it was the solution for an eccentric monarch. fantasy. was. the scene of one tragic. scene that. starts december 25th. was. germany turns the screw on huawei a new digital security all those u.s. calls for its allies to freeze out the chinese so how's american pressure worked on the program. president trump wanted to reduce imports from china but americans not down at home seem to have had other ideas that buying up chinese goods like never

before. i went to vietnam which is bucking a global trend and its economy is thriving despite the coronavirus pandemic a look at what's behind its success. this is day to day business on what's in but then welcome to the program. the german government is expected to approve a new law on wednesday to enforce tougher oversight of telecoms network vendors it would make it harder for china's huawei to keep a foothold in europe's largest market the draft of the new i.t. security law or establishes a 2 stage test procedure in addition to an examination of the technology it would also be a political evaluation of the trustworthiness of the manufacturers this rule is effectively aimed at countries like china which have massively expanded state access to technology. the u.s. claims while way poses a security risk and some of its western allies have already agreed not to involve

the company in their 5 g. networks. let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea delaney on they so chose see what the aim of this german law. well the aim is to give the german government legal powers to really be able to have some control over hallways involvement and our telecom networks here in germany the german government has been under an immense amount of pressure to completely ban hallways use and telecom networks throughout germany they need to aren't proposing that right now but this will create a lot of obstacles and a lot of barriers for hallways involvement and german telecom networks and particularly the building out of 5 g. networks many many german telecom networks are extremely dependent on how it makes up about half of their current supply so they will have to diversify but there are a number of calls and really a growing wave of backlash to hallway especially after it's been shown to have its

equipment being used to monitor weekers and in china so there's there is certainly a political will to crack down you know too many have been seen as one of the more friendly countries to weigh the full of this point so how big a blow is this to become. it is a big blow for holway germany as you said it was really one of the last remaining allies here and your chancellor angela merkel had to really push back against and all outright ban of hallways equipment in germany in part because germany is extremely dependent on china as a trading partner as a location for many german businesses and we've seen just a number of other countries really a huge wave of european countries from france to italy of the u.k. australia all have also really raised the pressure on the hallway over the past couple of months so this really leaves probably without many other allies. chose to

delay me and frank thanks for bringing us up to date. now u.s. president donald trump is only his way out and as his successor best take over. experts are wondering what will remain of trump's policies take trade for example especially trade with china central to trump's america 1st approach where policy is to reduce the u.s. trade deficit with china he introduced tariffs on 300 $60000000000.00 worth of chinese made products but that seems to have failed and of ember china's global trade surplus skyrocketed to over $75000000000.00 mostly due to strong exports to the united states which were up 46 percent on a year ago the main reason for that the coronavirus pandemic with many americans stuck at home record amounts are being spent on

a huge range of chinese products meanwhile american exports to china only slightly improved our cultural products are sold well but manufactured items have been badly hit by the pandemic so is the growing trade deficit with china a problem for the u.s. well that's a question i put to laura on daniel's from s.w. p. the german institute for international and security effects. yes it is a problem in terms of improving the trade balance because at least that's what's been promised to americans for more than 4 years now and yeah you might see that raging a trade war against china and even reaching something like the face one trade agreement with china earlier this year in february didn't really improve anything about the trade balance so maybe. that wasn't the right metric to begin with how much can governments actually do that because in this case we've seen that consumers have

essentially had the final say. that's true maybe they cannot do so much about it after all as a set before. raging at trade why didn't really change the situation and some people say this is just the consequence of the pandemic because people started to use their expert liquidity not for services as they usually do for travel and so on but they put it in they channeled it to consumer goods more than they would have otherwise. but you know this is been a trend for more than this year so it's been going on for a while so you know the question really is how much a government can steer trade relations yes not so much i would you know exactly is come this come this current trend last really so we've got president elect biden taking office next month do we know if he's got

a radically different approach to china. well he's been critical of china and he's criticized its theft of intellectual property and his china's subsidies policy and other difficult areas and trade relations but you might as well. see him trying to reach some kind of a push more with the chinese i think it's probably among the possible options to see the u.s. negotiate over at least limits a trade agreement with china again and to rebuild relations that were harmed by the administration seriously harmed all right laura fund daniel is from the german institute for international security affairs thank you very much for joining us here on be on your business. thanks for having me. and now to some of the other business stories making the news germany's new lockdown will delay its economic

