Have deputy secretary of state Steven Biegun here to testify. Originally planned to hold this hearing back in march but the need to focus on covid19 prevented us from doing that even as we continue to address the pandemic and the impact on the u. S. Citizens. It is important this can many continue it to work on the most pressing Foreign Policy challenges and obviously chinas one of those. This is especially the case and the topic we are discussing today is a Trump Administration is correctly recognized china as a strategic and global pedant competitor of the United States it will be the greatest foreignpolicy challenge in the decades to come. The policies of the Chinese Communist partys undermined u. S. Interests and values including those we share with allies and partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge to the fore front of american lyford we now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and pa
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Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. Its 60 years since beijing put down the tibetan revolt, killing tens of thousands of people. And that was also when the dalai lama began his long exile from his homeland. He is still the tibetan peoples spiritual leader, but he relinquished political control eight years ago. His de facto president in exile, is my guest today, lobsang sangay, who says the situation is now critical and that tibet is a huge prison under chinas unfettered rule. So what are the tibetan peoples ambitions now . And what is their strategy for achieving it from the increasingly assertive and authoritarian chinese leadership . Theme music plays. Lobsang sangay welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. How do the tibetan people remember that revolt 60 years ago . Thousands of tibetans from all over tibet gathered in lhasa, the capital city, to protect his holiness the dalai lama from the chinese army and then it resulted in a bloodshed. As per
Time for hardtalk welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. Its 60 years since beijing put down the tibetan revolt, killing tens of thousands of people. And that was also when the dalai lama began his long exile from his homeland. He is still the tibetan peoples spiritual leader, but he relinquished political control eight years ago. His de facto president in exile, is my guest today, lobsang sangay, who says the situation is now critical and that tibet is a huge prison under chinas unfettered rule. So what are the tibetan peoples ambitions now . And what is their strategy for achieving it from the increasingly assertive and authoritarian chinese leadership . Theme music plays. Lobsang sangay welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. How do the tibetan people remember that revolt 60 years ago . Thousands of tibetans from all over tibet gathered in lhasa, the capital city, to protect his holiness the dalai lama from the chinese army and then it resulted in a bloodshed. As per Chinese M
Moderation like that. This wonderful nation. But more or less this is america, so safe. That situation has completed changed. [inaudible] so thank you all. We and they is actually unrealistic. So we must think entire 7 billion human beings, we must consider. That is my honest belief. So no problem. As a politician [laughter] or that you see, a little bit of insane person. Still same person, human being. [laughter] clear . Clear. So the main purpose, you see, we have to sort of look seriously about future of humanity. At least this century. Now, we already enter the 21st century. Now, remaining the century, i think like becomes very, very, turning point century. Now this century also should be. So in the past century, a century of violence, century of war. This century should be century of peace. Peace not come from the sky. Since the violence we created, so peace, we must create it. Piece only, through our action, not through Wishful Thinking or prayer. Ive witnessed in my daily life,