Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us most major countries in the region have congratulated joe biden as the next u. S. President of china has not saying it will wait its not clear until when but for the rest of asia governments face a new reality for the past 4 years donald trump has shaken the foundation of what u. S. Relations mean for the region with his tough talk and courting of traditional rivals so whats the outlook now for americas allies and competitors in the end of pacific. Joe biden has promised a new day for america but what does biden have in mind for asia the u. S. Has a powerful reach there over security trade and Climate Change but also a rival for economic and military dominance. A confident china which has managed so far to beat back its coronavirus epidemic and now looks to outmaneuver the u. S. As a global superpower. Meanwhile protest movements in thailand and hong kong look to the u. S. As a champion of democracy for the region. In nuclear arms north korea the u. S. Faces the next the central threat President Trump tried cozying up to kim jong un but his personal touch did nothing to rid the dictatorship of its long range Nuclear Missiles the trumpet ministration had more success with the quad relationship and alliance of democracies japan india the us and australia as a counterweight to chinas expansionist ambitions like in the South China Sea ties that biden may seek to bolster but as a politician who prides himself on collaboration and consensus in his own style. Joining us is matthew broker hes managing editor of Bloomberg Opinion asia matthew lets start with where youre at in hong kong people have strong feelings there about trump versus biden and who would support the pro democrats more whats your assessment now we know its going to be by. I think youre quite right there is very strong support for trump. In the. In the prodemocracy camp and certainly among the. Really see you know i think its a case of my enemys enemy is my friends are they might not be so cheering didnt suit the white. Soldiers home turf play just see somebody whos been very strong in opposing the Chinese Communist party and what theyve been doing in the city here. I see that youre working from home and the kids are in the background is something that a lot of people have to deal with these days and not a problem at all but moving on to. Now moving on to china how will binds engagement with china be different i think you know the very clear difference that youre going to see here is that youre just going to have much more predictable character in the White House Trump of this new sort of very confrontational and very futuristic as it used to china and approach that was you know clearly you know. By some people in this region i think the downside of that has been that its very sad to show scattershot approach and its so. Many of the u. S. Is around the world i think with biden in place where youre going to see is that islam is a return so much more multilateral approach that seeks to bring in our allies and build are kind of united fronts now lets talk about india and nobody and trump had a very Good Relationship do you think that will be the case with biden or will we be seeing americans play a little bit more pressure on india when it comes to Human Rights Violations for example. Yes its an india is an interesting one obviously you have this very quite bizarre love in the swinging. To the how do you modi events and then the rich the nothing not just i trump return in india. So in that respect as. Well i think you know modi certainly might be not sickly happy to see trump if he says on the other hand of course bidens Vice President has. Indian heritage and i think theres a lot of excitement in los pride in india about that and that you know maybe sets the stage for there to be a warmer relationship in some what hes clearly biden has being more d. Vociferous on human rights issues and that is is an area of potential tension in the in the u. S. In your relationship now on to japan how will that close relationship change our well it. I dont think you can see very fundamental change in much power relationship i mean obviously japan is the u. S. Is closest ally in asia probably the closest ally i think might be prepared to work with whoever is in the white house. You know you know i hear on the on the conservative side of the spectrum in japan they might not be so happy to see trump go because from their perspective the obama is were a bit too soft on china. They didnt really see china as being the looming threat. I think its deceived to be you know across the political spectrum. In the u. S. Now. But only you know really the same applies for india and china. But its going to be much more predictable and you know i dont think whoever is in the white house the. You know china very looms over everything whichever bilateral relationship youre talking about and i i think thats going to be one thing thats a key concern to japan and i dont think thats really going to change very much on the biden matter better thank you so much for your time in myanmar uncensored cheese party embraces victory the National League for democracy says it has won enough seats in parliament for a majority and to retain power is the 2nd time that the country has held relatively free elections since military will end it in 2011 millions of people lined up for hours to cast their ballots but not without controversy and criticism. Celebrations for all sun sushi security had already begun long before the release of election results. Earlier on sunday millions voted in myanmar despite calls to delay the poll because of the pandemic. It was myanmar 2nd election since the end of the military rule in 2011 for many the choice was clear on sunset she and her and the party a symbol for defiance and change. And. I want to know the party to win because they work for the people especially for the farmers it has a good reputation in the International Community. Flitch was once truth despite her popularity the Nobel Prize Winner has fallen from grace internationally due to her response to the will hinge or crisis. And 2017 hundreds of thousands of muslims had to flee and Army Crackdown which the un described as an ethnic cleansing. We condemn. On