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on the chrome running rampant japanese government, introducing new measures to combat the virus. but will it be enough? and will global supply chain issues be the grinch stole christmas. we take you to america's busiest train up welcome to dw business on daniel winter in berlin. china has put sanctions on for americans seated on the u. s. commission on international religious freedom. the country has frozen their assets and banned them from entering that in response to us sanctions on china. the biden administration had levied earlier this month criticizing human rights abuse of the explore new areas of cooperation such as in the new energy, green and digital economy. china is germany's biggest trading partner and the single most important market for the german automotive industry. got into chinese state media. she asked sholtes to provide a fair business environment for chinese investors. and small,

i'm joined by fraser, how we all through the book, read capitalism. it's always great to have you on friday, so thank you very much for joining us. i want to focus in on germany and china. what's the state of play here between the 2 countries? well, of course it wanting better relations, but of course under america we were very good relations with china. certainly lots of business done. she a year ago, pushed through the drive, the final, the comprehensive agreement off investment. so in that sense, things were relatively positive for china, but since then things are more difficult. the green party is going to be much bigger. se parliamentarians are much back on germany, our side push back on china and they're looking to germany. it's leading power. and with so much trade in being done with try not to take the lead at that to basically so reset relations and say, look what's going on in the past as i were going to operate going forward. so relatively good relations,

but room for improvement from japanese perspective. do germany in the you need to play increasingly tougher role here. after all, there is criticism that the u. s. is backing more and more away from the world stage? sure, well i certainly think it's an important it's, it's a way that you to germany can take a bigger role on the world stage. but i also think it's just simply a realization that engagement with try, you know, on an always on a school. so economic basis is not really an agent for change with in china and that human rights abuses for one unfair trade practices. all which the european chamber of commerce is less than $900.00 recommendations to improve the environment for you to be in business is doing, doing business in china. you know, there's lots of room for improvement there. and there's a feeling that china isn't playing fair and simply knowing those concerns. i think i want to pick you up on that actually, because as she said that he was hoping that germany would treat chinese companies fairly. so what do you make that statement?

it sounds like you believe that the criticism should be going and the other direction. well, the crew certainly should be going another direction. china is notorious for body or stay and train all sorts of ways. they may not be 5 years, but it certainly could be approvals, it could be financial treatment, all state arms. so there's a whole host of ways. it's an uneven play. and of course, that's boilerplate stuff at the 1st meeting, clearly wants a better environment for their businesses. but i think a very think with china in terms of the business practices. all right, well phrase a how a china analyst. it's always a pleasure to have you on. thank you very much. thank very much nasa loser to talk about covered again on the crohn infections of multiplying across europe. the world health organization warns within weeks on the kron could push already stretched european health care systems to the brink. that's why the german government has

announced new measures which will take effect after christmas, including private gatherings, vaccinated people to a maximum of 10 before new year's eve. and of course, no fireworks must be sold. spectators will be banned from concepts, cultural shows and sporting events, including football matches. but does that go far enough? some experts insist on much tougher restrictions. the wilbert caught institute, which is responsible for disease control and prevention in germany recommends maximum contact restrictions that should start immediately up to a lockdown, including the closure of restaurants and non essential shops. it also urge the reduction of travel to the absolute necessary, well, let speak now to sebastian de leon, who is from the hands buckler foundation and is a macro economist. thank you very much for joining us, sebastian. now have we got better at managing the harm caused by the virus, or is it just as damaging to businesses in the economy as before? i mean, we have clearly gotten better in managing that if you remember the 1st way for in

2020 basically supply chains all over europe collapsed and we had the deep dropping economic activity. we didn't see that last year. and i would guess that that we won't see this this either. i mean, definitely we are going to have a difficult half year driven economy is set to, to stagnate or shrink or very lightly over the winter. but that still comparison to, to what, what the hats in the past. now i've, i've struggled sebastian to try and find a positive message in our covert reporting is 2022. going to get any better. what do you think? i mean, in our full cost we, we see a very strong recovery after this winter. i mean all the elements for recovery i'm place and as soon as the most recent way for the current wave, of course it will be controlled. we think that germany economy will be strong recovery because, well, it has been held back by, by

