for a lot beijing is the largest trading partner with me on my land is in beijing for foreign direct investment they share a border 2000 kilometers or so or end my i really wasn't beijing for a lot of infrastructure investment a lot of the key infrastructure projects have been funded by chinese money in the last decade and certainly during the time that unsung suchi has been in power and in turn my own must sends beijing much needed natural resources to jade oil gas and beijing wants that to continue and aung sun suu to recognize this economic importance she signed various economic agreements the china man economic corridor for example she was an active participant in the belton road initiative but it is true to say that since she has been in power a beijing's influenced inland there has been waning she's been listening more to this growing anti china sentiment that she's been trying to have less reliance on china economically she's the new open to u.s. business and a lot of chinese projects have stalled under her watch and beijing certainly hasn't been happy with this and rightly tr

either the points of tensions with beijing of course when it comes to the u.s. i china relationship is this something that the bind administration would want to try to add on to to a state well i think so because we recognize that our if you will are dealing with china has got to be not just who is stronger who's academically or militarily but which is the model for the world to follow the democratic model where the people get to make the decisions or to have a lot farther terry and state which you have in china it's not the military it's the it's the party and if you go back to this in the end mark you're basically going to have pretty much the same thing instead of the party you're going to have the military which like the party has been in power in myanmar for a long time on an awful lot of the years so you expect sanctions then from from the biden administration what you know concrete actions you expect as a result of this pulling men in myanmar. well i mean i think the signs obviously we're not going to send military force in there but i think the sanctions

~ _ necessarily have to go through the beijing route-— beijing route. that raises an interesting _ beijing route. that raises an interesting question - beijing route. that raises an| interesting question whether beijing route. that raises an - interesting question whether one of the consequences of this pandemic is that parts of the world will emerge sooner than others and a different sort of global competition both critical and economic will come from that uneven emergence from the restrictions of the pandemic. i restrictions of the pandemic. i think you are right and i think it is inevitable. like any gigantic event that health and economic, this is going to have different things in the end. i think it is almost old—fashioned geopolitics that is getting the western leaders now to make a big noise about getting vaccines to developing countries but china and russia are already quite far advanced in this and i think we have to get used to the fact that china in particular has lots of cards to play and is going to play them in a sophisticated fashion an

has signed a number of economic agreements with beijing the r.c.p. belton road initiative and it's also signed its own china economic corridor agreement where a number of infrastructures were infrastructure projects were agreed to and also beijing relies on myanmar for various natural resources gas to jade so it's a very mutually beneficial relationship not just economically but also politically beijing was one of the few supporters of myanmar's approach the recent years and in turn also supported beijing's approach to the we get is. the aging stance and other controversial issues including hong kong and taiwan so very important there then recently china's foreign minister went to landmark to really shore up that relationship just recently it what do you know about that visit one u.s. visit to miramar do you think you would have got any hint that a coup was on the horizon. that is the question that we don't know exactly laura but we do know that when you spend some time sitting down with aung sun suu kyi they signed a variety of memories they talked

beijing _ convicted in future. so, slowly but surely. beijing is— convicted in future. so, slowly but surely, beijing is getting - convicted in future. so, slowly but surely, beijing is getting its - convicted in future. so, slowly but surely, beijing is getting its way i surely, beijing is getting its way in hong kong, isn't it?— surely, beijing is getting its way in hong kong, isn't it? well, the situation deteriorated _ in hong kong, isn't it? well, the situation deteriorated seriously. situation deteriorated seriously afterjuly when the national security law came into place. but the bigger picture in a sense is beijing doesn't only want to stop the protests but to also regain control in all fronts, political, economy and by squeezing the room where these opposition figures could manoeuvre. in the past they were still allowed to have some opposition but now they will continue to exist even in hong kong without being prosecuted or persecuted is very questionable. thank you. us regulators have authorised the use of thejohnson & johnson covid vaccine. it's the first t

beijing. china appears to have blocked the odio app clubhouse just days after it was introduced into the country post containing the trending hash tag clubhouse were also censored on social media several large chinese language chat rooms were set up on the invite only app over the weekend participants discussed topics like the ongoing crackdown against it we goes engine jan i democracy in hong kong and the sovereignty of taiwan by monday evening clubhouse users in mainland china reported that they could no longer log on to the app the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson described china's action on clubhouse as an issue of national sovereignty. firstly what china's internet is open the government money which is the internet in accordance with the law and regulations secondly and there china's position on the relevant issue has always been consistent and clear cut china has been on swerving determination to defend its national sovereignty security and development interests as well as to oppose

