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climate change the landfill. gail, welcome to the program. china as far administered, shouldn't gang has been removed from office just to chin saying, hey, with us secretary of state and to me, blank. and this year has been absent from public to choose for more than a month. tiny state meagan made the announcement on tuesday evening saying he'd been replaced by his previous assessor in the role communist potters following the fast g one a, you know, i was going to gave no reason for mr. change removal. badging based agend list 5 in crestwood told me will as well, in my opinion, this is usually one of the most spectacular nice new stories coming out of china. and the for, i mean, is that just disappears, disappears for more than a month. and really nobody has a clue what is happening behind the 1st sight. even the spokes person of the

ministry during their daily press conferences, they 1st explained that they as a health concern, then they say we just simply don't have any information. and you can see the economics, they don't know what's going on. and the speculation the room is really frightening . also on social media here in china and not everything and send that. so we know, for example, many use us has been speculating that gun has an extra marshall a fast some what um, i think that there might be a corruption case. we really don't know. and it was also no official explanation given today when he was removed from post. but i would say it's quite safe to assume that this is not what has nothing to do with illness, but this is a political case. why? because right now, if you go to the homepage of the foreign ministry of the chinese foreign minister, then you'll see that all the previous mentions remarks, references of i've seen guns are being removed. so he's basically purchased in business read maybe very re, i mean it's in gun was basically a rising star within the communist party. he was also seen as a prophecy of head,

of stage seating pain. so really, very uh, an extraordinary case and properly um, the official explanation, what really happened will follow later. and seeing on was a figure ahead of time is increasingly aggressive foreign policy. so is this is his replacement, like me to represents a shifting tone from beijing. i don't think so because um his remove has basically nothing to do with his political stance and it seemed going to be honest. he could do both. he was also a charming diplomat, but it time she was also very nationalistic. he was, uh, what we call in china. he a booth for you. i mean, he was very confrontational, especially against the west, but uh, one e, his pre, to assess. and now the new um, 40 minutes to. and he is even more nationalistic, so i don't think there will be a shift in tone. but what his case has to be signified takes you through the whole world, is it um, you know, how it will take, the state has become, i mean basically the 5 minutes. so can just disappear and, and nobody really knew what's happening. but it has also basically endangered the

foreign policy um, it will have room us that you know, some of foreign ministers have, you know, postpone the visits to beijing because they were really and not sure what to expect to you. i think that is really one of the most the biggest scandals here in china, at least of the last decade places i've, i've been, i've been transferred in beijing worldwide gray and prices of sol since russia pull down to the ukranian grain deal, not west and officials are looking to china to pressure must go into resuming the agreement. china was the biggest destination for grain expos, he done to the deal broken by the us and took a year ago, enforcing about a quarter of the grant. and that last ukrainian ports of the big recipients with turkey and egypt, the deal was seen as a lifeline for keeping global food prices stable, particularly for dr. stricken countries in africa. well, china is amazon for ukrainian drain is even more remarkable given that china is the

world's largest and weak producer, i asked i, agricultural economies matching time is direct to the office center for development research in bon, why have boxes? yeah, i mean china is producing a lot of weights. it's also producing a lot of rice and for those 2 greetings, it's almost as sufficient. but it in parts uh, several other grains mays in particular, barley, also oil seats. and a lot of these grains are coming from ukraine. i'm so we have to look into what types of grains are being produced at important. ok, so i could china become self sufficient in its own grain production, are included. and i mean, china is always trying to be self sufficient and it's major staple food rise. um and, and weight is another important staple foods. but it's importing a lot of the other food and also the feet that it needs. because china is just a huge population, $1400000000.00 and more,

which is about 18 percent of the world population, but it only has around 9 percent of the global farm land. and that means it can't produce enough a folder for that's needed. so it will always be relying on imports from elsewhere . and part of this is coming from ukraine also certainly from some other regions in the world. right. so it does sound like if he's in china is interest to get its ally russia back into these grain. do it is definitely in china's interest because china is very particular about food security and so low for price as far as population. this is also in order to keep the political stability in the country, which is certainly important for china. and when prices rise and there's a uncertainty about food security in china, this is a major issue as to a china has a large interest in pushing russia back to resuming the black sea grain deal.

and as far as we know, is china trying to do that it is trying to do that. it has voice relatively clearly that it's uh, we'd like to see the grain due to be resumed on that a few days ago in the last couple of days. it hasn't to my knowledge, renew this claim or, or has, has put more pressure on russia. so i think um, it may do that because otherwise it, it, china may also internationally look a week uh, when its uh saying something and uh, and the rest. i could certainly not afford to mess up uh with its, uh, pardon me. uh, china. so it's interesting and it's probably the biggest lever internationally that's the or if china would put a little bit more pressure on russia to resume the grand deal. so how do you read

this situation? do you think this deal is likely to be revised? i think that it's likely may be exaggerated, but i still have some hope that it may um and uh it would certainly be uh, truly important. uh, not only for ukraine, for ukraine. it's super important because your crane depends on its grand export for foreign exchange and for upholding is economy. but it's also important for food security in the world. i mean, prices have been going up. you're currently in a situation where there is no panic so far because in the northern hemisphere we are in the harvest situation and the harvest in many parts of the world for the looks relatively good. so there is no really skyrocketing of prices, uh, but it would suffice. and one or 2 major exporting regions, if there is

a drought or, or some other shock that price is what i bought it. and that's what security which be dropped for dice. and many parts of the world. so as far as you know, is that a plan b, if russia chooses not to return to this deal, what does the well do? i mean, the 1st thing is obviously that the solid air, the lanes to get a grain and agriculture, the exports of ukraine, liar railway and roads and, and rivers, which is a functioning uh but this needs to be further uh, improved and upgraded and that's a short term uh, thing that we need to happen. um otherwise, i mean it's very important obviously for other countries to keep their borders open for ex potter's knots. uh, you know, to panic and, and cause borders in order to keep prices within the country low, but really participate in exports of that. so the international grading markets are

not getting into to learn more. that's what has happened last year. and we need to prevent that because sharpie rising price, this would really mean hardship for many people in africa and asia was very clear. thank you for outlining that for us. my friend, that time from the center for development research in bo, thank you. is looking at some more headlines from around the world as those especially as low a house of parliament, the duma. supposing to raise the maximum conscription age for men from 27 to 30 below. also bind this conscription leaving the country after they have received a draft notice changes comments. moscow faces for system to problems on the training in front of the read says it has begun to remove more than a 1000000 barrels of oil from a decaying tank off the coast of human maintenance. if the super tank has been paused for 18 years because of the war and the m. d u and assess the operation is

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