there's a camp for all net trains kimi more than welcome. nice teams and keeping one point tonight. i will stay on the story. must. starts in january 27th on d w. some call it a momentous step but with some of the most contentious issues left out is the phase one trade deal between the u.s. and china for style the softness also on the program european companies say they faced off sickle comes to working china's golf and road initiative and they're calling on brussels for help plus germany and business has

a gender diversity problem and the bigger the company the worse it gets to find out what's being done. on. the ink on the signatures has dried let's see if that helps world trade. u.s. president donald trump and china's vice for merely o'hare have signed phase one of a trade deal it's aimed at setting settling a conflict that's lasted more than 18 months the pact will loosen some u.s. tariffs on chinese made products and sent to the united states and increased beijing's purchases of u.s. made goods. this deal marks a new era for u.s. china relations that's what u.s. president don't trump and chinese vice premier real hate said in washington the most significant part of the phase one trade deal is a pledge by china to buy at least an additional $200000000000.00 worth of u.s. farm products manufactured goods energy supplies and services in return the u.s.

will loosen some of its tariffs on chinese imports. together with righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families trade sean you coming from the for one trade deal is good for both countries and the entire world it shows that we have the ability to act on the basis of the quality and respects to handle and resolve relevant issues you're bound for. the agreement addresses more issues than had been expected china is committing to do more to protect intellectual property and to stop manipulating its currency to cheapen its exports in return the u.s. is no longer calling china a currency manipulator but the deal stops short of resolving the trade dispute u.s. tariffs on $360000000000.00 worth of chinese goods remain u.s. president donald trump calls that an ace up his sleeve for the next round of trade talks face to negotiations are expected to start soon that's when thorny issues

such as china's months of subsidies to state owned companies will be addressed between now and then many will come to days deal a cease fire after 18 months of the u.s. . hina trade war which has weighed on the global economy and. european companies are urging the european union to act now to level the playing field in china's belt and wrote an initiative a survey by the e.u. chamber of commerce in china found european firms were facing quote a variety of barriers to participation in delta including a lack of transparency in the tendering process the initiative aims to establish a massive global network of ports railways roads and industrial parks spanning asia africa middle east and here. let's discuss this report where the president of the e.u. chamber of commerce and china you are good good he joins me via skype from beijing

good to have you on the program dark give us a specific example of the difficulties your member companies are facing when they want to get involved with the belt and road initiative we did a survey the end of last year where we are. not a member of just so how many of you are engaged or would you get out of it and again it's 1701 is that you were really to reply and all of the hundreds and 30 more than $100.00 says we actually have nothing to do with this we found just 20 members that actually have something to do with the present initiative projects and all of them without exceptions are some supplies so in a way it's a lot of hype with very little in it for us and what exactly are the problems that the companies are facing. the problem is a similar to the ones that i hear china is a one stop shop i mean they have the iron ore they have the steel they have the

trains they have the ships and then this element with chinese finances to whatever country is willing to basically have these projects and it's very telling that to 90 percent of all the added value in projects done by china stays in china so we have a similar situation on some in kenya and in muncie dorney and on the countries where we have this like of access to projects we have their problems years in china and all of a sudden we come across this region of the world so china you know way is exporting as procurement model so it seems like at least for european companies this whole belt and road initiative is more of a threat than an opportunity is that right well it's a partly a threat i mean it's a one stop shop where we find it very difficult to engage where is there is china that is very difficult for us to drop you in here and all of a sudden there are exporting their procurement model to other parts of the world so

that's a real challenge and we put this forward to the commission to think about it how we can let in legislation tackle with this and then we have an upside i mean each and every trade container from china to europe is sponsored by the chinese take spirit 50 percent of course we benefit from this it's no toilet if you are shipping via their route that takes possibly 2 thirds longer than by trade but you know how long is that going to be sustainable or how long is the journalistic spirit willing to subsidize 50 percent of our containers and europe is there something that you want the makers to do about that. you know if you want to look into the kind of. competition law and how much it can a chinese company operate in china it made europe it was such a close shop we wanted to look into their own projects they have something called connectivity that 80 percent never heard of the whole world knows of a bill to roll up no one heard about

a similar scheme out of brussels which is called connectivity we simply want to europe to communicate this better if there is a viable alternative for president roh it's called connectivity right it is an open system that we used to your president of the e.u. chamber of commerce in china thank you for converting w. german business has a gender diversity problem only on a 5th of company leaders are women and the further down the career letter doesn't bode well for that improving engineers account for a large portion of the women in top positions but if we look at german engineering graduates no more than 15 percent of them are female that's just a small proportion of the executives of the future being women what's more the bigger the company of the less likely it is to be led by a woman around 20 percent of firms with fewer than 5 employees have female bosses now that number drops to less than 10 percent for companies of over 50 employees

so what can be done to bring about greater gender equality let's talk about it with that of us pay holt she joins me in the studio good to have you on the program daniela you are managing director at metalworking specialist paul few men now you've received training in engineering you're heading a mid-size engineering company which are very essential to the german economy as a whole why aren't there more like you. good morning mr koppel all i would say they are i'm here right and yesterday evening i attended an even ng with many women in research and in intern ural. at it youths ok they represented they said thank you to the blender starts up. about $180.00 millions we got for research for industrial research right and this helps women so much to come

closer to industrial and engineering issues right but if we. but let's put it that way at a mid-sized company i would assume that it helps to be trained in that specifically of the company yes of course if we see in order to become later the boss maybe so if we see that german engineering graduates there just 50 percent of them are women what can be done to get more women or girls or young females to study engineering for example how about the media i mean we're trying our best yes i mean it's that's why i'm talking about less even and. we have so much fun doing technology issues i mean i'm so proud i'm approaching might be car it's an immobile lety car that's a car we are producing profiles for right. it keeps the batteries right bunting of

course where they are rather sensitive that's what perfume and dust finally get protests that this and can you imagine how happy we are if we see those cars on the streets very i would imagine and that is what women makes happy as well as so we have to talk more about how much fun it is i think it's it's not only there's a problem there are less women that's not the issue the issue is how can you get the best engine years in that program into the products you're dependent in show many why is it that the bigger the company the less likely it is to be led by women . i don't know i i lead a middle sized company in 1009.3 percent of companies in shell many are less than $250.00 employees so why do we always focus on bigger companies why don't we see that value we have seen so many moving away to value we have and those

companies are funded or funded with 180000000 speer would need much more press they are already protests running for 200 millions which would be a great help and this is innovation pure says 2015 there has been a quota in germany that members of the supervisory boards of large publicly traded companies need at least to be 30 percent female should something like that be initiated for small companies too. i'm not sure about that i would say it's rather about quality and doing strength is allowing people either man and women to live their profession to do what they like however it needs to communicate more how how how big the righty can be technical issues it's not about sitting in front of a computer and doing constructions all the time and thinking in the 30 mentions of

things like that that's not into nearing about engineering it's much more about in the future even though with teens and things like that ok where are working on gender diversity in journalism just don't you ever spare a lot thank you for your visit here and stare. and. japanese instrument maker yamaha music is telling people not to hide or cram themselves and is similar cases as part of a social media trend that is called the carlos gone challenge many people in japan are reenacting part of former c.e.o. carlos gone skate from japan he reportedly hit in a case on his now infamous flight from tokyo. and that's our show thanks for watching.

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