and also another from beijing saying that china might welcome the military being back in power. myanma because they've always supported the military at the same time this is all also could be a source of more tension that china would want right now. well i think that china's role in the military is not a simple a support or not support there are large parts of the military that have seen china very very suspicious. in terms of their own involvement with ethnic armed groups and i think the chinese government's relationship with on some suchi had actually warmed up quite considerably and so i think that there may be a bit more complicated and less partly why we're seeing the statement not emerging from me that one of the most important regional responses will be that of india india has in place has provided a rich promise to provide 1500000 vaccines for covert 1000 and they were right ready provided some and i think if that relationship sours this has very dire and put implications for me on mars access to the next scenes globally and there is a reaction from india to the events i

every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive carpet 19 vaccinations the chinese government aims to vaccinate 15000000 people by the middle of this month. after vaccinating workers will move to ordinary people we asked mate it will take about half a year to finish beijing's population. security guards delivery and transport workers are among those instructed to receive the jobs 2 to 3000 people are not at this beijing vaccinations and every day the chinese government has prioritized certain industries the 1st phase of its mass vaccination rollout and for many of the people who come here it's their employer who has organized that business but experts say china needs to speed up its vaccination program and a lack of widespread infection means a slower development of herd immunity among the population which may not be achieved at a late 2022. china vaccine a $50000000.00 people by mid february the problem but it doesn't mean much is only one 3rd haze of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 inoculated will see the difference china afford to rela

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as opposed to beijing you know the u.s. it's already also present in many parts of asia pacific you know the philippines south korea and go on and having more u.s. influence and presence in literally opposite china if you will and i think china will not let this one guard or his interest in with your euro strollin background former australian prime minister kevin rudd has come out and said there xi jinping wants to emulate chairman mao by capturing so i was again really strong stuff. yes that is a very strong comparison to say that she's emptying is and the lady mao. however i do think. i put from my perspective i think in this momenta of time china's priority is primarily economic prosperity economic ambition as opposed to political ambition but of course this can change in the future i'm talking about the next few years china has very strong economic ambitions ok tyson when we talk about china we're often using it we tend to use a lot of isms i made a little less neo colonialism authoritarian revisionism techno nationalis

on the lead beijing gave similar treatment to sweden of trip banned chinese firms from its 5 g. mobile data network over security concerns at the same time the pandemic has fuelled western worries about dependence on chinese supplies like pharmaceuticals adding to all this is a growing unease about china's authoritarianism the prime examples stripping hong kong of its freedoms despite treaty commitments not to do so for decades to come. and his actions in shin janke for the biden ministration has called genocide as we saw earlier take all of these together and it's clear that china's rise is about much more than its military power in asia it presents a multi fronted challenge to almost every aspect of the era that america has presided over since the end of the cold that's why there's one thing you constantly hear from the new administration when they talk about dealing with china that they want to rally america's allies to stand up to beijing together with our allies or. we were there well half the world and. not just because of where it really. matter of course with their drive

true families beijing gave similar treatment to sweden of trip banned chinese firms from its 5 g. mobile data network over security concerns at the same time the pandemic has fueled western worries about dependence on chinese supplies like pharmaceuticals adding to all this is a growing unease about china's authoritarianism the prime examples stripping hong kong of its freedoms despite treaty commitments not to do so for decades to come. and his actions in shin janke for the biden ministration has called genocide as we saw earlier take all of this together and it's clear that china's rise is about much more than its military power in asia it presents a multi fronted challenge to almost every aspect of the era that america has presided over since the end of the cold war that's why there's one thing you constantly hear from the new administration when they talk about dealing with china today want to rally america's allies to stand up to beijing together with our allies or. we were there well. and that provides us not just because we need. a lot of course with their prime. ministeria

beijing is the largest trading partner the 2nd largest source of foreign direct investment it shares a 2100 kilometer border with my an ma so it's economically a crucial partner for man market it's a mutual been beneficial thing as well china has invested billions into infrastructure projects and china also receives a lot of much needed natural resources such as or gas drilling timber and it's not just a relationship that's doing well economically china has also supported man over the various political issues for example its handling of the ranger issue and in turn my own mom has been supportive of beijing's approach to the weavers its approach to hong kong and taiwan so there's been. quite a closeness there and that's existed not only with the military junta when it was in power but also that's close relationship seems to have continued since aung sun suu kyi had been in power although it had been strained as well it is fair to say that china has not had as much unbridled influence in in my almost since aung sun suu kyi was leading in there was some concern about overreliance econom