a lack of semiconductors. in 2021 and the manufacturing industries, they have full order books. so they are going to produce as soon as the semiconductor, as they are just the germans have saved roughly 200000000000 years in excess to what they usually would have saved. and they're going to spend that as soon as infections come down in the spring. so german company is ready to pounce as soon as the opportunity comes along and but now we have a new government in place in germany. what does this government need to do to kick start the economy? while this whole pandemic is continuing? i think they don't really have to do much. the recovery will come by itself as long as the government just to, to protect businesses from, from going bankrupt over the winter. and they have the instruments in place for that. in addition to that, the government has a pledge to to increase public investment, which is important for the medium and long term. so i think we are on the right

track to 2 very strong expansion in 20222023. well, thank you for helping me to deliver at least somewhat of a positive message amid all the doom and gloom that we've been having. sebastian de leon, macro economist. thank you very much. thank you very much. america's 2nd busiest port in long beach california is working at full tilt but even a 247 work schedule hasn't been enough to keep up with consumer demand for christmas. long beaches far from alone, shipping bottlenecks of lead to delayed deliveries surging prices and empty shelves around the world. that's also sparked coals for a re think of immensely complex global supply chains. our reporter stuff and simon's investigates. ah, nothing absolutely nothing is beginning to look like christmas here at the los angeles and long beach ports in california. these trade helps of the world's 5th

largest economy or anything. but in the holiday spirit, both ports are battling a supply chain crisis. they're working on a 247 schedule now. however, it's too little too late for the hungry american market course. not an issue here. sorry, california is that every major container gateway in this globalized world. here the aftermath of the 2020 co would condemn it. looks like this. at any given day, in average of almost a 100 ships, most of them from asia are forced to line up and wait, anchoring offshore for weeks wasting time until they can finally dock and offload their cargo on to american soil. as you are aware of the epicenter, manufacturing of the world is asia. more specifically china. so obviously when we talk about the corporate 19 buyers, if at any point in the supply chain, it's impacted by the buyers because of the impact oliver and the impact in terms of closures of factories and manufacture centers. this is

a domino offense. americans want to buy things, lots of things. however, they're often face surprise and disappointment when strolling through the aisles of hostile we're all when browsing online. this is the cup house in san marino bike and plant shop and here is where the logistics challenge and the supply chain problem hits actually home. how with those hits bikes, for example, there's just about a dozen. he anomaly. this shop has many, many, many boxes of those kids when it's ready for consumers to grab for christmas or any other time. now, that's all they have. it's not just customers affect the tool for businesses. big enders, especially small across the country. it's a disaster for the pandemic. you would just go to brands website and you buy everything on a b to b, which is, which is the backend where retailers go to buy things and you would just order at will. now we take deposits for sometimes over a year out for a bicycle,

latest find a majority of americans, regardless of course, supply chain crisis. as a big concern, there seems to be no easy fix. the underlying reason for the supply chain disruption and shortage is a multi dimensional and complex example. the trucking, the american trucking industry says it is 80000 truck is short, not enough people want to become professional truck drivers any more energy. no c. tina started this trucking, driving academy just 3 years ago. permission training, a new generation of truckers and bringing real change to the industry. so when you talk to companies, especially larger companies who are trying to recruit large volumes of drivers, they are recognizing that they are working. i think they were not with the flow of people's demands. and so they're recognizing that work life balances are important

and benefits are important. besides those new reform efforts, tina things, the entire logistics industry must change more fundamentally, sentiment echoed by many experts. so what we can use to or last 30 years is taking manufacturing across the globe and pinning everything under one node, one country, one continent. and we created this long string supply chain. and we've really lost the true supply chain resiliency which is to diversify your network. and not put all your eggs in one basket back to the los angeles and each ports processing around $20000000.00 containers a year now. and with more to come will be a major challenge. it will take the rethinking and reforming of every aspect of the global supply chain. and a reminder of the top business story we're following for you this. our gemini and china seek a close relationship in new energy green and digital economy. that's from

a readout of a phone call between the does all actual teaching things. both sides also want a level playing field when it comes to investing on either side and you're up to date with dw business. i'm daniel winter in berlin from me and the whole business team to stay healthy. thanks for the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and context? the corona virus update the coded 19 special next on d w. how long does and i, or an eternity time. it can be measured precisely. and yet

