever talks you've been having with china hasn't got them out of the vat idea and how many people in taiwan want that the unification of under 3 percent there or about that i'm going to worry about what the rand paul thing about you don't know about what a lot of people up i think but don't worry about their threatening words why don't you stand up to those threatening words what we stand up to you whether we stand up to that but in our district you really remember taiwan must and well ok and i did with john have you got some out to me have you tried to take a lot of our constitution have you tried to take a look of our norse to show you our last word china saying our laws and in our constitution we want to peaceful relationship we want to unification. the people who talk to the people dogs that's

a very difficult position doesn't it your veteran china expert suchi actually said that he said she jinping took away all the space for ambiguity and that puts us the kuomintang in a very difficult situation that difficulty being that your party is being told get on with this by china and you don't have a policy of standing up to it do you do have a policy. i declare doubts i claim that i want to unify china i want to unify under taiwan me less young chance 23000000 people want taiwan against the courage it is made up that is my partner see i don't see one percent of that it's fantasy you have to remember there are 3 not happening. in the world you have to understand the history in the world what's happening now unification separation yes yes that's the process unification separation separation unification. that's a track of the history but there is one thing very important not i also learned wrongs never mind the track of westerly track of history is just words is the talk of your users it's the fact the question is what people want to know how human nature is the vast majority of your pop

xi jinping is under pressure from all sides. remember, before he was president for life, his portfolio included hong kong. if he's taking personal blame inside the politburo for the mess that is hong kong, he's supposed to be an expert on hong kong. how did he misplay this? as liz was saying, the economy is in terrible shape in china. in addition, pork prices going up 10% in ten days. they are rationing pork in the cities in china. half of the hog herd in china has been killed by this disease, african swine fever. that's why they're not buying soybeans from the united states. they got no animals to feed them to. the consumer inflation in china is running out of control. on basic things like food. you've got the economy slowing down. he's under tremendous pressure and non-performing loans in chinese banks are going up so it's very weak. stuart: it's a bad situation economically. the trouble in hong kong rolls on. add it all together, do you think we will get any kind of trade deal with xi jinping before the election? any kind of

ground a full 13 years after construction started and 8 years behind schedule china's president xi jinping officially launched a glitzy new mega airport around 50 kilometers south of the capital beijing today and it took just 4 years and outward demonstration of might amid a difficult time within the country. shaped like a giant starfish beijing dossing international airport took just 4 years to build and cost $60000000000.00 euros it's already the world's largest single airport terminal building it's going to be one of the busiest president xi jinping cut the ribbon on the bus terminal the launch comes just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china a mass of days in the ruling communist party's calendar why should. i hereby declare beijing dossing international airports officially open. the airport is a powerful symbol of china's rise putting on a show of strength is important right now china is seeing its biggest economic slowdown in decades because of a better trade spot with the u.s. designed by the late iraqi born architects deed the new airport will it 1st cater

ground a full 13 years after construction started and 8 years behind schedule china's president xi jinping officially launched a glitzy new mega airport around 50 kilometers south of the capital beijing today and it took just 4 years and outward demonstration of might amid a difficult time within the country. shaped like a giant starfish beijing dossing international airport took just 4 years to build and cost $60000000000.00 euros it's already the world's largest single airport terminal building it's going to be one of the busiest president xi jinping cut the ribbon on the boss terminal the launch comes just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china a mass of days in the ruling communist party's calendar or simple. i hereby declare beijing dossing international airports officially open. the airport is a powerful symbol of china's rise putting on a show of strength is important right now china is seeing its biggest economic slowdown in decades because of a better trade spot with the u.s. designed by the late iraqi born architects deed the new airport will it 1st cater

