Your good there is no you fools that can shake the foundations of peace great nation about the way people in the free world strongly support people continue our fight is important to come out to show to the Hong Kong Government as well as paging guy we are not afraid to call you out no fools can stop the Chinese People. And the chinese nation from forging ahead. We cant continue to allow china to rape our country. And thats what theyre doing but as far as americas concern those days are over. Long live the peoples republic of china and the Chinese People. Also coming up tonight the phone call between 2 president s that has triggered impeachment hearings against donald trump the whistleblower didnt listen in to that conversation but someone else apparently did. Mr secretary do you have any comment on reports youre on the right call it fred. Well to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a parade in beijing and a bullet in hong kong today china marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic the birth of modern day china and it was quite the show the military presented weapons unseen in public before the sign of an emerging and confident global power and tanks once again rolled out across Tiananmen Square but if anyone was reminded of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with one man defying a tank where they made no mention of it no one was going to rain on this parade today but 1200 miles away in hong kong it was impossible to ignore the memories of the bloodshed from 30 years ago as they mixed with fears of what it could mean for the future prodemocracy protesters were back on the streets today demanding an end to beijings increasingly authoritarian touch over the territory but today for the 1st time police used lethal force a young man was shot in the chest by police 2 completely different realities inside what is supposed to be one country can the 2 ever become one peacefully well discuss that and the role of china on the global stage in just a moment we start tonight watching a parade. The peoples republic in celebration 70 years after its founding its an economic and technological powerhouse the worlds most populous nation with almost one and a half 1000000000 inhabitants dimensions matched by the scale of the celebrations. It was in 1949 when Mao Zedong Led china into its new era. His successors remained in his shadow. President g. s in ping is regarded as the most powerful leader since mao and the most powerful figure in the socialist one Party Apparatus perhaps that was the reason for the somewhat subdued appearance of some of the Central Committee members alongside him. I i. The celebration was accompanied by a flawless performance by the Peoples Liberation Army Soldiers tanks and state of the art military hardware including the intercontinental dongfang 41 missiles they served as a message not just to the Chinese People but to the rest of the world the Chinese Military is a force to be reckoned with. But a contrasting picture was playing out in the chinese territory of hong kong peaceful protests again ended in violence between demonstrators and police for the 1st time police fired live ammunition at a protester its been 5 months since the protests began praying together tens of thousands of hong kong are calling for democracy and freedom they want the territory to retain its special status and to rule without interference from beijing. I think basically all protests that is all right so we want you all. Right and freedom and we dont want to reduce this today we recall to say the lawyers out there. Had criminal. City says the homes he just rifle feet on the stand with multiple. Presidencies in paying has promised long term stability for hong kong protesters their fear their territory could find itself in the same situation as taiwan beijing considers the democratic island part of its peoples republic and presidency has made no secret of the fact that he wants to one day achieve what he calls the complete unification of china. And we have complete coverage tonight of china at 70 with me here in the studio the big table to my immediate right is bit hard bunch the china expert with the bed was my institute and to my far right is Clifford Clinton from g. W. Business and a former beijing correspondent and tonight from washington d. C. Bradley bowman with the foundation for defense of democracies bradley is also a military analyst and a former National Security advisor on capitol hill gentleman welcome i want to ask all of you to start off with what kind of china did you see today and brought in let me start with you what picture was presented to you today it was a picture of a economically powerful military really are all authoritarian government is clearly trying to demonstrate the capabilities that theyve got some bold in recent years and yet which are specifically targeted at the United States and our allies its a country that wants to push the u. S. Out of the region so that it can bully its neighbors. You know what did you see today. Well you read its a very powerful and very rich china thats the picture that they want to show the world i think this whole parade had 2 sides to it the one that they show the world thats the military side and internally they also want to project that they are on a successful route which at the moment they are not what you do at the moment where you have internal problems you project external strength. And well i thought it was interesting given that the narrative for months now has been the chinas suffering in the trade war with the u. S. I think this was very much aimed at showing that china is strong that its able to stand up to the u. S. Militarily as we saw with the like the dongfang 41 missiles which can reach the u. S. In 30 