each person experiences it differently as if there are different forms of time. time a phenomenon, a dimension and illusion. about time starts december 31st on d, w ah, welcome to your cobra 19 special. i'm chelsea delaney in berlin. travel restrictions are tightening once again in europe. last week, germany classified all neighboring nations as high risk, while france band, all tourist and business travelers from the u. k. this, as the british government says it's facing a tidal wave of new infections fuel by omar crime scene. you k recorded a leap of 72 percent and the number of daily cases compared to the week before, at over 82000 cases per day. it's more than any time during the pandemic. g,

w correspondent, charlotte charleston. toll reports from london midst of cheer on the streets of london, once again bringing hollow. shops in hospitality may all be open. christmas party still allowed to go ahead as planned. but cove it is causing its dark shadow over the days ahead. experts warm, the omicron tidal wave is coming and it's coming at a phenomenal pace. what we know is that it reproduces very, very fast. um, a week ago us also, we said it term reproduces every 23 days or 3 times a week and putting it very simply. that means in one week you get 8 times as many sections, 2 weeks, 64 times as many, 3 weeks, 512 times. as many says coming at us like an express train. you kay's already reporting record cove cases with on the chrome. now the dominant variance here in

london resisting calls from some for further restrictions. the government's focusing instead on its booster campaign, resulting in lengthy queues at vaccine sites across the country. obviously though, micron is growing so rapidly london and we just wanted to get in as quickly as possible. so many people i thought of getting over it again from last week out of the office policy 1416 them gall cove. it clearly all mc on is really spreading quickly. it's very relevant or very important for me to concur today for in 5 hours . not that i want to make an issue of it. brother, i live with my mother and father who, of in their vouchers. i want to ideally get it done full. i went to go and see relatives. some people over christmas. i can't feel my toes though, but it's okay. it's okay. the government's starting the doors open to every adult in england to get boosted by the end of the year. they're hoping to offer up to a 1000000 jobs a day is early data suggests the 3rd vaccine is key to combating on the crop. this

is a massive undertaking for the health service they're being asked for another major, maxine push to try and vent hospitals like this one from being overwhelmed with our concerns. it won't be enough. as people here lie, not for that boosters. there are already people in hospital with alma chron, hospitalizations are climbing, and one person's confirmed to have died with oma chron. while it's not yet clear how severe the variant is, the sheer number of cases alone could prove overwhelming. in the shadow of this vaccine center, a reminder of what's at stake, a memorial wall commemorating the 10s of thousands of lives lost to cove it. and it's with the pain and sacrifice at the past. that this weary nation is now facing the threat of another worrying winter to come more for more on the situation in the u. k. let's talk to julian tang a clinical ver ologist at the university of leicester julian. i thank you for

joining us. the situation in the u. k is already bad, but recent models from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine indicate it's about to get a lot worse. therefore, casting between $2575000.00 from over kind by the end of april. what will the coming month look like for the u. k? yes, so some questions about those models and they have been wrong before overestimating north. that's in cases that one of the key things about the model is that they're trying to model the severity of illness from, from neutralization studies dark in the lab as well. we know from previous attempts that subversive illnesses very hot model, and that way that i suspect that the number infections may be close to the mark with the impossible stations maybe less than the model predicts that in the most pessimistic scenario, even in the most optimistic scenario where maybe not as many hospitalization, so just to wait and see. and also we know that these are responses are also very

important in keeping people as a hospital and have more severe disease and teeth responses and not really correlated in the model of the many folks accountability neutralization that results. but no matter what way you would really look at this, the u. k, the rest of the world is facing more cases. more hospitalizations, is that avoidable and the u. k. but now is difficult as if left it very long was you stop, see the peak of these cases. now use irma con, it's essentially the horses bolted. so even though you impose restrictions, now, there are lot of viruses to lock people out there who are seeing the own con, no van across the population lockers. delta hasn't gone away either. that the restrictions will reduce both the variance, answers of infections and death and hospitalization. and death, hopefully, but now it's very late on to do this and with christmas new year already upon us, this as low as asians now will have increased even as we speak. you know,

