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China now refusing to help the world health organizations investigation into the origins of covid. a lot of that wont be a surprised. were less than a month from the intel report that president biden requested. what will be in it? mark meredith is running down that story today. >> the biden administration says its urging china to be more cooperative and north coming with the world health organization as it investigates how the pandemic first began. no indications that the communist country is go...

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We saw last week china closing off the option of additional investigations even by the w.h.o.. >> this week a bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to president biden urging the u.s. to keep pressuring china for answers and go on to say we expect that congress will remain fully informed and consulted on your efforts to reach definitive conclusions regarding the origins of pandemic and any concrete policy recommendations. the white house has already ordered an intelligence investigation to ...

>> hes saying that youre in fantasy land. you have a house in nantucket. >> oh, boy. >> dont go island versus island. >> dont even question that. >> the question is, given the chinese are in weaker position than america, how would they react? >> how will the business community respond, steve, when theres a trade war against china? how quickly will donald trump hear complaints from his contributors? >> its already happening. the trump administration is talking about steel tariffs, talking about s...

Off the plane like that. but when president trump says its a brutal regime and well be able to handle it, what does he mean? >> i dont think we know yet. and youre correct that i mean its hard to read about this case. its really, really painful. and i think that, you know, the administration is clearly feeling the impact of that. look, the presidents strategy towards north korea has relied heavily on pressuring china and beijing. he has not pressured beijing to the degree that he suggested he wo...

Is all the same thing. its a big complex, all the same thing. nothing is done without knowing how that will affect and prosper the rest of the country. in this country, we have competing interests and different stake holders as they like to say in washington. sometimes they are working at odds. it is the quintessential culture clash. sometimes critics of our relationship with china say that in washington, we think about chinas strategies with our own perspective and we dont think like the chines...

The trade organization, has chinas rise been good or bad for america? meet steve, husband, father of two daughters and a trade statistic. >> i felt like a baseball player that got traded from a team that he loved playing for and loved the fans. i loved my customers, my co-workers were like second family to me. >> reporter: his job as a telecom projects manager went overseas to china when his factory moved there. as a casualty of foreign trade qualifies him for a stipend. >> were keeping it level...

Saying his former bosses hide rather than announcing problems. >> they will avoid announcing recalls, call it service campaign or anything else to fix the problem. >> clearly the focus now is making things right. the company seems to have ignored a key asset, that is listening to the voicings of its own loyal and talented employees. >> very surprising they spoke up about it in the first place. >> absolutely. this gentleman happened to retire a couple of months ago. he was there for 45 years, saw...

>> reporter: many wonder, is china an opportunity or threat? >> its going to be both. >> reporter: a question unanswered for steve uden, still out of work and his job is now somewhere in china. his outlook, quintessential american. >> im completely optimistic and believe in the march row of my bones that ill find something good for me and my wife and children. >> publicly the chinese dismiss the obamas administrations calls to let the currency rise publicly. the premiere recently scalded the pre...

Out to dry while hes here. >> reporter: pressuring china is tricky, china is americas banker, the worlds factory floor and building its military by more of the worlds natural resources to fuel its growth and doesnt like americans telling it what to do. >> chinese showing a new assertiveness and aggressiveness that took many americans by surprise. its partly because they are starting to listen to what we see about this being chinas century, they say, if this is our century, we should determine wh...