ground a full 13 years after construction started and 8 years behind schedule china's president xi jinping officially launched a glitzy new mega airport around 50 kilometers south of the capital beijing today and it took just 4 years and outward demonstration of might amid a difficult time within the country. shaped like a giant starfish beijing dossing international airport took just 4 years to build and cost $60000000000.00 euros it's already the world's largest single airport terminal building it's going to be one of the busiest president xi jinping cut the ribbon on the bus terminal the launch comes just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china a mass of days in the ruling communist party's calendar wash and cool. i hereby declare beijing dossing international airports officially open. the airport is a powerful symbol of china's rise putting on a show of strength is important right now china is seeing its biggest economic slowdown in decades because of a better trade spot with the u.s. designed by the late iraqi born architects deed the new airport will it 1st ca

ground a full 13 years after construction started and 8 years behind schedule china's president xi jinping officially launched a glitzy new mega airport around 50 kilometers south of the capital beijing today and it took just 4 years and outward demonstration of might amid a difficult time within the country. shaped like a giant starfish beijing dossing international airport took just 4 years to build and cost $60000000000.00 euros it's already the world's largest single airport terminal building it's going to be one of the busiest president xi jinping cut the ribbon on the vast terminal the launch comes just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china a massive days in the ruling communist party's calender.

it's images like these beijing hoped would have long been stamped out chinese president xi jinping trampled underfoot. instead mass demonstrations have dominated the countdown to the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china and these protesters are no mood to celebrate. with the world watching closely they want to capitalize on the attention and make that and ahead we should be a great day but we really can't find a reason to start to bring we feel more sorry and sorrow for what do you have suffered i hope to make other country attention to understand more whites we are going to fight for this this thing is a good one to protest too to show them all hope we all lose who fight for freedom where we so much to hold. it all starts he's here to mass unrest and cheese day they once were void a repeat of more scenes like this. images of angry young protests is threatening to pull focus from beijing celebrations and embarrass authorities police have made clear this weekend that un sanctioned rallies will not be tolerated bots there's only so much they can do to keep people off the streets

it's images like these beijing hoped would have long been stamped out chinese president xi jinping trampled underfoot. instead mass demonstrations have dominated the countdown to the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china these protesters are no mood to celebrate. with the world watching closely they want to capitalize on the attention and make them and ahead we should be a great day but we really can find a reason to start to bring we feel more sorry and sorrow for what do you have suffered i hope to make our country attention to understand more wides we are going to fight for this this spring is a good one to protest to do so from home we will lose the roof 50 feet of where we will go much the whole. also artie's hit their mass on rest on cheese day they want to avoid a repeat of more scenes like this. images of angry young play chess is threatening to pull focus from beijing celebrations and embarrass the authorities police have made clear this weekend that un sanctioned rallies will not be tolerated by us there's only so much they can do to keep people off the streets instea

ok now metal also met with president xi jinping what was on the agenda there when they match. what president xi jinping they most likely spoke about trade and their country's economies both the german and chinese economy are slowing down because of the trade war between china and the united states so so trade arrangements and especially a planned. investment agreement between the union and china must have been at the top of the agenda ok during the discussions but hasn't she ok and trade and of course business i mean michael was traveling with a large business delegation what can you tell us about the business deals that were structured merkel's visit. well i was it as usual when foreign dignitaries travel to china they sign a variety of investment agreement and so the most of them are non-binding but they they like the scribed are danish and steps for projects and in this case they signed agreements in the areas of clean energy. and electric buses automotive . all sorts of other areas like. aircraft so we can see from that that. germany and china want to continue to to work t

ground a full 13 years after construction started and 8 years behind schedule china's president xi jinping officially launched a glitzy new mega airport around 50 kilometers south of the capital beijing today and it took just 4 years and outward demonstration of might amid a difficult time within the country. shaped like a giant starfish beijing dossing international airport took just 4 years to build and cost $60000000000.00 euros it's already the world's largest single airport terminal building it's going to be one of the busiest president xi jinping cut the ribbon on the bus terminal the launch comes just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china a mass of days in the ruling communist party's calender.