minutes and also 2 for the internal market to show for the domestic market for the would be supporters of the communist party that its strong and its able to fight its corner in the trade war bradley lets talk a little bit about the new weapons that china showed off in that parade today what does it mean for the balance of powers in asia especially for the u. S. I mean you hinted at it there but talk to me a little bit about what china showed us today. I mean china zain is to change the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait in the South China Sea in other places to push the United States and our allies and partners further and further back from its shores and as the balance of power and there are mines ships further and further and beijings direction i think it makes it more likely that we would see aggression from beijing in the future and i think its important to make clear that at least from my perspective the enemy is not the Chinese People the chinese are a great people with a great history a great civilization the villain here in my view is the Chinese Communist party which has undertaken the largest intellectual property in Human History and is oppressing our people while violating International Norms and rules and this is not the u. S. Versus china at least it should not be us versus china isnt the china versus the world and that should manifest itself in our culture marathons itself and our policies in the South China Sea the Taiwan Straits not so do you think theres any alarm going off in the pentagon tonight after what was displayed today and particularly with the i. C. B. M. The missile and talk of it being able to reach the the u. S. In of less than half an hour. I was in the pentagon this morning for meetings and im saying you know a lot of these weapons are well known in the us defense establishment know these are not weapons that are produced in 6 months these are things that take years to develop some of these weve seen before some are very publicly for the 1st time the 17 hypersonic line missile is particularly concerning would appear to be more capable than anything the u. S. Her in counts so we the United States are allies now work out for us and no doubt about that but i think its important its very critically very concerning this. Just 3 things very good news for 33 years out there democratic allies and partners might be able to serve one is the u. S. Military is undertaking in the last 2 years a robust readiness and Modernization Campaign thats well underway in his building very good fruit we have the most robust system of allies and partners in the world beijing wishes they have the alliances that we have and i dont think we should ever underestimate what a free people and free markets can do once we wake up to our threats are vital its ok ben i want to talk a little bit now about the picture inside the country when you take a look at what our correspondent sent us from the protest today in hong kong and then well talk. For a long ago we were in a busy shopping district with protesters one woman as we approached pulling her eyes. Out of her eyes with each other not her number private wrapped around her way. Toward the Police Arrive going back for more she was confronting them yelling others reports a member of the power told some of the other tell us about. Our son. Killed. One of. Them cross in front. Of our mosque by that chilled out really was very young thing. Compelling images there and coupled that with this statistic in 1997 almost 50 percent of hong konger said they were proud to be chinese today that number is only 27 percent i mean does this beijing have a plan to win the hearts and minds of hong kong or is i mean when you see images like what we just saw i mean i dont see a plan they are an action they had a plan it just didnt work the plan was propaganda that is what they do and this is of course beijings Worst Nightmare they thought they had hong kong covered it theyve exposed them to 20 years of propaganda then and it didnt work so the the real nightmare for them is what does this mean for control in the main and its not like this is going to spill over this for the time being they have the narrative under control but they absolutely had no clue that Something Like this could come up and could persist for such a long time you know they they think its a contagion that could spread i think they can contain it in hong kong but that they didnt have to this on their books worries them because in china where they control Public Opinion so much they probably dont have a clue how much dissatisfaction. And propaganda hong kong shows that only you that much you know if theres a little bit of Freedom People will use that clip and lets talk about the economics of hong kong you know it was an economic jim in the crown back in 1997 its not that anymore its now also the most expensive city in the world and i read 250000 people are on a waiting list for Public Health thing so what does that mean she. Has to do if theres not going to be a military option like Tiananmen Square in 1809. 