europe is trying to break is dependence on china. we'll have a look at raw materials mining in scandinavia. and portugal is moving away from fossil fuels. but the country's energy transition isn't quite as clean as crystal. welcome to the program. it seems like nothing is to distract from gigi pings, moments. china on monday, the late the release of 3rd quarter growth figures along with other economic indicators expected this week. the likely reason well, the 20th the congress of china's communist party is underway in very beijing and d. g ping is expected to win a 3rd term as the parties general secretary amassing more power than any chinese leader since miles dawn. but to mister, she must take on some difficult tasks, especially the economic instability of the country. the chinese economy is facing extreme turbulence in the 2nd quarter. the economy grew by just 0.4 percent

compared with the same period in 2021. the world bank has also lowered forecasts for this year from 5 to 2.8 percent. the biggest reason for this is the government's rigid 0 covert policy. several cities and different regions are still in complete or partial lockdown. they are responsible for 30 percent of china's g d p growth. now as a consequence of the lock downs, residents are buying less products. factories and ports remain closed and supply chains remain this dirt. now let's take a closer look here. what's at stake at the party congress? and for china overall with d, w, a, china analyst, clifford conan here in the studio. and with york book him, he's the head of the you chamber in commer of commerce in virginia. welcome to both of you. your. let me start with you. did you find any positive news for western

companies? in g, ping's speech yesterday was all about audiology lining the country behind him. it's this week as a victory left for him, so there was nothing that's going to disturb the masses. so there was not much on specifics there when it comes to business. i think there are more worries for us. the good news particular, the topic about self reliance, china feeling the heat from u. s. and trying to basically become less dependent globalization. and hence that's all good news for us. and clifford over to you, china state, and part of either says, we're going to stick with the 0 covert strategy. jumping has hailed this as a success. why does he want to stick to that if it's so detrimental to the country's economy? well, at this stage it's, it's a policy that he will be judged on because he started early and he did have early successes. now there's no scientific reason or very few scientific reasons. it's

just to infectious the all micron variant. so the reason he's staying with it is because he kind of, he's stuck with it now. politically, it's very important that he stays with us on also other countries health system is still very much in development. so will be quite problematic. i think if there were a major outbreak there, so he's, he's basically sticking with it for that reason. you're back to you. so with china holding on to the 0 coven strategy, i mean, we seen that companies have been looking for alternatives to china. we see that investment of the companies in china has been declining. is china going to become in front? this is just another foreign market. no, it's certainly the size wise. it's too important. in particular, for car chemicals, machinery, those companies and that feels have to invest more and more is just too big and too important. but you're right. many ways that companies are looking at a tentative,

we're not moving out of china. we're looking into india, southeast asia, even back into the european union in order to see where we can do stuff. and of course, the longer china rates for the 0 tolerance policy, the more the movement is for new investment going to other places something which of course there will be irreversible. so china, in front of me is opening the doors in other countries for european investment, or mr. she also said that he's not ruling out force when it comes to what he says, uniting taiwan with china. how prepared are western companies in china should have come to that and the subsequent sanction sanctions? well, i mean nothing new there. he has always been se, if there is a red line telling independence and they always indicate that they will use force. i don't see any war or any time soon. of course the located during the

a wanting shot at the same time. china is dependent on the a conduct to supply chain and in case they're located or let alone or of course, china. in fact, the whole goes down in flames. clifford back to you here in the studio. what will beijing's future economic policy? which is somewhat today's economic policy, what they're going to hold on to mean to citizens and consumers around the world. but i think what we're seeing in this congress is quite, there's quite a lot of rhetoric around common prosperity on june circulation, which are quite vague. i think what you're seeing is more, if you, as you see more stage interference in the economy, you're going to see things much more of a focus on the domestic market. and i think that means that for, for companies side of side of china, for example,

