to. discover who. subscribe to documentary to. this is news and these are our top stories german chancellor angela merkel has made a surprise you turn and canceled a street east coronavirus shut down the decision overturns plans for 5 days of closures previously agreed with leaders of the 16 regional states merkel apologized

to the german people saying the plans were mistake and not practical. the european union has toughened its vaccine export rules shipments can now be blocked if importing countries already have enough doses italian inspectors meanwhile have found a stash of millions of astra zeneca shots the drug maker says the jobs was staying within the e.u. or going to the united nations skin. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says america is aiming to revitalize ties with its nato allies lincoln told foreign ministers in brussels that trust between the partners has been shaken and needs rebuilding he says the transatlantic alliance needs to confront threats from china and russia lincoln also accused china of undermining western democracy this is d.w. news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram news or visit our website d.w. dot com.

for almost 48 hours people in germany thought easter would be a repeat of christmas another casualty of the pandemic no travel no easter egg hunts no families coming together that was the plan until this morning i'm told the country the decisions of shutdown over easter was a mistake her mistake and she asked for forgiveness tonight a mayor culpa from europe's most respected head of state the most powerful woman in the world says i'm sorry i broke off in berlin this is the day. and dealing with a mistake must be acknowledged as such and above all it must be corrected the technical it's a terms of catastrophe it's incomprehensible and i'm well aware that this entire

situation is causing added uncertainty we have wanted to travel but unfortunately now we must stay at home as this proposal was a mistake to think that the whole sackets the back and forth and i ask all citizens to forgive me. also coming up america's top diplomat admitted today that the past 4 years left europe no choice but to look at the us and feel frustrated and a strange then he offered a roadmap to find our way back to each other just because we make our foreign policy to reflect the world as it is does not mean we have to give up on shaping the world as it might be. the world the more secure. more peaceful more just more equitable. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day when sorry doesn't seem to be the hardest word today german chancellor angela

merkel did and said something that has become rare for a political leader admitting she made a mistake and then asking for forgiveness merkel caught everyone off guard today when she announced a u. turn in the country's pandemic plans just 2 days ago she announced a 5 day shutdown of the country over easter a circuit breaker to stop the spread of the coronavirus today she canceled that plan because she said it was wrong a mistake that had caused confusion and anger a mistake made solely by her she military at the top it seemed refreshing for many observers but it left unanswered one important question how will germany get this pandemic under control the idea of a strict ether lock down have many here in germany up in arms and a chance for the has knowledge to measure was a mistake in an extraordinary address to people. just the idea of the need to

shut down was proposed is the best of intentions in the mid because we urgently need to slow down and we've pressed the weight of the pandemic never that enough of the e.p.a. this proposal was a mistake and and fida a mistake he acknowledged the focus and a bowl of it must be corrected at soon as possible to be seen. place was about the same time i am well aware that this and tire situation is causing added uncertainty and i deeply regret this and i ask all citizens to forgive me for . the sudden rollback of the measure i did feel to the fire especially for a position parties at the parliament to. discuss our suspects to cale's whose paraphrase yesterday was like 2 days 5 starts nobody knows what the rooms are any more knowledge of a failure from the chance of those she takes responsibility that nobody really

knows what this admission. will discuss the chancellor's decision the search for suspects however it also means a deepening crisis trust when it comes to the fight against the pandemic just because government has failed in its ways if i just hand them a call and now we need caution and common sense to be able to overcome the 3rd wave . kind of political aren't the only ones being left with more questions than answers germans are increasingly but why is it by the government's handling of the crisis. we cannot talk to him how can it be that people who have means can fly to new york but nobody's allowed to travel in and who can island where they respect you go measures to curb infections and. one half of the clock really just clarity so people get set clear deadlines is a clear schedule on how to go forward with definitions but i'm not really impressed

that they've changed the rules and in fact we had wanted to travel but unfortunately now we must stay at home although i mean it's good on the one side but i don't think it's enough. it is the 1st time that the chancellor has admitted so openly that there was a glitch in her decision making that's why some see to move as laudable others see the. to terminate the government's hit and miss approach to the pandemic. art i'm joined now by our political correspondent emmanuel seans in slidell that report good evening to you. so no hard shutdown over easter that is clear but the number of new infections in germany that number continues to climb so what is the government's plan and do brenda's number of infections continues to climb if you look at the 7 days incidence rate where the snow over 80800000 inhabitants nationwide we've reduced to more than $15000.00 new infections another

