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a new horror. flick starting, we need the pool. is it a case of self censorship? ah, irish manage. you welcome to d. w. use asia. glad you could join us the past few days. have seen the articulation of 2 very different visions of international governance. one based on might the other based on rules and to leaders from asia have symbolically represented. these visions, chinese presidents should you being met is found about vladimir putin in moscow. on the same day, japanese prime minister for me. okay. should i wasn't keith meeting president of already me? it is a landscape. japan has already sanctioned russia taken in ukrainians and provided more than $7000000000.00 in assistance to keith. but because she does with it, took everyone by surprise, including japanese citizens, ball and home,

well done to japan, foreign ministry. i'm usually frustrated with the diplomacy, but this time i think it very well. my only concern is how we can come up with the money to fund a to you as a japanese person. i wonder about that. but the pledge because she made was a good thing for the people and ukraine. women, i hope to pans action will lead to peace. i want to criticize or deny the importance of what he did is really out there will have a positive outcome. i think he should have made the visit the same intention. joining me for more now is japan foreign policy specialist doctor l e caterina paul camp. she's a visiting fellow in the isha program at the think tank. the european council on foreign relations are to pull up. why is japan supporting ukraine? japan has strongly condemned the kremlin invasion and unilateral changes to the status quo by force and about to defend the international order based on the rule

of law and tim, rush of war against ukraine and the stronger type between moscow and beijing. the perceptions of security have drastically changed around the world, and the pan has tracked that the ration. the gratian is a direct lead to, to carry t p asked ability not only for europe, that's for the end of the big. and they yawned as well. and here by having concerns around the situation in the east and south d and in the taiwan trade in mine. and i've confirmed row that china would be encouraged to take similar actions possibly invade taiwan. japan, curiously, alarm that as prime minister has said, europe, us today can be ada up tomorrow. japan has provided aid and a sanctioned russia prime minister. you should, i could've easily left it at that. why the need to make a personal visit to cave it is actually,

you should have refer posts for prime minister to visit an active warrant on and this one provide the kitchen the opportunity as the chair of the g 7 to reaffirm the 7th values and emphasize respectful sovereignty and territorial integrity, and these are principles that any country can rally behind, but that is very important. that the. com as the sole age and member of the 27. and continued to write the flag. but also whether intended or not. the business may has the strong symbolism, especially because it was taking place at the same time while president, she was visiting president and it so that way slid of what the 2 countries stand for. i'm not takes an impartial position of the conflict and ukraine and japan clearly does not. and of course, it was the signature count of china, media and diplomacy, and present

a symbolic and stark contrast to china. but also it was a huge recreation for europe and european allies that the palm, clearly european security and stability of what the future being and from your cation does visit, say about divisions in asia to the war in ukraine as well. as i said before, it clearly shows what each country is standing for and what country and what country of defense, what kind of values. and then of course, it shows a clear contrast of these 2 countries. and clearly, what kinds of positions they take that is what these 2 countries are. what about the other countries in asia? do these 2 ways that you have talked about represent in any way what the rest of the countries in the region are following, or is that

a 3rd and perhaps 4th way as well? well, as i said, department 10, follow up on the brandy and for the integrity and a territorial integrity. and japan clearly have found that these are values that not only democracies have dad behind the what japan clearly trying to do is to remy allies. i'm that i'm the lime the new strong and stronger your political role. japan wants to play and to defend the value of time a standing for by showing strong leadership in the defense of european and international security. and he's trying to build a broader coalition and a rally behind like mine, the partners for him. and this includes also countries like self asian countries or countries from the global style where she tried to emphasize get into dialogue

and, and clearly communicate with countries. given the where the japan has been taking a need when it comes to sanctions against russia, support for ukraine, a personal visit to keep it quite apparent that took years, potentially the foremost partner for the west in the asian region. yes, i was strong you ally and of the strong us ally and as a member of the g 7. and presently the chair of a japan is clearly one of the key allies and partners for the west in be in the pacific and in asia. and the a very important one, and especially since the palm has as shown, commitment to, to beef up is the president on international phase and to defend the national

