now, just in a matter of hours, the leaders of the so-called quad countries will converge on the white house. india, australia, japan, and the u.s. working to deepen cooperation and provide a counter balance to china in the indo-pacific. steven jang is live in beijing. china at the top of the agenda. reporter: that s right, michael. you know, this mechanism really evolved from informal discussions of possible coordination and cooperation on regional policies to this more urgent dialogue. strategic issues in the region involving the highest level of the four countries really is because of china. and even though in a lot of their public statements they don t even mention this country, but beijing s leadership understands this. officially they are still sticking to their talking points, rejecting this so-called closed and exclusive clicks that
tens of thousands gathered in beijing s tiananmen square to mark the milestone and hear leaders tout china s prominence. president xi jinping said no foreign power should dare to bully china or interfere with its affairs. steven jang has been following this for us. a lot of pageantry and plenty of threats. take us through the day. reporter: that s right, and also there is a major thunderstorm sweeping through the city right now, so i m sure the country s most powerful leader in decades and this carefully selected crowd of 70,000 people are feeling relieved that the big party did not get rained on. but for the vom ucommunists it about reminding the people what the party has given them. and so in the hour long speech
china does not want to see a massive refugee crisis on its doorstep if the north korean regime collapses. and one other factor that s been affecting all of china s consideration lately is the deployment of the thaad missile system. that s probably why the chinese officials haven t come out and said much. the state-run newspapers running editorials saying the latest missile test by north korea would only give the u.s. a further excuse to deploy that missile defense system and harming china s strategic interests. many thanks to you, steven jang, appreciate it. let s bring in oh jun. it s a pleasure to have you with us this hour. let s first talk about the united nations. when it comes to sanctions, they have been applied before against
a rough start despite the upturn at the end of the week, the arrows are mostly pointing down. the exchanges in sydney and tokyo wrapped up a few minutes ago. look at the numbers there. we can see that australia lost 1 1/3%. more than 2% down for the shanghai composite. been a lot of trouble and volatility in china. a lot of people saying it s more of a correction. japan s nikkei lost 1.28% and slightly up there in hong kong. for the latest on all of this, let s bring in cnn s steven jang. we have seen a second week kick off with losses in hashanghai. all this with china trying to steady things. is this indeed a simple correction, perhaps? reporter: errol, many would
trend we have seen here since ping took power and illustrates how sensitive the government is about the topic your interview with the spokesman for commit freeh tekt journalists was black had out here during the last hour when it was shown on cnn. natalie? oh, how about that. i didn t know that. yes, that aired an hour ago. and he is with the committee to protect journalists. interesting. we talked about china being the leading country to jail journalists. perhaps they will black that out right there. steven jang for us there in beijing. we thank you. it has been exactly 40 years since taking over cambodia s largest city. the reign of terror aacross the country taking lives, many places known as the killing fields. decades later, survivors are still trying to find one