the training is and beijing and she has reaction now from china. well china's foreign ministry has released a quite brief statement in response to what's happening in myanmar its it said that china hopes that all sides could properly manage their differences under the constitution and legal framework and appalled stability beijing also described itself as a good friendly neighbor to myanmar and said it was watching closely and waiting to see how things develop to there so quite a muted statement no criticism whatsoever china has tended to take a noninterference approach to these matters and most importantly beijing seems to be concerned about stability the stability in myanmar and if things should escalate how that might affect the greater stability of the asia region but of course man mark is very close to china relies on china economically china is the biggest trading partner 2nd largest source of foreign direct investment but what is true is that the military will certainly need backing going forward especially if any other into international pl

this case in particular to sell great interest to beijing it's a very sensitive case and it's also the 1st national security law case to reach the final court of appeal now he was granted bail on december 23rd already but due to noises from beijing mostly in the form of state media commenting on how hong kong's courts were not well versed in the national security law and hong kong's national security the department of justice brought that case back to the courts on december 31st and he was returned to jail jimmy lie as the media mogul and one of the most high profile pro-democracy activists it's a very strong international tie this case is set to set it's said to set a precedent for national security law cases in hong kong law was imposed by beijing on july 1st it's very vague and seen as draconian and it seem to have many moving goalposts so lawyers here and prosecutors here are still said to be finding their way and this particular case is set to be able to define certain parameters for all parts national security law more and more cases are expected to be brought to prosecution in t

who knows that trump will be back in 2024, with beijing as big brother. investment and following through and all these other things. what do you think of that whole thinking? >> there's some truth to that i guess, but i would also point out that china has the jews created ill will with the united states and the u.s. created ill will with china. there's a lot of ill will between a lot of different countries and the world and china. look at what's happening in australia which in effect china has threatened the trading relationship because of i guess initially because australia had the tenacity to ask for an independent investigation into the origin of covid-19. china in a very sort of ham-fisted way has threatened australian, threatened australia and certainly exports of wine and beef and barley and so on. i think right now all reports, the people of australia are very upset with china. you can extend that to india where we saw a bloody border clash. the list goes on. i do think one thing that might happen under biden, which is very good at anything is over

. >> narrator: five months into the outbreak, a beijing doctor exposed what was really happening. he revealed there were many more cases than the government was letting on. the central government in beijing now admitted the scope of the problem. >> sars has come to north america. >> 1,000 people have been quarantined in hong kong. >> two dead in canada, and six cases in europe. >> narrator: by this time, sars had spread around the world. it would ultimately cause almost 800 deaths. (bats squealing) in china, the cover-up shook the country. >> chinese people became very concerned, but also angry that the government is not telling them the truth. ♪ ♪ >> there were stories of kind of people, like, rising up and mistrusting information. the damage to the reputation of the party states, domestically and internationally, was very heavy, it was felt. >> narrator: sars was deadly, but its ability to spread was limited. within eight months, the outbreak was contained. ♪ ♪ >> it was widely seen that the delay by china in reporting and actually responding was absolutely the reason wh

as opposed to beijing you know the u.s. it's already holes are present in many parts of asia pacific you know and the philippines south korea and go on and having more u.s. influence and presence in literally opposite china if you will i think china will not let this one guard or his interest in with your euro strollin background former australian prime minister kevin rudd has come out and said that she jinping wants to emulate chairman mao by capturing so i was again really strong stuff. yes that is a very strong comparison to say that she jumping is and the lady mao. however i do think that i put from my perspective i think in this momentous time china's priority is primarily economic prosperity economic invasion as opposed to political ambition but of course this can change in the future i'm talking about the next few years china has very strong economic ambitions ok and when we talk about china we're often using it we tend to use a lot of isms i made a little less neo colonialism both orit's hereon revisionism techno na