the local. And if it is a reflection of. The bullets in the. Wall and what. The International Community said those words werent enough it criticized the leaders in action. Until today all Rohingya Muslims for maining in the country are stripped of citizenship and rights including their chance to vote. But at home there is little sympathy for their plight analysts say suchi remains popular and respected. Shows. That even many people in cents each. That sounds almost irrespective of how Big Government of ministration but also the opposition the National Position is that this right there is no major party you know really putting an outsider to have a credible senate its all work for the leaders supporters mothers soon is no doubt the one who can lead the country in the next 5 years although peace and reconciliation she once pledged still seem far from fulfilled. So many places where we can be social have closed because of the pandemic including amusement parks around the world many have sat empty when usually they get hundreds thousands tens of thousands of visitors every day in japan one park has come up with a new Business Model that offers a combination of work and pleasure. Things have been going downhill for quite a while at your land the number of visitors has hit a record low since the pandemic struck but the theme park hopes to turn things around with a pivot to office space. Gun you know you got a little change to my mood i think anyone who works at the same place every day will run out of ideas that mentally. Instead of working from home this i t consultant can now work poolside. For 15 years the day he gets electricity why 5 and loads of sunshine. To do this its strange but i can actually concentrate here better than i thought through the cubic yards from us and. The only jury then used to be one of japans most popular theme parks but it had been losing to strong competitors such as Tokyo Disneyland change was essential for survival in the pandemic struck prompting the 50 year old park to get creative. Secada decides to work on a ferris wheel today he can sit in roller coasters instead but thats just too impractical. It wheel is perfect for video conferences its quiet and has an unbeatable view. To consider. Whether youre working near the pool or in a ferris wheel the noise level is surprisingly low and other peoples conversations arent distracting the mechanical noises dont bother me either i didnt expect that its really nice. Really just. For theme parks like yomiuri then the pandemic poses a big challenge but thanks to adventures Office Workers things may be looking up again. Thats it for now. Be sure to check out our other stories on dot com ports slash asia or on facebook and twitter we have you with pictures of protests in thailand over the weekend theyre still marching and they have marched and summer thanks for watching well see you next time and defy. The fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. Information and contacts the coronavirus update. On t w. B r fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of them has a plan would be an issue for your children. So nothing is kiss on the children who have already been the boy and those that will follow are part of a new process. They could be the future of. Granting opportunities global news that matters d. W. Made mines. The race for a vaccine continues. And the speed of that race is worrying some. Survey shows 83 percent of americans would have safety concerns if a Coronavirus Vaccine were approved too quickly. Of course the Research Needs to be done but others are totally against vaccines. Experts blame that on rampant misinformation and the fact that many people dont understand the Science Behind preventive medicine. Its exactly why scientists are taking to social media to explain the complex but lifesaving roles they play. Because at home lives are on the line. Well instead of petting samples and analyzing data researchers are trying to demystify trades by using to talk. Kind of like a says its a new frontier for them but they came to get across their message that vaccines are extremely valuable even though theyre not the sole solution to this crisis ill talk to an er in a moment 1st incredible progress scientists are making on the back same front in this pandemic u. S. Farm of pfizer and germanys beyond the 1st to show successful data from a large scale Clinical Trial of a Coronavirus Vaccine they say its more than 90 percent effective pharmacologist say the vaccine needs to be stored at mine is 80 degrees celsius could create major listicle challenges for mass treatment outside major urban areas and in low war middle Income Countries but they say the breakthrough is a relief hugely positive and very encouraging doctors say we need to wait for the final results but that this could be a watershed moment its hard but its. Millions of doses could be ready by the end of the year still the experimental vaccine is not the only one being developed there are about 200. 00 of them around 40 are in Clinical Trials and there are different methods being used to make them. Various kinds of vaccine for corona virus are in Development One kind is an inactivated virus vaccine that uses proteins from the virus to create the vaccine viruses 1st stop to be broken down into parts and their infectivity has to be destroyed so its no longer dangerous. But it still has to provoke an immune response in the recipient so that the immune system develops antibodies to it. So what are the advantages and disadvantages. Of this approach is well established. Companies that develop and manufacture vaccines are familiar with it. And the production processes have been perfected. But certainly an advantage. Or disadvantage is that it takes time to grow the underlying virus in large amounts. Of viral vector a vaccine uses a harmless live virus of a different kind as a carrier to transport genes from the dangerous virus into cells in the recipients body. A protein gene from the virus is 1st added to the benign one in the case of the Novel Coronavirus its a spike protein gene. Modified virus that resembles sars kovi 2 in one key respect immune system detects the offending protein and creates antibodies in response. To the safety requirements for growing the