chinese president xi jinping has paid his respects to millions of people who died in the civil war that led to the communist party taking power the commemoration comes as the nation prepares to celebrate 70 year since the people's republic was founded. for the austrian chancellor sebastian cortes is poised to return to power after his conservative people's party i won the country's general election but you have to team up with the social democrats the greens all the far right freedom party to full of government. 8 members of an alleged neo nazi terror cell have gone on trial in the eastern german city of dresden the men are accused of plotting attacks targeting immigrants political opponents and journalists the trial is set to last until april next year. this is d.w. news you can stay up to date with all the latest headlines on our web site d w dot com. up next here on d.w.i. science magazine tomorrow today i'll be back at the top of it out a bit. after . the latest in war materials research. nickel that can be harvested. nylon made from chicory. and cobalt from the seabed. scientists l

for president xi jinping it's a key moment to assert his vision for china on the eve of the communist states birthday he paid his respects to its find a mouse a dong she has set out to secure his own place in history with efforts to establish china as a major player on the international stage. those efforts lately undermined by a trade war with the u.s. as well as protests in hong kong which have drawn attention to china's human rights record. but no dissenting voices will be alive to ruin the atmosphere on tuesday the parade is invitation only and beijing has stepped up internet controls ahead of the occasion with the capital festooned with decorations patriotism is the order of today. but i think if our country is powerful then we won't be pushed around any more by other countries. will have even more of a voice on the international stage and will be able to safeguard our people's interests i mean that he turns over and i'm very excited i can't wait to see it because it's a national parade and as a kid i really wanted to be a soldier and each time our own national day when we have t

ground a full 13 years after construction started and 8 years behind schedule china's president xi jinping officially launched a glitzy new mega airport around 50 kilometers south of the capital beijing today and it took just 4 years and outward demonstration of might amid a difficult time within the country. shaped like a giant starfish beijing dossing international airport took just 4 years to build and cost $60000000000.00 euros it's already the world's largest single airport terminal building it's going to be one of the busiest president xi jinping cut the ribbon on the boss terminal the launch comes just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china a mass of days in the ruling communist party's calender.

xi jinping, when problems emerge, all of them go to him. francine: overall, we worry about the stability of china. elizabeth: at this point in time, do we need to be worried about the stability in china? authoritarians an regime, and we do not have a perfect read into all the policies of the country. is it possible that at one point in time we could wake up and find out that xi jinping has been pushed back to the second line, that he is no longer the preeminent leader? it is possible. as a former student of the soviet union, who would have predicted gorbachev, the select -- the collapse of the soviet union? very few people. we can never just ignore the possibility that there could be a significant political transformation change within china, but at this point i do not think the stability is in question. francine: what does this all mean for the world economy and the chinese economy echo ian: it is kind of a problem because xi jinping's personal position is perhaps not as robust as it might appear from the outside. weak int be seen to be ne

this is news these are our top stories chinese president xi jinping has paid his respects to millions of people who died in the civil war that led to the communist party taking power the commemoration comes as the nation prepares to celebrate 70 years since the people's republic was founded. at least 2 people have died. at least 2 people have died in a fire at an overcrowded camp for migrants on the greek island of lester's residents of the morea camp also clashed with police more than 12000 migrants live in the camp that was originally designed for 3000. turkey has denied claims that it's been sending syrian refugees back home to a war zone against their will the denial comes as news spoke to one woman who says her son was deported after being arrested turkey's president has stepped up calls to repatriate millions of syrian refugees as public support for hosting that wears thin. former austrian chancellor the bus and puts is poised to return to power after his anti migration peoples party won the country's general election but he will have to find a partner to join him in a coalition