00. Well i think if you think back to me 2 years and she jumping visited hong kong and celebration the city said there was a red line across which people could not cross and weve seen that red line crossed again and again so how does that what does that mean for the party which a lot of people have overestimated i think. Sort of underestimated the importance of hong kong is actually still very very important because its still the main conduit for a lot of the money leaving china not only going into china and its also very important regionally in itself shanghai isnt there yet shanghai has tried repeatedly to unseat hong kong but it hasnt succeeded so economically hong kong is crucial and it also it has a very important psychological role in the makeup of the whole country so i think its a real problem about how do you how do you deal with this errant child. And i dont really see where the answers are going to come from short of military intervention but military intervention again is such a huge step that would it would also severely damage the markets i mean you dont get the impression that she. Has his thumb or his finger on any military but right now i mean it would make sense for him to find ways to pump money and resources into hong kong to address issues you know young people can afford to buy an apartment in hong kong for example so maybe is it possible that hes thinking you know lets do the economics and make them happy that way and eventually the politics will follow. Well i think i think thats the way the thinking goes in beijing you can use money but i think with these demonstrations have really shown is that actually young people dont we do seem to care about the money i mean you know money might be a reason why you go out once or twice and yeah but theyre going at week after week day after day theyre leaving school they show that this is more than about money you know it reminds me of something that i discussed with joshua wang the prodemocracy activists he was in berlin a couple of weeks ago and and i put it to him that. Congress have more in common with the one dinners and new yorkers than they do with their compatriots in china and he didnt know what to do with that and i said its because of the british you were a colony for such a long time the brits created you so do you think the brits have any type of responsibility now. I mean politically in this i mean theyre responsible for the existence of hong kong as we know they didnt do a very good job leaving hong kong as a democracy it wasnt a democracy under british rule have absolutely no political means to involve themselves then no but youre right of course hong kong is a totally different animal of a society than than the chinese one you know integrating the 2 of them just hasnt hasnt worked out how do you how do you do that how do you integrate this territory where they live like we do here with a one party in a totalitarian communist state how do those 2 thats like apples and oranges as there are gauging kind of quick about it how does it work there and how well the magic formula would be just let hong kong be they making money for china it doesnt really matter if they become a bit democratic beijing is so obsessed with bringing hong kong under its control and this of course extends to taiwan it wouldnt really hurt them its just its just a nationalist thing that they want to have it under control and they have their own idea of what control i mean ask you to. Pull back in for this one too about what the west particularly the United States thought about china 23 years ago i remember bill clinton was once quoted as saying if you give them cocacola and maybe Britney Spears then democracy will follow but that hasnt happened the is china the exception or is china more the rule when youre talking about changing the entire societies. I would say its not the exception it hasnt worked the way we looked at it but it doesnt mean that people want to have a say in their lives its just that the beijing system is much much better at controlling the country. Than any other dictatorship just before yeah and what happened to americas pivot to asia we talked about that so often under obama did we did we just let that go when we should have stayed focused yeah i was working on capitol hill in the senate during those years and republicans i think were rightly critical of the Obama Administration at the time and same the feet to some call in the nation was more rhetoric and reality are and that was the you know the wars in iraq and afghanistan what happened here in the u. S. Was in my view even bomb administration and congress did not provide this invention timing funding required to Fund Current Operations maintain readiness and modernize the force and such china and russia use that time to go to school if you will on the on way america fights and to modernize their forces and what has happened as a result is weve seen an erosion of u. S. Military superiority and thats not just on american backed and i think thats bad in the world because the more powerful that china believes they are militarily the more like this and the art military less and what about high tech and that would be the last topic though because were running out of time weve talked before about 5 g. Technology and networks and and poor way and china dominating that china at 70 lets talk about china at 80 do you see besides the military aspect do you see the tech and the privacy and surveillance do you see that as the big battle field between the west and china moving forward. Trying to challenge my view goes well beyond the military domain i think the focus exclusively on the military at our own peril i think should we enter your you know i should be encouraged that concept of the Chinese Private sector there is no such thing as a Chinese Private Sector Companies are either working on currently the c. C. P. Or one phone call from getting away from working for the c. C. P. In the sooner we realize that. Alright clifford what do you say about that i mean well its a very interesting its a very interesting argument i think certainly where were seeing more and more party influence xi jinping is centering everything upon himself and where we saw it we still have the big capital a series like jack. Agenda the right suddenly theyre all kind of taking a backseat and everything is becoming very very party focuses so i think one could definitely argue that there is a very very strong state element now