virus not as strict as with inactivated whole virus vaccines of. Disadvantages are that it takes a lot of time and you have to choose vectors that are not affected by any preexisting immune response capability. And. Then there are vaccines that use messenger. Or an egg for the Novel Coronavirus is m. R. And a with instructions for making it spike proteins. Such vaccines prompt cells in the recipient to make such proteins themselves which in turn provoke an immune response although these proteins are not dangerous they are still identified as enemies by the immune system which then creates antibodies and thus immunity. For. One advantage is that the safety requirements are much less stringent. Another is that you can modify the r. N. A. Quite quickly money a factor of say that within a short period of time perhaps 6 weeks are in a vaccines can be produced in very large volumes millions of units you cant match that with vector whole virus or other kinds of vaccine stuff least. So each of these approaches has upsides and downsides nonetheless theyre all considered worth pursuing it is likely that we need more than one vaccine. Bioengineering joins us from london whats the problem here and our if if we totally rely on one or more vaccines coming along to solve this crisis. Yes so really you know we have a lot of different tools that we can use to fight this pandemic so you know if you were being approached by a swarm a Mosquito Coast and you had the choice to use nat weiss water and bug spray or something you wouldnt choose to use just one of them so in addition to vaccines and the many different vaccines that we might have available you want to also be using masks and Public Health measures like social distancing as well it even if we do get a vaccine or more vaccines at some stage soon i hope its not going to be an immediate fixes it. No no definitely not so it will take some time to roll it out to the population but even when you receive a back scene depending on the type of vaccine it can take anywhere from 2 just 6 weeks to induce immunity so theres still a little bit of a lag time. And though there are a lot of people out there who are going to want to take that vaccine all those vaccines how has misinformation on back scenes made your job difficult. Yes so we often view it as people that are provaccine are anti vaccine and i really think its kind of a great area in between so im part of a new team called halo which is an initiative to connect scientists working on coding 1000 vaccines directly to the public and we do this through tick tock so were able to make videos about how we make vaccines how we test them and be there to answer any questions that people have so its a really great way to connect with people who are skeptical or critical and you know i dont really think thats a bad thing as scientists were taught to be critical until we see the data and often the public isnt you know proxy to that day about data or doesnt know how to interpret it and so its great to be able to get connected and have actual conversations with people and youre making all of this process transparent which is important id like to know where all the misinformation on vaccines actually comes from. I think just in general you know there might not be a lot of people that are educated on vaccines or how they were going so when stuff starts to kind of just stew in the internet there are a lot of rumors fly around and you know sometimes people just dont know what to trust anymore so were there to kind of improve that trust and just be a direct source where you can ask questions and get an honest answer from a scientist and honestly can you answer this one to try to answer this question once we get consensus once we do have vaccines and people taking them when could things start returning to normal. Yeah thats a really hard question to answer so i think based off of some of the trials that are really in kind of the final phases in phase 3 of their kind of trials right now those are looking promising so i think we might actually have x. Eans possibly by the end of this year or early next year. Its really hard to say worldwide how well be able to distribute those and kind of return to a normal society so yeah im hoping for early next year but im also just cautiously optimistic has crossed bioengineer at a blakeney thank you very much thank you. Your questions now of the coronavirus sending them into our you tube channel and g. W. Science correspondent Eric Williams will take care of the rest. Can you tell us more about the b. C. G. Vaccine Clinical Trial thats currently underway. Well there are a few studies looking at this but i think the one that youre talking about which has received the most Media Coverage is called the brace trial its being conducted in several countries across the globe it involves around 10000. 00 volunteers and many of the Health Care Workers but before we go any further i need to provide a little more background the b. C. G. Vaccine which has been around for close to a century is usually associated with tuberculosis prevention though it also appears to help prevent or at least reduce the deadliness of a range of other infections the theory is that the b. C. G. Vaccine is sort of a generalist vaccine that helps strengthen the immune response to many respiratory diseases by in hansing your Innate Immunity however its no longer widely given in countries where tb has grown rare but in countries where its still endemic and the b. C. G. Vaccine is still common there are lots of studies showing that impacts things like Child Mortality rates and and many of those same countries also appear to have lower mortality rates in the code 1000 pandemic the problem is is that its hard to show that the b. C. G. Vaccine is maybe one reason why because a lot of other factors could also be playing a role its kind of hard to filter out all of the noise and thats what the brace trial is trying to do in a systematic way and if we dont have a more specific targeted at 19 vaccines soon and the study shows that the b. C. G. Vaccine does indeed help lower a coded 19 transmission or severity it could one day be seen as a kind of a stopgap tool in the pandemic but but thats still a big if. 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