it's images like these beijing hoped would have long been stamped out chinese president xi jinping trampled underfoot. instead mass demonstrations have dominated the countdown to the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china and these protesters are no mood to celebrate. with the world watching closely they want to capitalize on the attention and make them and ahead we should be a great day but we really can find a reason to start to bring we feel more sorry and sorrow for what do you have suffered i hope to make our country attention to understand more wides we are going to fight for this this spring is a good one to protest to. come home and we all lose who 5 feet of where we will go much are all. also artie's hit their mass on rest on cheese day they want to avoid a repeat of more scenes like this. images of angry young patients is threatening to pull focus from beijing celebrations and embarrass authorities police have made clear this weekend that un sanctioned rallies will not be tolerated by us there's only so much they can do to keep people off the streets instead of massive

chinese president xi jinping officially opened done showing airport here in beijing on wedding the state their ports is costing $11000000000.00 to build it it's estimated that it's going to be handling about $45000000.00 passengers by the end of 202-1100 1000000 passengers by the end of 2040 it's also going to be dealing with $300.00 takeoffs and landings every hour those figures give an indication of just how confident china is that it is going to be able to expand its air market but that's a view also held by international air companies and plane manufacturers as well the u.s. plane manufacturer boeing the says that it's expecting china's wealthy middle class to double in size within the next decade and at the end of that decade boeing says that one in 5 of international passengers is going to be chinese now that means there's a lot of opportunity for aircraft manufacturers and airlines around the world in chinese markets and they're very keen to be part of that but of course the u.s. companies are facing difficulties because china and the u.s. are in the middle of a trade war talks in

you've said that hong kong is the new berlin what do you mean by that under the rule off president xi jinping erode on hong kong's people autonomy and freedom we strongly experience the crackdown off human rights with protests brutality which similar as was experienced by people in burning in the last century also and. that's the reason we have people in germany can stand with hong kong standing with hong kong means what are you here asking for immigration policy to be changed for hong kong or is coming to germany how do revealed occur and weezer mechanism to. welcome hong kong people the under threat that will be a good move and a good direction but more important is we hope people in germany and the chancellor castro a strong stand to support hong kong's democratization to ultimate and fundamental call for us is to elect our own government the leader of hong kong which means chief executive should be bought by us instead of handpicked by beijing did you hear from the the foreign minister today did you get a promise that it's going to be easier for hong kong was to come to germany with yes d

putting a lot of pressure on president xi jinping. stayelevant will hong kong as we continue to see this political pushback and as we had already seen from beijing that they wanted to boost other parts of the mainland? anne: beijing has been talking about that for 20 years, replacing hong kong with chong i -- with shanghai. it simply can't happen because the whole point of having the financial capital is having a legal system. so very sadly, hong kong is shriveling up, and that will strongly affect the. chinese economy. . but nothing is going to replace it. in the whole reason is because china counts -- can't allow an independent legal system. shery: great to have you in the studio. thank you so much for that. j capital research cofounder anne stevenson-yang. coming up, my exclusive with the foreign minister of south korea on relations with japan and the chances of peace on the divided peninsula. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: i'm shery ahn in new york. paul: i'm paul allen in sydney. you are watching "daybreak: australia." the fallout

china didn't get here just because of xi jinping. it had gone through different generations of leaders, different generations of leaders, different generations of leaders, different generations of chinese... establishing china and working and chasing this dream. and that is something that i think all chinese people would agree is worth celebrating. john, you also have a long personal experience of china as a reporterfor the new york long personal experience of china as a reporter for the new york times, in fact won an unpleasant experience when you are kicked out in the mid—805. you were there in the 70s, again in the 805, mid—805. you were there in the 705, again in the 805, you were back last year, what you make of the trajectory? it's probably appropriate to quote the premier of china during my first five years in china, who whilst attending the celebrations in paris for the french revolution in 1989, 200 years after the french revolution, was asked what he may of the french revolution. he said, it is too early tojudge. so i t

