right now, it seems many of those bridges are being burned. would you agree? well, i think it s. yeah, absolutely. we see things have changed a lot in the last five to six years, basically. and a lot of dialogue has been cut off. there s a lot of communications cut off. and most, of course, on top of that, the covid 19 pandemic has also isolated many countries. and also given the, you know, the trade war, the sanctions, the. ..ideological and tax code decoupling and all those things add up. i think that we really need to strengthen the dialogue, strengthen the communication and bridge building. absolutely. i hope we will continue to do that. but in the context that you ve just laid out, everything from protectionism, economic nationalism to the impact of covid around the world, do you think it was wise for china to declare such a complete strategic alliance with vladimir putin, as it turned out, right on the eve of his invasion of ukraine? does that put beijing in a good pl
the head of the agency says he believes russia is strategically reducing supplies now to prevent european countries from stockpiling gas. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the eve of russia s february invasion of ukraine, president xi of china and president putin declared their two countries enjoyed a friendship without limits. is that a strategic partnership that beijing may come to regret? my guest is influential chinese think tank founder and sometime government adviser henry wang. from a draconian covid response, to stalling growth, to a western alliance reinvigorated by that ukraine war, are china s vulnerabilities suddenly in sharperfocus? henry wang, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. it s a pleasure to have you on our show. i m mindful that you were the founder, the creator of a think tank, the center for china and globalization. you said you wanted it to be a bridge between east and west. right now, it
to a western alliance reinvigorated by that ukraine war, are china s vulnerabilities suddenly in sharperfocus? henry wang, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. it s a pleasure to have you on our show. i m mindful that you were the founder, the creator of a think tank, the center for china and globalization. you said you wanted it to be a bridge between east and west. right now, it seems many of those bridges are being burned. would you agree? well, i think it s. yeah, absolutely. we see things have changed a lot in the last five to six years, basically. and a lot of dialogue has been cut off. there s a lot of communications cut off. and most, of course, on top of that, the covid 19 pandemic has also isolated many countries. and also given the, you know, the trade war, the sanctions, the. ..ideological and tax code decoupling and all those things add up. i think that we really need to strengthen the dialogue, strengthen the communication and bridge building. absolutely. i ho
china is really a peace loving country by itself. thousands of years, china never actually go out of its pacific. so i think, you know, this kind of a situation is really.not really helping, not only for china but for the rest of world. china is a strong supporter of the globalisation. china really benefit largely of the globalisation system after the bretton woods system, which the us led that and the western countries actually benefit first and china benefit after that. so, i think we need to really improve that, we need to enhance that. but china now wants to make contributions. china never are saying that they re not really active participants. we are glad to see, recently, the wto ministerial meeting has achieved some great results. so, china, us and eu can work together. you know, we should really revive that spirit of cooperation. we are facing more serious dangers, like a pandemic, climate change and debt and famine and energy crisis. there s much more serious
five, six years of drastic changing of of course, particularly led by the us these kind of hostile attitudes towards china. china is always a peace loving country. china. for the last four decades, china never invaded any other country. china never colonised any places or sent troops anywhere. china is really a peace loving country by itself. thousands of years, china never actually go out of its pacific. so i think, you know, this kind of a situation is really.not really helping, not only for china but for the rest of world. china is a strong supporter of the globalisation. china really benefit largely of the globalisation system after the bretton woods system, which the us led that and the western countries actually benefit first and china benefit after that. so, i think we need to really improve that, we need to enhance that. but china now wants to make contributions. china never are saying that they re not really active participants. we are glad to see, recently,