The Coronavirus Crisis. Welcome to. Glad you could join us india has accused china of violating border agreements as the armies of both countries in gauge in a tense standoff along a disputed border speaking in front of an Indian Defense minister not saying said china had union left to me or told the state just go along the border he also showed members of the army was well prepared for any eventuality and contingency plans in place to ensure solvency. You know. We have me informed china through diplomatic and military channels that such activities are an effort to change the status quo you know laterally and it has been made clear of these efforts are not acceptable to us under any conditions. And this years recent incidents of violent conduct of Chinese Forces are a complete violation of all mutually agreed norms are according to the Current Situation the chinese side has mobilized its armed forces and sent ammunition on the l a c and internal areas. China has meanwhile returned it to that a recent agreement between top officials of both sides should form the basis for the easing of tensions went down during their meeting in moscow the Foreign Ministers of china and india reached a positive consensus on jointly easing and cooling the border situation dont you. And we will continue to maintain close communication through military and diplomatic channels to resolve issues on the ground we hope that india will earnestly implement the consensus reached by the Foreign Ministers of the 2 sides made china halfway and make concrete efforts to ease the situation. Is a journalist and Strategic Affairs analyst whos been reporting on the india china border standoff since it began months ago was. The Foreign Ministers of both sides agreed last week in moscow the chinese and indian troops would court disengage from their current standoff point is that plan already dead given that both sides are actually reinforcing their positions as we speak. Well this is britain all since the start of this crisis to see one thing and do another and the chinese from the time the entered the indian territory which was the only part of me i had been firstly seeing that they have not france missed the line of control here in china instead of crete and 2nd greek 2nd calling to disengagement for all but not actually doing it on the ground now the indian side has had the time to build up. The border along the line of actually control and the same thing is happening there is one set of rhetoric that is going on and the other is a possible aggressive and a far more worrying deployment and counter deployment that is going on on the ground there is bringing the troops into peace with each other and setting the stage for violence so thats a winding proposition you spoke about indian territory and the elysee or the line of actual control now in defense but its not saying 7 all of them to the court different perceptions of the line of actual control which is of course the line across which the standoff is taking place the Opposition Congress is saying that the phrase deferring perceptions of the elysee legitimizes china does it. Well yes in a way because a government in a country has to be quite clear where its borders lie and if the other country the country with who which has a disputed border says that the border does not lie in place x. But lies in place why then this country cannot start seeing deferring perceptions and so on and so forth each country has to be killed at its border like its you know we if you are if youre rationalizing this this issue of deferring perceptions you also rationalizing aggressive action by the other side to capture the border up to where that country believes its border lights so i think that theres a theres a bit of sort of excuse making that is going on over here when theyre talking about deploying perceptions the fact is that the chinese have entered into a territory that lines on the indian side of the indian perceptions and strong indias viewpoint there can be only one set of perceptions so to that extent this is a bit of an excuse making sort of statement sort of seeks to justify china coming into territory that india teams and that india has always had and that india has patrolled for you know if im not wrong there are faults that some 1000 square kilometers of tenantry that india claims as its born is not in accessible to indian troops is this something that the government is actually concerned about. Yes the government is very concerned about this a lot of territory specially in the south asian context is a very emotive subject so this figure itself this 1000 square kilometer has been arrived at by joining several points of incursion so to that extent its its not really that it figure but the fact is that china has entered at least 4 or 5 different points along the line of actual control in grants to do indian Team Territory to a distance of 15 to 16 kilometers of the deepest and 2 or 3 kilometers of the shadow points so all these things add up to the city loss of a significant amount of territory and thats a very emotive subject and something that the government is very careful in and final question do you think china and india are now in this for the long haul. Thats hard to see and i would see that the countries of would not like to get into a winter deployment in an area where temperatures being legal are down to minus 20 and minus 30 degrees centigrade where theres a wind chill factor where high over to you causes very serious limitations to how much a human body can do so getting on a winter deployment creature is something that would not appeal to the chinese or the indian side so bored have a very strong reason to deescalate and we have to wait and see if they do that over the next 2 months of the timing but thank you so much for joining us our. Ranch. The growers process is creating a tidal wave of Plastic Waste across asia waste because our lamenting the business shutdowns over the pandemic mean theyre having an even harder time making a living we followed one man on his daily rounds in the philippines. Cortical many is a problem is giving a livelihood to virgilia s 2 s. Their waste every day he comes the streets of manila to collect and sell it for 4 decades already. But since the corona crisis things for him have to change drastically. The pandemic caused a lot of problems my son lost his job and for me the junk shops were closed for one thing even if i go out and there are barely any junk shops to sell to lower. Only what the mines in egypt i dont know. Normally as to a store would earn up to 80 euros a day selling plastics and metals now his income is cut by half hes had to sell his bicycle to get by even when the amount of waste has risen due to corona especially plastics but demand is low a problem also for the philippines which produces around 40000. 00 tons of waste as a. The country is largely relying on and former Waste Pickers like us to have to deal with the problem. The pandemic is really increased benteke bill you share in. 