to everything Going Forward and how the economy is run behind i mean china at 80 were talking about xi jinping president for life could be im not sure though because this is all going in the direction of a planned economy and it hasnt worked the 1st time and were seeing a lot of inefficiencies now i wouldnt bet all my money on it working the 2nd time all right gentleman very hard barge the china expert with the Bertelsmann Institute Clifford Coonan with w. Business and in washington Bradley Bowman the foundation for defense of democracies gentlemen great discussion thank you thank you. The impeachment proceedings against u. S. President trump are moving along quickly and the allegations against him are widening geographically after ukraine the latest revelations showed up fresh uring the australian Prime Minister to help him get some information that could maybe help him profit politically the u. S. President asking him to investigate the origins of robert bowlers probe that found russia trying to swing the 26000 election in the republicans favor the u. S. Secretary of state might pump a oh he has hit back at House Democrats he is accusing them of bullying behavior by calling 5 former and Current State Department officials to give depositions this week trumps personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani is among those under scrutiny for trumps dealings with ukraine. All this nonsense about identifying the election i gathered all this evidence before the moeller probe ended so it was clearly under my responsibility as the lawyer for the president of the United States listen i hope i dont meet in the final meeting that the youth craniums asked for i got rid of the investigation was over the question was the most pressing is the one list you can still. Feel all that. The. President took i am president of ukraine when youre president of an independent nation and i think the steps ive taken so you find proof that i cannot be influenced and mostly involve famous last words there for more on the ukrainian president who is now at the eye of a growing american political storm i want to pull in our correspondent Nick Connelly he is on the story for us in kiev while these are some Interesting Times arent they nick it looks like president zelinsky i mean he apparently got called saying some not so nice things about other leaders here in europe im talking about the german chancellor in that phone conversation that he had with u. S. President trump lets just kind of look at the part of that transcript trump said to him when i was speaking to Young Americans she talks ukraine but she doesnt do anything and the lenski responded you know donald youre absolutely right not just a 100 percent but a 1000 percent right now and when you look at that is there going to hurt zelinsky in his plans moving forward with germany and with the European Union of those words going to come back to haunt him. Brant im not sure they will i think most World Leaders have things to be queasy about if they have private bilateral calls were published like this interestingly enough i think in this case this transcript came out without anyone in washington bothering to warn kiev that this was coming and we have seen selenski meeting Angela Merkel in new york at the u. N. Since this came out seemingly business as usual the fact that ukraines disappointed by western European Response to its calls for aid that there are talks to talk specially in france about reengaging the kremlin evening softening sanctions without huge or major russian concessions that all is stuff that has worry kid for a long time and is not a secret i think he was fairly cautious in hes speaking to trump and in terms of the flattery 100000 percent agreement rather 100 percent you can even read that as him being ironic and actually making fun of the president in a way that donald trump interpreted as praise so i think well room there and i think in terms of his dealing with europe there hasnt been any major damage yet yeah thats a very a very good point you get it really is in how you read it if this thing exploded more. Is president alinsky is he prepared for the fall well that could come in his direction do you think i mean hes a novice in politics youve got 30 seconds. He definitely is hes someone those who is proving that he can learn on the job i think the major thing here is that ukraine can only lose from this affair it get whatever it does if it investigates under biden it brings one hall for us politics up against kiev if it doesnt it brings trump up against it so theyre all here in kiev doing their best to keep their heads down and hope that the heat moves on and that u. S. Politics moves on to other countries and other battles an economy in kiev on the story for us nick thank you very much the day is almost down the conversation continues online matter what happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then everybody. And. The most people cool its nice of the cool most. Saturday to nairobi hriday is kenyas most busa. You should just brings concerned cause hes on board and cleans up. The river runs previously ineffective policies. Global free throws. 10 minutes on d. W. Welcome to the put is the game here for d. L. 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The 1st time police use lethal force against a protester in hong kong as tens of thousands of protesters defy a ban on demonstrations on Chinas National Day a protester has been hospitalized after being shot at close range in the chest. That violence stark contrast to beijing show of military minds as the country marks 70 years of communist rule today president xi jinping telling his country that no power on earth can hold chinas is
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