the creator of the founder of one of the most prestigious ranking systems in the world the so-called shanghai rating. university rankings have become extremely popular and it's not only a matter of public image in roman trays and tuition the classifications us objective to a certain extent but every issue of and the rating system raises concerns and out usually among those who did not make it to the top the originator of the shanghai university ranking dr luke believes ratings will only gain importance as the main issue is how to make it more universal and accurate. mr liu welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us and i would like to to start with a question about this ranking system your institution published another academic ranking a world university a.r.w. comely known as the shanghai ranking where there are quite a number of ranking systems in the world what was the necessity to create another one why did you decide to do it oh actually. our ranking democrat in the west there was the first global university ranking we are not currently a member while we were the first. ex

go to exchange on shanghai people are buying gold and they are taking delivery of gold and they're doing so in big numbers huge numbers and you know when it's compared to mine production or even the imports that we're saying going from hong kong to china it's overtaking or at least reaching these levels on a weekly basis is what we're saying say all of that physical is being pumped out of the us is just making its way to china how much. is flowing it is a crime to say it's flowing from west to east gold market well i would certainly say you know if you're looking at the federal global production that it's nothing's meeting and you got any other demand anywhere else in the world so it's going to china but we've been saying they rise in imports a long time from hong kong to china say all of that gold is going into hong kong it's just being shipped instantly china people are taking to delivery of it i think in the last quarter. imports from china from hong kong is up sixty eight percent you know and last time i was on the day after we chatted the gold price fell quite significantly and has

an interesting case is eleven times larger than it is on the shanghai ph section it's heat but having said that volumes have started dropping on the shanghai fish exchange slowly taking that volume away but the back of this report we have the shanghai gold exchange the future exchange i've set and also the role of the commercial banks and the reason we looked at all of these is because in the last moral lesson one hundred years china has done a basically a complete turnaround on how they're approaching gold and how people buy gold the gold price mining gold and you know in the one nine hundred thirty s. china was so the hub in asia for buying gold then there was this clampdown people weren't able to buy gold there was also an issue of buying silver the metals were supplied judah's in order to buy it and then from about nine hundred eighty we've seen this very very very slowly taking off the sofa off the clutch and letting letting people get more involved in the gold market in china you know but this isn't bayside it's this is supply and demand you know so mining within the country has

an interesting case is eleven times larger than it is on the shanghai it's hege but having said that volumes have started dropping on. exchanges slowly taking that volume away but the back of this report we had the shanghai gold exchange the feast exchange on set and also the role of the commercial banks and the reason we looked at all of these is because in the last more lesson one hundred years china has done a basically a complete turnaround on how they're approaching gold and how people buy gold the gold price mining gold and you know in the one nine hundred thirty s. china was so the hub in asia for buying gold then there was this clampdown people weren't able to buy gold there was also an issue with buying silver the metals were supplied judah's in order to buy it and then from about nine hundred eighty we've seen this very very very slowly taking off the sofa off the clutch and letting people get more involved in the gold market in china you know but this isn't based sites this is supply and demand you know so mining within the country has gone from four tonnes and this year i

welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time now to go to shanghai and speak with dan collins publisher of the china money report dan collins welcome back to the kaiser report thanks max going to be bad all right dan collins the economist magazine says the u.s. china relations well defined global politics and twenty thirteen where do you think relations are going hare well yeah so that he's. pretty much agree with that but i think subplots of the piece it was really about china japan for two thousand and thirteen two thousand and twelve we saw massive changes here in china you know not far from where i live here there was a panasonic factory burned down as of thousands of chinese history although not on a second day and hold on a second what he said that a panasonic factory was burnt down i don't see that the news what's going on there . oh max you haven't checked out of china motor report or are boarded up. yeah the battery was burned down here in studio a little suburb of shanghai here little sort of people. there's a japanese three year the entire japanese restaurant store

yeah there's a battery was burned down here in studio a little suburb of shanghai here little sort of people. there's a japanese three year the entire japanese restaurant store a lot of the windows broken oh i mean it was really bad and it was a day with reported in the major media about the protests but i don't think outside china people really under and how bad it really was i mean he had there were many reports of even local chinese people here be dragged out of their japanese cars and beaten and that's what's led to seventy percent decline in japanese personal china and they're not coming back when we have a currency war as some describe it it looks like it's heating up to a ground war a hot war and especially with this china japan conflict which is seems to be ask a lady and japan of course is got a new leader and they have committed themselves to crunching and crashing and destroying their currency the yen as an attempt to export their way back into fiscal and monetary and economic health but a lot of people note that this will lead potentially to japan being the first of the g

time now to go to shanghai and speak on. the china money report and collins welcome back to the kaiser report. thanks max going to be bad all right dan collins' economist magazine says the u.s. china relations well defined global politics and twenty thirteen where do you think the relations are going hare well yeah i saw that piece. pretty much agree with that but i think go subplot to the piece that was really about china japan turns over two thousand and thirteen two thousand and twelve we saw massive changes here in china you know not far from where i live here earlier was a panasonic factory burned down as of thousands of chinese hit the street although not on a second dan hold on a second what he said that a panasonic factory was burnt down i don't see that the news what's going on there . oh i'm actually going to try to marry border ordered. yeah the battery was burned down here in studio a little suburb of shanghai a little so over twelve million people. there's a japanese three year the entire japanese restaurant sto