$250.00 deaths in the one single day so the situation is not good here in germany and for now the losing of restrictions which had very timidly started only a few weeks ago is being rolled back the current lockdown 8 ease being reconnected until that least need a pill we says testings to tuesday being upped lots of criticism has been geared towards the government because it hasn't really tackled the possible closure of schools which is fair in spreading rapidly among younger people the government has a hasn't decided what to do on travel we'll travel ban be the decided especially as easter holidays are about to start and this is actually being discussed by the government as us a lot of criticism too as a vaccination rollout it's way too slow when projections show that even doubling the doses of vaccine administered by me dave would still be insufficient to tackle the 3rd wave because we mainly see the variance threading which is more lead to

more infectious you know we live in a world of politicians who rarely say i was wrong i'm sorry but that is exactly what i'm going to medical did today so here is my cynical question was she able to admit to her own cell ability because she's not running for reelection. well you know over and having witnessed how anglo-american expresses herself over the years i've been hearing so many i think it's a generation of policy on have pot if anything she might in fact be taking the rest all civility and the blame so as to set its own has several other down on her potty as a whole you know to come sedative party is already shaken by several collections kansas is already blamed for voter handing of the pandemic until now i got america has remained a very popular politicians figure regardless of the current situation regardless of the pandemic and typically he or she is being quite pragmatic she acknowledges

a mistake she acknowledges her mistake but at the same time why should doesn't quite seize the opportunity to us the state what could be done instead and that might not go down quite well we would hope that it's because the parents and by not quite go that well with people it might impact her popularity already and michelle is on the story in berlin tonight in the thank you all right from the politics to the sciences police science journalist kai coopersmith chi it's good to have you back on the program the chancellor's decision to reverse the shutdown over easter that does not reverse the course of the pandemic year in germany so what is needed to stop the spread if a hard lock down is not programmed in any war. well frankly that's a little bit like asking you know what's needed to avoid this accident if we assume we don't use the brakes the the truth is we need to slow down transmission of this virus we need to take the heat out of the epidemic situation in germany and we know

that what we're doing at the moment isn't enough to do that that's not surprising we know that the 117 the very end that is spreading here at the moment is about 30 percent more transmissible than previous variants so we need to do something more than we have done so far and what we kind of grown used to working in the last year and i think in the private setting we've probably done as much as we can in some ways and i think it's really a question of what else we can do in terms of workplaces i think we could be much more restrictive in terms of asking people to work from home a much more forceful in that regard of course testing would help and then of course we do need to continue vaccinating as fast as we can because over time this is not going to help us in the next weeks but over time in the next 2 months or so it is going to build up immunity that helps us drive down the transmission a little bit you know you talk about vaccinations there are reports of people not showing up to get back to natives here in germany once they find out that they will

get the astra zeneca shot so what has to happen to change the public's perception. that's a really tough question you know once a perception like that you know that it's fairly hard to change that and i did these enough to see why that perception has kind of been created the early studies that were done the early trials of the astra zeneca lexeme you know there weren't very well conducted and defined in the threw up a lot of questions and that created the space in which you had you know uncertainty you then have very bad communication i think from the company and now on top of that you have this safety signal which which is you know something to take seriously so you know i think we wouldn't be in quite this bad situation if communication had been tiny and transparent on this from the beginning that's what i hope for in the future but it's not going to change back anytime soon no matter

what we do and i fear we understand that the chancellor changed couper about this lockdown over easter after you know what the strong backlash when you consider the entire population in germany more than a year into this pandemic how is the team. are people do you think i mean you said earlier this week germany has yet to be in a true hard lockdown. that's right i mean when i talk to people in some other countries that have had you know really hard lockdowns they kind of scoffed a little bit at our lockdown but of course it's not about how hard the lockdown as i actually think that in some ways it's been you know the worst thing in terms of fatigue is if you keep you know if you're in a lockdown and you don't see it working i think that's the really really hard thing that makes you very team so i would rather have a hard to lock down and then you see that it's working and that can keep you motivated rather than what we're seeing at the moment which is this endless like

