calling them currency manipulators and now he flip-flopped on that and said they re no longer currency manipulators. do you think this is part of the strategy moving forward to get china on the u.s. s side considering the threat from north korea? i don t really know. i think it may be some of it as a learning curve as well. now that he s president, he s talking to the chinese. he was on the phone with president xi jinping the other day. he s learning a lot. so it may be more of a function of that rather than bargaining chips. calling china, taking that off the table is obviously a big win for china, so certainly that would help the u.s. make its case it wants more help from china on north korea. what is the relationship between the leadership in china and the leadership in north korea? is it a good relationship or icy one? it s not as close as some
of the chinese republic. including trade, look, we re being hurt badly by china. nbc s janice mckay freyer joining us from beijing. we ve seen reaction. there s an official statement and people are wondering, how far this will go at this point? reporter: donald trump would not be the first to question the policy but not so public ly and recognizes taiwan as part of china, not an independent country. almost insulted the defining policy reduced to a bargaining
that area in about 18 months. taiwan s defense ministry confirmed to nbc news that the aircraft did not enter taiwanese airspace and deny any link whatsoever to trump s call. however, what it does is highlight the growing tension and concern in the region that as this situation heats up between the u.s. and china, taiwan runs the risk of being a pawn in the dispute. all right, janice, thank you very much for your live report out of baeijing. a weekend of terror attacks in the middle east. i first this egypt. a suicide bombing killed 24 christians during a sunday mass in cairo. egypt said it included men and women. not linked him to any militant group. in turkey, more than 200 arrests today in the aftermath of a twin blast that killed more than 40
chip in trade deals. the official statement from china s foreign ministry said we are extremely concerned. the taiwan issue is related to china s sovereignty and territorial integrity. and had the phone call and then came tweets about china s currency and south china sea and now this and all without any clearly stated plan of how it will form actual policy and not just continue to mount into a foreign policy problem even before his inauguration. janice, can you clear up, this was a report about china flying a nuclear bomber. it s been floating around. what do we know? confirmation and what went on here? reporter: this was revealed about a week ago, chinese s defense ministry said that this was part of a routine training mission. although it was the first in
said leaving trump tower, a former rival of trump. let s listen in. hi, how are you? i m well. how did it go? we had a productive meeting. it was an honor to meet with the president-elect. first i has to say he has really cool stuff in his office. all these athletes have given him this incredible memorabilia. i was taken by shaq o neil s shoe which is huge. i guess it takes champion to know a champion. we then got down to more serious business and spent a fair amount of time talking about china as our most important adversary, rising adversary. then we talked about hacking whether it s chinese hacking or purported russian hackie, and the opportunity that the president-elect has to reset the trajectory of the economy, the role of golf, to reset america s