when xi jinping gave a speech in shanghai in 2014 calling for essentially an end to u.s. alliances, this was a conference of eurasian leaders, continental leaders. the koreans were there. the chinese put enormous pressure on the koreans to joint this joint statement and the koreans held firm, but it's worrisome that beijing thought korea would bend. the boycott of korean goods which cost billions of dollars after korea happened thad missile defense systems and cree as has not signed on to the info-pacific strategy and i think beijing sees a problem particularly given the japan and korea situation. australia has come under extreme pressure from australia and the australians are pushing back, and generally aligning more closely. europe, when i was in the bush administration, we had huge problems with europe. the eu was going toist will an arms embargo. we're way beyond that with the bhajor european power. the european statement on china policy was very tough and talked about systemic competition over economic and political models. france and germany as i mentioned are doing

chinese president xi jinping officially opened done showing airport here in beijing on wedding the state the airport is costing $11000000000.00 to build it it's estimated that it's going to be handling about $45000000.00 passengers by the end of 202-1100 1000000 passengers by the end of 2040 it's also going to be dealing with $300.00 takeoffs and landings every hour those figures give an indication of just how confident china is that it is going to be able to expand its air market but that's a view also held by international air companies and plane manufacturers as well the u.s. plane manufacturer boeing the says that it's expecting china's wealthy middle class to double in size within the next decade and at the end of that decade boeing says that one in 5 all of international passengers is going to be chinese now that means there's a lot of opportunity for aircraft manufacturers and airlines around the world in chinese markets and they're very keen to be part of that but of course the u.s. companies are facing difficulties because china and the u.s. are in the middle of a trade war talk

and to keep, you any, to one day call xi jinping the enemy and next day say he's my best friend, they don't flip around as easily as we do and the interesting thing about china and a lot of countries in asia is that once they decide to write you off, you can't get them back, but they're not going to necessarily say no. they're just not going to say yes. so that's -- when we saw this announcement of the expected meetings in october, i kind of let out a big yawn because this is just going to be a lot of meeting and head nodding, but i'm very skeptical that we'll get any true movement or momentum out of it. >> the market is moving. so you think it is an overreaction to the upside >> yeah, the market is still in love with this concept of a trump put. they want -- they believe that because of the election, trump needs to cut a deal, the problem is he can't cut a deal with himself. he needs someoneon the other side willing to shake a hand and i just don't believe that xi jinping is willing to do a deal with donald trump anymore. >> interesting op-ed there china finds it can live without the

chinese president xi jinping traveled underfoot -- trampled underfoot. mass demonstrations have dominated the countdown to the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china. these protesters are in no mood to celebrate. with the world watching closely, they want to capitalize on the attention and make their anger heard. >> it t should be a great day. you u cannot find aa reason to celebrate. we feel sorry for what the youth have suffered. >> we hope t to bring attention from other countries to understand it more widely,y, tht we wonders -- fight for this thing. >> to protest and show hong kong in the world that we will fight for freedom, and we will win, no matter how long. >> authorities here feared massive unrest on tuesday. they want to avoid a repeat of scenes like this. images of angry young protesters threatened full focus from beijing's celebrations. it would embarrass authorities. police have made clear that unsanctioned rallies will not be tolerated. there is only so much they can do to get people off the streets. instead, they have scaled

what exactly is xi jinping saying? tom: this was a speech on tuesday in beijing. president xi told them to repair for a long, drawnout set of struggles. particularly, he noted economic risk, economic struggles but as well as security challenges facing china. he also names hong kong and taiwan. he says he things the struggles could continue until 2049. so, three decades from now, which is when the communist party will be celebrating its 100th anniversary. some strong words from the president, effectively telling the communist party to prepare themselves for long-term challenges. china is facing unprecedented challenge from the u.s. in terms of the trade front but also the security front as well. paul: a slowdown in china is leading economists, some of them to revise down their growth or cast. what are the expectations there? tom: yes, so now you have the likes of merrill lynch, ubs downgrading their forecast for 2020. ubs now expecting growth to slow to 5.5% in 2020. bank of america merrill lynch has it around 5.7%. bank of america says policymakers are behind the