lockdown but then the numbers are still rising and that's i think not reassuring to anyone and i have to say we do have good data from surveys that show that while a majority of people say that they are very fatigued the majority of people also say it think that was the right or should even be made tighter give us a very good point to bring up people say it could be tighter and maybe it would be better as we enter the 6th month of a lockdown in this country as always we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you and. the headline from the speech delivered today in brussels by the u.s. secretary of state could have been europe you can trust us again here is why today anthony blinken reached out to america's european allies in what felt like a reunion after 4 years of a strange meant and alienation lincoln said europe's doubts over america as a reliable partner were justified but now no longer necessary he then laid out why

american the juror and why your needs america at the same time he promised a future with no bullying same coersion that's a weapon wielded by china the united states won't force our allies into a us or them choice with china. there's no question that beijing's course of behavior threatens our collective security and prosperity and that it is actively working to undercut the rules of the international system and the values we and our allies share but that doesn't mean that countries can't work with china where possible for example on shell is like climate change and health security we know that our allies have complex relationships with china that won't always align perfectly but we need to navigate the shell just together. my next guest tonight is dinge min schmidt benjamin is a fellow at harvard and the center for european policy analysis he's also served at the u.s. state department advising on energy security bridgeman it's good to have you back

on the program you heard the speech by secretary blinken today was there a name missing from today's speech didn't name you know did something strike you as missing. no in fact i'm just excited to be here to talk about the sort of speech the entire transatlantic community has been yearning for from america's top diplomat for over 4 years now i think you're alluding to mr trump in this was a real refreshing diplomatic speech in a speech at nato headquarters secretary of state blink and made sure to emphasize the biden administration's emphasis on reaffirming in revitalizing aren't alliances to strengthen the national security and democratic resilience of the u.s. and our global partners and allies including nato of course in a world facing a ray of emerging global challenges foremost from china and from a resurgent russia and i'm dyslexic of nato headquarters as the site of this speech really was i'm certain i'm convinced was nose in to send

a signal that the uncertain rhetoric and the estrangement as you said about the transatlantic relationship under trump is not going to continue and that again very quickly washington's commitment to article 5 of nato is an unshakeable vow is secretary clinton said today yes he mentioned that today that article 5 you know that stands and there's no reason to doubt it but the fact that he even had to remind his allies of article 5 that speaks to the fact that trump was the reason that blinken had to decide do and say what he did today right. absolutely absolutely that is that is something that i think this administration is trying to quickly both repair and move forward on because but we can move forward by focusing on 3 main threats including conventional military threats to the alliance both external and internal threats to democratic resilience and fostering democratic backsliding across the western and of course transnational threats such as climate

change and pandemics looking at how china and russia are targeting us as a collective community and that's the sort of collective response that we need as blinken said china and russia in terms of both human rights abuses conventional military force projection whether it's china in the south china sea towards or into a pacific partners and allies or russia towards ukraine in the baltic and black seas in the case of moscow influence projection by economic deals in critical infrastructure was really reflected by blinken choice to visit both southeast asia pacific region and nato as its 1st his 1st overseas trip to reassure partners over the last 2 weeks what how do you think the nato partners in europe views to the fact that secretary of state blinken 1st met with with china you know he did the 2 or 3 asia and now he's coming to europe so europe was not number one on his calling card. i think it really was a reflection of the u.s.

commitment to our our nato partners and allies was reflected in that to go 1st and talk to china at least and i think that what you saw this week was that unified approach and kind of i think a coordinated effort to 1st put a line in the sand at least with what this this administration and its core nation with partners and allies will do when china takes. actions that are malign and has human rights violations such as against its weaker minority population that included sanctions on chinese officials that were coordinated and rolled out this week during the visit to europe by the u.s. e.u. and canada and that resulted in chinese retaliation against those e.u. officials and institutions including think tanks and academics that have tires least spoken truth to power when it comes to beijing's malign activities and then includes my friend a german member of the european parliament right now to put

a couple or so saying really hits close to home for me this and it really is something that that i think was coordinated having that speaking to china and then having this sort of approach i don't think it's in any way a reflection on not thinking that europe is the top of the the relationship agenda you mentioned being hard to come for he was on our program this week and i asked him if he had been informed why he was on this list of sanctions and he said no he just had been told that he was on the sanctions so go figure i want you to take a listen to part of what secretary blinken said today and then i've got a question for you take a listen when our allies sure shoulder their fair share of the burden they'll reasonably expect to have a fair say in making decisions we will honor that will treat the efforts of our allies to develop greater capacity as an asset not a threat. stronger allies make for stronger alliances so benjamin again what was

