senior people who may follow other leaders within the party? this senior people who may follow other leaders within the party? leaders within the party? this is speculative leaders within the party? this is speculative. i leaders within the party? this is speculative. i wouldn t - leaders within the party? this is speculative. i wouldn t take - leaders within the party? this is speculative. i wouldn t take it i leaders within the party? this is l speculative. i wouldn t take it too far. i don t think this points necessary to deep factionalism within the party. it could merely points to a deep dislike for oin gang himself. there has been much made of this, especially in the american media, which is enjoying the chinese president s embarrassment and china s awkwardness most people are speculating that there is deep perfectionism in the party. we don t see us sign of that. the president of china who has had a bad run for the past two years still seems to be firmly in, and. the past tw
intelligence collection programme. let s put all of this into context now with our china correspondent steve mcdonell. this has been a very high profile, two pronged attack on the us from the chinese government, not only involving the foreign minister but also the supreme leader, xijinping, no less. he made a speech in which he said that the west, as led by the us, was encircling and containing china and that this represented a serious threat for this country. now, we don t know a lot more about what he said because that was a speech behind closed doors to these business delegates at a political advisory body. but foreign minister oin gang held a press conference on the sidelines of the national people s congress.
convention on human rights, then that raises convention on human rights, then that raises the question of whether we do that raises the question of whether we do need to talk about departing that, which i think is not an easy thing that, which i think is not an easy thing to that, which i think is not an easy thing to do that, which i think is not an easy thing to do and it should not be tightly thing to do and it should not be lightly considered, however, that is what some lightly considered, however, that is what some people are suggesting is the ultimate direction we would need to take the ultimate direction we would need to take. . ., the ultimate direction we would need to take. ., ,, the ultimate direction we would need to take. . ~ , the ultimate direction we would need to take. ., ,, i. , . the chinese leader, xijinping, has made an unusually direct criticism of washington, saying that the balloon incident is just one of a series of american actions which show that
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 oin 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. you know, in recent times, we ve had a lot of tension between washington and beijing and it does seem to continue to deteriorate. it seems it was not that long ago that there was to be this visit by the us secretary of state to beijing to try to repair relations. and yet now, we have this tension increasing and even more dire warnings coming from the chinese side, as to what this tension could lead to.
he made a speech in which he said that the west, as led by the us, was encircling and containing china and that this represented a serious threat for this country. now, we don t know a lot more about what he said, because that was a speech behind closed doors to these business delegates at a political advisory body. but foreign minister oin gang held a press conference on the sidelines of the national people s congress. he said that unless washington hits the brakes soon, instead of ramping up tensions, that there was a real risk of conflict between the us and china. he went through these various points 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.