as opposed to beijing you know the u.s. it's already also present in many parts of asia pacific you know in the philippines south korea in go on and having more u.s. influence and presence in literally opposite china had to rely on i think china will not let this one card or is interesting with your you're a stroll in background former australian prime minister kevin rudd has come out and said that she jinping wants to emulate chairman mao by capturing so i was again really strong stuff. yes that is a very strong comparison to say that she's emptying is and the lady now. however i do think at. from my perspective i think in this momentous time china's priority is primarily economic prosperity economic impatient as opposed to political ambition but of course this can change in the future i'm talking about the next few years china has very strong economic ambitions ok. and when we talk about china we're often using it we tend to use a lot of isms i made a little less neo colonialism both orit's hereon revisionism techno natio

hong kong is introducing new legislation to ensure that any one seen as being disloyal to beijing is barred from elected office chief executive carrie lam has given her support to the reform which will require local councillors to pledge allegiance to hong kong status as part of china violators will face an election battle following mass protests and the introduction of a sweeping national security bill last year opposition forces in hong kong have increasingly been silenced. let's get you more on these developments said you know we use a correspondent phoebe kang is joining us now from the territory phoebe tell us what's behind this new wood draft bill that the hong kong government has announced . the home government has announced a new piece of legislation that will we fly over this to counselors to plaster legions to the cities many constitution so anyone who fails to to express loyalty to the coast duration will be unseated and put up banned from running for elections in 5 years so our behavior is defined 5 as unloyal including endangering national security denying sovereignty of

as opposed to beijing you know the u.s. it's already holes are present in many parts of asia pacific you know in the philippines south korea and go on and having more u.s. influence and presence in literally opposite china i think china will not let this one guard always interesting with you or your astray limburger and former australian prime minister kevin rudd has to merge and so there xi jinping wants to emulate chairman mao by capturing taiwan again really strong stuff. yes that is a very strong comparison to say that she jumping is and the lady mao. however i do think. i put from my perspective i think in this momentum of time china's priority is primarily economic prosperity economic ambition as opposed to political ambition but of course this can change in the future i'm talking about the next few years china has very strong economic ambitions ok tarsem when we talk about china we're often using it we tend to use a lot of isms i made a little less neo colonialism all full rich area of revisionism techno nationalism

inoculated will see the difference try to afford to relax there are also these beijing want have enough doses for its 1400000000 population china has promised 10000000 doses to kovacs an international alliance distributing vaccines to developing countries it's also exporting about $400000000000.00 to countries such as brazil and indonesia and donating millions more to allies including pakistan the discovery of a counterfeit vaccine ring in the southern province of jugs earlier this month has also undermined confidence in vaccine safety authorities say all fake doses have been tracked down. the chinese government attaches great importance to serve god in the security of the vaccines and will continue to crack down on vaccine related crimes the government is also under pressure to roll up vaccines out of the national people's congress the nation's largest leaders gathering in march at the preparations for the 2022 winter olympics. has high hopes for the olympics and its vaccines will help improve its international image in the wake of the penn demick. but while questions about china's rol

has so far fall in short of what is necessary al-jazeera true to your reporting live there from beijing catrina many thanks indeed a group of opposition parties in ethiopia's to greater region says that more than $50000.00 civilians have been killed in the conflict between regional separatists and the ethiopian army it's not clear where the estimate has come from but in the past ethiopia's government has said that federal forces have killed any civilians access to the region has been severely limited since fighting broke out in november 4 let's go live now to nairobi al-jazeera as malcolm webb is there can tell us about. what more these opposition groups been saying. these 3 opposition parties in their statement said that the ethiopian government forces were responsible for blindly shelling towns and villages with artillery and destroying them they say that have been extrajudicial killings that have been going and rapes they say that more than 50000 civilians have been killed as you just said and they also say that the government has used food and hunger as a weapon they say that millio

beijing's multi-billion dollar bill obama should be of extending right into europe the 1st section from newberg rates to stop us all and 3rd section from . 2 super data or constructed by china railway. china aims to get its goods across europe by train and southeastern and eastern european nations are vital to that strategy will enable the transportation of goods to western europe via a single rail corridor. for southeastern europe in particular the new silk road project beckons with promises of new investments. in these 4 rounds the chinese have come like a gift from family and life. but china brings more than cutting edge technology it's also prepared to invest in older environmentalists harmful processes. cuts in immunity arc their cancer is a really horrible disease has all of us know what we're in for lost of a turk which are what. it's a region torn between it's loyalty to europe and the opportunities that china offers. it would be easy to convince our politicians not to get funds from the chinese for such projects if there was a serious attempt off europe to help us in the transi