than comix comix basically is all gambling without very much to livery the shanghai gold exchange on the other hand actually does clear physical and it's typically you would see every month around about one hundred fifty maybe three hundred tonnes even clearing through that exchange is a two way traffic some of it is going to hong kong for re fabrication for selling in china and some of it was just being bought in china for only delivery in china that appears to have almost ceased the very very few delivery notices now that you'll see on that exchange the second thing is that the deliveries that occurring on comix one wonders where it's coming from when i was fascinated to see that the i don't know whether it's comix themselves or the regulator said that we can't indorse the the numbers in the vaults in the comix register vaults so this is the first time this was said which seems rather old i mean all they. worried that the numbers just don't stack up have the questions of the vault operators and find that they haven't got sufficient on says ok let me interesting let me ask you about

you want to inure you want to buy a home in shanghai you have to be from shanghai so there is a lot of strictures not just to stop people from all over speculating in homes so i don't really see it as a bubble as yet most people in chinese in particular plan to buy homes and owned them for decades and decades and give them to their children as opposed to the flipping and using homes as a is a speculative more vehicle like like found in united states ok so i guess the the idea here is that what people used to is that a developer will build five or ten homes and and they are looking to expand their residential property portfolio and then they go out and they market those dollars but in china they build entire cities on the same concept and then they fill up the entire cities ok now let's talk about the environment in china they've had some environmental disasters and they're starting to cost as much as the economy is producing. this is a hard ceiling for economic growth in china they found heavy metals in the soil covering large swathes of the arable land so this is the detritus of in

you want in your you want to buy a home in shanghai you have to be from shanghai so there is a lot of strictures not just to stop people from all over speculating in homes so i don't really see it as a bubble as yet most people in chinese in particular plan to buy homes and owned them for decades and decades and give them to their children as opposed to the flipping and using homes as a is a speculative martin vehicle like like found in united states ok so i guess the the idea here is that what people are used to is that a developer will build five or ten homes and and they are looking to expand their residential property portfolio and then they go out and they market the silence but in china they build entire cities on the same concept and then they fill up the entire cities ok now let's talk about the environment in china they've had some environmental disasters and they're starting to cost as much as the economy is producing so this is a hard ceiling for economic growth in china they found heavy metals in the soil covering large swathes of the arable land so this is the detritus of

you want in your you want to buy a home in shanghai you have to be from shanghai so there is a lot of strictures not just to stop people from all over speculating in homes so i don't really see it as a bubble as yet most people in chinese in particular plan to buy homes and own them for decades and decades and give them to their children as opposed to the flipping and using homes as a is a speculative more vehicle like like found in united states ok so i guess the the idea here is that what people are used to is that a developer will build five or ten homes and and they are looking to expand their residential property portfolio and then they go out and they market the silence but in china they build entire cities on the same concept and then they fill up the entire cities ok now let's talk about the environment in china they've had some environmental disasters and they're starting to cost as much as the economy is producing. this is a hard ceiling for economic growth in china they found heavy metals of the soil covering large swathes of the arable land so this is the detritus of indus

besides the six constant members of the shanghai cooperation organization which include russia and china its observers are also here including india and iran they're also looking at becoming constant members of the organization it's in large mint is one of the things that are going to be discussed here as well as joint economic projects and the situation in afghanistan which is also here it's an observer as well but it's syria which is going to be definitely the key issues on the table iran is a key player in the region and it's widely agreed including by senior u.n. officials that any diplomatic and peaceful solution of the conflict in syria would not be possible without tehran's involvement iran stance on the situation has been the similar to russia's and china's saying that only a peaceful solution is possible and warning that any military intervention would not only create more violence in syria itself but would risk spreading the violence throughout the whole region now there's also another very important issue here is that iran along with hezbollah are syria's main shiite allies an

and representing half of the world's population the shanghai cooperation organization will be looking at how it can lend its weight to peace in syria and for that to happen though it's thought iran will have to play a major role coming up here on a report on the organization's summit starting today in kyrgyzstan. and politicians draping themselves in red white and blue as they call in the french compact to buy local and to keep their money inside the country. for the meantime here on the director of intelligence in the united states has said the wide ranging leaks on the n.s.a. spy program have fueled an important debate on the tradeoff between privacy and national security but he says he's worried there are more revelations still to come from edward snowden. and for kevin mitnick here in our moscow studios while he believes that snowden's secret leaking can be criticized he still feels the revelations were crucial for americans. i have some mixed feelings that he did cross the line when he revealed n.s.a. operations that we have against other countries because as we all know all coun

