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to please ah, for a time long, but still very much alive. d w, travel, you'll go to the central hospital in germany, europe. i recognized where exactly. it was fun and i've learned a lot our culture history. all their d. w, travel extremely worth a visit with the u. s. s. allies back kits. trade stamps on china. japan and the netherlands looked set to follow their friends in washington. him imposing export blocks on microchips of aging. we'll hear from our correspondent to new york. the chancellor's charm offensive. germany's all r sholtes as in south america,

having to resurrect trade talks between the region and the e. u. and mining misery here. how indigenous groups and argentina are concerned about the countries in facing role in supplying the wells lithium, sustainable business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. the u. s. trade offensive against china moves up a notch. washington's attempts to persuade allies to join in with export restrictions against beijing appear to be working now japan and the netherlands of thought to be planning to follow in america's footsteps. it began with suspicions and national security concerns. the u. s. government announced in october 2022, that they would be exercising control over exports to china. specifically in the export of semiconductor chips, claiming they could be used to make weapons commit human rights abuses and gain a military advantage. the bite and government invited others to restrict the

export of this technology to beijing. the latest addition might be the netherlands and japan. even though tokyo's biggest trade partner is beijing. yes, you have a lot of countries are being big partners with china. you're not pushing back the seat. china is certainly a competitor in some areas. certainly a threat. i'm the chinese language or, and jar towards japan recently has been very belligerent. so they're certainly, i don't know if it's an alliance forming, but they're certainly many countries, liberal democracies are coming together and pushing back on china environments, changing the china engagement, also and response beijing term. this as a move to contain china, adding that it violated market principles and international trade order. china has infested billions of dollars on its own chip industry, which still relies on foreign vendors for the equipment it needs to manufacture.

chips, blissful says over to the states and having a financial correspondence in new york yen score strongest against your politics or getting a trade advantage was actually behind the u. s. approach to china. well, rob, but i would say that this is part of biden's national security agenda or strategy . joe biden is considering this a win win win situation on one side to you actually slow down the chinese development for artificial intelligence or a weapons. on the other side, you create more well paid job them in the united states. and then also the united states gets a, gets less reliant on the supply chain some out of china. so there you have the when, when, when, what was interesting to see or read here on monday is that japan and the netherlands have been rather quiet about the agreement. so we still have to wait and see how

far reaching that is. but in general, that definitely fits into a jo biden's agenda. it's looking like they're come to say, no, it's not totally confirmed, but will the us be hoping that it can bring even more of its allies on board? well, i mean if you look at germany, for instance, all of sholtes went to china in november and he took some, he also comes with but to big german, a company with him to reassure china that's they're still will be business. so that's the one side and sign up for many years has been the fastest growing economy on the planet. so definitely a lot of countries, a lot of european countries also still want to do business with china having that said, also, i think it was end of november early december, the german government actually blocked the sale of to a german semi conductor effect or east to china, so there is this back and forth them at the moment. but in general, i believe that

a lot of countries still want to make the business with china and do not want to anger, busying maybe one final word. if you also look the relationship between europe and the united states, there's also some tension with the inflation a reduction act. so we really have to wait and see how many more countries will play along with the united states when it comes to politics against side. yes, there is indeed that trans atlantic tension or that is, and i thank you very much in the culture in new york forests. now let's take a look at some of the other global business stories that are making the news. china's smartphone sales slumped in 2022, falling 13 percent the lowest level in a decade, according to take that from research firms. and they say coded controlled supply chain issues that blame china shipped to 186000000 devices last year. ford says it slashing the price of one of its flagship electric cars just weeks