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The art is classic socialist realism that honors front line workers during the pandemic my is a little shy as she poses for pictures with the heroes in the fight against the coronavirus. The theme of the exhibition. Unity is strength. Gunderson the exhibition brought tears to my eyes i love my country and the Party Leadership. Without the communist Party Leadership this enormous challenge will not be overcome to keep that in the genes you. The artwork leaves little room for interpretation the message is clear under communist leadership china has managed to contain the virus. Front and center and yet somehow relegated to the sidelines the nameless helpers who work themselves to exhaustion to repel the pandemic. For us even staying at home was a patriotic duty we didnt know what the people in the front line had to sacrifice. Im proud that china has the pandemic under control. Chinas leadership has cast itself as the savior of the nation and as a friend in need abroad. Which friends will in the global struggle against the virus we have acted with wisdom and strength. We have filled our International Duties responsibly and with transparency. In beijings great hall of the people there is no room for doubt and this is no time for admitting mistakes. The countrys foremost coronavirus expert is honored by being himself. Features prominently in the exhibition 2 others are simply ignored. Lee when the yang sounded the alarm over the corona virus the authorities were still denying its existence the doctor from one was forced to recant and for business to speak up again the contract of the disease and died for weeks the pandemic spread throughout the country unchecked because of the cover up despite being locked out of your visual history lisa story is not forgotten you get to that you tell a book. So you can actually vision can show everything i think whistleblowers are pioneers and we should respect and admire them for those Unsung Heroes we should build a monument in our hearts. Monuments are built by the communist party they expressed no criticism as the regime tolerate no dissent. And im joined now by news group hes a Senior Analyst with American Institute for china studies in berlin this is good to have you on the show were told that life is returning to normal in china and that the numbers are vastly improved can we distinguish from afar if thats really the case. I think its fair to say that the low numbers and a single low double digits that china is reporting are the ballpark and i mean there is no reason to believe that while china reports. New cases or so every day there are millions off cases somewhere hidden i think with the measures that china has developed over the last months to deal with local outbreaks and new cases coming in it is realistic that these numbers are true truthful and you know the the pictures we see and there are also the person reports are we get off normal life returning to chinese cities is real has this pandemic been more of an opportunity or a challenge for the party. I think it started as a huge challenge in many regards governance challenge in terms of information sharing between local government and Central Government a huge. Damage that the government has has taken there and public trust but the way that this has been dealt with and the effective measures going from being the original of this virus through to really one of the best in class players in terms of the new cases now. Called the confidence of the population and we see this in surveys that are coming out now for china but also are very fired by foreign actors that there is more trust in the government capacity to deal with this before so it started certainly as a challenge but in terms off approval the i think it is now certainly a positive for the other party state or as a domestic confidence is involved what about from outside looking into china has the chinese image been improved or has a worsened through its response to the coronavirus. I think overall chinas image is in a downward movement right now im not sure this is only due to the corona virus itself but certainly the whole crisis has triggered or its deep and a lot of the rifts that were apparent also before in terms of trade in terms of you know the whole technology 5 g. Question the american chinese relation everything is and i will spiral and these dynamics have been catalyzed by the corona crisis so china has tried to to market its very effective approach to the to curbing the virus as you know as a system really relevant capacity so the chinese model is better suited to deal with this crisis and that is meeting opposition abroad and i think this is something that china will increasingly have to deal with that theres a lot more skepticism towards china and these attempts to market individual successes system. Into in the framework of a system systemic competition chinas better suit because it has a party and this will increase indeed be contested also by the European Union by other foreign actors so there is a challenge here that is very pressing. At the same time China Remains a Global Player its has a lot of sway when it comes to large scale projects Global Projects how hard does that skepticism on behalf of western governments make it for them to work with china its inevitable they have to work with them out of magic. Yeah so the reality of it is that china is now a very important partner we can for example the climate issue we cannot address without china and at the same time theres a lot more competition going on a lot more challenges in terms of technology our peer our trade and so on and this is really. Its quite crucial to trying to deal for every one of us to deal with this and the government to the party really has to think well how do they want to frame themselves as a local player where is it is it wise to you know to to. Global standards work and theyre ready to push their own standards and interests and priorities this is a very important a very big challenge for the Chinese Government to go forward and this is a new role that china seeing itself in this skepticism that china has met with is growing and this is this is really a new International Situation for china all right miss cronenberg with the macarthur institute for chinese studies in berlin thank you very much thank you and now its time for your questions to our science correspondent williams. What fact are all the masks and social distancing having on the number of influenza cases and places that have had their flu season during the 19. 1 of the scenarios causing Health Authorities to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat as as we approach the traditional beginning of the annual flu season in the Northern Hemisphere is the fear of a twin demick after all influenza is also a potentially deadly respiratory disease and the idea of a thousands of patients or tens of thousands of patients descending on hospitals with with flu or cope at 19 or even possibly both at the same time is one you dont even want to contemplate so so theyve been casting an anxious on whats been happening in countries in the Southern Hemisphere which have been through their own flu season over the last 6 months the good news is that measures aimed at containing the spread of covert 19 appear to have also had a major impact on the number of winter flu cases in the Southern Hemisphere theyve quite literally dropped off the table in countries from from new zealand to chill day to south africa the w h os influenza tracking that has reported for example that that in australia there have been less than 50 confirmed cases of flu since april 1 for comparison back in 2019 there were close 210000 during the same period so so the flu is practically disappeared there and epidemiologists are hoping that that travel restrictions and social distancing and mask wearing will have the same effects north of the equator in the coming months but but we cant count on it which is why Health Authorities in the Northern Hemisphere are doing everything they can to get. 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