democratic values and the rule of law. clearly, corporate alliances have been improving and have been enhanced. believe that. thank you so much for speaking to us today. dr. l. e kathrina full. com. thank you so much, much if you ah, cinemas in hong kong and macau has kept plans to show a horror film featuring a twisted version of we need to pull the films distributor, announced it's great regret over the cancellations on facebook, but gave no other explanation. yes, a quick look at what audiences will be missing. ah, you know, you're the 1st person i've shown this question. why my so special consume will be christopher moore. you should be close now. we're not going to find then we will pu piggly

e or we were friends for many years. no out with critics have largely band winnie the pooh blood and honey as heavy on gore and jump scares. but lacking in plot and humor. many in hong kong suspect the reviews have little to do with the decision to pull it from theaters basketball from correspondent phoebe gong. phoebe, it doesn't come with a surprise that cinemas won't show this film in hong kong while it settles 5050 for many people in hong kong. ellen and also those in the theme industry that according to what i learned from the theme distribute and also the

authorities, it seems that it was the decision of the cinemas to can. so the screenings at the very last minute that seemed distributed, told dw, that they really wanted to be least a theme, but were only informed of the cancellation on this monday. so that was our only 3 days, a hat of the public screening. and they were given no reasons by the cinemas. so originally there are 30 cinemas are which are like, or lodge, and mainstream cinemas. and hong kong they who agree to of, to play a 2 showed a theme. but like they, they a poured out one by one, let's just say say i, i had often for these. so, and none of them have given any explanation. and the authorities, actually, they attribute a cancellation to what a quote as are purely commercial decisions. so we must say one on one hand is not unusual for such thing to happen because this is not the 1st theme on to be poor by

cinemas after the national security law was imposed in hong kong. but on the previous bands, fans who are mostly about protests and politics. so on the other hand is also surprising that this is to very fast went into poor theme to abandon hong kong boy marked the character. winnie the pooh? reeves alarm bells for cinema rosen, hong kong well, many matches since and also that the members from the general public. cory lays the out the bare to on chinese leaders shooting pings and it began back in 2013 when the chinese leader shooting ping, if he visited the not to stay to mit or his counter park. the u. s. president barack obama at that time. and some nathan's and also like online commentators made means about to 2 of them walk in side by side and to compare the 2 i went to pool and ticker in the cartoon. so like since then the, we see i like many symbols,

i like about like when it a pool i, which represents jim king all my that on dissenting artwork. and even as many protest among chinese and hong kong citizens. so like the chinese authorities actually send. so wanted to pull from chinese social media, but that has never happened before in hong kong. china's possible measures since the 2020 national security law. that gives a thought of these grew to muscle to sensor entertainment. what cases have you seen? well, since the national situational was imposed to government also produce a new of theme, sansa ship law in hong kong in 2021. so it gives grace greater power for the official censor. took bar any themes that they think may endanger national security in broader sentence. so since and we've seen early more and more independent themes and movie, used to be a band from cinema because they refused to amend the scenes in their artwork lay

according to the week passed off the authorities and a many of them they just chose to. i released a theme overseas, so upset in the past many of the themes they, those band famous were about politics or protest or social issues. and i just ready, i read to see like a commercial for him to be banned in hong kong. relieve a birth. thank you so much for joining us today. if you become and that doesn't for to very there's a fall small on our website. we're back here to morrow. you then, bye one, continent 700000000 people with their own personal stories . europe. mm. week steamers every day life with what europeans fear and what they hope for

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crisis. i'm steven beardsley in berlin. welcome to our show here. if largest economy should just skirt recession this year, that's according to a new expert assessment. the government's council of economic experts now saying the economy will grow 2 tenths of a percent this year. due to a more stable energy supply. german efforts to replace russian energy exports have gone better than expected, with market prices falling from last summer's highs. and the ongoing global banking crisis is not a threat to germany's economy. that's according to the forecast. monica nestor is chair of the german council of economic experts which released that forecast and she joins me now. miss nestor, welcome to the show. we released a if i'm right, i think 40 page report this update to an assessment that you gave last fall. can you summarize for us as, as briefly as possible? how would you describe the state of europe's largest economy right now.