of big developing countries can get together and talk about things without the rest. when we look at the war in ukraine, i mean, you can see that other members of the brics alliance show more neutrality towards russia than perhaps many in the west. how much of that is down to those brics relationships? i think it s a crucial part of it, although as i m sure you know, and your viewers will know, there is certainly a lot of nuances and differences between how they do it. you know, for china itself, one of the great appeals of the brics group is this ability to still regard themselves as the father of the emerging world.
ambassador or members perhaps have the chinese embassy. i think there is going to be a desire to move past this, there is going to be a lot of talk and a lot of rhetoric on this. that s understandable, a violation of u.s. sovereignty. but there is a lot to do with china, there is a lot on the agenda and so i think there is both sides that will quickly want to come back to the table. one thing jasmine, i think will be interesting is inside china itself, what happens? there is a very strong argument to make that the chinese intelligence services, chinese military has deeply embarrassed the chinese leadership will really actually wanted this meeting, with secretary blinken. we will have to see how this plays out inside china as, well certainly we are speaking from beijing recently, which did express some regrets. sometimes some people thought it did not go strong enough but nothing that will want to get over this or get passed this pretty quickly as well. mark, general, if you would sta
has started the pen biden center donors from around the world most important leave china itself, hasn t donated tens of millions of dollars to the university pennsylvania for the operation projects like this. joe biden himself has earned something like about a million dollars from the center since he left the white house as a sort of a landing spot from his vice presidency. but of course all of this in the whole place was not particularly well known center but it was not some big foreign policy think tank everyone was talking about. the reason has become so important is because joe biden when he left the obama administration he took with him these classified documents that he had absolutely no claim whatsoever too. and left them there at his office. and it raises all kinds of questions especially when you get into the degree to which the biden family we now know,
risk because they may not have the same immunity we have. regardless, the maybe the purpose is to protect the hospital system that if people come here and hen they get sick, if you have a huge surge of people who are infected, that may overwhelm the hospital. and beds aren t measured s in terms of billion beds, they re measured in terms of of physical beds, they re measured in terms of staffing, health care worker shortages. we also have problems with medication shortages. so a lot of our medication comes from china itself, our medical devices, etc. and if they re grappling with all of these people in quarantine and affected david: it s a problem. dr. debbie, i just have to ask you quickly, we only have 5-10 seconds, if italy has 50% of the passengers coming in testing positive with covid, it s probably happening here as well with flights into the u.s. why do we wait until january 5th? shouldn t we do it immediately, this testing? quickly. we have to do it decisively and quickly,
ministry of foreign affairs, basically saying all parties need to work together scientifically against the epidemic to ensure the safe movement of people between countries. now, of course, the irony isn t lost on anybody that china is the country which has really had one of the most stringent and long-lasting restrictions. this zero covid policy when it comes to the pandemic than any other country in the world. also we heard from the spokesperson of the foreign ministry that the covid situation on the whole remains predictable and under control. that doesn t tally with what we ve been seeing on the ground. our teams there and what we ve been hearing, also from some media within china itself, they have been pointing the hospitalizations are significant, that hospitals are under strain and even things as basic as fever medication is very difficult to come by, abby. predictable and under