not said here is what was important to germany's nord stream to pipeline with russia and the us is not backing down from its position that germany should kill this project so what happens next do you think. well i think that i think that there's there's 2 things at play here lincoln is really calling on our collective alliances worldwide to update their for threat vector responses to both beijing and moscow including through critical infrastructure emerging technologies and using economic and for international coercion and that's why is for myself as a practicing physicist that really hits home to me these sort of sectors that need close coordination of our allies and partners between senior diplomatic and national security fishelson with practitioners of science and technology to really address these cross-cutting challenges but when it comes to north stream to again this is something that the majority of the transatlantic community us canada and most of the european continent has imposed because of its national security threats

this is a russian project 100 percent owned and operated by russia and blink it made it very clear at nato when it comes to u.s. german relations there is a multitude of policy cooperation after the trump era that washington berlin have from climate change to addressing troop level questions in germany to trade well the same time but blinken has made sure to make clear on this trip and before that there's been no ambiguity in the by the administration's position on the kremlin back nordstrom to pipeline and he made this clear that these project participants mostly russian firms by the way would face potential mandatory congressional sanctions and i'm wondering in washington do you think that the view is germany has allowed itself to be low old into a false sense of security with russia when we're talking about this pipeline is that how washington sees what's going on. well i wrote for the atlantic council

that you know when we look at germany's approach towards russia it's been decades of. hondo or change through trade policy that was reinvigorated by former chancellor gerhard schroeder who by the way works for nord stream to a russian state overprice rosneft at the same time but there's been a lot of hondo or trade without much of on goal in terms of change when it comes to russia's national security threats towards the e.u. the us in germany in particular and so in washington i think there is this consensus that the national security threat posed by the pipeline to ukraine to e.u. to the transatlantic community writ large is simply too great to allow it to go forward without real verifiable behavior changes by the russian federation that's why you saw both blinken statement on sanctions as well as this week 2 top democrats in the senate foreign relations committee chairman menendez and senator shaheen called for

an accelerated sanctions rolled out by the by that administration to ensure that putin's geo political aspirations aren't realized by the completion of nord stream too in other words whatever the future of north korean 2 might be the physical construction of the pipeline needs to be stopped 1st for any real dialogue and leverage on the kremlin to be maintained and why now the german green party has already made it a part of its party platform they said that if they get in power after germany's september election they will cancel the project so this isn't even a unified position in germany itself let me ask about about a minute left here last year you and i spoke about until america's ability to separate business in geopolitics when it comes to russia you have despite all of this pressure she has not changed her position. that's right i mean there have been a number of off ramps that this current government in berlin could have taken and decided not to there are you know from the buddhist hack to the extradition of

murder of a georgian dissident in the gotten in berlin russian security forces 2 to the russian security services poisoning opposition leader lexing of all me who berlin took and. supported very admirably before he went back to russia and has been sent sent to a penal colony in siberia so there's been no positive behavior change by the russian federation if you marriage this sort of economic project of this again 100 percent owned and operated by russia ok benjamin of course we're out of time benjamin but we appreciate your time and your insights as always tonight good talking with you. thanks so much brant. in his address from brussels today u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken did not mention the name donald trump what yet the entire speech was about the former u.s. president and doing what trump did to america's alliances it speaks to how much

impact 4 years of the trump presidency had on the world we were reminded of that today here in berlin when a reporter asked german chancellor angela merkel about the lack of a national plan for covert 19 testing merkel's answer the federal government cannot do everything the states will have to handle this where have we heard this before for a moment it sounded as if america had taken a page from trump's handbook on deflecting responsibility in a pandemic but the chancellor she went on to surprise us yet again she said the decision to shut down the country over easter had been hers alone and that it was a mistake and she asked the public to forgive her a head of state offering him a a culpa and affirming that the buck stops with her where have we heard that before the answer we haven't today blinken said trust in public institutions has been lost

and he's right that makes what the chancellor said today all the more remarkable and she owned a mistake and she said i'm sorry no hiding behind a tweet just an honest assessment of her own deeds this may not sound like the former us president but it is music to the ears of those who want to trust their leaders again. well the day is almost done the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either read the news or you can follow me a brit golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow gives another day we'll see you then everybody.