a move met with angerfrom beijing. an estimated nearly 5.5 million hong kongers, including h and ah ching, now have the right to move to the uk. the latest trigger in a long—running battle over greater autonomy from mainland china was a move to introduce a extradition bill that could see people accused of certain serious offences be tried on the mainland. it turned into a larger more confrontational movement against china's growing influence. h joined a group on the encrypted app telegram, created by a 30—year—old man we're calling ah ching. they call each other sau zuks, which can be loosely translated as "comrades". when britain handed back hong kong to china in 1997, it was agreed that the city would continue to enjoy certain rights unavailable and the rest of china. now, hong kong people are to run hong kong. that is the promise, and that is the unshakeable destiny. archive: it was then the skies | exploded with noise and colour. the last rites of imperialism finished with, the departing power staged a carniv

no not yet but worse sure that beijing of watching this very very closely monitor is a very key player for china china counts on my on mars a supporter when it comes to cold cultivating time his influence in the asia region and myin ma definitely relies on china china is the biggest trading partner of burma for man march china is the 2nd largest source of foreign direct investment based share quite an extensive order 2100 kilometers and since she had been in power she had recognized this and she had been cultivating this economic relationship with china she was quite a enthusiastic participant in china's the road initiative and also there was of course the china economic corridor or china has been investing billions of dollars into infrastructure projects. that a much needed in that country and in return. says china of much needed natural resources timber oil hydro powered jade so for china it's been a very important relationship and it's not just the economics not just trade it's also very much political china is one of the rare supporters of my imo when it comes to its approach with

for now beijing. not recognising the n.o.'s of the hong government follows this process so we can see if there are just a little bit inconvenienced attitude or wanting to use of you know trouble because of they have to use our hope or as they are asked to leave the border in hong kong but i think in general there are very limited retaliation measures that beijing boy so on our. student observing how the situation escalate the most possible on retaliation would be. doing something on the notion of double nationality and on but i don't think it will come in any time sir. that's very interesting so beijing will have to be creative if it wants to do something now on the british front what else would you like to see the government do there after they've limitation of the national security law actually the british government has imposed a lot of measures counter measures through at least if you were issued a freedom a home call in what do they offer a piano. thing that they should have been trading with hon

every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive carpet 19 vaccinations the chinese government aims to vaccinate 15000000 people by the middle of this month here after vaccinating workers will move to ordinary people we asked mate it will take about half a year to finish beijing's population security guards delivery and transport workers are among those instructed to receive the jobs $2.00 to $3000.00 people are not curious at this beijing vaccinations and to every day the chinese government has prioritized certain industries the 1st phase of its mass vaccination rollout and so many of the people who come here it's their employer who has organized that business but experts say china needs to speed up its vaccination program and a lack of widespread infection means a slower development of herd immunity among the population which may not be achieved at a late 2022. china vaccine a $50000000.00 people by mid february the problem but it doesn't mean much is only $130.00 s of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 are inoculated will see the differenc

beijing is crowded for china's biggest travel holiday. last chinese new year we reported how quiet it was. people isolated at home, temple fairs cancelled. this is what beijing's temple of earth looks like this chinese new year. there are people around, lots of them, families walking, children playing. now, most public celebrations have been cancelled this year for the second year in a row, but beijing definitely feels alive. to keep people in place, cities have given away shopping coupone and even free money. many who do leave have to quarantine for two weeks. it's ultimately a choice for most to stay. sun jayi chose to go. she took a high speed train with her boyfriend, 700 miles south to reunite with her parents. >> i'm very excited, very happy to see my family again. >> reporter: chinese tv celebrated the country's talent, people and military in its annual lunar new year gala. millions watching from their homes, so many not traveling. ramy inocencio, cbs news, beijing. >> duncan: we're all finding new ways to celebrate. still ahead on

every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive carpet 19 taxa nations the chinese government aims to vaccinate 50000000 people by the middle of this month here after vaccinating essential workers will move to ordinary people we asked mate it will take about half a year to finish beijing's population. security guards delivery and transport workers are among those instructed to receive the jobs 2 to 3000 people are not at this beijing vaccinations and every day the chinese government has prioritized certain industries the 1st phase of its mass vaccination rollout and so many of the people who come here it's their employer who has organized that business but experts say china needs to speed up its vaccination rollout and a lack of widespread infection means a slower development of herd immunity among the population which may not be achieved until late 2022. 50000000 people by mid february. but it doesn't mean much is only one 3rd taste of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 inoculated will see the difference china afford to relax there are also

