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Being challenged. the confidence in the order in the stablished order it is not as strong as it used to be so it's time for the brics to fear for its commitment to the international order by doing so brics nations hope to bend the global economy in their direction that means development models and funding mechanisms aligned to their needs instead of those of western nations china in particular has good reason to prefer open trade it's belt and rolled initiative is connecting global markets the checkbook diplomacy behind it has been on for display in recent weeks but before they can lead brics ...

Jerusalem? which geography of jerusalem? this solves nothing. the chance to make this part of a larger package, the administration kicked that away. they didn't even do something by their own rights that might have -- there's no there's a considerable downside. >> julie pace has a question. >> richard, to pick up on david's point. the administration certainly does seem to be making a bet on the saudis hoping they can influence the palestinians going forward and the anger we're seeing will die down. i was told by an administration official they're hoping it dies down into early next year and th...

These numbers, you know, talk about checkbook diplomacy, this is checkbook diplomacy on a grand scale, zain. >> and you know, by doing this, china kind of gets its hoofs inside countries by giving them money and those countries kind of owe them. is that part of china's strategy as to why they're doing this? >> that's pretty much part and parcel. this what is it's all about. china first of all has a huge appetite for resources to actually fuel its extraordinary economic growth. it needs everything. it needs a lot of minerals. it's quite resource poor in its own right. that's why you see it do l...

Which are governing together in the coalition facing off against each other but that's only part of it there is not a lot of support in germany for increased defense spending and that has everything to do with this country's past as you remember checkbook diplomacy was long the favored german approach the idea. germany writes checks but it doesn't project military force in the world a majority of germans are still very very wary of seeing german soldiers for example engaged in out of area missions missions beyond nato territory so there is not a lot of support here for a strong increase in def...