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a night bit don't get me started it's because the germans love to plan everything and they usually do a good job of it but. they don't always achieve what they want to achieve any quicker in some cases like the current vaccination rollout their absolute disaster is discussing it discussing everything trying to please everyone and just like the somewhat myth of german efficiency there are lots of other areas where the reputation doesn't quite match the reality germany is considered a pioneer in the fight against climate change at least that's the image you'll even stumble across the word any given in some english magazines and newspapers it means energy transition and in this case it's the monumental shift from jodie and potentially dangerous power sources to renewables applaudable but if you look behind the success stories you'll quickly discover a few dirty secrets as they say old habits die hard is over caught.

what's the 1st thing that comes to your mind when you think about germany let me guess it's probably going to be sausages football and of course lots and lots of beer. well i guess there's a bit of truth in every stereotype but it's actually one more thing that a lot of people associate with germany. realigning our economy to ensure i c o 2 emissions germany is often seen as a leader in the fight against climate change but to actually live up to our image. that's what's really and i'm going to tell you why. and you don't have to take just my word for it. this is bill hare top climate scientist i have sat in the eighty's of the last

century with politics with recycling systems with energy efficiency programs and this is cloudy i can fit she's one of germany's leading environmental economists. so by the sounds of it we should be absolute superstars on all things green and indeed we want to go pretty much carbon free by 2050 for climate. kind of like new year's resolutions just because you say you're going to work out more doesn't mean you're actually going to do it right now we're in fairly good shape but that's only because the coronavirus pandemic has pushed down emissions once things go back to normal we're going to be off track again. at risk of calling. everyone things we're green but actually we're keeping. secrets over here and something tells me you're going to guess what the 1st one is. what can i say we're in love with cars. and we always have been but most of them. will run

on these or gasoline and that means they pump out lots and lots of greenhouse gases it's hard to believe but transportation sector emissions and germany are the same today as they were in 1990. 7. the last 20. which you see here right right now is actually on the transportation sector germany is a car country we are producing a lot of cars we have especially strong. and the car lobby has always been close buddies with the most powerful politicians abandoning combustion engines and going the electric that's costly and risky but it needs to happen if we have to lower emissions. other countries have already set specific dates for when they want to phase out internal combustion engines completely francis said aiming to have them banned by 2040 the u.k. by 2035 at norway already by 2025 and what about germany.

concrete ban it's not will not happen and it's not happening in germany because of because of the car lobby to be fair though we're not entirely stuck in the past the government has plans to set up more charging stations and there are subsidies for people who buy electric cars things are changing just very slowly. through the. w. and. the manufacturing but the point is the. past. and what also needs to accelerate a lot faster is climate friendly public transport it's like a national pastime here to complain about trains being late overcrowded and expensive and that's because they often. can you believe germany invested in building about 60 kilometers of brand new highways and 2019 and just 6 kilometers

of train tracks so dixon is one big reason why. we're lagging behind our climate ambitions and then there's a 2nd even dirtier secret. they're still around $100.00 active coal power plants in germany. a 3rd of the country's electricity but compared to other energy sources there are massive c o 2 emitters the good news is that we're shutting all of them down the bad news not until 2038 that's 80 years later than experts say is needed to meet the paris climate goals. just have to guess when this plan started operating was 10 years ago or maybe 5 years ago now it was in may 2020 it sends a very bad signal to the rest of the world the o.e.c.d. countries are going to buy around 2030 in germany doesn't match that and when are the big emitters in the south and the developing world also need to buy around 2040

it's a very hard case to make. one of the world's richest countries is not actually made in the scientifically to find time to. italy is planning to phase out cold by 2025 and france by 2022 well they rely on nuclear energy and sweden with its relatively small population is already coal free. why on earth is germany lagging behind on this front. we have had a lot of mining in the western part of germany since the 1950 and that relates to of a strong connection of the coal miners to the society also to the cartridge entity but also to the political lobbying framework and that resulted still that we did not manage should to phase out call early absolutes quickly recap germany is dangerously addicted to cars in germany just can't shake its habit.