not following through with this or the villages to beijing will be banned from election for 5 years now this affects hong kong's 400 or so district council is and many of those district councils won their seats in the 29000 election and what's key to remember is overwhelmingly these district council is pro-democracy or opposition figures now the result of this election was extremely embarrassing for beijing which has been trying to sell the message that most of the people of hong kong are for the communist party now another similar election was due to take place last year and that was postponed due to call of it and it was expected to take place later this year and analysts were predicting another pro-democracy landslide so this change really is beijing's way of preventing that from happening now this form this law as you said is still in its draft form it will be tabled and it's expected to be passed during china's national people's congress which is going to take place here in beijing in early march. focus on the prime minister has just arrived in sri lanka for a 2 day visit imran kha

that's right and beijing has been starting this transformation since the pro-democracy protests that took place in hong kong which bars infuriated and embarrassed beijing and this started really with the intimate implementation of the national security law which came into effect in hong kong in the middle of last year and that essentially banned any subversion against the central government or any colluding with foreign forces against beijing and already more than $100.00 people have been arrested under that war now many foreign governments as well as rights groups have condemned this move in a certainly expected to condemn this change and also saying that china by doing this is violating its one country 2 systems promise which said that hong kong would essentially be allowed to be autonomy for 50 years following the handover from british rule katrina talks about katrina you the. demonstrators in barcelona have thrown bottles at police during the servant night of protests against the jailing of the republic police say around $700.00 people took part in the most peaceful rally their l

it's party time in beijing — communist party time. china's leadership will throughout 2021 be marking the centenary of the organisation which took power in 1949 and has been there ever since. but the mood this weekend isn't celebratory. china's foreign ministry has attacked a british scheme, applying from first thing monday morning, which would allow thousands of hong kongers to escape the new security law and settle in the uk. and it issued a blunt warning to taiwan, which it says is part of china — "independence means war". what explains the belligerent tone? the issues are slightly separate - _ hong kong will be - a difficult talking point between china and the uk in years to come. it might poison the. relationship as well. the issue of taiwan, - this is standard for china because china has always regarded taiwan as its i breakaway province, _ and president xi has been shown to take taiwan back before too long, although we don't know yet... - in terms of taiwan, | it is more of a signal to the biden administration. the ball is re

a move met with angerfrom beijing. an estimated nearly 5.5 million hong kongers, including h and ah ching, now have the right to move to the uk. the latest trigger in a long—running battle over greater autonomy from mainland china was a move to introduce a extradition bill that could see people accused of certain serious offences be tried on the mainland. it turned into a larger more confrontational movement against china's growing influence. h joined a group on the encrypted app telegram, created by a 30—year—old man we're calling ah ching. they call each other sau zuks, which can be loosely translated as "comrades". when britain handed back hong kong to china in 1997, it was agreed that the city would continue to enjoy certain rights unavailable and the rest of china. now, hong kong people are to run hong kong. that is the promise, and that is the unshakeable destiny. archive: then the skies exploded with noise and colour. _ the last rites of imperialism finished with, the departing power staged a carnival of l

was afraid to purchase and sell political merchandise something the past the possible at home since beijing's crackdown on pro-democracy activists. welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has defended the decision to extend germany's lockdown until march 7th telling parliament that easing restrictions too early could leads to a rebound of the virus that has said this is a hard winter but patience and perseverance are key she expressed concern about new aggressive mutations saying they could on the may undermine vaccinations trotted. she also defended the e.u. wide vaccination program and a unified european pass out of the panda pay tribute to the more than $60000.00 people who have lost their lives to the coronavirus in germany she said politicians over to them to make the right decisions now. she also acknowledged people's freedoms are being limited in a way that would have been unacceptable before the pandemic i think that isn't your average remark or see it is our duty not to have the restrictions one day longer the needed and to lift them when they are no longer necessary t