recovery that's according to a new forecast by the country's institute economists there lowered their g.d.p. growth forecast for 2021 by almost one percentage point to 4.2 percent the report. foresees by economic activity returning to preplan demick levels by the end of 2021 . germany's new lock down is keeping its largest package delivery of busy d.h.l. expects up to 20 percent more volume in parcels this year as more customers turn to online purchasing and shipping instead giving gifts in person d.h.l. expects to ship 1800000000 passengers through the end of 2020. the u.s. federal reserve is joining a group of central banks focused on climate change the group counts 8 team members including the bank of england and european central bank the fed has been communicating with the group for the past year. apple shares rose to

a 3 month high in tuesday's session the company had announced plans to ramp up i phone production by 30 percent in the 1st half of next year japanese business daily nikkei says apple expects to make 230000000 and sets in the coming year. and australia says it will appeal to the world trade organization over china's hefty towers of over 80 percent on bali the move comes a day after china threatened an informal ban on australian culture relations have soured after canberra proposed an investigation into the origins of the culprit 19 pandemic. now a strong response to the coronavirus pandemic surging exports and healthy public spending have helped viet nam but the global recession in 2020 and this predicting the asian nation will likely enjoy one of the highest growth rates in the world south vietnam pull it off. well most countries are in the midst of their 2nd

lockdown in vietnam families are able to flock to temples parks even beaches the country's handling of the pen demick has turned it into asia's shining star. fewer than 1500 corona virus cases and 35 deaths have been recorded thanks to a mix of measures the country was quick to develop testing kits and use a combination of strategic testing and expensive contact tracing while factories largely stayed open i think the pick have been the judgment of the disease itself with the case was very very important we have never done it is one of the best in the world in that regard and that is minimal disruptions to the economy you know the retail sector has slowed down less. relatively short period of time or in localized areas. these factors now mean that vietnam is the only country in southeast asia on track for growth this year the international monetary fund says

that vietnam's economy is expected to grow 2.4 percent. as a result the government has poured money into new roads and bridges creating new jobs the infrastructure is necessary because vietnam's manufacturing sector is booming many american companies like apple have shifted production from china to vietnam to avoid tariffs due to the ongoing us china trade war vietnam's exports to the us increased by 23 percent in the 1st 3 quarters of the year as consumers bought more laptops and other home office equipment many of those products made in vietnam. and finally coronavirus restrictions on the prospect of a new deal bracks are on the minds of many brits this christmas but seems a lot of them are seeking comfort in festive tradition the british christmas tree grow as association and yes that's a real business group says tree sellers have taken off this year in particular

among 1st time buyers who see it on the especially popular of bigger and fuller trees travel restrictions mean more people are likely to celebrate the holidays from home this year. just time for a reminder our top story this hour germany's governing coalition is expected to endorse new i.t.t. security regulations wednesday that would puts more pressure on fly away from tension to limit its role in the country the chinese telecom supply has faced intense scrutiny from western intelligence agencies in recent years. and also from in the business team here in bed then if you want more from us check out our website people who don't come business we're also on facebook on twitter thanks for joining us to take up.

the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus not day 19. on t w. how does

a virus spread. why do we panic and. just 3 of the topics covered and the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like. information on the crawl along. or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at delhi dot com look for him slash science. testing is key to beating covert 19. genetic material from the virus can tell us who's infected and who needs to be quarantined to stop it from spreading so fast. a person's antibodies can show us who has some immunity to the virus so lockdowns can be lifted and people can get back to. the trade offs between speed price and

accuracy mean. it is good to have you with us several nations have started vaccinating their citizens but the corona virus is far from beaten which means detecting it is still a prime objective a german and scientists has been developing ways to not only test many people quickly cheaply and to stop chains of infection but also enable folks to go on with their lives. it's supposed to take off from munich to hamburg in about an hour travelers don't just have to show their boarding passes they also have to show a negative test for the coronavirus germany's biggest airline hopes the covert 1000 tested flights program will make passengers feel comfortable flying again during the pandemic.

to be. the test center is just a few steps away here medical personnel take a throat swab and analyze it using an to gen wrapper tests these work by detecting proteins on the virus surface the result is available after around 15 minutes without the new. the tests are produced by companies like farm act they started developing rapid tests for covert $1000.00 shortly after the start of the pandemic the 1st step is an antibody test that uses a drop of blood to determine whether a person has had previous contact with the virus or is currently infected. next

comes the antigen test like the one used. it detects the virus directly and can determine whether someone could infect other people. with the common we talked about how can we make tests that will function everywhere without the need for a large infrastructure behind let's say in the jungle or in southeast asia on a small island. is. the goal is to be able to test many people quickly and cheaply to stop chains of infection and to do this worldwide even in regions that do not have a well developed infrastructure. started producing large numbers of tests within a few weeks working together with a family business that usually supplies the automotive an electrical industries. has guns a system of discipline yes the whole system can now be scaled up so we're able to

