some new possibilities for more high level meetings, if those types of things can be set up, i think both sides will be happy and think that they ve come away with something that it s been successful, but it s because relations are so bad that nobody expects any sort of a breakthrough on any of the key issues. and if they can just agree to keep talking, well, that ll be something. dr yuka kobayashi is a lecturer in china and international politics at the school of oriental and african studies. she says the visit is important. this builds on a couple of developments in the past couple months. i think when the spy incident happened and blinken s visit was cancelled in february, really us china relations hit a real low point. and we also saw earlier this month that this request for discussion with the defence ministers was cancelled. but what tends to really focus, be focused is these negative kind of really tension points.
towards communications, at least some new possibilities for more high level meetings, if those types of things can be set up, i think both sides will be happy and think that they ve come away with something that it s been successful, but it s because relations are so bad that nobody expects any sort of a breakthrough on any of the key issues. and if they can just agree to keep talking, well, that ll be something. dr yuka kobayashi is a lecturer in china and international politics at the school of oriental and african studies. she says the visit is important. this builds on a couple of developments in the past couple months. i think when the spy incident happened and the blinken s visit was cancelled in february, really us china relations hit a real low point. and we also saw earlier this month that this request for discussion with the defence ministers was cancelled. but what tends to really focus, be focused is these negative kind
iranian president mohammad khatami made rare public comments praising anti government protesters and urging the authorities to heed their demands. we can speak to azadeh pourzand, human rights researcher at the school of oriental and african studies here in london. how boring is this development of executing protesters with little or no justice. executing protesters with little or no ustice. ~ ., ., executing protesters with little or no ustice. ., ., , no justice. what we saw today is both extremely no justice. what we saw today is both extremely worrying, - no justice. what we saw today is both extremely worrying, but. no justice. what we saw today is i both extremely worrying, but also no justice. what we saw today is - both extremely worrying, but also it was expected by the human rights community who has monitored the situation on human rights in iran in the last 20 years, in particular in the last 20 years, in particular in the last 20 years, in particular in the last nearl
needs to be more flexible. on the other hand, i think the fact that the zero covid policy has been pursued for three years has actually resulted in great success in china s fight against the pandemic, resulting in the lowest amount of deaths among the chinese people, the lowest amount of infections for the chinese people. i think china has all the reasons to be very proud of this achievement. the bbc says it s extremely concerned about the treatment of one of its journalists who was detained in handcuffs and assaulted while covering the protests in shanghai. ed lawrence, a cameraman, was held for several hours before being released. during that time, the bbc says he was beaten and kicked by police. chinese officials said the bbc s statement didn t reflect what happened. joining me now is professor steve tsang, who s director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african
of defiance and determined for regime change. we can speak to azadeh pourzand, human rights researcher at the school of oriental and african studies here in london. we have seen is videos or gunfire can be heard, how warrior are you with the amount of force the authorities seem to be using, is that increasing do you think? thank ou for that increasing do you think? thank you for having that increasing do you think? thank you for having me. that increasing do you think? thank you for having me. myself- that increasing do you think? thank you for having me. myself and - that increasing do you think? trisha; you for having me. myself and my colleagues who are human rights researchers and applicants, we are obviously extremely worried, but at the same time, not surprised at the level of willingness of the iranian regime to open fire on protesters. this has certainly precedents in terms of the use of lethal force against peaceful protesters. we ve seem that in november 2019 protests,