for now beijing. not recognising the n.o.'s of the home government follows these practices so we can see if there are just a little bit inconvenienced attitude or wanting to use of you know trouble because of they have to use our whole point of say our passports to leave the border in hong kong but i think in general there are very limited retaliation measures that beijing people boy so on our. student observing how the situation or escalate the most possible retaliation will be. doing something on the notion of double nationality and i don't think it will come anytime soon. that's very interesting so beijing will have to be creative if it wants to do something now on the british front what else would you like to see the government do there. affidavit limitation of the national security law actually the british government has imposed a lot of measures counter measures through at least if you were issued off a home call in could do they offer a piano. thing and i should have been treated with hong kong

as opposed to beijing you know the u.s. it's already also present in many parts of asia pacific you know in the philippines south korea in go on and having more u.s. influence and presence in literally opposite china if you will and i think china will not let this one guard or is interesting with your you're a stranger and barbara and former australian prime minister kevin rudd has to merge and serve their xi jinping wants to emulate chairman mao by capturing to i was again really strong stuff. yes that is a very strong comparison to say that she is and a lady now. however i do think that i put from my perspective i think in this momentum of time china's priority is primarily economic prosperity economic ambition as opposed to political ambition but of calls this can change in the future i'm talking about the next few years china has very strong economic ambitions ok. and when we talk about china we're often using it we tend to use a lot of isms i made a little less neo colonialism all for its area of revisionism techno nat

every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive covert 900 vaccinations the chinese government aims to vaccinate 15000000 people by the middle of this month here after vaccinating workers will move to ordinary people we asked made it will take about half a year to finish beijing's population. security guards delivery and transport workers are among those instructed to receive the jobs 2 to 3000 people are not at this beijing vaccinations and to every day the chinese government has prioritized certain industries the 1st phase of its mass vaccination rollout and so many of the people who come here it's their employer who has organized that business but experts say china needs to speed up its vaccination rollout and a lack of widespread infection means a slower development of herd immunity among the population which may not be achieved at a late 2022. vaccine a 50000000 people by mid february. but it doesn't mean much is only one 3rd taste of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 inoculated will see the difference china afford to relax there are al

wife and daughter in northeastern beijing. normally at this time of year the family would have already left their one room apartment and be on their way to their hometown in gansu province in northwestern china to celebrate the new year with their family but the pandemic has put paid to their travel plans. for her 1st we need to do nucleic acid testing and issues difficult since we want to go back home which is very inconvenient so i plan to stay in beijing. who sit by is one of millions of migrant workers in china affected by the restriction rules are different across the country but in most places people are being required to quarantine for weeks on arrival in their home villages and then again when they return to their workplaces meeting for many including who said by that the trip is not worth doing. we come back to beijing after the chinese new year i'll have to be quarantined for another 14 days i thought it was very troublesome so i'll stay in beijing for the new year. to dissuade people from travelling the government h

this case in particular is of great interest to beijing it's a very sensitive case and it's also the 1st national security law case to reach the final court of appeal now he was granted bail in december 23rd already but due to noises from beijing mostly in the form of state media commenting on how hong kong is courts were not well versed in the national security law and hong kong's national security the department of justice brought that case back to the courts on december 31st and he was returned to jail jimmy lie as a media mogul and one of the most high profile pro-democracy activists it's a very strong international ties this case is set to set is said to set a precedent for national security law cases in hong kong that law was imposed by beijing on july 1st it's very vague and seen as draconian and it seemed to have many moving goalposts so lawyers here and prosecutors here are still said to be finding their way and this particular case is set to be able to define certain parameters for all fronts national security law more and more cases are expected to be brought to prosecutio

it's definitely china since last april beijing has conducted this internal closed the pilot test on is digital currency in 4 major cities including beijing if we take a visit to this pilot areas we'll see new devices with also many new functions for example like access through a.t.m. and this card based rechargeable hardware digital wallet and also virtual digital wallet and add to the future a winter olympic scenes we can also find wearable devices like this cloves badges and smart watches with digital currency functions so if we look at the scale and the progress it's really hard for other countries to catch up right i mean i've said at the beginning of course that dissent with banks around the world in the us in europe is well girl looking at creating their own digital currencies but is a big thing it seems in asia how significant are digit currencies especially for emerging economies well it's a matter of a monetary is the rate of the if a country has a strong currency it has a great ability to impact the global economy let's take china for example again its push for is to digital