is going to become quite difficult, particularly with the political stresses that we've seen that joe biden has just introduced new sanctions on that new restrictions on tech transfer. which means that american americans working for the companies are quitting. so it's, it's going to have quite a serious impact, dw, clifford conan. and you're good, good. the head of the chamber of commerce emerging. thanks to you both. thank you. now europe, in many aspects still depends heavily on china, like critical raw materials that are necessary for the production of batteries in electric vehicles for example. but the european union is trying to loosen this dependence. how well our reporter looked around and europe's largest nickel mine and finland, europe's largest nickel, deposit fly deep in the finish wilderness on this site, 60 square kilometers, large cobalt and nickel. are mind. the mineral rock is stored and irrigated on

giant heaps. it's hot and humid. bacteria help remove the critical raw material from the rock. it's called biological extraction, or bio leaching. the process takes 4 years and replaces the energy intensive. conventional melting process. our seal to hold print is on the other. it's 60 percent lower than i am in the us. yeah. but it's ah, that is very important for 4 of our customers in conventional production, the rock is heated and melted, but not for tara frame. and that's why the plants ecological balance is much better . once europe's car industry shifts towards electric cars, massive amounts of nickel will be needed for batteries. so far,

china has dominated the raw materials market, creating an unwanted dependency for europe. meanwhile, in sweden, car battery maker, north volt is desperately looking for climate conscious suppliers. as the company aims to improve it's carbon footprint. the company's electricity comes entirely from renewables, but raw materials with a good ecological balance or key major component there is really energy. what type of energy yet you're feeding into your system than there are other things always like adding recycling to your production and working and not least with your your suppliers, for components raw materials to lower their emission back to finland. terror frame is currently sending most of its raw materials to asia, especially china. they want to change that i. person always is that the robot that i offer here, money factor law,

battery, obligates zona, will remain for the most part in german made causal friends. my a dos we it is made cause northern europe holds plenty of resources for car batteries. it could be enough to make the continents industry independent from the chinese monopoly on raw material. and now to some of the other global business stories making use. apple is freezing plans to use memory chips made by a chinese state from the company. the decision comes after washington impose to tie the controls against chinese technology companies. apple had originally planned to start using the tech from young se memory technologies as early as this year. pilots for move tanza subsidiary euro wings are on strike monday, according to their union. they want an increase of rest periods and your hours in the sky management has called the demands excessive as it struggles to satisfy

demand over a 100 flights have been canceled. most of them domestic portugal is among the 1st european union countries to leave coal behind. it'll share the lessons it has learned so far and november's cop 27 you and climate summit in egypt . but there is a dirty secret behind portugal clean energy transition. it's been nearly a year since steam billowed from the cooling towers of the coal plan in pago, north east of the capital, lisbon. the station portugal last coal plant shut down in november last year. portugal is one of a handful of e u. member states, along with belgium and sweden, to have renounced coal as an energy source. but some experts say the transition has been badly planned. malesky fuss that says on to my assessment of the portuguese decision to bring forward the end of call use is frankly negative for you. it was a serious mistake that will be further complicated by the war in ukraine regarding

the much portugal aims to increase its wind power and solar capacity. it currently ranks 8th and 13th respectively in europe. but it remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels, which accounted for 71 percent of its energy mixed in 2020 percent locally. so we've traded our coal for spanish, coal, and nuclear power, and we pay for the finished product bio. we had coal fired power stations, they were paid for by they were shutting down. and now we import electricity from splain. soft public acids improv. you've authorized i in products bank. how is this acceptable in terms of economic, technological, or environmental strategy, a link and strategic nami, context, logic or me and fault? the government says it's committed to the energy transition and aims to increase solar power production by 50 percent,

to 3 gigawatts this year. by 202680 percent of portugal, energy is expected to be green energy. and here's a look at our top story. at this hour, china has delayed the release of its latest economic data, including an update on its growth figures, which are expected to be a record. los, the delay comes, as officials gather for the communist party. congress voting on a historic 3rd term. for general secretary judy pic, that's i shall, thanks for watching with with

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