Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us is the end of a long week with not just americans but everyone following the count in the United States democracy can be a messy process and the particularly intricacies of u. S. Politics have played out spectacularly in asia the country with the most at stake is china given the 2 countries rocky yet close relationship so how is china viewed and responded to the events of this week we have. In the studio to tell us more hung on any official reaction from beijing yes beijing has said that the election is the u. S. Domestic affair and that it has no position on it and thats it thats it but is there any hint that beijing preferred one key. Handed it over another well i mean in the beginning chinese leaders probably one preferred mr biden because you know because of mr trump the u. S. Sino relationship has plunged to the lowest point in decades but after seeing what from is what kind of chaos magick mr trump has caused in the us
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How do they deal with social justice . And what are working conditions like . We vis eight couries on tw contints to fi out how europe and asia work together,s in our series work places. A beacoof hope in t ocean, seaweed fm an hour outside e indonean capital jakarta. Acould this be e solution to ocean,global probls . Hour nory mulyo definitelthinks so. Shes carrying out research into how seaweed can keep the seas clean. Her home country is the worlds secondlargest plastic polluter after china. Indonesia processes more than 60 million tons of Plastic Waste every year. Over 3. 2 million tons of it end up in the ocean. The government has pledged to reduce this by 70 by 2025. Its an ambitious plan. Traditional Waste Disposal methods cant keep up. Thats why indonesia backs pioneering ideas like the one mulyono is proposing. She makes packaging out of seaweed. How can we solve it if we do not have something to replace this plastic . Of course we cannot go back to our motion to leave without