of correspondents covering developments we'll get more from allie felony angle on katrina you is in beijing with the reaction from china elizabeth purana is in new delhi and time very challenged really is in bangladesh home to hundreds of thousands of manned mars rohingya refugees but 1st scott heiler explains how the coup unfolded myanmar was supposed to mark an exercise in democracy on monday but instead the military rounded up the nation's democratically elected leadership including on song suchi it then announced a coup on military run t.v. . the name of the state of emergency is in effect nationwide and the generation of the state of emergency is set to one year military chief men playing now rules the country monday was to be the 1st session of a new parliament after on song party the national league for democracy a landslide victory in november. recently the army made accusations of election fraud and tension between the civilian government and the military increased last week when a general refused to rule out the possibility of a coup but everybody there like this member of parliam

as well as clues and with foreign forces now beijing has said that being patriotic was always a part of the requirements for district council isn't simply what they are doing is narrowing that interpretation saying that patriotism means loyalty to china's central communist party now this is expected to be criticised not only by just her counselors and other pro-democracy figures in hong kong but also by western governments and rights groups across the world many who believe that china is already violating its one country 2 systems promise to allow hong kong to maintain its autonomy for at least 50 years when britain's handover thank you for that katrina you live for us there in beijing. now facebook has announced it will restore a news content to its users in australia at the moment all australian newspapers are blocks from sharing material on facebook and all its use is a banned from sharing links to australian news sources the decision comes after the government agreed to amend legislation that would make tech giants pay for straitly news content. facebook has committed to entering

coming notional joe francis you may know it's one of the wrong prove on the leave beijing gave similar treatment to sweden of trip banned chinese firms from its 5 g. mobile data network over security concerns. at the same time the pandemic has fueled western worries about dependence on chinese supplies like pharmaceuticals adding to all this is a growing unease about china's authoritarianism the prime examples stripping hong kong of its freedoms despite treaty commitments not to do so for decades to come. and its actions in shin janke for the biden ministration has called genocide as we saw earlier take all of this together and it's clear that china's rise is about much more than its military power in asia it presents a multi fronted challenge to almost every aspect of the era that america has presided over since the end of the cold that's why there's one thing you constantly hear from the new administration when they talk about dealing with china that they want to rally america's allies to stand up to beijing together with our allies or in your we were there well. not just because we

rarely agree on much but not when it comes to china it is agreed the us needs to somehow get tough with beijing what does that really mean engaging china while trying to contain it is that even possible the biden ministration will eventually have to answer this question. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest michael maloof in washington. isn't former pentagon senior security policy analyst and asking major we have james nokia's professor of international relations at new york university and in beijing we cross the way oh and he is a news anchor and host x e g t n r a gentleman cross the rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate go to james 1st a james you know we we heard when i was secretary blinken was being confirmed as secretary of state he made some interesting comments particular when it comes to china missing a basically greek with the trump administration's approach to china how do you take that on board and you see that the the biden ministration will be nuanced when it comes to china or this will be a continuation of the 4 years

every day crowds of workers are being bussed into this beijing museum to receive corporate 19 vaccinations the chinese government aid to vaccinate 15000000 people by the middle of this month. after vaccinating workers will move to ordinary people we asked made it will take about half a year to finish beijing's population. security guards delivery and transport workers are among those instructed to receive the jobs 2 to 3000 people are not at this beijing vaccinations and every day the chinese government has prioritized certain industries the 1st phase of its mass vaccination rollout and so many of the people who come here it's their employer who has organized that business but experts say china needs to speed up its vaccination rollout and a lack of widespread infection means a slower development of herd immunity among the population which may not be achieved at a late 2022. 50000000 people by mid february. but it doesn't mean much is only one 3rd pace of total population maybe only after $500000000.00 inoculated will see the difference china afford to relax there are also fears beijing wa

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thought it was very troublesome so i'll stay in beijing for the new year. to dissuade people from travelling the government has offered incentives such as free phone data and online films they say as a result the number of those undertaking the journey home has been reduced by as much as 70 percent compared to last year. for many the decision to stay put is a difficult one as a new year is the only time in 12 months that they get to see their children and other relatives. for his advice family new year in beijing is not as much fun as at home but he says they will eat something tasty together and try to make the best of it until next year. i'm going to spawn a mature berliner and belgians and does this look at a subdued lunar new year in the city as pandemic concerns put a damper on celebrations. while the numbers of infections are largely under control in china a few recent breaks have alarmed the earth origin there is no country wide travel ban but many places have placed restrictions and quarantine requirements on new arrivals and many companies also ord