representing half of the world's population and the shanghai cooperation organization will be looking at how it can lend its weight to peace in syria and about to happen is still iran will have to play a major role coming out were fought on the organization summit happening today in kyrgyzstan. the director of intelligence in the us has said the wide ranging leaks on the n.s.a. spying program have fueled an important debate on the tradeoff between privacy and national security but he says he's a warrior there are more revelations from whistleblower edward snowden on the way and earlier we spoke to renowned former hacker kevin mitnick here in our moscow studio while he believes snowden's secretly can be criticized his still feels the revelations were crucial for americans. i have some mixed feelings that he did cross the line when he revealed n.s.a. operations that we have against other countries because as we all know all countries spy on each other i think is a whistleblower you know i don't look at him as a true i'm actually glad that he revealed what the national security agency wa

now representing half of the world's population the shanghai cooperation organization will be looking at how it can lend its weight to getting peace in syria about to happen is thought iran will have to play a major role coming up here on our report on the organization summit that starts today in kyrgyzstan. and politicians straight with themselves in red white and blue as they call in the french compatriots to buy locally and keep their hard earned money in the country. and the rest of the wall. top headlines are just around the corner here on out. to gold. plates technology innovation called the list of belem inst from around russia we've got the future covered. this immediately below so we leave the people. by the sea potion securely play your party there's a goal. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. food since changing the world lights never. come full picture of today's leaves my own designs from around the globe. look to. fifty. thanks

representing hoffa of the wall its population the shanghai cooperation organization will be looking at how it can bend its way to peace in syria and for that to happen is thought iran will have to play a major role still to come here on azzi we report on the organization summit it starts today in critical stuff. the main competitor girl on the market is mother nature. may customers struggle with to. fight for each draw from in the you do if you supply. let people think i are prices pure water. the life on our teeth. they use it up there and wash their hands. and flush their toilets with the same lawyer that this series is selling and spring water. choose your language. of choice make it with zero if you are going to stay still someone that. chooses to use the consensus you. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that in your life choose the access to to offer. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today i'm rule research and the director of intelligence in the us has said that the wide ranging leaks on the n.s.a. spy program fueled an important debate on the tradeoff

orders cars off the roads af ter pollution soars beyond indexable levels shanghai order vehicles off the road in factories to cut production after pollution reach hazardous levels as hong kong announced plans to introduce an air quality index that assesses health risks from smog so the u.s. consulate in shanghai so noted that the air pollution index surged past five hundred to quote beyond index category four this is where guys like paul krugman are homicidal maniacs because they say there's no inflation and yet the trillions of dollars of money printing go to china where the environmental standards are nonexistent and they create the smog has beyond even the index and is now causing kids under ten years old to get cancer so that's you know paul kick paul krugman is responsible for that cancer that child in china because he's the propagandist who's trying to use the new york times to convince people that there's no inflation due to this money printing but the other thing is you know george osborne the chess with a checker here was recently in china and he from china berated the brits

and representing half of the world's population the shanghai cooperation organization will be looking at how it can lend its weight to getting peace in syria. iran will have to play a major role still to come here we report on the organization summit it starts today. to build the world's most sophisticated. mission to teach me the creation and why it should care about. is why you should care only. russia has formally presented a proposal for the disarmament of syria's chemical arsenal and has personally appealed to the american public and political establishment to give negotiations a chance in war torn syria so tough questions remain primarily with the washington can we frame from its habit of using brute force. mission free could you take three. four judges free. arrangement free. free. free. free broadcast quality video for your media project a free media. thank you for joining us here on r t today the director of intelligence in america said the wide ranging leaks on the n.s.a. spying program have fueled an important debate on the tradeoff between privacy. national security though

you had your own experience with all that didn't you didn't you spend all your money in shanghai more or less. that's why i'm going to spend it now. i'm going to book the most expensive hotels. but the most expensive restaurants. are terrible picture. i just like your joke. i don't think so goes a great artist. but i don't think it's a con man award it doesn't cheat and if you don't like the painting give anything it's up to the person. i asked him to buy t. for the painting he seemed to understand. but then he went away. well. it's a tough job you have to take a risk just to get some food it's not difficult it's just not the way usually do things so how do you do. it together. you have to plan it all in advance friend so you ask me may the board you ask me to make a port that i made that i ask. for this where is my duty. for ports. i made it. it's for gift not for free. sure you get used to people's attention very quickly the people around me usually help organize it all but nobody knows me so things are a bit different. i don't know what it means to escape from yourself quite the op

while travelling in china i went to shanghai i felt i could live there it was the moment the project actually started a russian girl living on the floor below me was going to leave. one day i came to see her and noticed an easel there i was looking for one of the time. so i asked her to sell it to me but she didn't want to do that but it was a friend's gift apparently. that is why i offered to swap for it instead i gave her a painting in exchange for the easel it was my first barter so good when i got the idea to organize it as an art project and. i started to get letters which. one of them was from a couple that was going to get married and wanted that kind of portrayed as a wedding present for themselves. but i had already left odessa so they're asked if i could do it over skype story just because they told me they could give me all i need for my travel in return. so i asked if they could pay for the tickets from a deficit to stumble they agreed and as a result we had a skype portrait session now and waiting on the tickets. if i decided to take annie as a hostage and go together to