even behind closed doors, we've seen in recent days that countries like the netherlands returning to locked down. do you think leisure is that straight to a potential lockdown? are coming in the u. k. social a purely various point of view. i think that's probably what's needed if they wanted to achieve that goal of actually reducing was fro, omicron, and not just for 2 weeks. as some of said already, i think for at least 4 to 6, we're gonna have to use that kind of measure to really lockdown the virus. but then of course, at the concert, hostile oak hotly hospitality industry and economy in a, in a wider sense, sort of social psychological. well sir. so i can be really hard to struggle balance between that, those 2 extremes. one of the challenges here a seems to be that we don't know a lot about homework on right now. there's still a lot of unanswered questions about how deadly it is. or how can governments, including the government in the u. k. draft health policies. when our understanding of this varying is still quite limited. so this the issue of the cautionary

approach in effect control. if you're not sure about how severe the virus is, how fast it spreads, you put in place measures that will cover those eventualities, even at the most pessimistic level. now, of course, that has a knock in effect for him education as society and economy. but if you poorly look and control the virus or some of the sockets, asian cultures have done very well as, as a kind of restriction of measures that you need to impose early on. and then you can reap the benefits of that later on. that when you open up was of ours is down to, you know, virtually 0 and them over the u. k. and other european countries, the and it was just far too high for that. so what you're looking for as a mitigation that of the peak and hopefully something we can live with, as well as, you know, overwhelming your local health services. you mentioned there that net effective measures they've seen in, in south either asian countries. what exactly did you mean by that? can you elaborate a bit on what those have been?

yes, so rather than getting the panoramic when they weren't sure about the viruses, well, the original will constrain the went to universal masking and forced isolation. quarantine of effects and contacts. there will be had security taxes on risk, ankles and mobile phone apps to track. they've been what he broke, those isolation, quarantine orders that even new friends they had to that they made, it won't stay at home and they need a written permission slip. so to leave the house for essential business that, that kind of measure, i did actually work very well to stem the tide of carrot in the service wave. and i was more people vaccinated and hung had baffling unity and the risk of severe disease and death is much less at the moment. but if you want to reduce the risk of over one of the health care service, cuz they're dealing with the things that in the winter winter months that the you may need some kind of locked down, or at least something similar to restrict those numbers. that even server that given that lower the 80000. now. so julian taking the long view here many in europe

had really hoped his christmas would be different than the last. it doesn't appear that that's going to be happening. do you see a risk and this pattern every winter, just repeating itself and from now on? those are list put a lot to listing. so my colleagues, i think this versus no doubt into the human population. the number of spite person mutations, though rapid spread with less severity, from data coming out to south africa and also so early they thinner from hong kong and also chambers suggest that the vice wrecked gets better to meet the payroll and lower asperity track. i think these are all changes i'd expect to see for a virus better adapt his human population, the host over the next few years. i think what you gonna see is a modern mara from device on my spread more rapidly, but for which most people may not need vaccination. and that is julian tang, a clinical neurologist at the university of lester. thanks so much for analysis. you now it's your turn. here's of your question for our science correspondent

derek williams. oh, my husband was vaccinated then 2 weeks later tested positive for covered 19. could that be due to the vaccine? new book, depending on what kind of test he took for different reasons. there are basically 2 different types of diagnostics. the most accurate is called a polymerase chain reaction or a p c r test. now it works my amplifying tiny amounts of sars, covey, two's genetic material. in a sample, up to levels where it can be detected exactly why vaccines can't cause a positive pcr result is complicated scientifically. but more or less comes down to the fact that most of the currently approved vaccines don't use a full version of the real virus to kick start an immune response. they instead contain short stretches of genetic material that don't replicate that the

grade fast and cells and that aren't detected or amplified by pcr. the 2nd class of detection diagnostics called androgen tests they work by revealing the presence of certain proteins that are specific to sars covey. 2, they're cheaper and faster, but also less accurate than p c r. because some vaccines cause your body to produce the corona, virus spike protein to, to kick, start your immune response to the pathogen. it doesn't seem impossible that an antigen test which detects proteins, might be confused by that. however, to avoid any confusion, most commercial antigen tests are not designed to detect spike protein, but other corona virus pro, am in addition, vaccines are injected into the arm, but detection tests,

they swab the nose or the throat, the cells, there are not the ones producing spike proteins after vaccination, so long and short vaccines don't cause coven 19 tests to turn up positive on the presence of the virus? does. thanks for watching. ah, ah, ah, ah ah, ah ah .

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