produce $300000.00 units per week for farm act. so that the moral summation put into it the more economical the whole thing also becomes in terms of production that. the tests only cost a few euros a fraction of the more common p.c.r. test that can only be evaluated. at munich airport all the passengers have now completed their coronavirus rapid tests and after a few minutes they get the results back. reliability is between 95 and 98 percent and we're currently verifying bashed by retesting each sample with a p.c.r. test not. the tested flights concept seems well received by passengers if it's going to. i think it's ok certainly as an alternative to not travelling the whole process was quick you have your results in 10 minutes and if you can use it

to you hope i don't have anything negative at this. test at all i think it's better for the people it's better for the community who are flying here. what works for getting on a plane could also make major events such as concerts football games or just going to the cinema possible again because the coronavirus pandemic is likely to be with us for some time despite the availability of vaccines. so knowing whether you have caught the virus or not will remain important information of course for more on this let's bring in marcus hippy she's a biologist at the german research center for environmental health he joins me via skype from munich welcome to the w. mark is when it comes to the antibody test many people of the most the most of them the most important question is does a positive test result mean i'm immune so if you're immune to the virus this is used on the air and it can not tell you because.

if you were to say if your immune you ask if you were neutralization i say you can prove your antibody prevents the virus from entering your cells. until now antibody tests have not been considered particularly reliable that's why you used a new method on a large scale study what did it look like. so there are there are also some. kind of care casts that are reliable what we do. look for are more antibodies that appear later in the g.c.'s. especially what we what our method looks like was that we do go through tests a regular screening test and then a confirmation test again for antibodies against 2 different proteins so. the special about this is that really just specificity or 100 percent meaning that

we would not be take any holes positives so we're really reported through prevalence and downs more on the result of your study though we scrupulous screened children in bavaria germany aged one to 18 years and what we follow on from january 2020 through july was a 6 fold higher prevalence of antibodies that compared. the reported cases and also happen to children that have antibodies that were absent and that they are now does a higher incidence of antibodies in the population mean that more people are already immune to the virus. so late in the 1st question and. you have not always this is the short answer but if you test there if you do it is new to reason so those under can prove but specially these antibodies you're testing.

that they also have for immunity then in principle this is right the more people of these immunizing antibodies then of course the more people are in. but from a single antibody test without this new phrase i mean so you kind of come to. in recent recent actual numbers have been rising to very high levels here in germany what do you think is the reason for that. so if there are the reason is that there are really are more infractions more or less the transmission of contraction got out of control not like it was during the summer with lower numbers reflect racing was also possible this is not possible anymore and of course there's also more testing but also the positives rate goes up so it's not just the number of tests that goes up there really are more inspections. of the german research center

for an environmental health thank you for talking to us thank you. so we know some more about the different methods of covert testing then we did at the start of the show but there are questions remaining and that's when our science correspondent derek williams is happy to jump in. is it possible to test positive for kind of a $1000.00 and it's antibodies at the same time. tricky question to answer it we need a quick refresher on the terminology antibodies our immune system proteins that can be detected by what are called serial logical tests general the from blood samples if you have antibodies that are specific to covert 19 that indicates that you were exposed to the corona virus at some point in the past whether you develop symptoms or not diagnostics like antigen and p.c.r. tests on the other hand are for detecting the virus or its genetic material so

they're supposed to tell you whether you have an active infection this question therefore basically boils down to cannot have an active infection yet at the same time be producing detectable amounts of antibodies against it yes you can but but finding both involves getting the timing right and that's because there is some overlap between when an infection is in full swing and the ramp up of the body's immune response and in general experts say it takes a patient's body between one and 3 weeks to produce detectable amounts of the different antibodies that play a key role in fighting off covert 19 researchers in new york found that even patients producing antibodies in those measurable amounts however could continue to test positive for the virus for up to 4 weeks after their symptoms resolved what

the team couldn't determine though was whether the. viral genetic material was actually coming from an active viable virus p.c.r. testing doesn't tell you that although that's really what you want to know it just tells you whether there are intact pieces of my role in a sample. do you have a question for derek well just send an e-mail to feedback english dot com and type expert in the subject line or leave a comment on are you chief. now going forward as you go here's a story about adapting traditions to today's reality germany's seasonal christmas markets called off due to coronavirus restrictions drive through options have been popping up across the country and car need the near the docks for a family theme park has been transformed into

a winter wonderland complete with artificial snow mulled wine and music. to have a longer route past. craps and roasted. rules in germany the 1st will be allowed to remain open as long as the stalls food for consumption in vehicles. just have to make sure you don't spill any of that sticky mulled wine. thanks for watching.

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