>> i think there is pressure on xi jinping. frankly, i think he probably cares more about hong kong than the u.s./china trade talks. that may be hard to believe, but one of the communist party goals in china is to have unity of china, not to have the foreign barbarians take hong kong or taiwan away. so this is crucial. what seems to be going on, i watched that interview. i think what jimmy is pointing out, which is very important, there's no enforcement mechanism for the agreement in 1984 maggie thatcher got with the chinese. even though that document and the basic law that china passed itself in 1990, they both talk about universal suffrage in hong kong is a goal -- maria: which is the ability to elect your own leadership. >> yes. so what's been happening, jimmy kind of pointed out there's a strange mechanism that can china will decide which candidates can run, so, yes, there's a universal suffrage election, but only for people you and i, we pick three candidates, and the vote is for one of our chosen candidates. that's not un

xi jinping is the most powerful leader since mao zedong. what implications does that have for china becoming a major power thehe world, not to mention decoupling we are starting to see with the economies of the u.s. or the financial systems of the u.s.. xi wouldwhat president like to avoid is a crackdown. that would have significant economic and diplomatic consequences for china. we cannot rule it out. i think there is a very high bar before beijing comes in with a serious security crackdown in hong kong. is also quite willing to see hong kong diminished in its importance to china. it is already far less important for china's economy than it was 10 or 15 years ago as shanghai comes up as a financial sector, as china relaxes capital controls. those unique features of hong kong start to erode in terms of their value to beijing. i think for xi jinping, there is a willingness to revisit hong kong's role for china. i do not think that translates to launching a crackdown anytime soon. cannot rule it out, but there is a quite serious risk even for

i'd like to see him make a deal wi jinping xi. robert: john bolton exits as national security advisor and the president takes charge. president trump: it's a great job. you know why it's easy, because i make all the decisions. robert: next. announcer: this is "washington week." funding is providinged by -- >> kevin -- >> kevin. >> kevin. >> adv>>e for life. life well planned. learn more at jammed james.com. >> additional funding is provided by -- koo and patricia en, through the yuen foundation. the corporaon for publicc broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viers like you. thank you. once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: what a week. thursday's democratied debate kiff the post-summer political season with former vicede pre joe biden staking out centrist ground with his plan to add a pubc oion to current healthcare law. butany of his challengers made al forcease for an overhaul of the nation's healthcare system. >> my planor healthcare costs a lot of money. it doesn't cost $30 trillion.

certainly, xi jinping hasn't. paul: university of california at san diego professor and former deputy assistant of the secretary of state susan shirk. we will continue our coverage of china 70 years later with kelsey broderick. on friday, bloomberg television takes a look inside the hong kong protests in a special one-hour program. stephen engle investigates the cause of the and rest and looks for possible solution. that is hong kong on edge this friday at midday, 2:00 p.m. in sydney. ♪ paul: let's get a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. setting up a $4 billion operation to develop autonomous vehicles with a u.k. based company. the project will be split 50-50 and aims to have a production driving platform by 2022. plans to invest more than $12 million in autonomous or electric cars. shares rose 12% this year while aptiv has surged more than 40%. kathleen: the aviation authority and lion air are pushing back at a local investigation into last year's fatal boeing 737 max c rash, saying too much b

i would like to see him make a deal with president xi jinping. [laughter] is it just me,: or wasn't that supposed to happen in april? vonnie: that is from last night's debate. kevin cirilli was there, and he joins us now. many things on the agenda, including gun control, background checks, climate, and all sorts of other issues. health care and trade really did dominate. what were the main takeaways in terms of personalities for you? kevin: in terms of trade policy, this was a warning shot to president xi jinping, who has touted that he is playing a long game, a marathon, so to speak, with u.s. foreign policy when it comes to negotiating with the trump administration, but there's not much daylight in terms of policy tactics. virtually every single one of the 10 democratic presidential candidates on that debate stage last night here in houston saying that they would utilize tariffs as a negotiation tool. so that is on the policy front. on the rhetorical approach, the personality approach, there's night and day between those candidates and how they