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So i think that is an issue. they are building up their military and i saw the live fire exercise drills when i was in taiwan as they threatened us on the island just for being there. their nuclear capability is growing. we have no treaty with china. i think they are putting a lot into their military and very clear about their intentions about taiwan and the south pacific sea. we need deterrence there and we dont have deterrence to stop that aggression. talk is one thing but action is another. >...

The carolina course. united states should trend carefully. >> i think diplomacy is important. if youre going to sit down, sit down from strength and not from weakness. you need to have leverage in these talks to achieve something. >> so the white house saying that this was still a good step forward. president biden will get a briefing from the secretary state once hes back here in d.c. a little later on this week. the president still out in california as you were mentioning, neil. our colleague ...

Katharine gun in england actually... weve interviewed her on hardtalk. really? she took a decision to leak one crucial piece of information about the run—up to the invasion of iraq. she revealed secret information that there were diplomatic efforts to put leverage on un diplomats to support the war. yes. i dont know if youd call it diplomatic information to tap their home phones. thats what she revealed. and tapped their office phones. that wasnt done by the state department. it was done by th...

>> the department of state is going to have to craft that one on one to give president biden maximum leverage. timing matters there, obviously, but this president came into offense with one of the best row low texs of any commander in chief. he prides himself on the strength of relationships with world leaders. weve seen it already in his tenure. its important to convey correctly to xi jinping whos a deputy attorney general at a timer -- dictate e at this point of the chinese communism party tha...

That, if we want good will and leverage with the russians. so the hope is that because of the position african countries have taken, about half of the countries on the continent have not supported resolutions to condemn russian action, gives them some sort of leverage with their russian counterparts. >> south africa leads this peace mission. how would you characterize its relationship to russia? what do you make of criticism leveled at it for, you know, that its difficult to see how president ra...

And youre an old friend of us and weve always had great annversations and well have a lot of important topics to discuss today. >> joining me no w, gordon of th chang, senior fellow at the gates stone institute and author oe bookf the great b, the great us-china tech war. >> gordon, good see you. thanks for joining me on the angle. now, you say that she is using gates, other businessmen, as leverage with joe biden. explain. >> well, the biggest advocates for china. there american business lobbyi...

Reduce the leverage the ccp has over us and reclaim economic dependence and convince wall street to take off the golden blindfolds when it comes to doing business with china to say asset seizure in the event of crisis or systemic risk, with securities was shareholder protection and most importantly, and funding district and by allowing the outbound flow of capital to china where it is invested in chinese military companies are technology companies. a coherent framework of smart, selective decoup...

Proposals include a russian troop pull—back, the lifting of sanctions against russia and for the international criminal court to withdraw its arrest warrant against president putin. the bbc�*s west africa correspondent, mayenijones, sent this report from kyiv. during the press conference that followed his meeting with african leaders today in kyiv, mr zelensky thanked them for their initiative but he added that a negotiated solution was not on the cards at the moment. in orderfor that to hap...

In africas interests to do nothing. so they are heading to meet with the russian president, putin, but they also wanted to stress on him the impact that this has had on african economies. president cyril ramaphosa spoke yesterday about the fact that 1.2 billion africans and their livelihoods have been affected by this war and that food prices have gone up by about 14%. so they really want to impress upon both leaders the impact that this war has had on africa. they say that while theyre not dire...

That was an indication of what they think russias attitude will be to this peace mission. but what they say is that it is not in africas interests to do nothing. so they are heading to meet with the russian president, putin, but they also wanted to stress on him the impact that this has had on african economies. president cyril ramaphosa spoke yesterday about the fact that 1.2 billion africans and their livelihoods have been affected by this war and that food prices have gone up by about ia%. so...