that i mean to is a talked about this in the coalition agreement which they signed. and i think, i mean that bab upset and has speech the today. 83 weeks ago. they said that they wanted to come up with distress e. here it is. finally, i think the fact that it took so long points to a few things. first of all, that the content is pretty controversial, that you have quite different views within the government. you have the foreign ministry, which is led by angelina babel, which is known as being pretty critical of china. pretty whole kish, a pretty keen to, to, to have a profound we think of relations and the other end of the scale. then you have the chancellor ease of the boss's office or life shelves. the chancellor, very cautious about relations with china. not wanting to rock the boat too much thinking. i mean, all of the economic turbulence of the world is seeing right now that germany can't afford to, to really, really hack away this relationship with china, which has been so lucrative over the years. add to that the fact that they've also unparalleled being working on a national security, especially which took

a long time coming the broad question of national security. um and it adds up to a slow process. but i think one thing i would definitely add here this an important call is interesting that they publish this strategy in the middle of the summer holidays so so the parliament is on recess. so problem and terry and not here to debate it in paul, and the fact that i'm a lena babbled nowadays on her own. she did not have all of jolts in her side. she did not have other ministers at the her side. unlike recently when the national security strategy was announced, when you have sh wait, when you had shoals, when you had bab up, you also had the defense administer the finance minister, the entire room is all that. all announcing is one thing. so it feels very low key, almost like this government is not holding this strategy up as a really flagship policy, something that the counselor's office in particular doesn't seem to really want to have it handled over me. there is a new buzz worth though. looking at this, the risk, it's not the coupling anymore, it's the risk and the chancellor has also used it room repeatedly. what exactly

does the risking mean from the german perspective as yeah, so the risk being is a ton that almost every western country in japan is also talking about it now as well. the g 7 really had recently had it and that communicate it's a time that over the country, it matters. it kind of can gather around. one reason is that it's pretty vague and sense good, right? you want to reduce the risk and relationship with china, so that sounds like something which is absolutely sensible. the question is, what's the risk and what's not a risk? and there was some questions where that is seem is relatively clear. for instance, the fact that many german companies and companies elsewhere to reliance on china up to 90 percent of, of, of, of the, of some of the key kind of rule materials that you need for high tech products. the so called read us. so this idea that you cannot be so dependent one supply that it being a very obvious lesson from russia's invasion,

a few cranes that germany was way too dependent on these natural gas and had to really deal with the major for that that. so that's one risk that everyone agrees on too much dependency enrollment to try to diversify that. but there are other risk where it's debated, for instance, is it okay that the chinese state shipping company, costco bought a steak in japanese most important hub or recently in ham. but the chances are things that's fine. the foreign minister did not think that was fine. is it okay for a while way to have such a big presence in germany's 5 g network and that is to basis easy, okay. if with german cock companies to get such a big chunk of that profits from china, many think that's not okay. so uh well, i'm sure it seems to think that it's okay to leave that to the markets is up to the companies themselves to work through that risk so that we didn't this term, the risk that issued originally tougher stations. and there's not total power coming out of this strategy. the strategy really could just give us kind of pointers, rather than necessarily giving real yardsticks to measure these things. do you

watch the german chinese relationship very closely? how does this attempt to be risking match the fact that just recently china assigned a number of heavy wave contracts with jeremy's business leaders? so yeah, so is this happened just recently? the chinese government was here for consultations with the german government. the 1st time that they've done that in person for several years, because of the pandemic coming in between. and you had or left schultz, the german chancellor, and whose chinese counts. but at a signing ceremony in the business ministry here in berlin clapping away as say, these as volkswagen, as bmw and other major german companies, that ceo set down and sign deals with the chinese side. this was seen as a real sign of kind of business as usual, and also bike salt standing there and clapping ways while these deals were being signed. kind of giving an implication of state support for these relationships. the

state blessing on this kind of major deal between the 2 sides. at the same time in this china strategy, which we've just had a launch by the babel she is being stressing that germany is trying to kind of put the brakes on it's in place. it support for doing business on that scale with china, for instance, the capping, what you call the investment guarantee. so that's a big jump. the company wants to build a factory in another country. germany is now capping the guarantee that until now the insurance policy, if you like, they've offered for deals like that to 3000000000 euros per company per country. so saying that is trying to tweak the incentives, which until now from tell me you have really kind of been all in on china trying to tweak those incentives to, to have more of a kind of a handle with cab bind over them. but it still is going to be potentially a mismatch between what we see from all f sholtes as a very cautious of this,

trying to keep the business relationship going. trying to does that come out on top of the bad luck approach of trying to reduce these risk? we don't know yet. we're gonna have to see of the coming months and coming years. how much would impact this strategy really has? but a lot of people are saying the fact that is that and the fact that it's right in black and white as a message to business and to politics is meaningful in itself. germany's never ending tightrope act, that was d w as richard walker on germany's new china strategy. thank you so much. i or they're watching the, the we news still to come this hour will be crossing live to housing k for jo biden's press conference following talks with nordic leaders. you can see live pictures there, but it hasn't started since yet. so, states you after 6 decades of armed conflicts,

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iceland and norway discussed their cooperation on security, environment and technology to find welcome finland to nato as its newest member, calling the country an incredible assets to the military alliance can lend shares along the border with russia. bindings visit marks the end of his 5 day tour of europe for the annual nato summit. and he proclaims, and while we wait for the press conference in the presidential palace in helsinki to start, we can bring in our correspondence, rosie verger cheese and brussels, and we can okay now and join us from washington dc. yeah, let's start with you. the last time he was president made an official visit to helsinki. that was almost 5 years ago. things were very different that time then president donald trump held a meeting with russian leader vladimir, put now 5 years on a meeting like that. seems unimaginable finland is now. member of nato. sweden is soon to join the alliance and vitamins in town. what signal is this sunday as well,

were in a different era quite clearly. and as that is both in terms of the president, of course donald trump taking that approach as meeting thought of me and pushing back then was which was seen as an ethic failure at the time. and since then, more than a year now we have the ukraine conflict which sees more scenes of reminiscing, the cold war. and that's exactly what vladimir putin said 5 years ago that that cold war was over. i listen back to that press conference and it really does seem strange uh, even stranger then 5 years ago when those 2 actually met to look back at those times with some form of corporation looked like it might be possible, like there might be a pos of some corporation and those times are over and now we're seeing joe biden, a welcome new way soon. also sweeten into nato something that is that even fruits and had tried to prevent any expense expansion of nato and we're about to hear him . does.