In beijing would like to see winning the race for the white house. 0ur china correspondent Steve Mcdonell went to the Great Hall Of The People to try to find out. Later this year, the us announces their new president. What were the chinese comic party believe the of this equipment communist party. Its like pulling teeth. All clamouring there is a sense from the delegates that they dont want to speak out of turn when it comes to expressing an opinion on us politics. But they are worried about china us relations and they want them to improve. Good effort from Steven Mcdonald there. Lets get more on chinas Economic Vision for the future now, and its leaders have set out what theyre calling an ambitious Economic Growth target of around 5 this year. China is facing a property crisis, falling prices and high youth unemployment. Heres chinas premier li qiang on their strategy going forward. Translation these expected targets i are proposed taking into account. Both domestic and international
of tensions, for example, the balloon incident. now, he said that was basically an accident, but the us hyped it up, leading to a diplomatic crisis. he said that the biden administration, when it speaks about competition with china, really means trying to control china, trying to constrain it. and in terms of the ukraine war, he said that china had put forward a peace plan for ukraine, but that the proposals for peace were being stifled by this invisible actor, this invisible hand. it s pretty obvious he s talking about the us there, but the accusation from qin gang is this invisible hand wanted the conflict to continue in ukraine for its own geopolitical ends. so this is a very serious allegation being levelled at the us, that it wants the war there to keep going.
but over reacted and created a diplomatic crisis. washington has claimed the balloon was part of a sprawling chinese intelligence collection programme. we ll hear from our correspondent in beijing injust a moment but first, let s hear what qin gang had to say to america. translation: the united states claims to be competing to win - against china rather than seeking conflict. but in fact, the united states s so called competition is total containment and suppression. a zero sum game in which you die and i live. the united states s perception and views of china are seriously distorted. they regard china as the primary rival and the most consequential international challenge. 0ur china correspondent steve mcdonell has more from the foreign minister s press