after competitor tesla made. a similar move is lowering the cost of this $1.00, its mustang mac e by as much as $6000.00, or says it wants to keep the s u v. competitive in a fast changing mark. us aircraft manufacturer, boeing says it will open a new assembly line to produce more of its best selling model. the 737 max in everett, washington, the new assembly line will be the companies, 4th, producing the max. the model was previously grounded for almost 2 years following 2 deadly crashes. and the german economy shrank in the 4th quarter of last year, slipping 0.2 percent from the previous quarter. as according to the federal statistics office, overall york's largest economy group by 1.8 percent last year, despite elevated inflation and high energy prices. now securing better access to much sought after raw materials and revitalizing trade talks. the german chancellor has a couple of key objectives for his current trip to south america. i love shots as

already taught trade with argentinian present, alberto fernandez and discussed natural resources with the julian government. now his in brazil with luna to silver. it was back in power shots is hoping for another revival in the form of renewed trade talks in the e. u. a south of south america mercosur but is now the right time. that's the question that we put to role langham from the kill institute. the world economy service agreement has been negotiated for decades and you'll see ation stopped in 2019. so i think this is high time to revitalize this agreement. of course, it would be the 1st agreement which you would conclude with another regional integration scheme. this makes this scheme of this agreement very, very important. on the other hand, of course, a lot of barriers,

especially with respect to the sustainability issue, to the deforestation of the rain forest. now after both. so now of course with situation has improved with ruler. on the other hand, brazil is very much a divided country politically. and the question is whether arguments and of course also commitments which have been labeled in the agreement of course, will be implemented, implementation and enforcement is a major problem. in brazil, chancellor sholtes will be hoping he's already done enough during his latin american to, to secure more of an increasingly precious resource. lithium is of course, an essential ingredient in the batteries that are set to power. germany's green transition argentina could be key to meeting that growing need, but indigenous groups are highly concerned about their country's potential role. ah, for generations earnestina has processed the lamb of will and this knowledge she

has passed on to her daughter maria. her handiwork delights tourists. but these women are varied for the future. yeah, look, else we have no water in the mountains, is i have to walk all the way up to find some. rain has always been red here in the far north, west of argentina. climate change is making it worse. when the ground water level drops, the ecosystem is in great danger. indigenous people from all across the region have come to protest. they want to hear from environmental activists and lawyers to understand their rights. lithium, the raw material that argentina wants to continue, mining is in great demand in germany where the electric, our market is booming. william philip, it can't be that every us american has a tesla or every european can replace their b, m, w. this exhausted the planet and there's not enough lithium for this any way around . nature can be sacrificed for the energy transition of the global north,

a know the regions. salt lake's contain lithium. it takes millions of gallons of fresh water and salt water to extract lithium. and while mining companies consider this water extraction to be harmless, studies show that this could ultimately lower ground water levels. germany is looking for partners in the climate and energy crisis, but argentina isn't an equal partner because of its ongoing financial crisis. some fear the cash strapped country will sell out for foreign cash. and of course, big industry will come if argentina generously opens the gates. there is no strategic question here. no awareness, this is very, very angry. we will move back together. they want to set an example. maria as to a balloon should float in the sky with her message. we protect the water, it says the building,

the whole world will see that we are many working together ready to them and that the wind and sun helped the balloon rise to the sky. their message is about more than environmental protection. it's about social justice. they all want a world to be safer and ecologically secure, but they also want to preserve the existing environment from exploitation. staying up in the air and commercial air travel is seen as one of the great scourges of the environmental movement, but could green a flying soon be getting off the ground you. a airline emirates thinks it may have just made a major move in the right direction. here you can see one of its boeing triple 7 is being filled up with so called sustainable aviation fuel staff. it's an alternative to kerosene, made from recycled materials such as old cooking oil. as the jet took off without

in passengers. it became the 1st to be powered by and in an engine running entirely on the more environmentally friendly fuel a. so from man the business, seen him berlin from all. you can have a c, d, w dot com slash business. we're also on the day to when use youtube channel, you can check out our latest data we business special, where we look at the big tech jobs the co because yvonne is on facebook as well with d to we don't business on that. and until next time with i think how probably when send me one with the sound of the bill to him gets huh. when it comes to tech, it's got way more of the b y, d 3 from china. the manufacturer thinks of it to impress on the european market

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