cold. leave us germany it's not that climate frankly as a whole world i think we have to do much more related to this. around 2030. entry development and in the transport area we have to do that transportation transition and the product. system and much much much much. less. that it's also electric cars which we need on the streets there's a lot to do but hey we've got an image to lose. well it's not just. steak it's the nation's future 2 thirds of germans surveyed say protecting the environment is paramount you can see it in the way they love to sold

their rubbish their reputed for being recycling world champions you've got a bit of a plastic one for paper metal batteries. clear. and then there is for the stuff you can't assign to the other bins but if you put any of the other rubbish in there you're in big trouble of course sorting out the plastic from everything else is a great thing and the germans banned plastic bags at supermarkets he is ago but actually using less plastic and other sixes would be even better. did you know that you live in a world full of plastic. it's in the water you drink and even the air you breathe and the food you eat is full of tiny plastic particles. every week you ingest up to 5 rounds of micro plastics the equivalent of a credit card. that much of that will remain in your body with as yet unknown

effect on your health. a 3rd of all the plastic produced goes into the packaging that you buy. if you're a german you generate an average 38 kilograms of waste from plastic packaging every year that's more than a european average of 24 kilograms and no matter where you live the richer you are the more ways to generate if you buy things online if you create even more plastic waste. chances are you'll use half of your plastic products and then discard them. but the plastic will stick around you and your environment for the most part not just for your lifespan but for centuries. also which we know a little dirty secret germany used to ship a sizable contingent of its plastic waste to china beijing put a stop to that not all that long ago it was a rather time that she jumping and outs to investors in davos switzerland at the

world economic forum that the chinese was set on becoming the globe's green ambassadors did they want to clean up their act they also wanted to become leaders in take out official intelligence robotics well they've already achieved that they still love the germans for their cars and industrial machines for how much longer. because you all are well this name. is thomas newman bagger runs the chinese operations of e.b.m. pops to a german manufacturer of electric motors and fans his task is to grow the business but how does that work we hear a lot about unfair constraints on foreign firms in china. or this is it shanghai factory e.b.m. pabst has been selling fans in china since the mid 1990 s. sales have been growing continuously even during the pandemic but things have got

a little difficult lately because beijing has unveiled some new industry standards norful china is trying to introduce its own standards they used to just to dock european or american ones but now china wants to assume a greater leadership role with. different industry standards lead to higher costs for companies operating in more than one jurisdiction the european commission has indicated it sees no need to change established international standards. china is germany's most important trading partner and in terms of goods europe's as well thousands of european firms operate there china may be promising a more level playing field but the european union chamber of commerce in china still has a long list of complaints position paper of european chambre $430.00 pages line 100 cases every year only a small part of that gets resolved. laborous process and put it together and this

all of the companies operating already in china a lot of companies that would like to do more business china are not able to do so the symmetry between the openness of europe and china is quite quiet when you watch . while foreign firms are allowed to bid for state contracts they rarely actually. when out against chinese competitors. chinese state owned enterprises are often at an advantage thanks to generous subsidies enabling them to offer lower prices that applies to outside china as well. and in the digital economy the fastest growing markets foreign players have little to no access. e.b.m. pabst tests the noise levels of its products. with very quiet fans it aims to win over chinese consumers an increasingly important market for the german

company. with growing faster in china than anywhere else you know currently accounts for 13 or 14 percent of our total revenue and the figure is set to rise a lot. we're aiming to increase that share to 30 percent of isaac and so. right now commercial matters a sometimes overshadowed by the pandemic. i just want to see how you're doing after 14 days in corinth. imagine it's a pretty tough being holed up in a little hotel room for 14 days well. we're doing ok we're not in the cern i'm going for a cup of coffee. being stuck in one room all in all i coped pretty well. china is a key driver of the global economy and knows how to use its growing economic might

to further its interests. that also applies to its dealings with the european union and its demands for greater fanous. we are standing on 27 feet and so it's always very easy for china in order to cause dissonance and. rifts within the european decision making process for example 70 plus $112.00 e.u. countries from the eastern european bloc as well as 5 that actually not eat your members and china sit together in order to discuss business something i guess brussels doesn't really like. said the monkey tax sense and competitive disadvantage against china stresses its right to protect its industries in order to catch up with the west is it going to change i think china's own pace and i think the kind of control they want to maintain over their economy will only let let us

have a small portion of the whole game that we have so it's a serious problem with the market.